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OpenAI started the AI race in a full sprint while its competitors were still lacing up their shoes. Scholastic is making big changes to ensure that its book fairs aren't just a relic of Zillenial memories.

A bottleneck of cases in Canadian courtrooms is leading to thousands of violent crimes going untried. After a period of flirtation, Canada and Europe are making their defence relationship official.

Black Friday splurges may leave many Canadians in the red come the new year. One small step for man, one giant leap for automakers moonlighting as rocket scientists.

Facing an oil pipeline conundrum, Ottawa is trying to kill two birds with one stone. One of Canada's top purveyors of watery beers is accusing an ex-employee of skimming some foam off the top.

It's the classic gift you buy your nephew when he grows out of his dinosaur phase. It might also be the hottest holiday present of the year. Campbell's is on the defence after some soup-er incriminating leaked audio.

Just because a study has a long, jargon-filled title, that doesn't mean it's real. The company accused of driving up your rent is quietly settling a price-fixing lawsuit.

The king of the holiday gift guide is taking on the (alleged) king of the dupes. Hollywood A-listers are convincing Gen Z that cigarettes — while they may kill you — are still cooler than puffing on a vape that looks like a portable phone charger.

Canada's foreign policy is now all about the Benjamins — or in this case, the Bordens. Torontonians, look away: Montreal's new train upgrade is going to make your morning streetcar delay feel even worse.

The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) — the supervisor of our federally regulated lenders — wants to free up more credit for your next business venture. One of Canada's first online trading platforms is rolling out new tools to attract the booming hordes of Canadian daytraders (or at least people who lurk in r/WallStreetBets).

A Canadian startup is throwing its hat in the ring of the $5.4 trillion halal financing market. Things haven't exactly been peachy between Ottawa and Alberta over the past few years, but the two are willing to put differences aside in pursuit of a common goal: moving more oil.

Alberta's government has drafted legislation that would allow doctors to work at both private and public institutions simultaneously. For a country so rich in brainpower, Canada is having an oddly hard time figuring out how to use it.

The most digitally savvy generation is now falling for online financial scams at a higher clip than their grandparents. After over 14 years of leading Apple and crafting his own path in the long shadow of Steve Jobs, Tim Cook might soon have more time to hike around Yosemite.

Spare a thought today for the latest workers to be displaced by AI: hackers. Sony might've just landed one half of the next Barbenheimer.

Ottawa just rolled out part two of its infrastructure Christmas wish list. Whether it'll get what it asked for is up in the air. Targeted advertising has broken containment from your Instagram feed and made it to the real world.

Call it déjà vu: A Chinese AI firm has set the industry abuzz by doing more with less. When you book your next Airbnb, you'll have to decide whether you'd like it with or without a private chef, personal trainer, or fridge full of snacks.

Buy Canadian is going way beyond the grocery cart. Trump is trying to strong-arm Big Pharma into hiking drug prices around the world.

Today we ponder the fate of Sonder, a Canadian-founded company that appears to be near its end. A homegrown tech company is proving, beyond a reasonable doubt, that AI can do a lot more in the courtroom than make up legal cases.

Ottawa may be closing some of its immigration doors, but it's rolling out the red carpet for highly-skilled workers on U.S. visas It's a tale as old as capitalism, and it may be unfolding again in the AI space.

With the U.S. playing hard to get, Ottawa and Saudi Arabia are playing a little footsy under the trade table. Scammers aren't the only ones profiting from weird Facebook ads of Howie Mandel getting arrested.

Tesla shareholders will vote today on whether or not to approve a pay package for CEO Elon Musk that could end up being worth over US$1 trillion. Fears about an AI bubble have reached the point where financial advisors are now sending out Nvidia-branded bubble guns.

We don't know about you, but we could hardly sleep Monday night knowing there was a fresh budget waiting under the fiscal Christmas tree. With the corpse of Halloween still fresh in the dirt, Coca-Cola has dropped its annual holiday commercials… with a twist.

Quantum computing might be difficult to comprehend (we're still not sure what a qubit is), but one thing about it is easy to understand: it's got a lot of money-making potential. ChatGPT is officially resigning its role as our deeply unqualified (but extremely confident) doctor, lawyer, and financial planner.

