Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEndless breadsticks 🥖 - Canadian restaurant giant snaps up Olive Garden, AI comes for Wall Street.
Episode 1
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 alwa…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Creeping up 📈 - Nearly a third of Canadians are obese, Carney recuses corporate interests.
Episode 1
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 t…
10 months ago
$200M pay package 🤑 - The world’s highest paying jobs, Shutting down a small town.
Episode 1
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 …
10 months ago
Cutting classes 🧑🎓 - Canadian colleges face financial troubles, Bank salespeople are pushing
Episode 1
We knew that limiting international student visas would be bad for post-secondary schools, but we couldn’t have known it would cause one of the large…
10 months ago
AI goes Hollywood 🎞️ - Canadian startup brings AI to the big screen, Anti-government militia charged.
Episode 1
A Canadian company seems to have found a way to use AI in Hollywood without getting anyone sued.
An ideologically motivated violent plot that had be…
10 months ago
Meeting minutes 🤝 - Ottawa has a new AI tool, Canadian copper thefts are skyrocketing.
Episode 1
AI is being given the tall order of deciphering what exactly happens in those long meetings on Parliament Hill.
As the price of copper rises, so has …
10 months, 1 week ago
Stampede deals 🤠 - Business leaders gather in Calgary, An update on “Liberation Day” tariffs.
Episode 1
The Calgary Stampede is the only place in the world where you’ll catch business leaders flipping pancakes in the morning and chasing deals into the e…
10 months, 1 week ago
Union drivers 🚦 - Uber drivers unionize, Automakers push back on EV mandate.
Episode 1
Uber drivers in Victoria are forming Canada’s first rideshare union.
The feds want more electric cars. Automakers want more people to actually buy th…
10 months, 1 week ago
Another round 🔔 - Gen Z heads back to the bar, China catches up in the AI race.
Episode 1
It turns out Gen Z’s anti-alcohol reputation might have been overblown.
China is beginning to do to the AI industry what it has done in nearly every …
10 months, 1 week ago
Still waiting 🥵 - It’s hard to break down provincial trade barriers, Saunas are a booming industry.
Episode 1
Yesterday was Canada Day, which this year was also the federal government’s promised deadline for achieving internal free trade.
Saunas are steamy, I…
10 months, 1 week ago