The Peak Daily

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October 11, 2022 Tax evaders 🏦 — Hockey Canada loses another sponsor. Facebook employees don’t even like the metaverse. And still no action on the Panama Papers.
Hockey Canada has officially lost every last one of its top-tier corporate sponsors after Nike suspended its 23-year partnership with the organization
Have you been spending time in the metaverse? No? That makes you, everyone else you know, and even Meta's own employees.
Six years after the release of the Panama Papers, it’s not clear if the government has collected any tax-evasion-money hidden in Central American offshore accounts.
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The Peak Daily is produced by 306 Media Productions. Hosted by Brett Chang and Jay Rosenthal.
7 min
October 07, 2022 Robot dogs 🐶 — A new pact not to weaponize robots. Alberta wants you to move there. And an investigation into Canada’s grocers.
Six companies, including the famous Boston Dynamics (BD), pledged not to weaponize or support the weaponization of their robots, and urged others to follow suit.
A nurse, an accountant, and an engineer walk into a province. They all get jobs.
That’s one of several cheeky ads, paid for by the government of Alberta, taking over Canada’s busiest transit stations lately. It’s all part of a $2.6M “Alberta is Calling” campaign, which aims to lure skilled workers to the province with affordable housing and high wages.
The feds are going to take a long, hard look at Canada’s biggest grocers to see if they’ve been stocking lies and deception alongside meats and produce in their stores.
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9 min
October 06, 2022 Credit surcharge 💳 — A new credit card fee could be coming soon. OPEC+ is cutting oil production. And an MBA isn’t what it used to be.
Starting today, you might see a new surcharge on your receipt when you tap your plastic. Businesses in Canada are now allowed to pass credit card processing fees onto customers.
OPEC+, the Middle Eastern energy cartel that accounts for 40% of the world’s oil supply, agreed to cut its collective output by 2 million barrels a day or roughly 2% of global output.
Wannabe McKinsey consultants and Bay Street executives are starting to realize that in today’s red-hot labour market, an MBA might be nothing more than a nice-to-have.
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9 min
October 05, 2022 For sale 🏷 — HSBC is considering exiting Canada. Phil Collins and Gensis sold their music rights. And Elon is buying Twitter after all.
Phil Collins and Genesis no longer have publishing rights to their recordings. But they aren’t throwing it all away. They’re the most recent musicians to receive a hefty sum for them.
HSBC has launched a review into its Canadian business that could end in a US$9B sale, as the bank faces pressure to ditch less profitable markets to focus on Asia and Europe.
After all the bot disputes. The whistleblowing. The texts to Joe Rogan. The poop emoji. After all that drama… Elon Musk might actually end up buying Twitter. For realsies this time.
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10 min
October 04, 2022 Continuons 🗳 — Legault wins big. Credit Suisse is in trouble. And brands have too much merchandise.
Francois Legault will stay in power as Quebec’s premier as his centre-right nationalist CAQ party secured a majority government in a cakewalk.
Credit Suisse saw a gauge of its credit risk rise to a record high while its stock hit record lows, raising doubts about its financial stability.
From Nike, to Walmart, to Canadian Tire, retailers and brands have more merch than they know what to do with as inventories bulge while consumers cut down on their spending.
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10 min
October 03, 2022 Postal loans 📬 — Canada Post is introducing a new loan service. Elon’s Twitter texts get released. And Meta reduces headcount.
Canada Post has expanded its MyMoney loan program in partnership with TD Bank to locations across Canada, offering loans between $1000 and $30,000, with approval in as little as 10 minutes.
Text messages made public as part of Elon Musk’s court fight with Twitter (along with being highly entertaining) shed insight into his early motivations for buying the business and show how Silicon Valley heavyweights rallied to his cause.
Meta—the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp—plans to reduce its headcount and cut budgets across most teams.
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The Peak Daily is produced by 306 Media Productions. Hosted by Brett Chang and Jay Rosenthal.
8 min
September 30, 2022 New Google 🔎 — Google is revamping search. Pickleball is taking off. And Russia reports on the Ukrainian “referendum”.
Google announced at its Search On conference that it’s testing updates to Search and Maps that will push its flagship tools in a “visual-forward” direction.
An ownership group including NBA superstar LeBron James bought a professional pickleball team that will join Major League Pickleball (MLP) for its upcoming season.
Russia will annex four regions in Ukraine today after tightly controlled “referendums” that Kremlin officials claim resulted in 99% of locals voting to join Russia
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9 min
September 29, 2022 New Alzheimer’s drug 💊 — Workers are getting raises. There could be a new CAPTCHA. And a new Alzheimer’s is going through a third clinical trial.
Employers have come up with a novel idea to retain and sustain their workforce during these trying times. You may have heard of it. It’s called ‘paying people more.’
IT giant Cloudflare introduced a new breed of CAPTCHA test called Turnstile that promises to reduce the average test time from 32 seconds to one second.
A new drug slowed the rate of cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients in large-scale clinical trials, according to its developers Biogen and Eisai.
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9 min
September 28, 2022 Mobile lithium 🔋 — A Canadian company has a new way to mine for lithium. China’s trying to revive its belt and road initiative. And the Nord Stream pipelines are leaking.
Vancouver-based International Battery Metals claims to have developed a first-of-its-kind mobile lithium mining plant that can extract and process lithium with minimal environmental impact.
There’s buyer’s remorse over that late-night Amazon purchase, and then there’s real buyer’s remorse (to the tune of $1 trillion)—the latter is what China is experiencing right now as it tries to salvage its troubled Belt and Road infrastructure initiative.
Sweden reported two leaks in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline close to the Danish island of Bornholm, mere hours after Denmark reported a separate leak in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the same area.
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The Peak Daily is produced by 306 Media Productions. Hosted by Brett Chang and Jay Rosenthal.
9 min
September 27, 2022 Internet vote 🗳 — A UN agency is hosting a big vote on the future of the internet. The British economy is in trouble. And Beyond Meat isn’t doing so well.
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the UN body responsible for setting global communications standards, will elect its new leader this week—a decision that could shape the future of the internet.
The British economy is experiencing some serious turbulence—or an omnishambles, they might say across the pond—as investors give a big thumbs down to the UK government’s new fiscal plan.
Sales of plant-based meats have declined over the past year while negative perceptions of the product have increased, per a new Deloite report.
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9 min

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