Author: Editor-in-Chief

 Last week our How To lesson was about canning, and this week we’ve also posted some rad reviews of food-related books: Digging the City: An Urban Agriculture Manifesto and Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution. But let’s say your brain is full of urban agriculture knowledge and your fingernails are already dirty from your garden; that means there’s only one thing missing from your life… bureaucracy! Or perhaps community? Well, with today’s lesson you’ll be able to get your fill of both with this handy-dandy guide to starting a community garden. You likely won’t do these steps in exact…

 As you have probably gathered by now, eating local is a fabulous way to practice sustainable and nutritious solutions to the epidemic of corporate and industrialized food systems. Highly processed and transported foods, owned by giant multinational corporations, come at the expense of our bodies, labour, human rights, the air we breathe, and so much more. How could anyone living in this beautiful Coast Salish Territory not include local foods with their every meal? The answer is simple — lack of equal access. Even the increasing abundance of local and farm-fresh produce has not emerged unscathed by food insecurity, and…

 “Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks, not for people on bikes,” said the infamous former mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, before he spent $300,000 of taxpayers money to rip off biking infrastructure across the city (despite running to put brakes on the gravy train). These comments were made over a decade ago. Here we are nearing the end of 2024, and another Ford brother has, what feels like, resurrected Rob from his grave to end “the war on cars” – something else Rob said when he was mayor. Doug Ford’s government has legislation planned to floor when the house…

Video platform Vimeo announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to be acquired by Bending Spoons, one of Europe’s largest mobile app developers, in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $1.38 billion. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2025, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. Vimeo will be delisted from exchanges once the deal closes. The announcement comes as Bending Spoons was interested in a potential takeover of Vimeo as far back as March 2024. “At Bending Spoons, we acquire companies with the expectation of owning and operating them indefinitely, and we look…

Reddit on Wednesday launched a set of free tools for publishers to track their article performance and receive suggestions on where to share their stories within the site’s communities. The new features are launching as a part of Reddit Pro, a suite of business tools it debuted last year to help organizations grow their presence on the platform. There are three key tools being added under the Links tab in Reddit Pro. These include article insights to see where stories have been shared and stats related to them, including views, upvotes, and clicks. Publishers can also sync their RSS…

Sony Interactive Entertainment announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a dedicated parental controls app called “PlayStation Family” on iOS and Android. The new app features a series of new tools that allow parents to manage their children’s activity on the console, including an activity report, greater visibility into what their children are playing, and the ability to approve extra playtime requests. While Sony has long offered parental controls, the new app brings all of these tools into one dedicated place for easier access while also adding new ones. With the new app, parents get notified what game their child is…

Anthropic reported a service outage impacting APIs, Console, and Claude earlier this afternoon. Users on GitHub and Hacker News noted issues with Claude at around 12:20 p.m. ET, with Anthropic releasing a status update eight minutes later, noting that its APIs, Console, and Claude AI were down. At press time, the company said it had implemented several fixes and was monitoring the results. “We’re aware of a very brief outage of our API today shortly before 9:30 a.m. PT,” an Anthropic spokesperson told TechCrunch. “Service was quickly restored.” Anthropic is no stranger to errors or bugs on its platform and…

Gmail is rolling out a new “Purchases” tab that gives users a quick overview of their upcoming package deliveries, Google announced on Thursday. The tab will allow them to access all their purchase-related emails in one place, even from past orders and shipments. The tech giant notes that Gmail will still show packages that are set to arrive within 24 hours on top of users’ inboxes. The new tab simply brings all of your purchase information together under one view. The update builds on Gmail’s package-tracking feature that first launched in 2022, allowing users to track their upcoming package deliveries…

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, we’re bringing to the Builders Stage three people who helped shape the modern internet. On October 28, Adam Bain, Dick Costolo, and David Fischer — now at 01 Advisors — will sit down for an exclusive fireside chat on what it takes to build, scale, and fund startups in today’s ever-shifting landscape. Before they were backing breakout companies like Tipalti and SpotOn, they were the operators behind some of tech’s most iconic companies. David Fischer — Former CRO at Meta, Fischer scaled annual revenue from less than $1 billion to over $100 billion, connecting 200…

Starting a business in a new country may feel like both an opportunity and a learning curve. For newcomers to Canada, it can be useful to understand the rules, structures, and supports that are available. This can include legal requirements, business planning, and awareness of financing or trade considerations. The overview below introduces some of the areas newcomers may wish to review when exploring small business ownership in Canada. Check Your Eligibility Before investing time and money, it’s a good idea to take steps to confirm that you are eligible to work and operate a business in Canada. Your…