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Air travel is starting to feel more and more like building a Chipotle bowl: If you want the good stuff, it’s going to cost you.Online bargain bin giants like Shein and Temu have benefitted from long-standing tax breaks forgoing duties on foreign packages under a certain price threshold, but that might soon end.Celebrating something? Let us know here: https://thepeak.typeform.com/to/MNdYA3TO

Tariffs recently announced by the U.S. on a slew of Chinese imports have forced Canada to answer some tough questions about its climate plans.Western Canada has seen an early start to the wildfire season, but some new high-tech cameras are proving to be a powerful weapon for fighting the flames.Celebrating something? Let us know here: https://thepeak.typeform.com/to/MNdYA3TO

Tariffs recently announced by the U.S. on a slew of Chinese imports have forced Canada to answer some tough questions about its climate plans.Western Canada has seen an early start to the wildfire season, but some new high-tech cameras are proving to be a powerful weapon for fighting the flames.Celebrating something? Let us know here: https://thepeak.typeform.com/to/MNdYA3TO

Jumping on the train might seem like a nice alternative to a traffic jam… until you realize your train is also sitting in a traffic jam.Unlike the mythological bird of the same name, the federal government’s Phoenix payroll system is not going to rise from the ashes.Celebrating something? Let us know here: https://thepeak.typeform.com/to/MNdYA3TO

Canada Goose — the iconic Canadian brand that began by making jackets for park rangers before pivoting to making status symbols for Bay Street traders — is getting even bougier.The value of global sports TV contracts is set to reach US$62.4 billion this year. The NFL alone accounts for ~20% of that total.Celebrating something? Let us know here: https://thepeak.typeform.com/to/MNdYA3TO

A powerful solar storm over the weekend created more than a brilliant light show for people across the country — it also caused technological headaches for farmers.To curb rising auto theft in the province, the Ontario government is taking a page out of our parents’ playbook and threatening to take away driving privileges: A new law will introduce driver's licence suspensions of at least 10 years for some convicted car thieves.Celebrating something? Let us know here: https://thepeak.typeform.com/to/MNdYA3TO

GameStop shares surged ~72% yesterday after Keith Gill, the man best known for driving the meme stock mania of 2021 under the name “Roaring Kitty,” came back onto social media after a three-year hiatus. As of writing, the X post has attracted more than 16 million views.Movie theatres hope that adding a few bells and whistles will distract you from the fact that they’re not playing anything you actually want to see.Celebrating something? Let us know here: https://thepeak.typeform.com/to/MNdYA3TO

Despite glaring labour shortages in sectors like healthcare, education and skilled trades, Canada has long favoured business students when granting international student visas.On the docket for this summer: worship the sun, rediscover that you have a personality, and… the weather pattern change you learned about in Grade 8?Celebrating something? Let us know here: https://thepeak.typeform.com/to/MNdYA3TO

Don’t do illicit drugs in public in B.C. It’s, once again, illegal. And also, ya know, dangerous.Once crowned the world’s coolest street, a bustling stretch of Montreal’s Wellington Street will be off-limits to cars this summer.Celebrating something? Let us know here: https://thepeak.typeform.com/to/MNdYA3TO

If you’re having a bad start to the work day, at least be grateful you don’t have to deal with Molotov cocktails at the workplace.Intact, a property insurer, is launching a pilot program to reduce wildfire the damage to homes in Western Canada this year.Celebrating something? Let us know here: https://thepeak.typeform.com/to/MNdYA3TO