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The Peak Daily

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9:02

Beer deal 🍻 — Carlsberg is buying Waterloo Brewing....

The Peak Daily ·

2022/12/16

Danish beer titan Carlsberg is buying Canadian brewery Waterloo Brewing for a cool, crisp, and hoppy $144 million in the largest deal ever for a Canadian brewery. The US Justice Department and Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) charged eight finance influencers with defrauding investors of US$114 million through “pump and dump” schemes, in which they encouraged followers to sink money into penny stocks to artificially inflate their prices and then sold their shares of to earn a tidy (and illicit)

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9:00

Changed COVID 🦠 — Central Banks are taking a new...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/12/15

Like many of us, the world’s central banks are ready for a re-brand in 2023: Out with the inflation-fighting fun-sucking and in with a cooler and more laid-back approach to rate hikes. Google heard all the clamour about ChatGPT (OpenAI’s AI chatbot that’s been heralded as a huge leap forward in the field) and how it could one day take on Google Search. In response, the company is telling everyone to take a serious chill pill. China is rolling back their COVID Zero policy. Celebrating something? Let

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9:27

Dreary data 📉 — Update on Rogers-Shaw. The Trust and...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/12/14

Today is the final day of the hearing that will decide the fate of the Rogers-Shaw merger, a deal that has wide-ranging implications for competition in Canada’s telecoms industry. Please, stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but Elon Musk’s Twitter just made a big change involving safety and moderation leaving a whole bunch of people on bad terms. Feeling gloomy about the state of Canada’s economy these days? You aren’t alone. New polling by Crestview Strategy shared exclusively with The Peak

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9:16

Pickleball 🏸 — Pickleball is trying to make it big....

The Peak Daily ·

2022/12/13

Could the sport that finally breaks the ranks of the Big Four North American Leagues really be one that’s named after a briny, preserved vegetable? If you thought things couldn’t get worse for the crypto world, this week may force you to think again. Seven interest rate hikes later, personal finances have seen better days. Celebrating something? Let us know here: https://thepeak.typeform.com/to/MNdYA3TO The Peak Daily is produced by 306 Media Productions. Hosted by Brett Chang and Jay Rosenthal.

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8:43

Slow slopes ⛷️ — Bitcoin miners are leaving Canada....

The Peak Daily ·

2022/12/12

Québec became a destination for crypto mining, a practice often criticized for its high energy use, by boasting some of North America’s cheapest energy prices. But now, Hydro-Québec has asked the province for permission to reallocate energy to other projects, per *The Wall Street Journal.* According to Deloitte Canada, the average household will spend $1,520 this year on the holidays, 17% less than in 2021, as Canadians brace for economic headwinds. Important news for skiiers and snowboarders: If

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7:52

Giving less 🎁 — Canadians are giving less. Developing...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/12/09

The holiday season has always been a time for opening our hearts and wallets to charity, but this year, more Canadians are cutting giving out of the budget as they try to conserve cash. A dozen developing countries might spin into a debt crisis within the next year, spelling financial trouble for some of the world’s most vulnerable people, per The New York Times. The government is looking to implement new rules under the Investment Canada Act that would require foreign actors to give advanced notice

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8:44

Vertical farm 🌾 — BoC hikes rates again. GoodLeaf...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/12/08

We’ve come a long way since the 8.1% inflation rate seen in June (a near four-decade high), but if you ask the Bank of Canada (BoC), the economy still has some way to go. GoodLeaf, a Guelph-based indoor farm, raised $150 million from McCain and the investing arm of Quebec insurer Power Corp to expand its greens into a national brand. Canada has invested billions into the critical minerals mining sector this year with grand ambitions to become a major player in the global supply chain for electric

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9:03

New league ⚽️ — Big departures at Salesforce. There’s...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/12/07

A corporate one-two punch has left the executive bench at Salesforce looking a bit empty. After the Canadian men flamed out of the World Cup, a new group is trying to keep soccer fever alive and well with a focus on Canada’s (historically way better) women players. The UN’s COP15 biodiversity conference commences today in Montreal with over 10,000 participants set to discuss how to protect and increase the world’s plant and animal life. Celebrating something? Let us know here:

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9:16

Yield curve ↪️ — Circle isn’t IPO-ing. Canada has an...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/12/06

Stablecoin group Circle has abandoned its plans to go public, one of the first signs that the fall of crypto exchange FTX is starting to hit even digital assets regarded as the least risky. Folks, Canada’s got a serious case of the ol’ [“inverted yield curve.”](https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/yield-curve-inversion-hits-widest-in-canada-since-early-1990s-1.1854997#:~:text=The yield on Canada's benchmark,Toronto time.) Former meme stock darling Hertz doled out US$168 million to settle 364 claims that it

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8:17

Writing bot ✍️ — There’s a new AI writing tool. Xi...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/12/05

OpenAI (the lab behind the AI-powered DALL-E image generator) launched its new AI chatbot ChatGPT to the public as part of its beta test. China’s President Xi Jinping has publicly acknowledged the protests that have erupted across the country in response to the government’s strict anti-Covid measures. Volkswagen is setting its sights on Canada for a new electric vehicle (EV) battery factory after a recently signed agreement effectively added the country to a shortlist of potential locations for its

