Podcast Episodes

Tap water chemicals 💦 — No more toxins in tap water. Canada is watching SVB closely. And long COVID is a huge problem.

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Good news for all you tapwater fans, the US and Canada are moving towards making drinking water free of toxic chemicals.

Canada’s banking regulator wa…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Lab grown milk 🥛 — SVB part 2. Lab grown dairy. And an update on the Senate.

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Imagine this: Before you settle in for today’s Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) coverage, you should listen to yesterday’s episode to get caught up. Like an…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Silicon Valley Bank Explained 🏦 —SVB fails. A confusing labour market. And people are still using floppy disks.

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We explain the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.

Headlines announcing layoffs continue to crowd our feeds, and yet there are very few signs of cracks i…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Supercharger 🔋 —New type of battery. Scammers are getting smarter. And money can buy happiness.

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Imagine this: A future where your phone battery is so good that you never have to get through the day on a 10% charge again.

Online purchase scams wer…

3 years, 2 months ago

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You’re fired 🧑‍💻 — New gun legislation in Alberta. Evidence on who blew up Nordstream. And more Twitter drama.

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Alberta has introduced new legislation to give itself more power over gun control.

Who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines? US officials say they have n…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Big plastic 🥤— Global birth rates are down. Big plastic striking back. And new paywall on TikTok.

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Global birth rates are on the decline, but one Japanese town has cracked the baby-making code.

Lawyers for the plastics industry are fighting to make …

3 years, 2 months ago

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Personality test 👩‍💼 — Employers are using personality tests. Tesla prices are down. And Binance on the brink.

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Waiting on a promotion? Well, there are two big names you’ll likely have to impress first: Myers and Briggs.

Everything must go: Prices on some Teslas…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Junk food crisis 📏 — Canadian semiconductors get a bit less Canadian. The obesity crisis is worsening. And new TikTok AI trend.

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As the global semiconductors arms race gets hotter than a ten-year-old laptop trying to run a browser with multiple tabs open, one Canadian chip lead…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Ransom 💰— Public inquiry on electoral interference. Searching for UFOs. And Indigo refuses to pay ransom.

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A parliamentary committee voted to call on the Prime Minister to open an independent public inquiry into foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 el…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Break up 🇨🇳— US companies are breaking up with China. Netflix is going to Broadway. And Shopify introduces a new comp structure.

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GoerTek, a major Apple supplier, invested millions into a new production plant in Vietnam and is weighing an Indian expansion as it looks to [leave C…

3 years, 2 months ago

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