A robot, a rejected pitch, and a very human desire to get on with life. How Aceable turned required education into a business spanning four kinds of licenses.

He began with trivia apps, dwindling cash and an investor's blunt refusal. The useful idea arrived only when Garrett stopped trying to make learning optional - and started making mandatory education bearable.
CPA Ontario is part regulator, part school and part professional network. Its latest bet is that tighter provincial control can make the designation faster to adapt - without making it any less Canadian.