Podcast Episodes

Hard to sell 🌿 — Don’t believe everything you see. Weed is too hard to sell. And Albertans go to the polls.

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It’s time to update the old warning, “Don’t believe everything you read,” to “Don’t believe everything you see.”

Here’s an only-in-Canada story for yo…

2 years, 11 months ago

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Critical minerals 🪨 — Canadian banks hurt by weak earnings. Falling behind on critical minerals mining. The era of easy returns is over.

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Our high-level bank earnings summary: “Not great, but things could be worse.”

How do you mine critical minerals in Canada? Very slowly, according to o…

2 years, 11 months ago

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AI podcasts 🎤 — We’re number one (in debt). AI comes for the podcasters. Why cities can’t have nice things anymore.

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Sometimes being number one isn’t anything to brag about—take Canada’s household debt situation, for example.

There are a lot of podcasts. About 4 mill…

2 years, 11 months ago

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Post-plastic 🥤 — Ontario clears path for foreign trained engineers. Welcome to your (sort-of) post-plastic future. And no public inquiry needed.

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Becoming an engineer in Ontario just got easier (you know, aside from all the math).

By the end of this year, plastic straws are set to officially bec…

2 years, 11 months ago

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Trucker tax 🚛 – The CRA is looking into a trucking scam. Who’s paying for the EV transition. And no such thing as a free TV.

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A group representing Canadian truckers is sounding the alarm about a scam it thinks has reached a “crisis level.” And unlike a novelty mudflap, it’s …

2 years, 11 months ago

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Regulating AI 🤖— Altman testifies to Congress. Inflation is going the wrong way. And WestJet pilots are threatening to walk.

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If anything can bring two sides of the aisle together, it’s regulating artificial intelligence.

Some surprises are good, like a b-day party or finding…

2 years, 11 months ago

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Troubling wildfires 🔥— Vice is selling. Western Canada is suffering from wildfires. And Hollywood disapproves of Canadian content laws.

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Vice, which started out as a tiny punk zine in Montréal before becoming the bad boy idol of new media brands, filed for bankruptcy protection. A grou…

3 years ago

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TikTok trouble 🎥 — Former TikTok engineer could discredit the company’s position. Used cars tell us lots about inflation. And middle market struggles

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A new lawsuit against TikTok owner ByteDance could discredit the company’s primary defence against efforts by some Western lawmakers to ban the app.

T…

3 years ago

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Private stations 🛰️ — Softbank loses big. Private companies are getting in the space station game. And Canada looks for health care workers.

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Only Softbank Group would lose US$7.2 billion and give itself a little pat on the back.

Space startup Vast partnered with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch…

3 years ago

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New passports 🛂 — Google is deepening their AI search integration. Canada has newly designed passports. And Canada wants in AUKUS.

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After Google’s developer’s conference yesterday, online search might never be the same.

Yesterday, Canada unveiled a new passport design that’s sure t…

3 years ago

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