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AI and the future of music

In the last few days, a new song featuring Drake and the Weeknd racked up over 600,000 Spotify streams and 15 million views on TikTok. The only problem? The artists didn’t make it. 

Loblaw gets a new chief

President’s Choice spokesman and Loblaw President Galen Weston will step back from the day-to-day operations of Canada’s biggest grocer after two years at the helm.

It’s hard to move up the remote career ladder

Fair warning to all the hard-working remote workers (we include ourselves in that mix), this new set of remote work data might hurt a bit.

GM ditches CarPlay in new vehicles

Your car dashboard is shaping up to be the next front in the fight to own the screens we look at all day.

Driving the news: General Motors (GM) is abandoning Apple's CarPlay and Google's Android Auto on many of its new electric vehicles, opting for its own proprietary software for multimedia displays. 

Are customer service reps getting free goldfish?

Companies are using the “Santa Claus” method to win over customer service reps, i.e. showering them with practical and affordable gifts.

Why are people growing lettuce in BC warehouses?

When you think of a warehouse, you probably think of rusted shipping containers or movie fights scenes—not a bountiful harvest. Vertical farming may change that perception.

The business of weather

“How’s the weather out there today?” might be a simple question to ask, but coming up with an answer is a multi-billion dollar industry.

Glencore is obsessed with Teck

Like us hanging up on a seemingly endless stream of telemarketers, Canada’s largest diversified miner is repeatedly turning down an offer it has zero interest in.  

Canola exporters are crushing it (literally)

Big Canola is betting that canola oil will be used to deep fry potatoes and power vehicles.

Cracking down on review hijacking

Supplement-maker The Bountiful Company will pay a US$600,000 fine to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a first-of-its-kind ruling against “review hijacking” on Amazon.