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The Format Gen Z Picked Isn't About Hiding. It's About Scale. Faceless content isn't new. News channels have used it for decades — B-roll, charts, voiceover. What changed is the tooling. What used to require a producer, an editor, and Adobe Premiere now takes
Canada just committed to buying radar planes from a Swedish defense contractor, and the decision tells you more about continental defense than you might expect. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced formal negotiations with Saab for the GlobalEye Airborne Early Warning and Control platform—a choice that sidesteps the usual American
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami just received instructions to stand down on Delcy Rodríguez. She's the acting president of Venezuela. She's also been a high-priority DEA target for alleged narcotics trafficking ties. The directive came from the White House. Quietly. This
Jennifer Publicover will leave Royal Bank of Canada's insurance division on June 1, 2026, marking the end of a remarkably brief stint at the executive level. She spent roughly two years as Head of RBC Insurance and only a fraction of that time as a Group Executive, the
A business class flight to Europe, booked with points, feels like you just turned loyalty rewards into a $4,000 windfall. You probably paid $200 in fees. The airline tells you the seat would have cost $4,200 in cash. The math looks clean. It isn't. That $4,
Fortuna Mining released its eighth sustainability report last week, and the most revealing thing about it isn't what the company is doing differently. It's what hasn't moved. The Vancouver-based miner operates five sites across Latin America and West Africa—Seguela in Côte d&
Canada just walked past Boeing and picked a Swedish radar platform built on a Montreal business jet. The federal government announced it would acquire Saab's GlobalEye system to replace the aging CP-140 Aurora fleet, choosing extended-range surveillance over the American-made Boeing E-7 Wedgetail that
Victoria homeowners face a calculation that didn't exist five years ago. A 1-year GIC at a BC credit union pays 4.50%. A 5-year fixed mortgage sits at 4.85%. That 35-basis-point gap is narrow enough that the old rule—always pay down the
Your pension contributions fund a vote you never cast. That vote goes to a Bay Street firm that may have already decided against you. British Columbia Investment Management Corporation oversees $250 billion for public sector workers in Victoria, Vancouver, and across the province. When BCI votes its shares at annual
The European Union wants to decouple from Chinese mineral supply. Beijing controls over 80% of the global supply chain for rare earths and refined lithium. That's a problem when you're trying to build battery factories and wind turbines at scale. So the EU Critical Raw Materials
Stoneshield Capital just closed its fourth opportunity fund at €1.5 billion, hitting a hard cap the firm set after blowing past the original €1.0 billion target. That's oversubscribed capital in a fundraising environment where most managers are grinding to hit minimum thresholds. The firm didn'
The stretch of ocean floor off Newfoundland and Labrador is less mapped than the surface of Mars. That changed in 2026 when researchers from Oceana Canada and Fisheries and Oceans Canada sent remotely operated vehicles into waters where sunlight stops reaching. What they filmed will reshape how Canada thinks about