Getting a little work done isn't just for people trying to reclaim their lost youth anymore — young people themselves are increasingly getting cosmetic touch-ups, too. The backbone of Trump's trade policy will be in the hands of nine judges this week.

Even with fierce competition from luxurious Euro trips and beachside all-inclusives, Canada came out of vacation season as the big winner. Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea later today, marking the first substantial talks between the leaders of the two countries in seven years

They say it's lonely at the top, but it sure seems like Nvidia has a lot of supporters. Like a cat with nine lives, Zellers simply refuses to die.

What started in 2014 as a simple robot trade advisor is now an all-time Canadian business success story. OpenAI is trying to keep up its whole move-fast-and-break-things shtick without completely abandoning its safety-first roots.

Ottawa doesn't want to miss the boat on a potential Blockbuster-to-Netflix moment in the way people spend their money. A newly approved Alzheimer's drug promises miraculous results, but it won't come cheap.

Get ready to strike a pose and say “cheese” if you're heading to the U.S., because any visits to our southern neighbour will soon come with a photo op. Influencers, beware: Lululemon has opened a new front in its war on dupes.

Blue Jays fans aren't just ponying up $2,500 for nosebleed seats — they've been on a citywide spending spree. Alberta's ambitions to become an AI data centre powerhouse could be hamstrung by a lack of, well, power.

Hockey is the home of league-sanctioned fist fights, toothless athletes, and now, grey-area gambling. North America's first-ever whale sanctuary is one step closer to becoming a reality.

Just a week after Stellantis announced it was halting Jeep production in Brampton, another southern Ontario EV auto plant is on the outs. It appears that even one of the biggest newspapers in the world has given up on getting people to read.

The ripple effects of the longest trial in Canadian history are starting to rattle some B.C. landowners. Ottawa is overhauling how it combats financial fraud.

The U.S. wants to turn the North American auto industry into just the American auto industry — but it might cripple the whole sector in the process. Like the plot of a confusing time travel movie, some of the most expensive brands in the world are struggling to deal with a fierce competitor: themselves, from the past.

Canada's largest city is building its reputation as the Silicon Valley of the North. Who knows, maybe it'll even get its own HBO sitcom. A cozy piece of Canadiana is getting a second shot at retail life.

Canada's auto industry just got rear-ended by one of the world's biggest carmakers. Netflix signed a deal with Spotify to bring a slate of 16 podcasts, including The Bill Simmons Podcast, to the streaming platform.

The French tire company that accidentally became the authority on the world's best food is setting its sights beyond the dining room. A top Canadian jeweller is betting that abandoned gold mines are an untapped, well, gold mine.

Canada isn't content just being an energy superpower on Earth. It wants to run the show in space, too. Soon, sharing your latest jog on Strava won't just be a good way to show off your physical health, it will also serve a far more noble purpose: creating shareholder value for the masses.

Vancouver seems to have solved part of the puzzle for one of the world's great frustrations: rush hour traffic. The running community is staring down the barrel of a problem that's even worse than shin splints or nipple chafing.

Just as we've started thinking about all of the autumnal looks we'd like to show off, Google released a tool to ensure that any sweaters or corduroy pants we buy online will fit.

The feds have added some serious teeth to their temporary foreign labour rules. Being a wingman for domestic companies looking to woo the Canadian government is an emerging field. And as promised, the "6 7" song...

Spies aren't all suave operators wearing bespoke suits and driving invisible cars (excuse us, we just rewatched Die Another Day). Sometimes they're just Canadian utility employees. You might need to pony up a couple thousand bucks just to have a shot at buying tickets to the World Cup next year.

The impact of the energy-hungry facilities on electricity bills could soon turn them into a political lightning rod. The five million Timmies coffees sold every day just got a little pricier.

Remember a few months ago when virtually all of Canada's political leaders voiced support for big infrastructure projects in the face of U.S. trade threats? Space, the final frontier… of powering your scrolling.

Canada's iconic milk bag could soon face more competition from the American carton.   To the surprise of absolutely no one, Meta will soon use your conversations with its AI chatbots to serve you even more hyper-targeted ads.

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.