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The Peak Daily
The Peak / Curiouscast
880 episodes
3 days ago
Fast Canadian business news. Get up-to-speed quick with a fun and smart breakdown of the three biggest Canadian and global business stories in less than 10 minutes.
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Fast Canadian business news. Get up-to-speed quick with a fun and smart breakdown of the three biggest Canadian and global business stories in less than 10 minutes.
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The Peak Daily
Wish list 💫- Ottawa unveils new nation-building projects, Digital billboards are watching.
Ottawa just rolled out part two of its infrastructure Christmas wish list. Whether it’ll get what it asked for is up in the air. Targeted advertising has broken containment from your Instagram feed and made it to the real world.
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3 days ago
10 minutes

The Peak Daily
Fast and cheap 🏎️- AI faces another DeepSeek moment, Airbnb wants to be an everything app.
Call it déjà vu: A Chinese AI firm has set the industry abuzz by doing more with less. When you book your next Airbnb, you’ll have to decide whether you’d like it with or without a private chef, personal trainer, or fridge full of snacks.
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4 days ago
8 minutes

The Peak Daily
Digital Sovereignty 🇨🇦- Buy Canadian comes to AI, The U.S. wants Canada to pay more for drugs.
Buy Canadian is going way beyond the grocery cart. Trump is trying to strong-arm Big Pharma into hiking drug prices around the world.
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5 days ago
10 minutes

The Peak Daily
Break it off 💔- The end appears near for Sonder, Clio nets a $5 billion valuation.
Today we ponder the fate of Sonder, a Canadian-founded company that appears to be near its end. A homegrown tech company is proving, beyond a reasonable doubt, that AI can do a lot more in the courtroom than make up legal cases.
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6 days ago
7 minutes

The Peak Daily
Talent show 🎤- Ottawa looks to poach U.S. talent, OpenAI floats government backstop
Ottawa may be closing some of its immigration doors, but it’s rolling out the red carpet for highly-skilled workers on U.S. visas It’s a tale as old as capitalism, and it may be unfolding again in the AI space.
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1 week ago
9 minutes

The Peak Daily
Making friends 👬- Canada and Saudi Arabia cozy up, Scam ads make big money for Meta.
With the U.S. playing hard to get, Ottawa and Saudi Arabia are playing a little footsy under the trade table. Scammers aren’t the only ones profiting from weird Facebook ads of Howie Mandel getting arrested.
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1 week ago
9 minutes

The Peak Daily
Time to pay up  💸- Tesla shareholders vote on Musk pay package, Investors float AI bubble concerns.
Tesla shareholders will vote today on whether or not to approve a pay package for CEO Elon Musk that could end up being worth over US$1 trillion. Fears about an AI bubble have reached the point where financial advisors are now sending out Nvidia-branded bubble guns.
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1 week ago
10 minutes

The Peak Daily
Here comes the budget 🏧- Carney drops his first federal budget, Coke ushers in the age of AI ads.
We don’t know about you, but we could hardly sleep Monday night knowing there was a fresh budget waiting under the fiscal Christmas tree. With the corpse of Halloween still fresh in the dirt, Coca-Cola has dropped its annual holiday commercials… with a twist.
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1 week ago
8 minutes

The Peak Daily
Quantum IPO 💻- Xanadu plans blockbuster IPO, ChatGPT is done giving you advice.
Quantum computing might be difficult to comprehend (we’re still not sure what a qubit is), but one thing about it is easy to understand: it’s got a lot of money-making potential. ChatGPT is officially resigning its role as our deeply unqualified (but extremely confident) doctor, lawyer, and financial planner.
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1 week ago
8 minutes

The Peak Daily
Touch-ups 💄- Cosmetic treatments blow up, Trump's tariffs get their day in court
Getting a little work done isn’t just for people trying to reclaim their lost youth anymore — young people themselves are increasingly getting cosmetic touch-ups, too. The backbone of Trump’s trade policy will be in the hands of nine judges this week.
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2 weeks ago
8 minutes

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Travel bug 🪲- Canada records all-time summer tourism numbers, Carney meets with Xi.
Even with fierce competition from luxurious Euro trips and beachside all-inclusives, Canada came out of vacation season as the big winner. Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea later today, marking the first substantial talks between the leaders of the two countries in seven years
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2 weeks ago
8 minutes

The Peak Daily
Zombie Zellers 🧟- Nvidia inaugurates the $5 trillion club, Zellers returns from the dead (again).
They say it’s lonely at the top, but it sure seems like Nvidia has a lot of supporters. Like a cat with nine lives, Zellers simply refuses to die.
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2 weeks ago
8 minutes

The Peak Daily
Simple as that 🤑- Wealthsimple is a $10 billion company, OpenAI finalizes its restructuring.
What started in 2014 as a simple robot trade advisor is now an all-time Canadian business success story. OpenAI is trying to keep up its whole move-fast-and-break-things shtick without completely abandoning its safety-first roots.
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2 weeks ago
22 minutes

The Peak Daily
Stablecoin FOMO 💰- Ottawa opens up to stablecoins, Powerful Alzheimer’s drug gets green light.
Ottawa doesn’t want to miss the boat on a potential Blockbuster-to-Netflix moment in the way people spend their money. A newly approved Alzheimer’s drug promises miraculous results, but it won’t come cheap.
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2 weeks ago
10 minutes

The Peak Daily
Dupe defence 👬- International travel gets invasive, Lululemon trademarks its dupes
Get ready to strike a pose and say “cheese” if you’re heading to the U.S., because any visits to our southern neighbour will soon come with a photo op. Influencers, beware: Lululemon has opened a new front in its war on dupes.
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3 weeks ago
9 minutes

The Peak Daily
Let’s go Blue Jays 🐦- Businesses cash in on Jays run, Alberta needs more juice for data centres
Blue Jays fans aren’t just ponying up $2,500 for nosebleed seats — they've been on a citywide spending spree. Alberta’s ambitions to become an AI data centre powerhouse could be hamstrung by a lack of, well, power.
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3 weeks ago
10 minutes

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On ice 🧊- NHL signs Polymarket licensing pact, Canada could get its first whale sanctuary.
Hockey is the home of league-sanctioned fist fights, toothless athletes, and now, grey-area gambling. North America’s first-ever whale sanctuary is one step closer to becoming a reality.
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3 weeks ago
9 minutes

The Peak Daily
Don’t dream it’s over 💤- Another Ontario EV plant ceases operations, The NYT TikTok-ifies the news.
Just a week after Stellantis announced it was halting Jeep production in Brampton, another southern Ontario EV auto plant is on the outs. It appears that even one of the biggest newspapers in the world has given up on getting people to read.
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3 weeks ago
9 minutes

The Peak Daily
Longest trial ever ⚖️- Canada’s longest trial rattles B.C. landowners, Ottawa cracks down on fraud.
The ripple effects of the longest trial in Canadian history are starting to rattle some B.C. landowners. Ottawa is overhauling how it combats financial fraud.
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3 weeks ago
8 minutes

The Peak Daily
Secondhand status 👐 - Tariffs take a bite out of U.S. auto sector, Luxury brands lose sales to themselves
The U.S. wants to turn the North American auto industry into just the American auto industry — but it might cripple the whole sector in the process. Like the plot of a confusing time travel movie, some of the most expensive brands in the world are struggling to deal with a fierce competitor: themselves, from the past.
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4 weeks ago
8 minutes

The Peak Daily
Fast Canadian business news. Get up-to-speed quick with a fun and smart breakdown of the three biggest Canadian and global business stories in less than 10 minutes.