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10:48

Equal pay 💸 — US Soccer has a new equal pay...

The Peak Daily ·

2022/05/19

US Soccer scored a big goal for wage equity, reaching a historic equal pay agreement with its men’s and women’s national teams With ~US$1.6 trillion of cryptocurrency’s market cap wiped out since its November highs, investors, celebrity endorsers, and regulators alike are reckoning with the industry’s increasingly uncertain future Business bankruptcies in Canada are moving closer to pre-pandemic levels in the first quarter of 2022, jumping ~33% compared with last year The Peak Daily is produced

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10:59

Fearful flying ✈️ — Canada’s airports are a mess. New...

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2022/05/18

Horror stories about long wait times at Canadian airports have flooded the news in recent weeks, and now the government is asking airlines to shrink their schedules and cancel planned flights to reduce the stress on airports. Google claims Canada’s Online News Act would break the internet, but NOT in a good way. Economists are now predicting that Canadian home prices will drop by double-digit percentages this year as higher borrowing costs (sparked by interest rate hikes) take their toll on the

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11:15

Milk mania 🥛 — New Zealand is mad at us. The Alberta...

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2022/05/17

Across the Pacific, New Zealand dairy producers launched a formal complaint alleging dairy tariffs violated the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The Alberta government is looking at over 40 new applications for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects to use underground caverns across the province to store captured carbon. From bedrooms to fitness centres, hotels are about to get a whole new level of personal. The world’s largest hotel chain is launching a media network to help

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7:05

Wheat sheaf 🌾 — India bans wheat exports. It’s...

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2022/05/16

India announced a ban on wheat exports over the weekend, a move that threatens to drive up already-high food prices and worsen shortages of key crops caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It’s inflation week. We’ll get April inflation numbers on Wednesday, and analysts are forecasting a similar pace of price rises (6.7%) as the previous month. That slowdown in the growth of inflation is welcome news, but the days of stable prices are still likely a ways off. US airline regulators have rejected

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11:43

Unstable coins 🪙 — Stablecoins take a hit. Seniors...

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2022/05/13

In the midst of a week packed with inflation concerns, stock market pressures, and the breakdown of popular stablecoins, the volatility of cryptocurrency is on full display. Canadian seniors are turning to reverse mortgages as they consider new ways to fund their retirement—one private lender, Equitable Bank, saw a 262% year-over-year surge in its reverse mortgage products last quarter. This time last year it was all cherry blossoms and champagne showers for the globally-recognized Japanese

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11:16

Best restaurants 👩‍🍳 — Airbnb adds features....

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2022/05/12

As more people take advantage of the opportunity to work remotely, extend vacations, or just take a vacation at all, Airbnb has unveiled changes to its platform that cater to longer stays. Alberta’s highest court has ruled that a 2019 federal environmental impact law overreaches into provincial jurisdiction and is therefore unconstitutional. For almost 100 years, Michelin Guides (by tire company Michelin) have been the pre-eminent tastemaker in global fine dining. And Starting for the first time

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12:12

Face database 👱‍♀️ — Clearview gets banned for...

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2022/05/11

Clearview, the surveillance company that rose to fame for scraping social media to build a huge facial recognition database, agreed to permanently ban most private companies from using its service under a court settlement in Illinois. The stock split club just added a new (and unexpected) member: Nintendo. The Japanese game giant announced a 10-for-1 split to make the stock more affordable for retail investors. One British spy chief is saying that maybe we were getting a bit carried away with

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11:38

Stocks don’t only go up 📉 — The markets are doing...

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2022/05/10

If you’re wondering what’s up with stocks lately, you probably already know the answer is that nothing’s up. We break down the latest markets news. Quebec’s stringent new French-language laws are expected to pass before summer, which would leave tens of thousands of (previously exempt) businesses forced to adopt higher standards around French signage, contracts, and employee language proficiency. The Swedish meatball and furniture giant IKEA is investing over US$3 billion to bring stores to city

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11:03

Clogged ports ⛴ — Chelsea gets bought. Ports are...

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2022/05/09

Despite a Canadian horse being one of the favourites, Canadians couldn’t bet on last Saturday’s Kentucky Derby through single game sports betting apps because the government excluded it from new regulations. One in five container ships globally are currently stuck at major ports due to service and route disruptions stemming from lockdowns in Shanghai and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. One of Canada’s biggest maple syrup companies has been taken over by Bain Capital-owned Valeo Foods Group, with the

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10:39

Neo banks 🏦 — Neo Financial raises a huge round....

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2022/05/06

Calgary’s Neo Financial has raised C$185 million led by billionaire Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures—launching the challenger bank into Canadian unicorn status, or a valuation of over $1 billion. Shopify missed profit estimates and announced the largest acquisition in its history, a US$2.1 billion deal for startup Deliverr to expand its warehousing and delivery services for merchants that would rival Amazon. Apple, Google, and Microsoft want to kill off passwords for good—within the coming year, all

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10:41

Surge situation 🚗 — Uber and Lyft’s stocks tank....

