Episodes

  • Making friends 👬- Canada and Saudi Arabia cozy up, Scam ads make big money for Meta.

    Making friends 👬- Canada and Saudi Arabia cozy up, Scam ads make big money for Meta.
    Nov 7 2025
    With the U.S. playing hard to get, Ottawa and Saudi Arabia are playing a little footsy under the trade table. Scammers aren’t the only ones profiting from weird Facebook ads of Howie Mandel getting arrested.
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    10 mins
  • Time to pay up 💸- Tesla shareholders vote on Musk pay package, Investors float AI bubble concerns.

    Time to pay up 💸- Tesla shareholders vote on Musk pay package, Investors float AI bubble concerns.
    Nov 6 2025
    Tesla shareholders will vote today on whether or not to approve a pay package for CEO Elon Musk that could end up being worth over US$1 trillion. Fears about an AI bubble have reached the point where financial advisors are now sending out Nvidia-branded bubble guns.
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    10 mins
  • Here comes the budget 🏧- Carney drops his first federal budget, Coke ushers in the age of AI ads.

    Here comes the budget 🏧- Carney drops his first federal budget, Coke ushers in the age of AI ads.
    Nov 5 2025
    We don’t know about you, but we could hardly sleep Monday night knowing there was a fresh budget waiting under the fiscal Christmas tree. With the corpse of Halloween still fresh in the dirt, Coca-Cola has dropped its annual holiday commercials… with a twist.
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    9 mins
  • Quantum IPO 💻- Xanadu plans blockbuster IPO, ChatGPT is done giving you advice.

    Quantum IPO 💻- Xanadu plans blockbuster IPO, ChatGPT is done giving you advice.
    Nov 4 2025
    Quantum computing might be difficult to comprehend (we’re still not sure what a qubit is), but one thing about it is easy to understand: it’s got a lot of money-making potential. ChatGPT is officially resigning its role as our deeply unqualified (but extremely confident) doctor, lawyer, and financial planner.
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    9 mins
  • Touch-ups 💄- Cosmetic treatments blow up, Trump's tariffs get their day in court

    Touch-ups 💄- Cosmetic treatments blow up, Trump's tariffs get their day in court
    Nov 3 2025
    Getting a little work done isn’t just for people trying to reclaim their lost youth anymore — young people themselves are increasingly getting cosmetic touch-ups, too. The backbone of Trump’s trade policy will be in the hands of nine judges this week.
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    8 mins
  • Travel bug 🪲- Canada records all-time summer tourism numbers, Carney meets with Xi.

    Travel bug 🪲- Canada records all-time summer tourism numbers, Carney meets with Xi.
    Oct 31 2025
    Even with fierce competition from luxurious Euro trips and beachside all-inclusives, Canada came out of vacation season as the big winner. Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea later today, marking the first substantial talks between the leaders of the two countries in seven years
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    8 mins
  • Zombie Zellers 🧟- Nvidia inaugurates the $5 trillion club, Zellers returns from the dead (again).

    Zombie Zellers 🧟- Nvidia inaugurates the $5 trillion club, Zellers returns from the dead (again).
    Oct 30 2025
    They say it’s lonely at the top, but it sure seems like Nvidia has a lot of supporters. Like a cat with nine lives, Zellers simply refuses to die.
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    9 mins
  • Simple as that 🤑- Wealthsimple is a $10 billion company, OpenAI finalizes its restructuring.

    Simple as that 🤑- Wealthsimple is a $10 billion company, OpenAI finalizes its restructuring.
    Oct 29 2025
    What started in 2014 as a simple robot trade advisor is now an all-time Canadian business success story. OpenAI is trying to keep up its whole move-fast-and-break-things shtick without completely abandoning its safety-first roots.
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    23 mins