Raphael Lopoukhine

B.C.'s life sciences sector is the fastest growing in Canada.

Home to life-saving mRNA technology pioneered at UBC, we're leading the way in science and innovation.

Ready to invest? Come to British Columbia🍁

We're open for business.

Meet the bagman: the Ontario PC fundraising chief and his developer ties The top fundraiser for Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives works for developers, while also raising money from them for the party

Meet the bagman: the Ontario PC fundraising chief and his developer ties

I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick Maynard

"Four babies have died in the last few weeks in this hospital – not from bombs or bullets, but from starvation." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Now do trees and Mexico city.

Then food trucks in LA

Followed by pedestrian/patio streets in Istanbul....

Having to tell my kids that nature school is cancelled today while I go to work and position climate change as a secondary benefit in my funding application is big Krypton energy to start the day. #Superman

If only we had a progressive mayor, oh wait.

I can hardly believe this is Toronto.

We need more pedestrian-only streets here at home.

• Canada has borne the brunt of the damage from US tariffs so far, with its long-run economy -1.9% smaller in real terms. China’s economy is -0.2% smaller, about 2/3 as large as the hit to the US. The UK’s is 0.2% bigger thanks in part to the benefits of US-UK trade deal.
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Just recorded a pod on solar+storage and holy shit y'all, if you are not tracking this market on a daily basis, you have no idea how wild it is. The global average price of a battery pack fell 40% *from 2023 to 2024*. That dropped the LCOE of a solar+storage plant by 22%. In a year!

I just enacted the most game-changing housing reforms in recent California history.

We're urgently embracing an abundance agenda by tearing down the barriers that have delayed new affordable housing and infrastructure for decades.

Let’s get building, California.

Alt headline: New provincial legislation kills over a dozen municipal ‘green standards’ for construction, making homes more costly to heat and power, less safe, and dirtier, while undermining the development of green jobs and achieving national carbon emission reduction targets?

Ontario heat wave prompts concerns about students, educators sweltering in schools Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones placed the onus of action on school boards

I’ve said it before and I will say it again: Ontario needs to have AC in schools to deal with the increasing frequency and severity of climate-fuelled heat waves. This is a health and safety issue as well as an education issue. #onpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Keep re-electing Ford majorities and keep getting this, people.

Agree this is well constructed. Shout out to the YIMBY OLP policy team!

I wonder if this argument works if the goal is improved environmental outcomes, which do get lumped into the NIMBY/YIMBY red tape reduction conversation.

Small-town cheapification of Ontario

ICE crossed a line in LA

Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI The world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intelligence is at doing their jobs

@evansolomon.bsky.social good luck!

“I don’t want to add to the hysteria, but in some ways these large language models are already outperforming most of our best graduate students in the world.”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/insi...

New streetscape dropped at 501 Yonge. Not a tree in sight. Looks like Soviet architecture mashed with a suburban tears. Brutalist vibes without the charm. Toronto’s planning “vision” at its finest.

Yes!! They have windows open (cross wind), air purifiers, and pathogen killing lights. They are also reporting the air quality in real time on the side. All green, all good.

The call is coming from inside the house.

179 experts. 28 countries. 1 message:

Long COVID is real, multi-systemic, and devastating. It affects over 400 million people. And we're not prepared.

New global consensus just dropped.

link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…

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European Spa Company Therme Misrepresented Itself in an Effort to Expand Into Canada A Times investigation shows Therme, a European firm, exaggerated its track record in securing a deal with Ontario, and government auditors found that the process had been unfair and opaque.

Unbelievable. The @nytimes.com reports that Therme was misrepresenting basic aspects of its business - they copied the name of another company and claimed to own its properties.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

Obviously they didn't hear about building a tunnel under the freeway

Liberal voters have an appreciation for a government that stands up for nature and the environment even if it is not the number one issue. People love parks.

I'm really pleased to see the @liberalca.bsky.social listening to environmental experts on their platform. 10 new national parks and 15 new urban parks was a direct ask from @naturecanada.bsky.social to all the parties. #cdnpoli #elxn45

We've got a piece coming out later this morning, and it's a fun one.

We look at the Liberal housing plan. MURB, tax credits, a public builder. We discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Look for it at 9:15 this morning.

YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals The Big Business of Drilling Deep Into the Earth | Bloomberg Primer

The rise of advanced geothermal remains an underappreciated story. Loved working on this doc with Bloomberg colleagues. Worth your time! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM31...

Elbows up, Canada!

A man slated for deportation has captured conditions inside the Krome Detention Center in Florida. He says some people have been confined like this for up to 30 days.

At least three men have died at Krome in the past five months.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8248mFR/

The thing that was making America great was apparently lead.