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After hitting 10 stops over three months, Alberta's travelling roadshow of participative democracy is wrapping up. Telus just turned a Québec fishing hub into one of Canada's AI hotspots.

Canada's film industry could be the next sector to face tariff disruptions. Telus just turned a Québec fishing hub into one of Canada's AI hotspots.

As the Toronto Blue Jays clinched their division yesterday, their owner was plotting how they're gonna create one of the largest sports empires in the world. Bring up the stock market and Nvidia is sure to be mentioned, but the hottest companies of the year are actually a lot more old-school: 1970s-era hard-drive makers.

Peak Pals! We're re-airing some of our favourite episode of the Free Lunch podcast. today we're talking about productivity with William Huggins, a lecturer on corporate finance, economics, and statistics at the DeGroote School of Business, about: What productivity is and how we measure it. Why productivity matters for the economy. Why wages have become disconnected from productivity. Why Canada's productivity is lagging behind other developed countries. How some countries without many natural economic advantages have supercharged their productivity. What Canada can do to boost our productivity, and what it would mean for our economy.

 Hey Peak Pals , we've decided to start dropping old episodes of Free Lunch into the feed on weekend. We don't air that podcast anymore, but there are still some really relevant conversations that were had and we want to give you a chance to listen to them again or maybe for the first time.

If you've got a dog that loves barking at the mailman, it's time to sit them down and deliver some difficult news. The U.S.'s creep towards state-owned companies is now encroaching on a Canadian firm.

The visa program that's brought some of Silicon Valley's best and brightest to the U.S. just got a ~1,900% price increase. Worried about job security in a shaky economy? More Canadians are considering the one surefire way to make sure you don't get laid off: hiring yourself. Peak Pals, stick around to the end of this episode for a conversation with Alex Howell, AirBnB's policy lead for Canada where we talk about the company's impact on housing.

Canada's (legal) mushroom industry is booming, and the U.S. is starting to get a little jealous. The U.S.'s creep towards state-owned companies is now encroaching on a Canadian firm.

No doubt some Canadian investors were happily eyeing their portfolios yesterday. Truck stops should swap potato chips for microchips to appease their future customers: robot drivers.

A Toronto startup studio has some new ideas on how to build the next Shopify. Say what you will about the Trump administration, they're there when a desperate friend needs a bail out.

Big Tech companies will spend the next week arguing why they shouldn't have to bankroll Canada's music industry. A new report confirms what we already kinda knew about the feds' carbon cutting goals: they bit off more than they could chew.

Canada's negotiating team is going to need to brush up on The Art of the Deal. Canadian miners need more money to cash in on the critical mineral rush. With Chinese investments out of the question, the Middle East is stepping right up.

Québec's favourite constitutional escape hatch could be sealed shut. The metaverse might be dead, but Meta's still betting that people want to strap computers to their faces.

Call it financial climate change: we could one day see fewer earnings seasons. The federal government might be quietly sitting on an AI gold mine, and the tech industry is politely asking it to stand up.

The feds are giving Canada's housing sector a $13 billion shot in the arm. Investing with purpose? You might need to watch what you say.

Telus has accused Rogers of playing dirty and wants Canada's telecoms regulator to send it to the penalty box. It's gonna take more than a new line of yoga pants to fix Lulu's balance sh

A Swedish fintech has managed to build a US$20 billion business by letting people procrastinate their buyer's remorse. It's not a rare mineral, but the humble wiring in your home is about to become a lot more important.

Some of Canada's biggest companies are building the Avengers equivalent of a fraud-fighting team. At this rate, the 2027 iPhone lineup will be able to fit in your wallet.

We could soon have a new loonie that can't get lost in the couch cushions.  If you've been hoarding a brilliant idea for a new sports league, now's the time to pitch it. 

Hollywood wants to give video games a big screen update. Hook up that IV and get out Tylenol because Canada's EV mandate isn't looking all that healthy.

All those fitness influencers telling everyone to eat protein may have more influence than you think. Sometimes even small things can feel like big victories…

If you thought Canada's economy couldn't get any worse, then you haven't seen the latest labour productivity numbers. The NFL season kicks off today with the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles taking on the Dallas Cowboys.

After 10 years together, the marriage of two snack food giants has gone bad, like a bottle of expired mayo, or a moldy bowl of KD. Having trouble reaching someone at the CRA? The good (and bad) news is you're not alone.

The channel you likely watched High School Musical on for the first time will soon be gone. Like Halloween's Michael Myers, no matter what you do, coal just won't go away.

ChatGPT is being trained to get better at handling delicate mental health situations. Some say summer is the best season. Others, winter. For Canadian bankers? This year, it's earnings season

With the U.S. playing hard to get, Canada is laying the foundation to have a lot more Europe in its life. The key to securing better pay might no longer be cavorting with LinkedIn headhunters, but hanging on to your current role for dear life instead.

