Charest and the WEF

I received an email from Kevin O’Leary today. Not a personal email, but one sent to people he or someone else on Team Charest  thinks might be supporters of Pierre Poilievre for leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. O’Leary’s pitch was that while Poilievre is electable as leader, he is not electable as Prime Minister. His reasoning: Poilievre is too right wing --- not middle of the road enough --- to win a federal election. Does it occur to O’Leary that the people who will choose Poilievre as leader of the Party will also vote in a Federal election? And does he accept that, for each person who agrees enough with Poilievre to cast a vote in his favor in the current CPC leadership race, there are who knows how many more that don’t vote for CPC leader because they are not Party members, but who will support Poilievre for Prime Minister? 

The Poilievre team has done a masterful marketing job. I say that as someone with a doctorate that was heavy on marketing theory and a business career that has been heavy on implementation of marketing principles. It would be a blue moon event for him not to win the CPC leadership race. Poilievre has positioned himself as the common man’s champion, in contra distinction to Trudeau who is positioned as the champion of the elite whoever they are. I think Poilievre can win a federal election as PM.

Did I tell any of this to O’Leary? No, but I did reply. My short reply included this link: https://www.weforum.org/people/jean-charest --- reflective of a situation that is enough to disqualify Charest from holding high public office in this country, in my opinion. The WEF, which would be better described as the WTF, embraces goals that are counter to what is good for Canadians. How Freeland can be a trustee of such an organization so detrimental to humanity and still be Deputy PM of Canada without being guilty of treason is beyond my intellectual reach. Charest, a past Liberal Premier of Quebec, appears to be a pea in the same pod as the smug and off-putting Freeland.

Falling Walls Gives Axolotl Special Recognition

 I was delighted to learn that Axolotl Biosciences Inc. was selected by the Berlin-based Falling Walls competition (https://falling-walls.com/) as one of 25 science “start-ups / venture” winners (https://falling-walls.com/science-summit/science-summit-winners-2022/), and the only one from Canada. Axolotl has a motivated and competent team organized and supervised by Dr. Stephanie Willerth and Dr. Laura De la Vega. See https://gordonfeil.blogspot.com/2022/07/axolotl-biosciences-inc-advancing.html for more details.

AXOLOTL BIOSCIENCES INC.: ADVANCING TECHNOLOGICAL BOUNDARIES

 

I like helping people have better outcomes than they would have had if we hadn't stumbled across each other's path. I particularly like helping young people who are creative, teachable, and of high integrity, achieve their goals, particularly when their goals have to do with making people's lives better. I like being involved with disruptive, transformative technology. So, awhile back, I became involved with Axolotl Biosciences Inc.  Robyn Quinn of Victoria Tech Journal recently wrote an article that can be seen at https://www.victechjournal.com/p/victoriabased-axolotl-biosciences-3d-printing-tissues-mimic-human-stem-cells and which briefly tells the Axolotl story.

Basically, Axolotl has developed stem cell based bioinks that are used by bioprinters to print (i.e.: fabricate) biological tissues that mimic human tissue characteristics and functionality. Axolotl's initial product is TissuePrint, which, as the current business plan states, is a "highly optimized bioink formulation suitable for 3D printing various cell types and adapted for various bioprinting platforms." The product enables pharmaceutical researchers to test prospective products without placing human beings at risk. TissuePrint is available now as a product.  A couple of other products under development are BrainPrint and HeartPrint, bioinks from which neural tissue and cardiac tissue will be printed. Axolotl also offers consulting services.

A few days ago, Axolotl was chosen by Nextstream in a regional tech competition as the winner in the Health and Preparedness category: https://nexstream.is/ns-30-finale-winners-2022.