World Cup fans have been booing hydration breaks. Powerade sponsors them but marketing experts say parent company Coca-Cola won’t be feeling the heat. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/exp...

World Cup fans have been booing hydration breaks. Powerade sponsors them but marketing experts say parent company Coca-Cola won’t be feeling the heat. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/exp...

Wealthsimple is getting into the prediction market game www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/wea...

Canadian restaurant franchisor Foodtastic has acquired the rights to Kinton Ramen. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/res...

Shopify shareholders have voted against the company creating an artificial intelligence policy. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/science/shop...

Shareholder confidence in Groupe Dynamite took a hit Tuesday as the company's share price plunged almost 36 per cent, despite the retailer recording a significant jump in profit and revenue during its most recent quarter. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/gro...

Gildan Activewear’s share price fell as much as 25 per cent today after a short seller alleged the company obscured negative organic growth. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/gil...

Ikea, Uniqlo, No Frills, Best Buy, Sleep Country and Sephora are all thinking big by going small. I delved into what’s driving brands to open scaled back stores — and where the struggles with the model lie www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/why...

Shopify shareholders will vote Tuesday on whether the tech company should create an artificial intelligence policy. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/sho...

Toronto Blue Jays and Tempo apparel wasn't enough to save Roots’ latest quarter. The retailer reported a $10.1 million loss in its latest quarter. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/jay...

“I feel like I’m going blind,” Farid said, and he worried that A.I. was obscuring the truth, distorting reality, fracturing democracies and slowly breaking him, too. A gift link to an extraordinary story because if he has to see we should too www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...

BREAKING: Toys “R” Us Canada has reached three deals to sell its assets. 1. Ad Populum wants trademarks 2. Current owner Doug Putman buying 10 leases, inventory 3. Jumbo buying the Vaughan Mills lease Plus three more stores are closing www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/toy...

Almost too many scoops to count in this story about how badly things are going at Meta's new AI unit. from @peard33.bsky.social and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social

NEW: WIRED reviewed hundreds of links hosted on Grok dot com and found dozens of “nudified” deepfake images and videos, including nonconsensual depictions of celebrities, and at least one prominent US politician, months after xAI said it would stop. By @mattburgess1.bsky.social

As countries including Canada move toward social media bans in an attempt to keep youths safe online, tech companies are in a tug of war over who should be the gatekeepers. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/soc...

When HBC faltered, the Manitoba Museum couldn't afford to buy the royal charter that formed Canada's oldest business. Today, it welcomed the artifact, after all. It’ll go on display there again in fall 2027 before it heads to Gatineau or Toronto. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/science/at-3...

Guru Organic Energy is preparing a $15 million case that accuses a PepsiCo affiliate of abusing its dominant position in the beverage market to stifle competition. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/gur...

"It took them a while to get to this point, which was disappointing, and now we're waiting again for more detail on a lot of these really important pieces." Canada's tech industry reacts to the new AI strategy www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/tec...

Google has been ordered to cover about $358,000 in fees the competition commissioner amassed when successfully fighting the tech giant on a constitutional challenge. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/com...

This garish bong is just one of the ways Canadian cannabis stores are hoping to score with local soccer fans and tourists attending the first World Cup in a place that has legalized weed. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/pot...

Lululemon Athletica’s showdown with its estranged founder weighed on the retailer’s first quarter so much that it’s revising its forecasts. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/lul...

The new owners of Zellers will soon expand the relaunched brand to Ontario but are first making a few tweaks. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/zel...

Gas prices may have fallen on optimism that a ceasefire in the Middle East war is on its way but it’s unclear how long that will last. One expert says it will be expensive to fill up this summer, regardless of what happens. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/gas...

“Six months from now, that human customer is going to have their own agents…to be shopping on their behalf or investing.” Canadian brands are preparing for individuals to lean increasingly hard on technology to help them make purchases or bank. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/science/comp...

Lululemon has headed off a showdown at its upcoming meeting by signing an agreement with its estranged founder who was hell-bent on spurring change at the retailer. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/lul...

