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Vancouver seems to have solved part of the puzzle for one of the world’s great frustrations: rush hour traffic.
The running community is staring down the barrel of a problem that’s even worse than shin splints or nipple chafing.
Just as we’ve started thinking about all of the autumnal looks we’d like to show off, Google released a tool to ensure that any sweaters or corduroy pants we buy online will fit.
The feds have added some serious teeth to their temporary foreign labour rules.
Being a wingman for domestic companies looking to woo the Canadian government is an emerging field.
And as promised, the "6 7" song...
Spies aren’t all suave operators wearing bespoke suits and driving invisible cars (excuse us, we just rewatched Die Another Day). Sometimes they’re just Canadian utility employees.
You might need to pony up a couple thousand bucks just to have a shot at buying tickets to the World Cup next year.
The impact of the energy-hungry facilities on electricity bills could soon turn them into a political lightning rod.
The five million Timmies coffees sold every day just got a little pricier.
Remember a few months ago when virtually all of Canada’s political leaders voiced support for big infrastructure projects in the face of U.S. trade threats?
Space, the final frontier… of powering your scrolling.
Canada’s iconic milk bag could soon face more competition from the American carton.
To the surprise of absolutely no one, Meta will soon use your conversations with its AI chatbots to serve you even more hyper-targeted ads.
After hitting 10 stops over three months, Alberta’s travelling roadshow of participative democracy is wrapping up.
Telus just turned a Québec fishing hub into one of Canada’s AI hotspots.
Canada’s film industry could be the next sector to face tariff disruptions.
Telus just turned a Québec fishing hub into one of Canada’s AI hotspots.
As the Toronto Blue Jays clinched their division yesterday, their owner was plotting how they’re gonna create one of the largest sports empires in the world.
Bring up the stock market and Nvidia is sure to be mentioned, but the hottest companies of the year are actually a lot more old-school: 1970s-era hard-drive makers.
Peak Pals! We're re-airing some of our favourite episode of the Free Lunch podcast. today we're talking about productivity with William Huggins, a lecturer on corporate finance, economics, and statistics at the DeGroote School of Business, about:
What productivity is and how we measure it.
Why productivity matters for the economy.
Why wages have become disconnected from productivity.
Why Canada's productivity is lagging behind other developed countries.
How some countries without many natural economic advantages have supercharged their productivity.
What Canada can do to boost our productivity, and what it would mean for our economy.
Hey Peak Pals , we've decided to start dropping old episodes of Free Lunch into the feed on weekend. We don't air that podcast anymore, but there are still some really relevant conversations that were had and we want to give you a chance to listen to them again or maybe for the first time.
If you’ve got a dog that loves barking at the mailman, it’s time to sit them down and deliver some difficult news.
The U.S.’s creep towards state-owned companies is now encroaching on a Canadian firm.
The visa program that’s brought some of Silicon Valley’s best and brightest to the U.S. just got a ~1,900% price increase.
Worried about job security in a shaky economy? More Canadians are considering the one surefire way to make sure you don’t get laid off: hiring yourself.
Peak Pals, stick around to the end of this episode for a conversation with Alex Howell, AirBnB's policy lead for Canada where we talk about the company's impact on housing.
Canada’s (legal) mushroom industry is booming, and the U.S. is starting to get a little jealous.
The U.S.’s creep towards state-owned companies is now encroaching on a Canadian firm.
No doubt some Canadian investors were happily eyeing their portfolios yesterday.
Truck stops should swap potato chips for microchips to appease their future customers: robot drivers.
A Toronto startup studio has some new ideas on how to build the next Shopify.
Say what you will about the Trump administration, they’re there when a desperate friend needs a bail out.
Big Tech companies will spend the next week arguing why they shouldn’t have to bankroll Canada’s music industry.
A new report confirms what we already kinda knew about the feds’ carbon cutting goals: they bit off more than they could chew.
Canada’s negotiating team is going to need to brush up on The Art of the Deal.
Canadian miners need more money to cash in on the critical mineral rush. With Chinese investments out of the question, the Middle East is stepping right up.
Québec’s favourite constitutional escape hatch could be sealed shut.
The metaverse might be dead, but Meta’s still betting that people want to strap computers to their faces.
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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.