Canada’s salmon farming industry is gasping like a fish out of water right now, and consumers looking for some homegrown salmon could soon pay the price.

Driving the news: Last year, production of farm-raised salmon in Canada hit its lowest level since 2000, per new numbers from the Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance. A total of 90,000 metric tonnes of salmon were farmed, a colossal 39% dip from the record-high crop seen in 2016. 

The way things are trending, a nice fizzy drink could soon replace your morning vitamins.

Driving the news: Legacy pop brands like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Sprite are dropping new low-cal, bold-flavoured drinks in an effort to keep up with newer brands that are catering their fizzy beverages to younger and health-conscious consumers. 

Just like a space probe hurtling through deep space, Indigenous investing is only going up.

What happened: The First Nations Bank of Canada — the largest Indigenous-owned bank in the country — announced a plan to raise as much as $50 million to reach more customers, expand its capital by as much as 50%, and double its loan book to $600 million.  

The human gut has a big impact on someone’s health, but exactly what that looks like is dictated by interactions between trillions of microbes that change drastically based on diet and lifestyle. All of those different variables can make researching it really complicated.

No one gets stoked about taxes, but that doesn't mean it’s all doom and gloom in the tech sector right now.

Some parents might be less than thrilled when they find out their kid's perfect grade on a biology midterm was more of a participation trophy. 

Driving the news: A group of grade 12 students at Ontario’s St. Maximilian Kolbe Catholic High School walked out of their biology and business midterms with perfect grades as the school board grapples with a teacher shortage that has left classes without full-time educators.