Randall Howard

Celebrating a breakout milestone in our @adrenalinefund.bsky.social portfolio. These are the technologies, which if we support sufficiently, can super charge our future economy ... while also providing breakthrough medical treatments for some of our most vexing health issues

Today's report, by putting a massive number, of what our economy loses by under funding early stage startups, is yet another Call To Action for all of us in Canada.

SCOTUS Knocked Down Tariffs. What Now? Steve Vladeck analyzes the ruling and it's implications

Now that the Supreme Court has struck down Trump’s tariffs, the looming question is how exactly the government plans to refund the money it earned from said tariffs

According to one estimate, the total owed could surpass $175 billion

Steve Vladeck explains: contrarian.substack.com/p/scotus-kno...

Many people who had to miss Thursday's NACO National Roundtable on early stage investing, where I was a speaker, have asked for a recording.
It is now available as a podcast, with the audio from that session.
@adrenalinefund.bsky.social NACO GTAN #Innovation

podcast.nacocanada.com/791204/episo...

'Potholesville' - the road that can't be fixed Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

"Potholesville - The Road That Can't Be Fixed"
An engaging and fun UK short documentary film that underscores why bureaucracies, municipal or other, are often incapable of delivering the right outcome
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News — NACO Canada

Join me & other leaders from across Canada for the NACO national roundtable on early stage investing. At a key inflection point for Canada, we will be exploring to how close the persistently huge "Seed Gap" and activate economic transformation by backing innovation startups

nacocanada.com/news-2025

Building a Coworking Space That Serves Local Businesses, with Sara Hipson What the first year running a cabin-inspired coworking space in rural Canada taught its founder about creating a community gathering place.

Congratulations to Sara Hipson on her vision launching CW Co-Work and navigating a great first year.
Elora has needed co-working for years. This article shows the journey & why CW Co-Work is such a fabulous community of builders and entrepreneursbsky
www.theinclusivecoworker.com/p/building-a...

Exclusive | Trump to Repeal Landmark Climate Finding in Huge Regulatory Rollback The move would reverse a legal determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health.

It is a sad world indeed when scientific findings that are critical to human health can be overturned by cynical poliitics.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of January 31 The Bestsellers Lists are compiled by The Globe and Mail from information provided by BookNet Canada’s national sales tracking service, BNC SalesData

Amid so many foreign (US) publishers, pumped that Canadian indie publisher @dundurnpress.bsky.social scored #5 in the Jan 31 @theglobeandmail.com Canadian Non-Fiction Bestseller list "Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us" by Linda McQuaig/Neil Brooks
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

It does indeed. I am a Canadian working for Climate Systems change, an early stage investor (including #ClimateTech) and more. You should check out a portfolio company CarbonHound that might be useful for your work: carbonhound.com

Is it time to rethink net-zero? Part 1: Beyond the noise of culture wars! — Techies Go Green We’re in the midst of a climate crisis – a major challenge, with only a limited timeframe in which to act. Incrementalism isn’t working; radical solutions are needed to deliver transformative impacts,...

Excellent summary by @mike-earthshine.bsky.social of Earthshine showing why, even in this time of #Climate disinformation and denial, the world still accelerate a renewable energy revolution. We need to rise above the noise and embrace Climate systems change
www.techiesgogreen.com/blog/is-it-t...

Exciting to help build Canada's economic future one startup at a time.

Bravo @philipglass.bsky.social for taking the moral high toad

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Ottawa is subsidizing a tech firm that provides wiretapping tools to ICE - The Logic The $1-million contribution came after the U.S. agency showed up in force in Minneapolis

Another Canadian company with a broken ethical compass enabling the abuses of ICE
#shame
thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

How Thermal Energy Storage Could Quietly Transform Emissions | OilPrice.com Improving the efficiency of heating and cooling systems - especially through thermal energy storage - offers one of the fastest, cheapest, and most underappreciated paths to cutting global greenhouse ...

