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Jul 23, 2025 • 9min

Shopping spree 🛒  -   Canadian investors head south for stocks, Microsoft lets hackers walk in.

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.
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Jul 22, 2025 • 9min

Make or break 📬  -   Canada Post workers vote on contract offer, Ikea bets big on smarthome tech.

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.
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Jul 21, 2025 • 8min

Prices get personal 💵 - Delta uses AI to price airfare, Alberta bets big on sovereign wealth fund.

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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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