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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…

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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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 months ago

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Less rewarding ☕️— Rewards programs are cutting back. Stem cells powering computers. And provincial budget season.

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We have some terrible, no-good news: rewards programs are getting less rewarding.

A new paper in Frontiers in Science details one research group’s cas…

3 years, 5 months ago

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War startups 🔫— VCs are funding defence startups. Twitter makes more layoffs. And charities call on Canada to step-up.

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Venture capitalist (VC) money might be drying up—dropping by a third globally last year—but startups are still fetching billion-dollar valuations by …

3 years, 5 months ago

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Plane ID ✈️ — Air Canada wants you to use your face to board. Inflation is looking sticky. And songwriters are cashing out.

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Air Canada is piloting (and not the in-the-air kind) facial recognition tech for passengers boarding certain flights from Vancouver to Winnipeg.

Canad…

3 years, 5 months ago

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No news 📰 — Norway wants a new Northern Air Force. Google is blocking some news. And JP Morgan bans ChatGPT.

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The head of the Royal Norwegian Air Force has a vision for Arctic security that involves Canada, the US, Finland, Sweden, and (of course) 250 ultra-m…

3 years, 5 months ago

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More Canadians 🇨🇦 — Canadian newcomers are underserved. China’s Foreign Minsiter visits Russia. And a government agency decides against TikTok.

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Canada plans to bring 1.5 million newcomers aboard over the next three years, over 50% of whom will be economic immigrants. But they will face an uph…

3 years, 5 months ago

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4-Day Work Week 📅 — Home Depot employees are getting a raise. Canadian naval ships are off the coast of Haiti. And the Four Day Work Week could become a reality.

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Despite a lacklustre earnings report marred by slowing sales, Home Depot will commit US$1 billion towards wage increases for its hourly workers in Ca…

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