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🗞️ This week, we’ve got some great stories for you. Vancouver entrepreneurs are stepping against Trump’s tariff threats with new websites that confirm if products are made in Canada, plus a CEO has asked the City to cancel its deal with U.S.-founded Lime in favour of a Canadian e-scooter company (check out our “ideas and insights” section below). Bird flu has hit the province, and Genome BC is funding research after a young teen was hospitalized. Plus, mayor Ken Sim talks Web Summit, two VC firms have committed a combined $1 billion for Canadian companies, and big changes are afoot at the province’s $500 million InBC fund (see our “in other news” section).

-Kate Wilson, managing editor