Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPlane 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…
3 years, 4 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…
3 years, 4 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…
3 years, 4 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…
3 years, 4 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…
3 years, 4 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…
3 years, 4 months ago
Zuck’s plan 🥽 — US regulators push crypto to the brink. Zuck’s plan. Do energy drinks have too much energy?
Episode 1
The cryptocurrency sector is facing an existential crisis courtesy of Uncle Sam.
Apple may have its Vision Pro, but Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a vis…
3 years, 4 months ago
We sold The Peak 📈 — The Peak sells to Moses Znaimer’s ZoomerMedia. Uber wants you to share. Meet the Chinese e-commerce app dominating the App Store charts.
Episode 1
The Peak has agreed to sell to ZoomerMedia for an aggregate purchase price of $5 million, the companies announced yesterday.
Few experiences are more…
3 years, 4 months ago
Car theft crisis 🚗 — Car thefts in Canada are a “national crisis”. How much AI is too much AI? Meta’s biggest attack yet on Canada’s online news act.
Episode 1
Missy Elliott once asked, “Beep beep, who got the keys to the Jeep?” These days, the answer to that question is too often, “sophisticated internation…
3 years, 4 months ago
Golf merger ⛳️ — The SEC comes for crypto’s biggest names. The PGA and LIV Golf link up. Office vacancies are trending up.
Episode 1
Like the Blue Jays in 92/93, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has gone back-to-back. Back-to-back with crypto lawsuits, that is.
The Ca…
3 years, 4 months ago