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The Peak Daily

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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...

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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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8:04

Worse than Enron 🔌 — Insolvency expert says FTX is...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/11/18

According to a guy that’s seen the darkest side of the corporate world, the fallen crypto exchange FTX is the worst of it all. Last month Indonesia floated the idea of a so-called “OPEC for nickel”. Now, it’s shopping around for partners to make this cockamamie dream a reality. At the top of its list? Canada. You probably know that it rains a lot in Vancouver. What you might not know is that Canada’s grain supply chain essentially comes to a screeching halt every time the skies open up

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7:08

Robot writing ✍️ — Is it the end of the housing...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/11/17

Is it the beginning of the end of Canada’s real estate downturn? RBC thinks so. Cult-favourite note-taking platform Notion launched a private alpha test for its newest product, Notion AI, which can generate written content with a single prompt. Canada is ill-equipped to detect ships in its Arctic waters, and the country’s Auditor-General is pointing fingers at the federal government for not doing enough to address the problem. Celebrating something? Let us know here:

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8:02

Retail revival 🛍 — The Bank of Canada is losing...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/11/16

The Bank of Canada (BoC) is on track to give “monetary tightening” a whole new meaning by losing between $5 billion and $6 billion over the next few years. As Black Friday rears its head, the world’s largest retailer is showing signs that the doom and gloom facing the retail sector this year may have been (at least a little) overhyped. A former researcher who worked in its electric batteries unit at Hydro-Quebec has been accused of collecting trade secrets and passing them on to China. Celebrating

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9:20

Electric delay 🚗 — Electric vehicles are delayed. The...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/11/15

More Canadians than ever want to get behind the wheel of an electric vehicle (EV), but most won’t be able to plant their butt in a driver’s seat anytime soon. Still have some spare CERB money kicking around? Why not bring together your closest billionaire friends and buy a professional hockey team? Not long after warning of a slowdown around what is usually a busy holiday season, Amazon has become the latest company to cut jobs to brace for a potential economic downturn. Celebrating something? Let

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8:06

Bankruptcy 🪙 — Amazon is taking loses. Twitter is...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/11/14

After becoming the first company to lose US$1 trillion in market value (yes, ever), Amazon is taking a long, hard look at its business, because something ain’t right. Elon Musk held his first meeting as the company's CEO, fielding questions from staffers and dropping several off-side comments, like saying “there’s a good chance” Twitter will not survive the economic downturn. After scrambling to drum up money to fix a cash shortfall of US$8 billion, FTX filed for what will be the biggest US

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7:39

Office cuts 🏢 — WeWork is pulling back. Canva is...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/11/11

Cost-cutting is the name of the corporate game these days, and WeWork is no exception. Just a few months ago, text-to-image AI seemed like super-futuristic tech reserved solely for hardcore researchers. Now, it’s available for free on one of the most popular design apps. In the wee hours of Thursday morning, NASA launched JPSS-2—its newest satellite, which joins a global observation system analyzing the Earth’s weather patterns. Celebrating something? Let us know here:

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