It’s been about six months since Canada repealed the federal Carbon Tax for consumers. The move was framed as a necessary relief measure—meant to ease growing cost-of-living pressures—but it marked something deeper: a failure of climate policy to integrate with the systems people actually live in. The tax aimed to price pollution, but it did […]
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Properate Launches Stride to Simplify Heat Pump Sizing Across Canada
Vancouver-based climate tech startup Properate has launched Stride, a mobile app designed to tackle one of the retrofit industry’s biggest challenges: accurate and efficient heat pump sizing. Available nationwide, Stride enables HVAC contractors to perform CSA F280-compliant sizing calculations—the Canadian standard for residential heating and cooling load calculations—directly on-site. By combining mobile LiDAR scans, 3D […]