The Peak Daily

Canada’s biggest tech company is helping ChatGPT fire the starting gun on a new era of online shopping. It’s rare that a company files for an IPO in Canada these days, let alone an American company. And yet…

This might upset our real red-blooded Italian readers, but Canada will soon get more Olive Gardens. Banks have found a new junior analyst who’s always on time, doesn’t take vacation, and will never complain about a lack of work-life balance.

New research has found yet another way the pandemic left our collective health worse off. The prime minister is going to need a spreadsheet to keep track of all the CEOs he’s not allowed to talk to.

Ruoming Pang recently accepted a pay package of more than US$200 million over several years. He’s not an athlete, or a movie star, but a new member of Meta’s “superintelligence” team. Facing the prospect of a 300% property tax hike, a small town just outside of Timmins, Ontario, is throwing in the towel.

We knew that limiting international student visas would be bad for post-secondary schools, but we couldn’t have known it would cause one of the largest mass layoffs the sector has ever seen. The performance of mutual funds might be falling, but that isn’t stopping salespeople at Canada’s largest banks from selling them to customers.

A Canadian company seems to have found a way to use AI in Hollywood without getting anyone sued. An ideologically motivated violent plot that had been in the making for at least four years was shut down by a series of arrests this week.

AI is being given the tall order of deciphering what exactly happens in those long meetings on Parliament Hill. As the price of copper rises, so has the number of thieves snipping it from power lines.

The Calgary Stampede is the only place in the world where you’ll catch business leaders flipping pancakes in the morning and chasing deals into the evening. It has probably never been more important to make a deal with the U.S., and it has probably never been more difficult either

Uber drivers in Victoria are forming Canada’s first rideshare union. The feds want more electric cars. Automakers want more people to actually buy them. Right now, neither side is getting what it wants.

It turns out Gen Z’s anti-alcohol reputation might have been overblown. China is beginning to do to the AI industry what it has done in nearly every other major area of the global economy

Yesterday was Canada Day, which this year was also the federal government’s promised deadline for achieving internal free trade. Saunas are steamy, Ice baths are freezy. Combine the two, and you’ve got a business that's dreamy.

Ever loan a friend some cash just to see them splurge on some questionable purchases a week later? The federal government has found itself in a similarly awkward situation. We knew that the growth in Canadian youth unemployment was bad, but we didn’t realize it was ‘worst among the world’s biggest economies’ bad.

Being inside with no air conditioning during a heat wave sucks. The world’s top central bankers are warning everyone that stable coins are not-so-stable. 

Buy Canada has come for scrolling and posting. You wouldn’t think the financial meltdown of a U.K. utility would inflict billions in losses for some of the largest Canadian investors, but that’s exactly what the demise of Thames Water is doing.

Canada’s competition watchdog wants to fly in some international reinforcements to shake up the country’s airline duopoly. Critics are worried that Canada’s newest law will lay an egg.

Podcasting is so last year. These days, anyone who’s anyone has their own phone company. Like a restaurant with a fresh Michelin star, Canada is suddenly tough to get into.

Investors are betting big that autonomous vehicles are here to stay. Hate to break it to you, Dolly Parton, but these days you’re lucky to be working a 9 to 5.

A new automaker is looking to bring a splash of French panache to Canada’s EV market. You know the economy’s in a weird place when Beyonce tickets and late-night DoorDash orders are getting financed like mortgages.

A tragic plane crash in India has cast a dark shadow over the aviation world. The Supreme Court of Canada is about to decide if clicking “I agree” actually means you read or understood a single word of the terms and conditions.

The world's two biggest economies have managed to hash out their trade differences… for now. Why have a macchiato when you can have a jacked -iato?

If one of Canada’s biggest developers gets his way, it might not be long until every new house on your block is assembled in three days like a giant Lego set. For over a decade, news publishers have basically built their business models around generating traffic on Google Search. Turns out, this may have been shortsighted.

Mark Carney rode promises to unify and grow Canada’s economy all the way to the prime minister’s office. Now comes the difficult part: actually doing it. One of the rising stars of Canada’s startup scene has slowly burned out.

With a $2 trillion succession tsunami on the horizon in Canada, Indigenous entrepreneurs are getting their chance to take the reins of mom-and-pop shops across the country. Amazon’s newest parcel carriers won’t be interested in any small talk when they drop off your package. In fact, they won’t even be capable of it.

One of the world’s most storied newsrooms is opening its doors to anyone with an opinion and a laptop. B.C. now stands for Building infrastruCture. (Okay, that was a stretch, but you get the gist.) 

Buckle your proverbial seatbelts, because the global economy is heading for a rough patch, and Canada is set to get rocked. The fashion world’s hottest trend? Getting hacked.