Episodios

  • Cracking up 🧨 - B.C. pipeline proposal sows disagreement, Bell to launch satellite cell service.

    Cracking up 🧨 - B.C. pipeline proposal sows disagreement, Bell to launch satellite cell service.
    Oct 3 2025
    Remember a few months ago when virtually all of Canada’s political leaders voiced support for big infrastructure projects in the face of U.S. trade threats? Space, the final frontier… of powering your scrolling.
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    7 m
  • Spilled milk 🥛 - Dairy on the negotiating table with U.S., Meta monetizes its AI.

    Spilled milk 🥛 - Dairy on the negotiating table with U.S., Meta monetizes its AI.
    Oct 2 2025
    Canada’s iconic milk bag could soon face more competition from the American carton. To the surprise of absolutely no one, Meta will soon use your conversations with its AI chatbots to serve you even more hyper-targeted ads.
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    8 m
  • What’s next? ➡️ - Alberta’s travelling town halls conclude, A Ponzi scheme in cottage country.

    What’s next? ➡️ - Alberta’s travelling town halls conclude, A Ponzi scheme in cottage country.
    Oct 1 2025
    After hitting 10 stops over three months, Alberta’s travelling roadshow of participative democracy is wrapping up. Telus just turned a Québec fishing hub into one of Canada’s AI hotspots.
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    16 m
  • Movie tax 🍿 - Trump wants tariffs on foreign movies, Telus opens all-Canadian AI data centre.

    Movie tax 🍿 - Trump wants tariffs on foreign movies, Telus opens all-Canadian AI data centre.
    Sep 30 2025
    Canada’s film industry could be the next sector to face tariff disruptions. Telus just turned a Québec fishing hub into one of Canada’s AI hotspots.
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    9 m
  • Power play 🔌 - Rogers eyes standalone sports biz, Old school tech drives a market rally

    Power play 🔌 - Rogers eyes standalone sports biz, Old school tech drives a market rally
    Sep 29 2025
    As the Toronto Blue Jays clinched their division yesterday, their owner was plotting how they’re gonna create one of the largest sports empires in the world. Bring up the stock market and Nvidia is sure to be mentioned, but the hottest companies of the year are actually a lot more old-school: 1970s-era hard-drive makers.
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    8 m
  • Best of Free Lunch: What The Heck Is Productivity, Anyway?

    Best of Free Lunch: What The Heck Is Productivity, Anyway?
    Sep 28 2025
    Peak Pals! We're re-airing some of our favourite episode of the Free Lunch podcast. today we're talking about productivity with William Huggins, a lecturer on corporate finance, economics, and statistics at the DeGroote School of Business, about: What productivity is and how we measure it. Why productivity matters for the economy. Why wages have become disconnected from productivity. Why Canada's productivity is lagging behind other developed countries. How some countries without many natural economic advantages have supercharged their productivity. What Canada can do to boost our productivity, and what it would mean for our economy.
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    1 h y 5 m
  • Best of Free Lunch: A Disturbing conversation about AI

    Best of Free Lunch: A Disturbing conversation about AI
    Sep 27 2025
     Hey Peak Pals , we've decided to start dropping old episodes of Free Lunch into the feed on weekend. We don't air that podcast anymore, but there are still some really relevant conversations that were had and we want to give you a chance to listen to them again or maybe for the first time.
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    1 h y 9 m
  • Is Canada Post toast? 📬 - Ottawa tells Canada Post to end home delivery, Spotify goes after AI slop.

    Is Canada Post toast? 📬 - Ottawa tells Canada Post to end home delivery, Spotify goes after AI slop.
    Sep 26 2025
    If you’ve got a dog that loves barking at the mailman, it’s time to sit them down and deliver some difficult news. The U.S.’s creep towards state-owned companies is now encroaching on a Canadian firm.
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    9 m