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Aug 14, 2025 • 10min

Hit the slopes 🎿  -   Vail cuts prices for its ski passes, New Yorkers are returning to the office.

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.
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Aug 13, 2025 • 10min

Keep your shirt on 👕  -   Canada looks northward for trade, AI legaltech is a booming business.

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.
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Aug 12, 2025 • 9min

Separate ways 💔 - Open Text fires its CEO, Senior housing demand is soaring.

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.
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Aug 8, 2025 • 9min

Breaking the ice 🧊  -   Canada looks northward for trade, AI legaltech is a booming business.

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
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Aug 7, 2025 • 10min

AI North 🤖  -   Cohere rolls out a homegrown AI agent, The U.S. pulls vaccine research funding.

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.
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Aug 6, 2025 • 10min

Dairy dumping 🐮  -   Canada and U.S. dairy disputes escalate, Canada slips on generic drug approvals.

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.
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Jul 31, 2025 • 10min

15.6 billion hours ⏳  -   People are using AI every day, Australia lifts longtime Canadian beef ban.

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.
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Jul 30, 2025 • 19min

Fees and bees 🐝  -   DoorDash defends drip pricing, New study about bees causes big buzz.

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.
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Jul 29, 2025 • 9min

Unproductive 📉  -   AI hasn’t made Canadians more productive, Staycations are saving tourism.

Canada is grappling with a productivity crisis, despite a push for AI integration that hasn't yielded the expected results. Meanwhile, the trend of staycations is booming as more Canadians choose to explore their own backyard, injecting new life into the local tourism industry. This shift comes amidst a backdrop of rising domestic travel and declining international visitors, indicating a significant change in consumer behavior. Additionally, innovative partnerships are underway to improve AI capabilities, underscoring the ongoing challenges in the tech landscape.
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Jul 25, 2025 • 10min

Fighting fires 🔥  -   Feds launch wildfire research group, investigating the Sydney Sweeney Effect.

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.”

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