Isabelle Kirkwood

4 days ago | betakit.com | Isabelle Kirkwood

Wildfires are not a seasonal crisis. They are a structural one. In recent years, Canada has seen record-breaking wildfire seasons. Millions of hectares have burned, hundreds of communities have been forced to evacuate, and damages total in the billions. The failures are systemic, and the risks are rising.

6 days ago | betakit.com | Isabelle Kirkwood

It’s firing Sam Altman, again It’s moving its headquarters to China It won’t pivot to for-profit It will answer all chat prompts in the style of Scarlett Johansson OpenAI has reversed its decision to convert to a for-profit structure, announcing that its nonprofit arm will remain in control of the company. The decision came after strong backlash from former employees, Nobel laureates, and civil society groups who opposed the shift.

1 week ago | betakit.com | Isabelle Kirkwood

FreshBooks started with a lived experience. It grew by paying attention. Over 20 years ago, co-founder Mike McDerment was a small business owner juggling SEO, marketing, and web design when he accidentally overwrote a client invoice by saving a new version in place of an older one he still needed.

1 week ago | betakit.com | Isabelle Kirkwood

End the VCCI program Reform the capital gains tax rules Nationalize telecoms Implement open banking In the lead-up to the federal election, the CVCA released a white paper calling for the government to, among other things, reform the capital gains tax rules by temporarily slashing the inclusion rate and doubling the Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption limit.