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Todai: Tech for Measuring Real-Time Employee Satisfaction Joel Pinel and his team at Wow Factor Media created the Todai video app to crowdsource market research for small businesses.  Their hope was that happy clients would share their stories about great products through video on the platform. After a few months of testing, they realized that there was a better opportunity to gather data…

Gentle Processing™: Putting the “Whole” Back in Food Michael Drabiuk is a naturopathic doctor with a focus on oncology. He has led a couple of successful nutrition-based businesses and is now focused on the role of food processing as part of a healthy diet. “Nature has the ingredients and micronutrients to help us to stay healthy. Unfortunately, many of our processing…

Innovation reaches beyond the realm of technology. Saskatchewan is the first province in Canada to test a new form of financing called Social Impact Bonds (SIB). A SIB is a new financing model used to address difficult social problems where traditional approaches haven’t been successful. An agreement between a service delivery organization, an investor(s), and a government body encourages…