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The Peak Daily

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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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7:00

Feeling drained 😴 - Google rolls out new shopping...

The Peak Daily ·

2025/10/09

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.

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8:34

Getting serious 🤬 - Ottawa hands out temporary...

The Peak Daily ·

2025/10/08

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...

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15:07

Economic espionage 🕵️ - Landmark Canadian spy trial...

The Peak Daily ·

2025/10/07

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.

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9:08

Caffeine crisis ☕ - AI boom drives up electricity...

The Peak Daily ·

2025/10/06

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.

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7:06

Cracking up 🧨 - B.C. pipeline proposal sows...

The Peak Daily ·

2025/10/03

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.

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8:02

Spilled milk 🥛 - Dairy on the negotiating table with...

The Peak Daily ·

2025/10/02

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.

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16:05

What’s next? ➡️ - Alberta’s travelling town halls...

The Peak Daily ·

2025/10/01

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.

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8:37

Movie tax 🍿 - Trump wants tariffs on foreign movies,...

The Peak Daily ·

2025/09/30

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.

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8:24

Power play 🔌 - Rogers eyes standalone sports biz, Old...

The Peak Daily ·

2025/09/29

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.

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64:35

Best of Free Lunch: What The Heck Is Productivity,...

The Peak Daily ·

2025/09/28

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

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69:04

Best of Free Lunch: A Disturbing conversation about AI

The Peak Daily ·

2025/09/27

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.

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9:10

Is Canada Post toast? 📬 - Ottawa tells Canada Post...

The Peak Daily ·

2025/09/26

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.

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17:02

Hasta-la-Visa 👋- U.S. adds $100,000 fee for visas,...

The Peak Daily ·

2025/09/25

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.

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8:46

Tragic mushrooms 🍄- Canada’s mushroom industry gets...

The Peak Daily ·

2025/09/25

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.

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13:52

Such great heights 🆙- Canadian stocks are on a tear,...

The Peak Daily ·

2025/09/24

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.

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7:57

Start me up 🏁- Startup studio bags new funding, U.S....

The Peak Daily ·

2025/09/23

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.

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9:01

CanCon, can do 🇨🇦 - The CRTC plots new content...

The Peak Daily ·

2025/09/19

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.

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7:31

Clock’s ticking ⏰ - CUSMA’s days are officially...

The Peak Daily ·

2025/09/18

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.

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9:12

Escape hatch ⚜️ - Québec secularism law heads to...

The Peak Daily ·

2025/09/17

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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8:32

Halved or quartered? ➗ - The push to end quarterly...

The Peak Daily ·

2025/09/16

Call it financial climate change: we could one day see fewer earnings seasons.The federal government might be quietly sitting on an AI gold mine, and the tech industry is politely asking it to stand up.

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