
The Peak Daily
Fast Canadian business news. Get up-to-speed quick with a fun and smart breakdown of the three biggest Canadian and global business stories in less than 10 minutes.
Latest episodes

Jul 18, 2025 • 10min
Cold shoulder 🥶 - Couche-Tard abandons 7-Eleven takeover, A new report on UFO research.
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.

Jul 17, 2025 • 8min
ShopGPT 🛒 - OpenAI courts online shoppers, American REIT eyes a Canadian IPO.
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…

Jul 16, 2025 • 10min
Endless breadsticks 🥖 - Canadian restaurant giant snaps up Olive Garden, AI comes for Wall Street.
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.

Jul 15, 2025 • 8min
Creeping up 📈 - Nearly a third of Canadians are obese, Carney recuses corporate interests.
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.

Jul 11, 2025 • 9min
$200M pay package 🤑 - The world’s highest paying jobs, Shutting down a small town.
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.

Jul 10, 2025 • 10min
Cutting classes 🧑🎓 - Canadian colleges face financial troubles, Bank salespeople are pushing
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.

Jul 9, 2025 • 8min
AI goes Hollywood 🎞️ - Canadian startup brings AI to the big screen, Anti-government militia charged.
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.

Jul 8, 2025 • 8min
Meeting minutes 🤝 - Ottawa has a new AI tool, Canadian copper thefts are skyrocketing.
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.

Jul 7, 2025 • 8min
Stampede deals 🤠 - Business leaders gather in Calgary, An update on “Liberation Day” tariffs.
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

Jul 4, 2025 • 8min
Union drivers 🚦 - Uber drivers unionize, Automakers push back on EV mandate.
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.