On the bloody retail battlefield, one of Canada's oldest family-owned businesses is fighting to be the last department store standing. A new Reuters investigation has confirmed troubling details about how Meta has designed its AI chatbots to behave, particularly with minors.

Skiing costs an arm and a leg, but after a season of slumping sales, Vail is willing to let customers keep at least one limb. In a troubling sign for the remote work revolution, briefcase-carrying Manhattanites have fully returned to their natural habitat.

In a bid to take over dresser drawers across North America, one of Canada's largest clothing brands is ready to cut a big cheque. If you know a canola farmer, give them a hug today. They could really use it.

Life comes at you fast. One day, you're chatting with BNN Bloomberg about how swell your company is performing; the next, you're in the unemployment line. Senior housing has quietly become the hottest play in Canada's real estate market, but for anyone who wants to actually live in one, the situation is looking a bit grim.

The polar bear capital of the world could very well be the answer to Canada's trade woes. An AI company is planting its flag in Canada with a mission to make lawyers' workdays more efficient, giving them more time to save the world and chase ambulances — we kid, we kid

Canada's got a new homegrown AI tool that minds its own business… and yours. The U.S. continues to stray farther away from the global health consensus.

The newest wedge driving Canada and the U.S. apart? Skimmed milk powder, apparently. Like a straight-A high schooler whose grades drop at university, Health Canada is struggling with an increased workload.

We now spend over 15 minutes a day using AI as our meal planner, personal assistant, and deeply unqualified therapist. Canadian beef is back on the menu Down Under.

DoorDash is fighting for its right to charge you $25 to have a $12 burger delivered to your door. Newly published research has the beekeeping world abuzz — but not in a good way.

With the worst productivity crisis in the G7, Canada is banking on AI to turn things around. So far, it hasn't gone to plan. More Canadian travellers are content to roam at home.

Ottawa wants to bring together the best and brightest from around the world to tackle one of Canada's most pressing challenges. The favourite mall store of 14-year-olds in 2009 is popping off thanks to one of Hollywood's brightest young stars — call it the “Sydney Sweeney Effect.”

The framework for potential U.S. trade deals is starting to shape up. The retail investing craze that inspired a predictably mediocre Hollywood movie is vying for a sequel.

Many Canadians are happy to swap their California Cabernet for a Niagara Pinot Noir, but when it comes to their portfolios, they're not bailing on the U.S. Microsoft may have accidentally left a hacker-sized door open to hundreds of thousands of organizations.

It's high noon for Canada's national postal service. Having already mastered the arts of furniture building and meatball making, Ikea has set its sights on a new chapter.

Airlines are turning to AI to figure out just how much we're willing to splurge on our summer vacations. Look out Norway and Saudi Arabia — Alberta is back in the sovereign wealth fund game.

After nearly a year of getting ghosted by 7-Eleven, Canada's convenience store king has gotten the message that it's time to start seeing other people. Flying saucer research is no longer just the domain of the tin-foil hat crowd, as the federal government could soon be watching the skies.

Canada's biggest tech company is helping ChatGPT fire the starting gun on a new era of online shopping. It's rare that a company files for an IPO in Canada these days, let alone an American company. And yet…

This might upset our real red-blooded Italian readers, but Canada will soon get more Olive Gardens. Banks have found a new junior analyst who's always on time, doesn't take vacation, and will never complain about a lack of work-life balance.

New research has found yet another way the pandemic left our collective health worse off. The prime minister is going to need a spreadsheet to keep track of all the CEOs he's not allowed to talk to.

Ruoming Pang recently accepted a pay package of more than US$200 million over several years. He's not an athlete, or a movie star, but a new member of Meta's “superintelligence” team. Facing the prospect of a 300% property tax hike, a small town just outside of Timmins, Ontario, is throwing in the towel.

We knew that limiting international student visas would be bad for post-secondary schools, but we couldn't have known it would cause one of the largest mass layoffs the sector has ever seen. The performance of mutual funds might be falling, but that isn't stopping salespeople at Canada's largest banks from selling them to customers.

A Canadian company seems to have found a way to use AI in Hollywood without getting anyone sued. An ideologically motivated violent plot that had been in the making for at least four years was shut down by a series of arrests this week.

AI is being given the tall order of deciphering what exactly happens in those long meetings on Parliament Hill. As the price of copper rises, so has the number of thieves snipping it from power lines.

The Calgary Stampede is the only place in the world where you'll catch business leaders flipping pancakes in the morning and chasing deals into the evening. It has probably never been more important to make a deal with the U.S., and it has probably never been more difficult either

Uber drivers in Victoria are forming Canada's first rideshare union. The feds want more electric cars. Automakers want more people to actually buy them. Right now, neither side is getting what it wants.