Author: Ayomikun. O
Ayomikun. O
I'm Orex (Ayo), the writer behind MaplesTime. I've spent the last twelve years writing for the web. News, culture, tech, business, the kind of work that tries to inform people clearly without wasting their time. MaplesTime is where most of that experience now lives. I write the articles, shape the editorial direction, and look after how the site is structured so the right people can actually find it. My approach is straightforward. Get the facts first. Match the article to what someone is genuinely searching for. Source it credibly. A lot of what I do behind the scenes is technical, the parts most readers never see. Topical structure, internal links, semantic relevance, schema, the small editorial decisions that add up to a publication search engines can trust and AI assistants can cite. I think of it as building a site that earns its visibility instead of chasing it. I write MaplesTime myself because consistency is hard to fake. One voice, one standard, one person you can hold accountable. That's the publication I wanted to read, so it's the one I'm building. If you have a tip, a correction, or just want to talk, reach me at [email protected].
Efforts to promote made-in-Canada technology are gaining momentum as a coalition of companies and organizations are launching a summit to promote enterprise procurement of Canadian offerings. The inaugural Source Canada conference will take place in Toronto on Oct. 22 with 150 CEOs and 50 enterprise buyers holding meetings and workshops. “This conference is about accelerating the flywheel: when private companies buy Canadian tech, they create an impact that goes far beyond the contract.” Raymond Luk, founder Source Canada The chief sponsors include OMERS Ventures, RBCx, and Deloitte. Additional support comes from the Toronto Stock Exchange operator TMX, the lobbying group…
Before it became a global advisor to IT departments, Info-Tech Research Groupwas little more than a fax machine and an idea. In 1997, Founder Joel McLean was teaching at Western University’s Ivey Business School when he spotted a gap. IT leaders were struggling to keep up with a rapidly changing digital landscape. “Southwestern Ontario is proving that success stories don’t just happen in the GTA or Kitchener-Waterloo.” Trisha Beausaert, Info-Tech He imagined a subscription-based service, unusual for the time, that could provide them with timely guidance and practical tools to improve performance. “The goal was to advise IT leaders on…
The United States’ (US) NASA is bringing the 2025 Space Apps Challenge to Canada on Oct. 4 and 5, and will hold the Toronto event at Bombardier Centre for Aerospace and Aviation at Centennial College’s Downsview Campus. As in recent years, the annual hackathon tasks both in-person and virtual participants with solving Earth- and space-related problems using NASA’s open datasets. The space agency aims to foster collaborations between creatives, developers, scientists, and students to allow them to bolster their portfolios and professional networks. NASA says the Toronto event is the largest Space Apps Challenge in Canada. NASA stresses that entrants…
A severe thunderstorm on Wednesday downed power lines, damaged cars and caused power outages in southeastern Alberta. Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm warning on Wednesday just after 5 p.m. for south-central Alberta, informing the public that meteorologists were tracking a dangerous thunderstorm capable of producing baseball-sized hail, damaging wind and heavy rain. The storm was located, at that time, west of Brooks, Alta., and heading east. Environment Canada later reported that it travelled into Vulcan County and Newell County in southeastern Alberta. The storm travelled over Brooks around 5:30 p.m., which RCMP said resulted in downed power lines, road closures and disabled cars…
Quebec’s Court of Appeal says a provincial court judge overstepped his jurisdiction when he ruled that part of the province’s language law is unconstitutional. In May 2024, Quebec court Judge Denis Galiatsatos raised a legal question on his own initiative while overseeing a case involving a woman charged with criminal negligence causing the death of a cyclist. The woman had sought a trial in English. Galiatsatos took issue with a section of Quebec’s language law that was scheduled to enter into effect in June of that year, a few days before the start of the trial. The law requires that…
A forecast of up to 40 millimetres of rain is expected to help firefighters battling a wildfire that has been raging near Port Alberni on Vancouver Island this week. The Mount Underwood fire that has triggered evacuation orders and alerts measured more than 34 square kilometres on Thursday, about 58 per cent larger than the day before. The fire had displayed some of the most extreme types of activity this week, racing up hillsides and setting the forest crown ablaze. But an update from the BC Wildfire Service on Thursday said crews working the blaze overnight saw “moderate” fire behaviour,…
Oak Bay police are investigating an indecent act that was reported to have taken place at a waterfront park last week. A female complainant said she saw a man engaged in an “indecent act” while his shorts were pulled down to his ankles on the afternoon of Aug. 6 at Trafalgar Park, located off King George Terrace in south Oak Bay. Officers arrived at the park after the complainant told police about the incident, later around 6:15 p.m. and were unable to find the suspect, police said in a statement Wednesday. The suspect is described as a white man around…
Nanaimo RCMP are asking the public for help in finding a 43-year-old man who failed to appear in Nanaimo provincial court for a scheduled appearance. Gregory Rawlinson had a court appearance related to a February incident where it is alleged that he assaulted and uttered threats toward another person, but failed to show up. Rawlinson, who sometimes goes by the name of Diesel, is also wanted for three counts of a breach of probation and one count of breaching a court order, Nanaimo RCMP said in a statement. He is described by police as a white, five-foot-seven man, weighing 170…
A body found along the Galloping Goose trail on Thursday is being investigated, but the death is not considered suspicious, Saanich police say. About a dozen uniformed and plain-clothes officers were on the trail near Cuthbert Holmes Park, near Tillicum Centre, on Thursday morning. The trail was closed to pedestrians and cyclists, and police were asking people to avoid the area. Police investigators were seen photographing the area and taking measurements. The taped-off area included some bushes just off the trail leading toward Burnside Road West. A police spokesperson said in a statement released shortly after noon that early signs…
TORONTO — Wandering through Simons’s newest store a day before it opened on Thursday, Bernard Leblanc had a quiet confidence despite the busyness surrounding him. Across almost every inch of the flagship store at Yorkdale mall in Toronto, staff were scurrying to unwrap and steam the last of the location’s merchandise, vacuum carpets and dress mannequins. The seemingly menial tasks belied the enormity of what they were all preparing for: Simons’s entry into the venerable Toronto market. That feat has been a long time coming. La Maison Simons is 185 years old but has taken such a methodical expansion outside…