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4 weeks ago | 
edmonton.taproot.news | Stephanie Swensrude |Mariam Ibrahim |Ben Roth |Debbi Serafinchon
Homeward Trust grapples with changing municipal, provincial funding systems
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The provincial government's move to "take out the middleman" from its funding of organizations that serve those experiencing homelessness could disrupt the sector's ability to respond nimbly to people in need, according to the head of an organization that currently disperses those funds.
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1 month ago | 
edmonton.taproot.news | Colin Gallant |Mariam Ibrahim |Ben Roth |Debbi Serafinchon
Summit aims to help non-profits to work as an ecosystem
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ECVO is convening non-profit organizations that provide human services in Edmonton to focus on doing more without receiving additional money.
"Money is off the table because we don't have influence over that," Gemma Dunn, the executive director of ECVO, told Taproot about the upcoming Beyond the Status Quo Summit.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
edmonton.taproot.news | Ben Roth
The Fort Distillery won at least $150,000 in investment at Startup TNT's Summit X on Nov. 14, held at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute.
"Selling booze is fun, (and) building a data room, even funner," said Nathan Flim, founder and CEO of The Fort Distillery, explaining the work he had put in to convince the judges.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
edmonton.taproot.news | Ben Roth |Kevin Holowack |Scott Lilwall |Debbi Serafinchon
The Fort Distillery wins Startup TNT's Summit X
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The Fort Distillery won at least $150,000 in investment at Startup TNT's Summit X on Nov. 14, held at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute.
"Selling booze is fun, (and) building a data room, even funner," said Nathan Flim, founder and CEO of The Fort Distillery, explaining the work he had put in to convince the judges.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
academic.oup.com | Ben Roth |Emerson College
Buried in the prologue of Jordan Peele’s (2019) psychological horror film Us is a commercial for the 1986 fundraiser ‘Hands Across America’. Its conceit was to create a chain of people stretching “from sea to shining sea” across the continental United States to raise money for the hungry. The attempt failed, though it is sometimes claimed that a sufficient number of people participated to succeed, had they formed only one direct line.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
edmonton.taproot.news | Ben Roth
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.
Tim Murphy said there are other EV charging locations across Canada, but they are often connected to existing gas stations, making EV drivers feel secondary. "There's no Wi-Fi for them, and if they even want to clean their windshield, they have to go to a gas stall and borrow a squeegee," he said.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
edmonton.taproot.news | Ben Roth |Mariam Ibrahim |Tim Querengesser |Debbi Serafinchon
ChargeStop builds Canada's first dedicated EV station in Strathcona
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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.
Tim Murphy said there are other EV charging locations across Canada, but they are often connected to existing gas stations, making EV drivers feel secondary.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
edmonton.taproot.news | Stephanie Swensrude |Ben Roth |Mariam Ibrahim |Kevin Holowack
As community leagues prepare to celebrate, more people are volunteering
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As Edmonton prepares to celebrate Community League Day on Sept. 21, the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues hopes new volunteers will come forward to join the 700 that started in 2023, a number that has risen steadily each year since the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
edmonton.taproot.news | Ben Roth |Tim Querengesser
The spear point, a bluish-grey stone shaped like a triangle with sharpened edges, caught the light as Kyle Forsythe, curator of archaeology at the Royal Alberta Museum, held it up to the camera. "The guy who brought it in thought it was an arrowhead," he told Taproot. "That's kind of the assumption when you find something like this.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
edmonton.taproot.news | Ben Roth |Tim Querengesser |Kevin Holowack |Debbi Serafinchon
Edmonton is a city filled with stones, bones, and ancient history
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The spear point, a bluish-grey stone shaped like a triangle with sharpened edges, caught the light as Kyle Forsythe, curator of archaeology at the Royal Alberta Museum, held it up to the camera. "The guy who brought it in thought it was an arrowhead," he told Taproot. "That's kind of the assumption when you find something like this.