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2022/05/05

Markets are trying to connect the dots on the future of ride-sharing, as Uber doubles its revenue from last quarter but Lyft’s weak earnings outlook has dragged both companies’ stock prices down. Canada has become one of the first countries in the world to hold crowdfunding platforms to the same reporting standards as banks for large or suspicious transactions. Thanks to boosts from recent acquisitions, The New York Times added 387,000 net digital subscribers in Q1, bringing its total subscribers

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10:58

Church homes ⛪️ — The United Church is turning...

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2022/05/04

The United Church of Canada has plans to create new rental apartments for 34,000 people over the next 15 years by revitalizing its properties to find new uses for old churches across the country Restaurant Brands International (RBI) reported a net income of US$183 billion in Q1, much of it driven by Tim Hortons which boosted its year-over-year sales by nearly 13% and saw the largest earnings of any RBI restaurant. Canada’s Pension Plan (CPPIB) has built stakes in several late-stage Indian

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10:34

Prayer privacy 👀 — Mental health and prayer apps have...

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2022/05/03

Turns out, the majority of mental health and prayer apps are pretty creepy—tracking, sharing, and capitalizing on users’ most intimate personal thoughts and feelings. Canadian conglomerate Thompson Reuters is launching an independent assessment to align itself with the UN’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights Stellantis—the world’s sixth-largest automaker, with brands including Chrysler and Jeep—will announce a new $2.54 billion deal to revamp existing plants in Southern Ontario for

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10:47

Augmented reality 👓 — Snap introduces new features....

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2022/05/02

Social media and camera company Snap announced a mix of new platform features this week—some that bet on bringing augmented reality (AR) into daily life, and others that fly. Tesla has recalled 48,000 vehicles in the US over concerns about speedometer displays, marking Tesla’s tenth recall campaign of the year. French social media app BeReal is betting that social media users tired of filters and perfectly curated ‘lewks’ on apps like Instagram and TikTok feel the same way. Celebrating something

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11:06

Freedom internet 🖥 — Meta’s stock surges. The West is...

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2022/04/29

Meta’s stock surged yesterday after adding more users than expected but posted its slowest revenue growth since going public a decade ago Canada has joined 55 other countries in signing a pledge to promote connectivity, democracy, and “the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms” on an internet that is open, reliable, and secure. Block (formerly Square), the digital-payments company run by Dorsey, has expanded its small business loans program to Canada, available as of this

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11:59

Spotify snafu 🎧 — Spotify posts great results but...

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2022/04/28

Spotify gained two million new paying subscribers over Q1 and its total monthly average of paid and unpaid users rose to 422 million, representing a net gain of 16 million in the period—but the news wasn’t enough to stop the stock from hitting an all time low. Canada’s Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development released five new reports and taking the Canadian government to task on its climate initiatives. And the most damning finding was that carbon emissions fell just 1.1%

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10:33

Banned in Europe 🇪🇺 — Elections Canada is getting a...

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2022/04/27

Elections Canada is undergoing a digital makeover that includes virtual offices and modernizing record-keeping. The EU has issued a warning to Elon Musk over Twitter’s (still feels weird saying that), making it clear that, free speech plans aside, Twitter must comply with the EU’s new digital regulations or risk being fined up to 6% of their total revenue or even banned outright in the Eurozone. Canada is caught between two calls: to boost oil and gas production to help with the global energy

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12:04

New owner 🐦 — Elon buys Twitter. China’s locked down....

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2022/04/26

As China continues to keep much of Shanghai in lockdown as it combats a mass Covid outbreak, Chinese stocks have fallen to their lowest levels in over two years with two main stock indexes falling 5% Monday. Beekeepers across Canada are buzzing with concerns over alarmingly high bee mortality rates owing to damages from the (menacingly named) Varroa destructor mite, with some keepers in Manitoba and Ontario seeing losses of up to 90%, much higher than typical mortality rates of 20-30%. Twitter has

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10:45

Still Queen 👑 — A majority of Canadians want to sever...

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2022/04/25

Lululemon is launching two membership plans later this year in a bid to drive customer brand loyalty and help reach its ambitious goal of doubling sales to US$12.5 billion by 2026. Angus Reid **released a new survey that found 51% of Canadians favour abolishing the monarchy in Canada A Twitter Canada executive has reportedly likened the federal government’s plan to regulate the internet to the approach of authoritarian countries like North Korea and Iran, per The Globe and Mail. Celebrating

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8:47

Got milk 🥛 — Elon has the money to buy Twitter....

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2022/04/22

Telsa CEO Elon Musk confirmed that, between his own considerable wealth and loans from banks led by Morgan Stanley, he has lined up the financing to buy Twitter, which is something you can do when you’re the richest person in the world As companies continue to raise prices to offset inflation, wage hikes and product shortages, sales numbers from Nestle and P&G (the world’s largest CPG companies by revenue) indicate that shoppers are still spending like it’s 2019 Last year Shopify said it was

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