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Snap out of it🫰🏼 - Snap’s stock stumbles, Airbnb checks out of China and Canadian regulators sets sights on DeFi.
Episode 1
Snap’s shares took a 30% tumble after the social media company’s CEO announced it would miss its revenue and profit targets. The revenue slowdown is …
3 years, 11 months ago
Blackout 🔌 - Eastern Canada loses power after severe storm. Biden forms a new coalition to isolate China, while Apple follows suit looking for new manufacturing partners.
Episode 1
Almost a million people in Ontario and Quebec were left without power this weekend as a severe thunderstorm rocked the area. A report from ****The No…
3 years, 11 months ago
Pension problems 📉 — CPPIB is struggling. China is buying Russia’s oil. Globalive has a new deal with Telus.
Episode 1
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) posted a 6.8% return on investments this past fiscal year, but lost 2.9% last quarter alone amidst g…
3 years, 11 months ago
Equal pay 💸 — US Soccer has a new equal pay arrangement. Cryptocurrency is suffering. And businesses are going bankrupt.
Episode 1
US Soccer scored a big goal for wage equity, reaching a historic equal pay agreement with its men’s and women’s national teams
With ~US$1.6 trillion …
3 years, 11 months ago
Fearful flying ✈️ — Canada’s airports are a mess. New legislation could break search. And Canada’s housing market could be cooling down.
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Horror stories about long wait times at Canadian airports have flooded the news in recent weeks, and now the government is asking airlines to shrink …
3 years, 11 months ago
Milk mania 🥛 — New Zealand is mad at us. The Alberta government is pushing carbon capture. And Marriott is rolling out advertising.
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Across the Pacific, New Zealand dairy producers launched a formal complaint alleging dairy tariffs violated the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
The …
3 years, 11 months ago
Wheat sheaf 🌾 — India bans wheat exports. It’s inflation week. Boeing’s having safety issues.
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India announced a ban on wheat exports over the weekend, a move that threatens to drive up already-high food prices and worsen shortages of key crops…
4 years ago
Unstable coins 🪙 — Stablecoins take a hit. Seniors are reverse mortgaging. And SoftBank had a terrible year.
Episode 1
In the midst of a week packed with inflation concerns, stock market pressures, and the breakdown of popular stablecoins, the volatility of cryptocurr…
4 years ago
Best restaurants 👩🍳 — Airbnb adds features. Alberta’s highest court rules against feds. Michelin stars are coming to Canada
Episode 1
As more people take advantage of the opportunity to work remotely, extend vacations, or just take a vacation at all, Airbnb has unveiled changes to i…
4 years ago
Face database 👱♀️ — Clearview gets banned for private companies. Nintendo splits their stock. Cyberwar was overhyped.
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Clearview, the surveillance company that rose to fame for scraping social media to build a huge facial recognition database, agreed to permanently ba…
4 years ago