Friday, June 26, 2026

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Freshly Funded Projects to Supply Fast Internet for Remote, Rural Households

Canada and British Columbia recently announced $236 million in joint federal and provincial funding. The $236M of capital is earmarked for eight projects designed to bring high-speed Internet access to remote and rural communities throughout the province. The eight projects will...

RBC Expands Vancouver Innovation Hub

RBC is growing its presence in British Columbia with an expansion of its Vancouver banking and innovation hub. The downtown hub, which opened last November, currently has 350 employees and is expected to grow to 600 employees by the end...

Bureau Expands Workspace Innovation to Europe with Showroom Launch in UK

Bureau this week opened its first showroom in Europe. The soundproof workspace company is the fusion of two companies, one from Australia and one from Vancouver. “What started as an idea in Vancouver is now a global business reshaping the way...

Whirlpool warns of ‘recession-level’ slump as Iran war and tariff ruling hit sales

With the war in Iran and economic concerns putting pressure on consumers and how they spend their money, Whirlpool is having to adjust to Americans delaying big-ticket purchases while also raising prices to help stabilize its North American business. The...

Senate Democrats press top media regulator Brendan Carr to back off ABC

A group of prominent Senate Democrats sent a letter on Thursday to Brendan Carr, the Trump-aligned Federal Communications Commission chair, asking him to rescind the US media regulator’s order last week requiring ABC to apply early to renew its...

Ted Turner: the man whose 24-hour CNN network broke the news

February, 1982. The startup cable news channel, CNN, is not yet two years old. It’s bleeding $2m a month. To help make payroll, owner Ted Turner, known as the “mouth of the south” for his brazen behavior, is cashing...

Powerful US utilities secretly fund ‘grassroots’ groups to sway cities away from switch to public power

The utility industry is quietly dispatching a network of front groups to thwart the growing push for public power across the US – a push that comes amid mounting frustration over sky-high utility bills, electric outages, a slow transition...

Shivon Zilis, mother of four of Elon Musk’s children, testifies in OpenAI trial

Shivon Zilis, a Neuralink executive and the mother of four of Elon Musk’s children, took the stand on Wednesday as one of the most highly anticipated witnesses in Musk’s case against OpenAI. The ChatGPT maker has argued that, while...

Uncertainty looms as last oil tanker from Middle East arrives in California

The average price of a gallon of gas in California already stands at more than $6, but more uncertainty looms as the last oil tanker from the Middle East arrived in the Golden state this week. The Los Angeles Times...

New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs

The phrase “tax the rich” can be “just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs”, according to the New York City billionaire Steve Roth, who said that the top 1% should be “praised and thanked”. Speaking on his company’s quarterly...
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Apple just jacked up Macbook prices by 20% – so here’s where you can still find a bargain

The SKUs hardest hit by the almost-20% rise across Apple’s Mac and iPad ranges, with the tech giant saying...
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