The Peak Daily

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April 23, 2025 Not-the-best seller 📚- Amazon flooded with AI-generated politics books, B.C. foresees tourism boom.
Election AI slop isn’t just flying around on Facebook pages — it’s coming for your Kindles.

Vancouver restaurants, Victoria breweries, and Tofino beaches might be a tad more crowded this summer.

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April 22, 2025 Conclave incoming 👏 — Who will be the next pope?, Buy Canada is tough for Big Tech.
Catholics — and fans of the Oscar-winning hit Conclave — are awaiting a big decision.

When it comes to tech, breaking up with U.S. suppliers is hard to do.

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April 18, 2025 Holy grail 🙌 — Eli Lilly closes in on weight-loss pill, Strava acquires upstart competitor.
We are one big step closer to a weight-loss pill that actually works.

Social media fitness app Strava isn’t able to give great workout advice - but that’s about to change.

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April 16, 2025 Still for sale 🏘️ — Home sales slow, Canadian pension funds turn on the US
Amid recession worries, a global trade war, and a softening job market, Canadians aren’t buying homes.

Just like shoppers at the grocery store, Canada’s pension funds are feeling a little uneasy about buying American at the moment.

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April 15, 2025 Breaking up is hard to do 💔 — Farmers have a weed problem, Meta changes relationship status
Farms around the world could lose their go-to weed-fighter any day now.
Antitrust regulators want Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to block and unfollow each other.
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April 02, 2025 Liberation Day 🇺🇸 — The world prepares for Trump’s tariffs. Rogers is all in on sports.
“Liberation Day” is here — we wish you could see how hard we just rolled our eyes — with the U.S. ready to enact sweeping tariffs.

Rogers will spend $11 billion to hold onto one of the country’s most cherished pastimes: watching hockey.
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March 26, 2025 Zombie brands 🧟‍♀️ — Napster sale is a blast from the past, AI flexes its medical talents.
In our best Milhouse from The Simpsons voice Remember Napster? It’s back! In metaverse form.

It may not have a lab coat or indecipherable handwriting, but AI is starting to make waves in the healthcare space.

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March 25, 2025 100% bankrupt 💵 — Canada won’t be let off the tariff hook, 23andMe files for bankruptcy.
The game plan for what U.S. President Donald Trump has dubbed “Liberation Day” is being flipped on its head.

The maker of 2017’s hottest holiday gift is in dire straits.
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March 24, 2025 The race is on 🗳️ — Carney calls an election, WestJet searches for pilots.
The campaign to determine who will form the next government (and whether poor Charles Tupper will lose his spot as Canada’s shortest-tenured Prime Minister) is officially on.

You can add pilots to the list of national shortages Canada needs to solve.
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March 12, 2025 Staying put 🇨🇦 — Canadians don’t want to fly to the U.S., Generic Ozempic is coming.
Canadians who swore off U.S. travel in response to tariffs are evidently quite serious about their pledge, and airlines are starting to feel the impact.
Drug makers like Aspen Pharmacare, Sandoz Group, and Hikma Pharmaceuticals are racing to put out cheaper, generic versions of popular drugs used for weight loss.
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