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8:08

Brain chips 💻 — Chips for your brain. The banks are...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/12/02

Elon Musk took a quick break from social media stardom to shift back to mad scientist mode, claiming that chips will start being implanted into human brains in as little as six months. You won’t be surprised to hear that Canada’s big banks are raking in cash during a positive earnings season, but some are doing unusually well and have higher interest rates to thank. These days you can’t answer your phone or open your email without being bombarded by scams, but LinkedIn is determined to make sure you

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10:11

Spotify wrapped 🎶 — Streamers are looking to theatres...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/12/01

Happy Spotify Wrapped Day to all who celebrate! And apologies to all who don’t (hey there, Apple Music users) because your Insta stories are about to give you some major FOMO. Tough economic times mean that consumers have to take a good, hard look at what they buy, limiting purchases to only the essentials like groceries, rent, and… snowmobiles? Financial responsibility is becoming more attractive as cheap dates are the latest dating trend. Celebrating something? Let us know here:

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9:07

Bank buyer 🏦 — RBC buys HSBC. Nestlé is rethinking...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/11/30

RBC is already the country’s largest bank by assets ($1.71T), but just because you’re the biggest doesn’t mean you can’t get even bigger by buying HSBC. Nestlé isn’t the first company that comes to mind when you think of Big Pharma. And considering how their rollout of a new allergy drug is going, it’ll probably stay that way. While you’re using DNA testing services to explore your neanderthal ancestry, the police are using the same data to solve crimes. Celebrating something? Let us know here:

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8:48

To the movies 🎥 — Streamers are looking to theatres...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/11/29

It’s been an up-and-down year for streamers as they struggle to diversify revenue streams. Now a radical, unprecedented idea has come to the fore: Playing movies in movie theatres. In the face of rising crime rates in Mexico, more Mexicans are looking to pack their bags and head north of the border… aaaand north of that border. Workers may want to stay remote, but employers want them in the office—and more job postings insist on just that, making fully remote (and sought after) gigs harder to come

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8:00

Public inquiry 👩‍⚖️ — The Inquiry into the use of the...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/11/28

The public inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act to break up convoy protests earlier this year has officially come to a close. Starting in January, profits from sales of homes occupied for less than a year will be 100% taxable as income—barring exceptions like death or work relocation. When insurance giants listed “climate change” as their biggest concern in a recent survey, they probably didn’t expect the headache that protests against climate change would bring. Celebrating something? Let us

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7:04

Black Friday 🛍 — This Black Friday might not be the...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/11/25

Canadians are projected to spend 13% less on gift-giving this year as they save money for essentials, but that doesn’t necessarily mean Black Friday will be a total bust for retailers. Dentalcorp, Canada’s largest consolidator of dental clinics, has launched a review of its business to determine how to best “unlock shareholder value,” to which one answer could be “just sell the thing.” Canada is projected to be short 44,000 physicians by 2028, with family doctors accounting for 72% of the deficit,

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9:14

Controversy ⚽️ — More controversy surrounds the World...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/11/24

Just a few days into the 2022 World Cup, feats of athleticism from the world’s best soccer players have been largely overshadowed by controversies and bold acts of defiance. The pain of rising interest rates is starting to spread across the housing market, and more people may soon find themselves facing larger monthly mortgage payments. Mercedes is now charging a US$1,200 annual subscription fee for drivers of its EQ models to gain access to faster acceleration and better performance capabilities, a

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8:55

Sick days 🤒 — Meta’s Oversight Board made their first...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/11/23

Meta’s Oversight Board, an independent body that judges the company’s most high-stakes content moderation cases, just made a decision that could change how the company moderates content. In 2017, the government launched its National Housing Strategy to create more affordable housing, which includes a sub-plan aimed at cutting chronic homelessness in half by 2028. Canada’s biggest private unions are looking for some of the largest pay gains seen in a generation to make up for the damage inflation has

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10:09

Lost a leap ⏱ — We’re losing a leap second.There’s a...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/11/22

The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM)-the group that quite literally decides what time it is-voted to [abolish the leap second](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/science/time-leap-second-bipm.html#:~:text=It was devised as a,allow Earth to catch up.). On December 1, a new law comes into effect guaranteeing ten paid sick days a year for employees in federally-regulated industries like banking, telecoms, and air transport. Several major biotech players are moving fast to develop

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7:52

Taylor v. Ticketmaster 🎟 — Twitter is the Titanic?...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/11/21

If you log onto Twitter these days, the vibe is akin to what we imagine being on the deck of the Titanic was like, you know, riiiight after it hit the iceberg. Qatar spent ~US$300 billion (roughly 6.8 Twitters) on World Cup 2022, making it the most expensive FIFA contest ever. A disastrous presale of tickets for Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour has landed Ticketmaster (and its parent company Live Nation) in hot water with an army of Swifties—and (only a slightly more powerful force) the US Justice

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