Episodios

  • Loosen up 🤙- Canada’s lending regulator wants to loosen up loans, Questrade adds new tools.

    Loosen up 🤙- Canada’s lending regulator wants to loosen up loans, Questrade adds new tools.
    Nov 21 2025
    The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) — the supervisor of our federally regulated lenders — wants to free up more credit for your next business venture. One of Canada’s first online trading platforms is rolling out new tools to attract the booming hordes of Canadian daytraders (or at least people who lurk in r/WallStreetBets).
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    9 m
  • Coming down the pipe 👆- Halal investing is going mainstream, Ottawa and Alberta to reach pipeline deal.

    Coming down the pipe 👆- Halal investing is going mainstream, Ottawa and Alberta to reach pipeline deal.
    Nov 20 2025
    A Canadian startup is throwing its hat in the ring of the $5.4 trillion halal financing market. Things haven’t exactly been peachy between Ottawa and Alberta over the past few years, but the two are willing to put differences aside in pursuit of a common goal: moving more oil.
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    9 m
  • Burst into tiers 😢- Alberta pursues two-tiered healthcare, Canada has a research problem.

    Burst into tiers 😢- Alberta pursues two-tiered healthcare, Canada has a research problem.
    Nov 19 2025
    Alberta’s government has drafted legislation that would allow doctors to work at both private and public institutions simultaneously. For a country so rich in brainpower, Canada is having an oddly hard time figuring out how to use it.
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    10 m
  • Hook, line, and sinker 🎣- Investment scammers target Gen Z, Apple speeds up CEO succession plan.

    Hook, line, and sinker 🎣- Investment scammers target Gen Z, Apple speeds up CEO succession plan.
    Nov 18 2025
    The most digitally savvy generation is now falling for online financial scams at a higher clip than their grandparents. After over 14 years of leading Apple and crafting his own path in the long shadow of Steve Jobs, Tim Cook might soon have more time to hike around Yosemite.
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    11 m
  • AI Hackers 🤖- AI is automating cyberattacks, Labubu’s are going Hollywood

    AI Hackers 🤖- AI is automating cyberattacks, Labubu’s are going Hollywood
    Nov 17 2025
    Spare a thought today for the latest workers to be displaced by AI: hackers. Sony might’ve just landed one half of the next Barbenheimer.
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    9 m
  • Wish list 💫- Ottawa unveils new nation-building projects, Digital billboards are watching.

    Wish list 💫- Ottawa unveils new nation-building projects, Digital billboards are watching.
    Nov 14 2025
    Ottawa just rolled out part two of its infrastructure Christmas wish list. Whether it’ll get what it asked for is up in the air. Targeted advertising has broken containment from your Instagram feed and made it to the real world.
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    11 m
  • Fast and cheap 🏎️- AI faces another DeepSeek moment, Airbnb wants to be an everything app.

    Fast and cheap 🏎️- AI faces another DeepSeek moment, Airbnb wants to be an everything app.
    Nov 13 2025
    Call it déjà vu: A Chinese AI firm has set the industry abuzz by doing more with less. When you book your next Airbnb, you’ll have to decide whether you’d like it with or without a private chef, personal trainer, or fridge full of snacks.
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    8 m
  • Digital Sovereignty 🇨🇦- Buy Canadian comes to AI, The U.S. wants Canada to pay more for drugs.

    Digital Sovereignty 🇨🇦- Buy Canadian comes to AI, The U.S. wants Canada to pay more for drugs.
    Nov 12 2025
    Buy Canadian is going way beyond the grocery cart. Trump is trying to strong-arm Big Pharma into hiking drug prices around the world.
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    10 m