Entrepreneurs say Canada and its investors don't support burgeoning defence companies enough and when they do, that support is slow to come by and often pales in comparison to what they can get elsewhere. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/science/defe...

Uber’s president wants the federal government to act faster on policies and programs that will help Canadian companies build. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/ube...

"I can't specifically tell you what the 10.5 million people who earn money on Uber today are going to be doing in 15 years.” - Uber president My roundup of some of the buzzy talking points that came out of Toronto Tech Week’s Homecoming event: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/fro...

Gig workers driving passengers to and from World Cup festivities are bracing for traffic and tension. They foresee unruly, impatient and alcohol-fuelled crowds clogging Toronto and Vancouver streets and constraining how many customers they can serve. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/tax...

Canadian scientists: I’m taking a look at how Canadian science and regulation (e.g., food safety, disease control, drug development & assessment, etc) relies on American science and how that’s changing. Please send me stories of how you use/used American science and how that’s changed/changing.

Cohere is edging into the life sciences sector with the acquisition of Reliant AI, a data analytics platform servicing the biopharma industry. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/science/cohe...

Cineplex CEO Ellis Jacob is pleased with Netflix's recent promise to release its latest Narnia film with a 49-day exclusive theatrical window in 2027. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/cin...

The head of Canadian Tire says shoppers are proving to be "resilient but discerning" while their wallets get hammered by higher gas prices and other mounting costs. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/sho...

A wave of troubles facing the global economy have Canada Goose expecting revenue in the fiscal year it just kicked off to be lower than they were last year. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/can...

America runs on Dunkin’ but will Canada? That’s the question brewing after Montreal restaurant conglomerate Foodtastic announced it’s bringing the U.S. cafe chain north of the border to Tim Hortons territory again. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/ame...

The federal government, Ontario and Manitoba are eyeing sicial media bans for kids. Here’s what the big platforms think of potential legislation and what their teen accounts entail: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/wha...

Aritzia says its expansion plans are so far paying off because new store openings are drawing in customers that quickly become loyal to the brand. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/ari...

A Canadian union wants the federal gov’t & competition watchdog to scrutinize a takeover of one of the world's biggest video game makers by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and a private equity firm owned by U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/can...

Artificial intelligence is behind well over half the coding done at Shopify, which has done a layoff as recently as April. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/sho... #$SHOP

Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow are suing Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for copyright infringement.

A clash between Lululemon Athletica Inc. and its estranged founder will come to a head at the retailer’s annual general meeting. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/lul...

If Hudson’s Bay was still kicking, today would have been its 356th birthday. When it died last year, it lost the title of Canada’s oldest company. This is the story of how I searched for its successor. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/tra...

Buyers have been found for four properties that used to be home to Hudson's Bay department stores. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/buy...

The war in the Middle East will soon make your kid's favourite toys more expensive to produce and deliver to store shelves. Spin Master says a blockage of one of the region's key shipping routes is pushing up its freight, resin and packaging costs. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/toy...

Blue Jay Davis Schneider’s brother died of an opioid overdose. Now, he’s rallying to save others. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/sports/davis... by Nicole Ireland

FIFA's marketplace for resale World Cup tickets no longer has seats listed for Toronto matches after a new price cap law came into effect. Meanwhile, StubHub is selling seats above face value because it has “outstanding questions” about legislation. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/tor...

Lululemon has named another new board member as the company continues to face criticism over its recent performance. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/lul...

McDonald’s Canada is reimagining the drink menu you grew up with. Its new, permanent cornerstones will be dirty sodas, fruity refreshers and foamy iced coffees. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/mov...

Fashion brands like Lululemon have recently been suing companies that copy their designs, but experts and a designer who has seen their work imitated say it won't do much to tamp down on the phenomenon. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/cop...

Canadian artificial intelligence company Cohere has signed a deal with Germany's Aleph Alpha in a bid to create an independent alternative to global tech giants dominating the field. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/science/cohe...