The Peak Daily

If your top skills include “counting, like, really high” then boy, does the government have a job for you.

The newest location of Canada’s largest bookstore is set to offer a lot more than books.

It might be time to cut back on the spaghetti carbonara… not because you need to watch the carbs, but to save on your grocery bill.

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Google and Microsoft are duking it out to become the provider of AI tools for your office.

Montréal is famous for its bagels, poutine, and… apartment-swaps?

The emergency alerts you get on your phone are facing fierce criticism, and not just because they frequently scare the living daylights out of you with that blaring siren sound.

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As the West and China’s geopolitical relations grow tenser than our vocal cords during a big podcast recording, academic relations are also under strain.

As the labour market slows down, the “job-hopping generation” is deciding to stay put.

Here are our early predictions for what will be hot in 2024: Lavender mocktails, tube tops, middle-distance running, aaand rampant cybercrime.

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Ever played SimCity and thought it might be fun to try your hand at creating a city from scratch in real life? You aren’t alone: A growing cohort of entrepreneurs backed by deep-pocketed financiers are giving it a whirl.

A scientific breakthrough could shed light on some of the biggest threats facing men's health.

How are scores of Americans trying to lose weight affecting Danish monetary policy? The answer isn’t as complicated as it may seem.

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The exact causes of the plane crash believed to have killed Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin have not been found, but there are plenty of theories beyond bad turbulence.

Like Carlos Alcaraz at Wimbledon this year, Nvidia’s recent performance has launched it into household name status.

Today, in unsurprising news, dumping nuclear wastewater into the ocean is controversial.

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An exclusive economic club between Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa is officially open for new members.

Cold drinks are hot right now, and it’s all because Gen Z thinks they’re totally mother… are we using that right?

Québec didn’t waste any time shooting down the fed's latest proposal for tackling the housing crisis.

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Like vinyl records, lunar exploration is a 1960s fave that’s back in a big way.

For anyone who tries to get by with only **speaking English on vacation, Meta has introduced new technology that could help you keep the ball rolling.

For sale: One lightly used sandwich chain. Price tag: About ten billion dollars.

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In today’s episode of ‘Canadian housing gone wrong’: A 2021 Montréal bylaw meant to lead to the construction of over 1,200 new social housing units has produced zero.

In the first five months of the year, overall global fine art sales have dropped by 14% compared to the same time last year, while sales at the Big Three Auction houses (Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips) dropped a whopping 20%, per Artnet.

Folks bitten by the travel bug are running into a major problem this year: Travelling is freakin’ expensive! That’s why tourists are shifting to under-the-radar destinations.

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British Columbia introduced travel restrictions and expanded evacuation orders over the weekend as wildfires continue to rage in the province, but officials expressed optimism yesterday that fire crews were turning the corner in the battle to contain the blazes.

Big Tech may not have any interest in complying with Canada’s recent attempts to regulate them, but the European Union is having more luck.

Yesterday, Spain beat England 1-0 in the FIFA Women’s World Cup final, topping off a tournament that has continued to break records.

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Someone call Ramit Sethi from Netflix’s How To Get Rich, because Canadian cities need financial rescuing.

Looking to cut back on drinking? There’s an app for that.

It’s been about a year since a pair of US laws triggered a flood of incentives for investments in clean energy production and semiconductor manufacturing.

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