Teaching note for product W47864.

Rachel Drew was the founder and CEO of Cadence, a technology startup that aimed to transform the chaos of estate administration into a grief-informed, compassionate process. Cadence had grown from Drew’s personal experience managing her mother’s estate. She had faced an overwhelming administrative burden and identified how a fragmented, non-user-friendly system for estate settlement forced grieving family members into essentially taking on a “part-time .....more

Teaching note for product W49094.

On the morning of May 2, 2025, a recently elected councillor in Regina, Saskatchewan, prepared to make her way to City Hall. Having run a strong campaign that earned her a seat in the November 2024 municipal election, the councillor now faced one of the most consequential decisions of her term: a final council vote on whether to proceed with public water fluoridation in Regina or reverse course. What was truly in the best interest of Regina’s citizens: .....more

In July 2023, Alberta Dental Service Corporation (ADSC), a non-profit organization that administered publicly funded dental benefit programs on behalf of the Government of Alberta, became the victim of a double-extortion ransomware when data regarding 1.47 million individuals and dental service providers was copied to an outside location and data found on the ADSC’s system was encrypted, making it unusable. The leaked data included personal banking .....more

Teaching note for product W44816.