We have built, and soon will provision, a 135,000L Seasonal Thermal Storage tank at our Carbon Zero home in Elora. We will study once activated, but modelling suggests transferring 10,000 kWh of energy from summer to winter months - all driven by heat pumps & Solar PV

oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...

Hootsuite CEO says ICE contract will stand as long as agency honours terms and conditions ‘We did nothing wrong here,’ head of Vancouver social media company said in internal call with employees

Canadian tech most definitely should not be enabling US abusive human rights violations by #ICE

Shame on @hootsuite.com and CEO Irina Novoselsky
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Greenland Defense Front - The Hungry Giant (Official Music Video) YouTube video by demonflyingfox

Species of the world unite!

Against this deranged orange human. . .
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Amazing endorsement. Oxford Soju Club keeps scaling new heights. Have you read it?

Celestina's House - Dundurn With over 2,300 books in print, Dundurn Press is recognized for producing high quality, award-winning books across multiple genres.

The second @dundurnpress.bsky.social book in 2026 Canada Reads long list is "Celestina's House" by Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez and a special publication under the very selective Rare Machines Imprint.
www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211...
Proud to support Dundurn a bastion of Canadian publishing

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The Canada Reads 2026 longlist is here! | CBC Books This year, the great Canadian book debate is looking for one book to build bridges. The panellists and the books they choose to champion will be revealed on Jan. 22.

The Canada Reads long list was released this morning, and it was amazing to see @dundurnpress.bsky.social with 2 of the 12 books in its catalogue: www.cbc.ca/books/canada...
First is "Oxford Soju Club" by @jinwoo-park.com which already has been a hit in NYC www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211...
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Rhe Epstein War
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It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.

Please spread the word to any Canadian young curator. Applications will be open until January 15th

Opinion: Not only is food more expensive, it is also becoming ultraprocessed garbage In a way, claims made by food companies about ultraprocessed products are fundamentally a form of economic disinformation

We all need to wake up to Ultra Processed Foods (UPFs) and their role in making us unhealthy. I actually know people who have moved to Europe for their better food regulation leading to healthier food

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

CDC changes website to raise suspicions on vaccines and autism | CBC News A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website has been changed to contradict the longtime scientific conclusion that vaccines do not cause autism, spurring outrage among a number of public...

The death of science in the US will have long term implications. Geopolitically, ceding scientific leadership means ceding economic leadership. And in human health many more will die.

This is a tragedy of global proportions.

www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Catching up with Geoff Green and Tammy Quinn

Geoff Green, Founder, Expedition Leader & President reflecting on 25 years

With Vicky Grant at SOI Foundation Gala

What a blast last night at SOI Foundation 25th annniversary gala. I've had the privilege to work with & support this great organization since their Canada C3 Canada 150 project in 2017.
The work to educate, inspire and transform youth into leaders in the greatest classroom on earth is unrivalled.

The problem with Buy Canadian? Nobody can agree on what ‘Canadian’ means - The Logic Ottawa has to decide what makes a company Canadian. Whatever it settles on will be controversial.

Canada is keen on Buy Canadian for the first time. Now we need to get serious.

Compared to Europe, where a mass movement to ditch American tech (Zoom, AWS, Google, Microsoft) for EU versions, we are just starting this journey.
thelogic.co/news/buy-can...

Newsom Wows the Climate Conference That Trump Decided to Skip

A real leader for the US on the world stage at #COP30 . . .

. . while an anri-president skulks at home devising more cruelty to the vulnerable
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/c...

White House List of Donors for President Trump’s $300 Million Ballroom

A list of companies I no longer wish to patronize: Amazon, Apple, Google, HP, Meta, Microsoft

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

Canadian companies last among G7 on climate transition planning: Report - The Logic

Canadian business has to step up. Surprisingly, Canada signficantly lags G7 countries in planning for climate transition. While financial risks of the climate crisis are growing rapidly, making the need for plans to cut emissions and adapt to global warming.

thelogic.co/briefing/can...