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Fast Canadian business news. Get up-to-speed quick with a fun and smart breakdown of the three biggest Canadian and global business stories in less than 10 minutes.
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Tamago sando 🥪 - 7-Eleven plans Canadian reinvention, AI might finally be impacting productivity.
In today's episode, we explore 7-Eleven Canada's ambitious expansion plans, including the arrival of the cult-favorite tamago sando from Japan as part...
Criss-cross 🚷 - Another Conservative MP crosses the aisle, Hollywood bites back at ByteDance.
In today's episode, we explore the shifting political landscape as Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux becomes the third Tory to cross the floor and join th...
Persistence pays off 😵 - Warner Bros. will hear out Paramount’s offer, Canada pitches nuclear to Poland.
In today's episode, we explore the latest developments in a Hollywood bidding war as Warner Bros. Discovery reopens negotiations with Paramount, givin...
Up in arms 💪 - Carney plans new trade block, Canada is getting armed.
In today's episode, Canada is charting a bold new course on the global stage. Prime Minister Mark Carney is pushing to unite the EU and Indo-Pacific t...
Market trend of the year 📉 - AI scare trades dominate the market, Toronto transit prepares for the World Cup
In today's episode, we explore how AI-driven fear is reshaping markets in 2026, with commercial real estate and wealth management stocks taking major...
Arctic education 🎓 - Canada's Arctic is getting its first Inuit university, Trump might want out of CUSMA.
In today's episode, we explore Canada's historic step toward educational equity with the announcement of Inuit Nunangat University, set to open in Arv...
Brought to you by 📺 - Targeted advertising comes to sports bars, A $42 billion bitcoin blunder.
In today's episode, we explore how Canadian startup Taiv is revolutionizing sports bar advertising with targeted commercials that replace live TV ads,...
The Depart-eh’d 🇨🇦 - Ontario police are under the microscope, GM bets on EV battery breakthrough.
In this episode, we dive into Ontario's sweeping police corruption probe following the arrest of seven Toronto officers on charges ranging from drug t...
Private property 🏠 - Indigenous group challenges private land ownership, Ottawa courts Chinese EV makers
In this episode of Peak Daily, Jay Rosenthal flies solo to bring you the top stories in Canadian and global business. First, we dive into the Dzawada'...
EVolution 🚗 - Ottawa re-jigs its EV strategy, Spotify gets bookish.
Ottawa shakes up its electric vehicle strategy by bringing back EV rebates while ditching the 2035 sales mandate in favor of stricter emissions standa...
Sell sell sell 💸- AI agents spark software sell-off, Ottawa and Washington talk critical minerals.
AI agents are making it a hard time to be a software provider.
The White House is suddenly preaching peachy collaboration with its allies...
Let the games begin ❄️- The Winter Olympics kick off in Italy, Netflix goes to Washington.
The days may be short, the sidewalks in constant need of shovelling, but at least we finally have the Olympics to carry us through the rest of winter....
C-suite scapegoat 🐐- AI isn’t taking as many jobs as it seems, Science looks for a road salt alternative.
The promise of AI has become every C-suite’s favourite cost-cutting scapegoat.
Salt is famously the only rock we eat, but is it the only...
📈 AI’s only
AI agents now have their own group chats to make fun of our ridiculous requests, and they’re not pulling any punches.
How many renminbi y...
📈 Separate ways
In today's episode, we explore how Alberta separatist groups have been secretly meeting with Trump administration officials, seeking massive financial...
📈 Beep beep
Neil Young offering free archive access to Greenlanders amid U.S. political tensions. Keep on rocking in a free world. Plus, Toronto-based Waabi secur...
📈 Can't get started
In this episode of Peak Daily, Jay discusses Canada's $210 billion opportunity from eliminating internal trade barriers, explore why Canadian tech sta...
📈 Peak Food
In this episode, Jay covers Ottawa's new food inflation rebate providing up to $1,890 for families through an enhanced GST tax credit, along with conc...
Deep freeze 🥶 - Canada-U.S. relations get icy, Youth sports are turning into big business.
It wasn’t just large swaths of the country getting snowed in this weekend — the relationship between Ottawa and the White House also went back into de...
Keep scrolling 🤳- TikTok and the the U.S. are making a deal, A Chinese automaker eyes Canada.
For a company repeatedly branded a national security threat, TikTok has emerged from its U.S. standoff in remarkably good shape
Chinese E...
