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- Netflix tax 📺 — The US may retaliate against our digital services tax. Streaming services are duking it out in India. And Reddit goes public.
The U.S. is prepared to take retaliatory action if Canada moves forward with the Digital Services Tax. Netflix cut its prices in India, its largest non-US market, by 60% in a bid to attract more users. Reddit filed to go public yesterday.
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The Peak Daily is produced by 306 Media Productions. Hosted by Brett Chang and Jay Rosenthal.
9 min - Ready to Rumble 🥊 — Rumble is teaming up with Trump. The feds are advising not to travel. And Valence Discovery raises $11 million.
Former President Donald Trump's social media platform is teaming up with Toronto-based Rumble. The feds are reintroducing an advisory against non-essential travel to stop the spread of Omicron. Montreal-based biotech company Valence Discovery raised ~$11 million.
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The Peak Daily is produced by 306 Media Productions. Hosted by Brett Chang and Jay Rosenthal.
10 min - Pills 💊 — New COVID pills could hit the market soon. Skip The Dishes is expanding their grocery delivery. And Toyota is investing in EV.
Pfizer released new results on their COVID-19 pills, and researchers are still concerned that Merck's pills could be too risky to administer. Winnipeg-based Skip The Dishes is expanding its grocery delivery business. Toyota is invested US-$35 billion in its electric vehicle (EV) plans.
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The Peak Daily is produced by 306 Media Productions. Hosted by Brett Chang and Jay Rosenthal.
8 min - Kiev 🇺🇦 — Will Russia invade Ukraine? A tornado ripped through an Amazon warehouse. And Vancouver's Dapper Labs is partnering on a new NFT marketplace.
Tensions between Russia and Ukraine have escalated over the past week as Russian troops mobilize at the border. A tornado ripped through an Amazon warehouse over the weekend, killing six people. Vancouver-based Dapper Labs debuted a new NFT marketplace called The Warehouse with "avatar technology" company Genies.
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The Peak Daily is produced by 306 Media Productions. Hosted by Brett Chang and Jay Rosenthal.
10 min - Everything must go 💸 — Execs are selling their shares. Inflation continues to climb. And NASA's launching a new telescope.
Top executives and founders are selling shares in their companies at levels never before seen. U.S. data showed inflation reaching the highest level in almost 40 years. NASA launched an X-ray telescope into space last week to study black holes.
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The Peak Daily is produced by 306 Media Productions. Hosted by Brett Chang and Jay Rosenthal.
9 min - High priced veggies 🥦 — CPPIB gets into houses. Food is getting more expensive. Evergrande is in default.
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) struck a US-$1 billion deal to invest in single-family homes in the U.S, the pension fund's first entry into the market. A recent report found that the average grocery bill for a family of four will jump by $966 in 2022. Credit rating firm Fitch Ratings declared Evergrande is in default after it missed deadlines for coupon payments, or the interest it owes on bonds.
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The Peak Daily is produced by 306 Media Productions. Hosted by Brett Chang and Jay Rosenthal.
8 min - Ring of Fire 🔥 — The Ontario Government wants to build a road. Amazon Web Services went down. And Cryptocurrency execs went to D.C.
The Ontario government is proposing changes to how it consults with Indigenous groups in the North to accelerate building a road to the Ring of Fire. Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered an outage earlier this week, taking down thousands of Amazon's own services and other websites. Cryptocurrency executives testified before Congress yesterday.
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The Peak Daily is produced by 306 Media Productions. Hosted by Brett Chang and Jay Rosenthal.
8 min - Plant based vaccine 💉 — Canada’s trade surplus jumped in October. Quebec’s Medicago has developed Canada’s first home grown COVID vaccine. Canada’s federal vaccine mandate is expanding.
Canada's trade surplus jumped to $2.09 billion in October, the biggest jump since 2011. Quebec-based Medicago's COVID-19 vaccine showed promising results in its tests. Canada is expanding its federal vaccine mandates to more businesses next year.
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The Peak Daily is produced by 306 Media Productions. Hosted by Brett Chang and Jay Rosenthal.
9 min - Bye bye Beijing 🇨🇳 — Ambassador Barton is stepping down. Canadians don't trust our central bank. And Tesla's in trouble again.
Canada's ambassador to China, Dominic Barton, is stepping down from his role at the end of December. Over 60% of Canadians don't think our central bank can tame inflation. And the SEC is investigating Tesla over claims that their solar panels are defective.
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The Peak Daily is produced by 306 Media Productions. Hosted by Brett Chang and Jay Rosenthal.
9 min - Jobs, jobs, jobs 👷♀️ — Stats Canada says the job market is booming. Chinese ridesharing app DiDi is de-listing. And the Weston Family is selling Selfridges.
Statistics Canada's employment data for November says the economy is heating up and jobs are plentiful. Shares in Chinese ride-hailing business Didi plunged by nearly 20% on the news that they would delist from the New York Stock Exchange and instead list on Hong Kong's exchange. Canada's Weston Family, the owners of Loblaws, is selling British department store Selfridges to a Thailand-based corporation.
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The Peak Daily is produced by 306 Media Productions. Hosted by Brett Chang and Jay Rosenthal.
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