Hollo Medical co-founder David Hodgson's victory brings added recognition to the startup's key innovation — a unique pocket-size asthma inhaler chamber — and provides a huge boost to the company's goal of making it accessible as quickly as possible.

One of Nova Scotia’s most prominent community and business leaders, Rustum Southwell — best known as founding CEO of the renowned Black Business Initiative — is set to take on the mantle of AV¾ãÀÖ²¿'s top ceremonial role. For Southwell, it represents another chapter in a legacy of lifting people up to grow, thrive and succeed.

Now ranked at 298 globally, AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ maintained twelfth place among Canadian universities and remains the top-ranked university in Atlantic Canada.

The federal government’s proposed Agile Licensing drug approval regulations mean Canada will have less information about the risks of new medicines, and higher costs.

More than a dozen solar cars from across Canada and the U.S., including one designed and built by Dal engineering students, face off this week in the Formula Sun Grand Prix in Topeka, Kansas.