Pick me ✋- Submarine suitors woo Ottawa, Social media algorithms are going on trial.
Like the final two contestants on a Bachelorette season, Hanwha Ocean and ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) are pulling out all the stops to win Otta...
RIP global order 🪦- Carney gives blunt speech at Davos, Heated Rivalry heats up NHL ticket sales.
We’re guessing it was a pretty awkward afternoon at Davos for the White House delegation.
Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov aren’t real-li...
Cold hard cash 🏦- Arctic defence startup nets big funding round, Speeding up drug approval times.
With anxiety over Arctic sovereignty at an all-time high, a Canadian startup is pitching itself as Ottawa’s solution.
Like a student who’...
Rising tensions 🎢- Trump sets his sights on Canada, Surgeons start working remotely
Like a nasty gossip, it’s basically never good news when the U.S. president starts bringing you up in conversations.
Remote work has evol...
Closing the book 📖 - B.C. ends its drug decriminalization experiment, Another sports betting scandal.
B.C. is closing the book on its experiment with drug decriminalization.
We hate to say it, but all of those “crazy” sports fans complain...
Alright, alright, alright 🤙 - François Legault resigns as premier, Matthew McConaughey trademarks himself.
Quebec’s premier is bidding adieu to the Hôtel du Parlement.
Matthew McConaughey has had enough, enough, enough with the AI deepfakes.
The McVibes are off 🍟 - McDonald’s cuts meal deal prices, Meta’s smart glasses are a certified hit.
It looks like McDonald’s has seen all the posts about how fast food prices are too damn high.
After losing tens of billions of dollars ma...
Winging it ✈️ - Airlines avoid new fee for passenger complaints, Nvidia gets into gene editing.
Getting compensated for your delayed flight from two years ago isn’t getting any easier.
Recent Grok-y headlines have been upsetting, so...
Down round 📈 - Canadian VC struggles, Kepler launches satellite network
Consider taking a moment today to check in on any venture capitalists in your life, because (in Canada, at least) there’s a good chance they just went...
📈 Avert your eyes kids
Rogers is worried about kids’ screen time and cottage cheese is having a moment. Plus, a new underwater cable is on the way connecting an Ontario powe...
📈 It’s not easy being Greenland
As the US explores annexation of Greenland they continue their plans to extract and sell Venezuelan oil. Plus, the future of air travel is both bumpie...
📈 Let’s get AI physical
Nvidia unveils self-driving car system at CES which might be a good thing, because you can apparently by illicit drug on Instagram and Facebook. Plus,...
📈 Chill pill - Novo Nordisk's weight-loss pill has arrived
Novo Nordisk launches weight-loss pill while the Feds look into earthquake insurance. Plus, Maduro’s (first) day in court, Christia Freeland’s new job...
From Caracas to Calgary - Why what’s happening in Venezuela matters to Canada
Plus, DeepSeek boasts a new AI breakthrough and another Chinese company, BYD has overtaken Tesla as the world’s largest EV seller.
Dream big 💤 - Marty Supreme meets the movie marketing moment, Bombardier is flying high.
We could finally be done with the stale Hollywood marketing cycle of Jimmy Kimmel appearances, sleepy podcast circuits, and forced red carpet smiles.<...
GunAmerican 🔫 - American guns are flooding into Canada, Ottawa tackles money laundering
Lax U.S. gun laws are flooding Canada’s black market for firearms.
One of Canada’s 2026 resolutions is to crack down on money laundering...
Friend of the pod 🎙️ - YouTube and Netflix battle over podcasts, Aviation startup bets on odd plane.
The unexplainable desire to watch our favourite podcast hosts talk into a microphone has created a new frontier in the streaming wars.
Is...
Pop drop 📉 - Canada sees largest population dip on record, Oracle shares slide.
Ottawa has pulled off a tire-squealing U-turn on immigration.
It’s a rough time to be an Ellison-run company.
Put it in reverse ⚙️ - Ford gives up on electric F150s, Buy Canadian Policy comes into effect.
Even an electric version of the world's best-selling truck couldn’t get people to give up the gas pump.
The federal government's new Buy...
Let a hundred qubits bloom 🌼 - Ottawa tries to retain quantum companies, The PM’s dictionary dispute.
If there’s one thing more painful than seeing Canada lose to the Americans in hockey, it’s seeing promising Canadian companies pull up stakes and move...