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For a company repeatedly branded a national security threat, TikTok has emerged from its U.S. standoff in remarkably good shape
Chinese EV companies are starting their engines to enter the Canadian market.
Like the final two contestants on a Bachelorette season, Hanwha Ocean and ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) are pulling out all the stops to win Ottawa’s affections.
The algorithms that keep us mindlessly scrolling for hours could soon be in legal peril.
We’re guessing it was a pretty awkward afternoon at Davos for the White House delegation.
Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov aren’t real-life hockey players, but the protagonists of the hit Canadian gay hockey romance might just be the NHL’s biggest draws.
With anxiety over Arctic sovereignty at an all-time high, a Canadian startup is pitching itself as Ottawa’s solution.
Like a student who’s behind on their readings, Health Canada is looking to copy some homework off of friends.
Like a nasty gossip, it’s basically never good news when the U.S. president starts bringing you up in conversations.
Remote work has evolved from answering Slack messages in your sweatpants to conducting brain surgeries on a patient 500 kilometres away.
B.C. is closing the book on its experiment with drug decriminalization.
We hate to say it, but all of those “crazy” sports fans complaining about the games being rigged might not have been so crazy after all.
Quebec’s premier is bidding adieu to the Hôtel du Parlement.
Matthew McConaughey has had enough, enough, enough with the AI deepfakes.
It looks like McDonald’s has seen all the posts about how fast food prices are too damn high.
After losing tens of billions of dollars making clunky VR headsets that nobody wanted, Meta has finally built a winning product.
Getting compensated for your delayed flight from two years ago isn’t getting any easier.
Recent Grok-y headlines have been upsetting, so here’s some good AI news.
Consider taking a moment today to check in on any venture capitalists in your life, because (in Canada, at least) there’s a good chance they just went through a rough year.
It may sound like the log line for a low-budget sci-fi movie, but a Canadian company just launched a bunch of high-tech lasers into space.
Rogers is worried about kids’ screen time and cottage cheese is having a moment. Plus, a new underwater cable is on the way connecting an Ontario power plant to Toronto.
As the US explores annexation of Greenland they continue their plans to extract and sell Venezuelan oil. Plus, the future of air travel is both bumpier thanks to a changing environment but also more convenient, thanks to eVTOLS.
Nvidia unveils self-driving car system at CES which might be a good thing, because you can apparently by illicit drug on Instagram and Facebook. Plus, just how big was Taylor Swift Eras Tour effect on Toronto’s economy?
Novo Nordisk launches weight-loss pill while the Feds look into earthquake insurance. Plus, Maduro’s (first) day in court, Christia Freeland’s new job and one very, very expensive tuna.
Plus, DeepSeek boasts a new AI breakthrough and another Chinese company, BYD has overtaken Tesla as the world’s largest EV seller.
We could finally be done with the stale Hollywood marketing cycle of Jimmy Kimmel appearances, sleepy podcast circuits, and forced red carpet smiles.
Bombardier is heading into 2026 flying higher than a tricked-out private jet
Lax U.S. gun laws are flooding Canada’s black market for firearms.
One of Canada’s 2026 resolutions is to crack down on money laundering, and this year they’re actually going to do it for real, okay?
The unexplainable desire to watch our favourite podcast hosts talk into a microphone has created a new frontier in the streaming wars.
Is this weird-looking jet the future of air travel?
Ottawa has pulled off a tire-squealing U-turn on immigration.
It’s a rough time to be an Ellison-run company.
Even an electric version of the world's best-selling truck couldn’t get people to give up the gas pump.
The federal government's new Buy Canadian Policy officially came into effect yesterday, as Ottawa looks to turn grocery aisle sloganeering into a concrete national investment strategy
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It's not the jokes, its the super loud music on top of the voice which doesn't let you listen.
Killing time by spending it on TikTok? Really???? Maybe a better suggestion? Like reading books, or doing sth better?
The Crown has about 56B$ of assets. Why commonwealth citizens should provide money for the Crown at all?
Because of all the complex and long processes that IRCC has for providing visas to skilled workers to come and live in Canada and contribute to its economy, lots of skilled workers are heading to Europe, because EU's policy to grant work permits is very quick and effective these days. For a long long time, Canada has even been delaying the permanent residency and citizenship grant applications of people who lived here and worked and payed their taxes for more than 6-7 years, and government is not even trying to fix it. Instead , they are only pouring more money to IRCC and wasting more taxpayers money on this. We will see the effects of these policies on Canadian businesses in next 5-10 years.