Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPutin’s chaotic weekend 📅 — Vladimir Putin had a chaotic weekend. India's secret weapon for dealing with red tape: AI chatbots. Canada’s accounting shake-up.
Episode 1
When your colleagues ask what you got up to this weekend, you can say “Much more chill than Vladimir Putin’s, that’s for sure.”
You thought Loblaws se…
2 years, 10 months ago
Musk vs. Zuck 🥊 — The fight of the century: Musk vs. Zuck. Bread price fixing. And fake meat isn’t meeting expectations.
Episode 1
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have agreed to a cage fight. No, this is not a story from an abandoned April Fool’s edition.
You thought Loblaws selling…
2 years, 10 months ago
Sub search 🌊 — Sub search turns up empty. The IMF has some advice for Canada. A sweet tooth, in this economy?
Episode 1
With its air supply gone, the worst-case scenario has likely been realized for the five people aboard the missing Titan submersible.
The UN’s top fina…
2 years, 10 months ago
Movie woes 🎞️ — Publishers want Big Tech to pay up. Ozempic ads are here, there, and everywhere. Are moviegoers tired of Pixar and superheroes?
Episode 1
Big Tech is learning (the hard way) that the internet isn’t one big free for all.
You’ve probably heard of Ozempic—the diabetes drug that has become a…
2 years, 10 months ago
Plane sale ✈️ — Canada has a housing market twin. Paris Air Show takes off. What will central banks do next?
Episode 1
New Zealand’s housing prices have crashed harder than a toddler after a sugar rush.
Paris’ other headline-grabbing show—the Paris Air Show—begins this…
2 years, 10 months ago
Uninsurable 🔥 — Cancer rates surge among young people. Canada spurns global arms build-up. Will Canada become uninsurable?
Episode 1
Cancer rates among people aged 25 to 29 have increased faster than any other age group over the past three decades, a new analysis by the Financial T…
2 years, 10 months ago
Maple syrup bust 🍁 — A $150 million maple syrup meth bust. As rates rise, Canadians’ debt gets riskier. Canadian grocers face potential windfall tax
Episode 1
According to the UN’s 2022 World Drug Report, seizures of methamphetamines are on the rise. The latest of these huge meth busts comes with a rather r…
2 years, 11 months ago
Bey-flation 🎤 — Beyonce inflation. Regulation is knocking on AI’s door. Toyota EVs aim to go farther
Episode 1
Sweden’s annual core inflation rate fell just 0.2% last month, a notably smaller drop than analysts expected. Experts now have one irreplaceable theo…
2 years, 11 months ago
Streaming sports 🎾 — Western ports hit choppy waters. IKEA’s AI future. Netflix gets creative with sports streaming
Episode 1
One of the world’s least efficient cargo ports is now facing the unimaginable: Becoming even less efficient.
Everyone and their mother has an AI chatb…
2 years, 11 months ago
Swoop no more 🛬 — Reddit fades to black. Canada joins the US corn crusade. Swoop…and it’s gone.
Episode 1
Reddit is facing a revolt from some of its most popular subreddits.
In the biggest cornfield contest since Field of Dreams, Canada is joining the US i…
2 years, 11 months ago