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The Peak Daily
The Peak / Curiouscast
823 episodes
4 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
What’s in store? 🏬  -    Simons expands its retail footprint, Meta chatbots have a safety problem
On the bloody retail battlefield, one of Canada's oldest family-owned businesses is fighting to be the last department store standing. A new Reuters investigation has confirmed troubling details about how Meta has designed its AI chatbots to behave, particularly with minors.
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3 days ago
7 minutes

The Peak Daily
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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4 days ago
9 minutes

The Peak Daily
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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5 days ago
9 minutes

The Peak Daily
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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6 days ago
8 minutes

The Peak Daily
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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1 week ago
8 minutes

The Peak Daily
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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1 week ago
9 minutes

The Peak Daily
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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1 week ago
9 minutes

The Peak Daily
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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2 weeks ago
9 minutes

The Peak Daily
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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2 weeks ago
18 minutes

The Peak Daily
Unproductive 📉  -   AI hasn’t made Canadians more productive, Staycations are saving tourism.
With the worst productivity crisis in the G7, Canada is banking on AI to turn things around. So far, it hasn’t gone to plan. More Canadian travellers are content to roam at home.
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2 weeks ago
8 minutes

The Peak Daily
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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3 weeks ago
9 minutes

The Peak Daily
Big in Japan 🇯🇵  -   Japan and the U.S. agree to trade deal, Meme stock frenzy has returned.
The framework for potential U.S. trade deals is starting to shape up. The retail investing craze that inspired a predictably mediocre Hollywood movie is vying for a sequel.
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3 weeks ago
9 minutes

The Peak Daily
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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3 weeks ago
8 minutes

The Peak Daily
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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3 weeks ago
8 minutes

The Peak Daily
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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4 weeks ago
7 minutes

The Peak Daily
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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1 month ago
9 minutes

The Peak Daily
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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1 month ago
8 minutes

The Peak Daily
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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1 month ago
9 minutes

The Peak Daily
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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1 month ago
8 minutes

The Peak Daily
$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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1 month 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.