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Alberta Ecotrust aims to accelerate building retrofits
The Alberta Ecotrust Foundation is investing $15 million to spark deep retrofits across Alberta, an effort it hopes can make the process of reducing building emissions simpler and cheaper.
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Atadel's latest app expands delivery services and is capable of rideshare
The tech-enabled delivery service Atadel is expanding from food and grocery delivery to packages, retail, and eventually to rideshare services, with what its co-founders call the "Super App."
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ChargeStop builds Canada's first dedicated EV station in Strathcona
The CEO of ChargeStop Technologies, which opened a new electric vehicle charging station at Whyte Avenue and 99 Street, said it's "a gas station without gas," and the first of its kind in Canada.
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RUNWITHIT Synthetics secures $3.5M investment to put its tools into more hands
The $3.5 million investment RUNWITHIT Synthetics has received from Raven Indigenous Capital Partners will allow the company to create new products for more customers across the globe and to hire more people, including in business development, to allow it to establish further hubs for people who make change.
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CarePros growth spurs new company and product launch
The people behind growing child-intervention agency CarePros are launching a new company that offers the software they have developed to allow healthcare providers in Alberta and beyond to focus less on paperwork, data encryption, and data insights, and more on actual care.
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Alberta oil to become carbon fibre in new Edmonton facility
Researchers will establish processes to turn the bitumen found in Alberta's oilsands into carbon fibre, a common building material in sports equipment, automobiles, wind turbines, and mobility scooters, after Alberta Innovates received $10 million from Prairies Economic Development Canada in July.
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Edmonton Global's listening tour will lead to change: Bruce
Malcolm Bruce, CEO of Edmonton Global, says the organization's now complete six-month listening tour has produced insights that could result in changes, including potential shifts to how the organization is funded and governed.
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On the agenda: Meeting rules, downtown rezoning, board appointments
This week, Edmonton city council is set to discuss proposed changes to its procedures bylaw, an application to rezone a unique parcel of land downtown, and who it will appoint to various boards and committees.
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Rough summer for hydrogen car seen as part of net-zero solution
The type of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle that the Edmonton International Airport acquired last year to help accelerate demand for the region's abundant fuel supply has recently come under fire from scientists concerned about greenwashing at the Olympics and drivers who have launched a class-action lawsuit in California.
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