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- Today6 min
Rock and roll 🤘- Newfoundland draws Hollywood productions, Parliament is back in action.
Newfoundland’s film and television industry is booming as Netflix’s Below becomes the latest Hollywood production to shoot in the province, bringing jobs, local spending, and the potential for a major tourism boost.Plus, Parliament returns with the Carney government preparing to fast-track major projects and overhaul federal labour laws — ambitious moves that could accelerate investment while provoking pushback from unions, Indigenous groups, environmental advocates, and local communities.And in The Big Picture: airport privatization could raise travel costs, Canada and France deepen their space partnership, European intelligence officials warn of a possible Russian attack on NATO territory, New Brunswick adds AI literacy to its school curriculum, Google’s Gemini reportedly breaks containment, tensions rise between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia, Germany’s AfD wins another state election, and more.The Peak Daily is produced in partnership with reframevid.com
- 4 days ago7 min
📈 Mr. Carney goes to Strasbourg
Mark Carney lays out a bold vision for a new Canada–EU alliance — from seamless digital trade and critical minerals cooperation to shared AI safety protocols and sovereign compute. We’ll break down what “sovereignty” really means in this context, why Europe seems newly open to deeper partnership, and how Washington could respond.Then, daylight saving time edges closer to extinction: Manitoba joins a growing list of provinces and territories moving to permanent time, and with the U.S. debating a similar shift, Ontario and Quebec could be next. We dig into the real reasons DST has stuck around, and what the research says about the health and productivity costs of changing the clocks.Plus in The Big Picture: OpenAI flags concerning model behavior, EDC argues Canada needs more domestic processing to boost exports, and Stellantis labor tensions rise.The Peak Daily is produced in partnership with reframevid.com
- 5 days ago7 min
📈 Get it together
Canada’s AI champion Cohere moves to scale up and stake its claim in “sovereign AI” by finalizing merger terms with Germany’s Aleph Alpha — a deal that could reshape the AI landscape. Plus, Salesforce launches an AI shopping agent as “agentic” commerce heats up and brands race to get recommended by chatbots. Also in the Big Picture: talk of Canada becoming the EU’s first “associate member,” the US Fed hikes rates for the first time in three years, and the projected cost of Alberta separation.The Peak Daily is produced in partnership with reframevid.com
- 6 days ago7 min
📈 Super → Mega
In today’s episode of The Peak Daily, Jay breaks down Ottawa’s new “Productivity Mega Deduction” and what it could mean for major projects like pipelines, mines, data centres, and infrastructure. Then, Airbnb launches a $250M fund to help stalled multi-family rentals cross the finish line — amid ongoing debate over short-term rentals’ impact on housing affordability.Plus, in The Big Picture: Canada’s biggest airports open to private investment, Nvidia and Salesforce introduce a reasoning model built for business tasks, OpenAI explores Canada for future data centre partnerships, and more.New episodes daily — business news in under 10 minutes.The Peak Daily is produced in partnership with reframevid.com
- 6 days ago7 min
Appetizers are served 🍤- The Investment Summit Gets Underway, Controlling AI
The first day of Canada’s Investment Summit brought a wave of new commitments from banks, investors, and businesses, offering early signs that Ottawa’s push to unlock as much as $1 trillion in capital may be gaining momentum — even if most of the pledges aren’t binding.Plus, Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez and a Chinese state-backed newspaper are pushing back against calls from Silicon Valley’s biggest AI companies to slow development, arguing that safety concerns could be used to entrench dominant firms and constrain their competitors.And in The Big Picture: Canada’s annual inflation rate holds at 3%, Africa’s largest-ever IPO is set to make Aliko Dangote even richer, Google adds AI-powered protections for Canadian minors, companies race to trademark “Elbows Up,” Kawhi Leonard’s return to the Raptors is finalized, and more.The Peak Daily is produced in partnership with reframevid.com
- 1 weeks ago7 min
Taking it slow 🐢- AI companies hit the pause button, Carney’s investment summit kicks off.
AI’s biggest companies are pledging to slow the development of frontier models and open their systems to independent evaluators, an unprecedented attempt to keep increasingly powerful technology from outrunning the industry’s ability to control it.Plus, Mark Carney’s Canada Investment Summit will pitch more than 160 energy and infrastructure projects to hundreds of global investors, testing Ottawa’s plan to unlock up to $1 trillion in capital and kick-start a Canadian investment boom.And in The Big Picture: Donald Trump signals a Canada-U.S. trade deal could be close, Sweden’s centre-left bloc wins the parliamentary election, attacks shut down a key Saudi oil pipeline, Texas halts approvals for new data centres, Canadian boxing legend George Chuvalo dies at 89, and more.The Peak Daily is produced in partnership with reframevid.com
- 1 weeks ago7 min
Order in the court 👩⚖️ - Canada’s courts want to stop throwing out cases, AI doomsday fears grow.
Canada’s Supreme Court is weighing whether judges can use alternative remedies instead of throwing out criminal cases when trials take too long, a change that could prevent thousands of cases from being stayed while still protecting defendants’ Charter rights.Plus, Anthropic says it blocked users — including state actors — from using its AI tools to develop weapons, spy on dissidents, and research biological threats, spotlighting the immediate danger of humans misusing today’s models amid growing fears about what future AI could do.And in The Big Picture: Mark Carney’s investment summit will pitch more than 160 projects, Canada and Ukraine sign a 100-year defence and trade pact, Iran reportedly resumes ballistic missile production, Ontario expands tariff relief, the Canadian Armed Forces undergo a major reorganization, and more.The Peak Daily is produced in partnership with reframevid.com
- 1 weeks ago9 min
Alarm bells 🔔 - Ex-Anthropic employee gives grave AI warning, BMO comes for challenger banks.
Anthropic researchers are warning that frontier AI systems could pose an existential threat within the next decade, as concerns grow that models are nearing the ability to improve themselves while leading labs remain locked in a race to build them first.Plus, BMO will become the first of Canada’s Big Five banks to offer commission-free stock, options, and ETF trading, a bid to win younger investors and blunt the advantage enjoyed by digital brokerages and challenger banks.And in The Big Picture: Apple unveils its US$2,000 foldable iPhone, Unifor asks Ottawa to penalize companies that shift Canadian production to the U.S., Iran and the U.S. escalate attacks around the Strait of Hormuz, OpenAI adds a government AI safety adviser to its board, Enbridge nears a major pipeline deal, and more.The Peak Daily is produced in partnership with reframevid.com
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