41 h. ago Ménage dans la bureaucratie: Legault veut éliminer des milliers d’emplois dans la fonction publique

Même s’il se défend d’être un émule d’Elon Musk, le premier ministre François Legault promet d’éliminer des milliers d’emplois.

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3 d. ago Musk loses crown as world’s richest to software giant Larry Ellison in new Bloomberg ranking

NEW YORK (AP) — Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison wrested the title of the world’s richest man from longtime holder Elon Musk early Wednesday, according to wealth tracker Bloomberg, as stock in his software giant rocketed more than a third in a stunning few minutes of trading. A college dropout, the 81-year-old Ellison is now worth […]

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3 d. ago Musk’s title of richest person challenged by Oracle’s Ellison

New York (AFP) — Billionaire Elon Musk is at risk of losing his title of world’s wealthiest person to Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, whose software giant stands poised for massive AI riches. Ellison, 81, amassed more than $100 billion in additional wealth Wednesday as Oracle shares skyrocketed after the nearly 50-year old company forecast massive […]

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4 d. ago John Ivison: The NDP’s rapidly declining sanity affects us all

New Democrats are at a crossroads. On current evidence, one path leads to further marginalization; the other, to electoral oblivion

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4 d. ago Klarna prices IPO at $40, valuing buy now, pay later company at $15 billion ahead of trading debut

NEW YORK (AP) — Klarna priced its long awaited initial public offering at $40 a share late Tuesday, valuing the Swedish buy now, pay later company at more than $15 billion. The valuation easily makes Klarna one of the biggest IPOs so far in 2025, which has been one of the busier years for companies […]

Economics

5 d. ago John Ivison: Carney gets caught between China and the U.S. over cars and canola

Trump could see the importation of cheap Chinese EVs into Canada as a backdoor into the U.S. market and impose his own tariff on canola

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5 d. ago MDA Space caught off guard by EchoStar’s deal cancellation, CEO says

Shares of MDA Space Ltd. fell sharply Monday as the high-tech manufacturer lost a recently announced contract with EchoStar Corp. EchoStar cancelled the deal as it separately announced an agreement to sell its spectrum licenses to SpaceX for about US$17 billion in cash and shares, as the Elon Musk-founded SpaceX pushes further into providing satellite-based […]

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8 d. ago Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated chatbot training material

NEW YORK (AP) — Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot. The landmark settlement, if approved by a judge as soon as Monday, could mark a turning point in legal […]

Economics

8 d. ago Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip implanted into two quadriplegic Canadian patients

Two Canadian patients with spinal cord injuries have received Neuralink brain implants that have allowed them to control a computer with their thoughts. They are part of the first clinical trial outside of the United States to test the safety and effectiveness of Elon Musk’s Neuralink wireless brain chip, which he introduced to the public […]

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8 d. ago Tesla dangles unprecedented $1 trillion pay package to Elon Musk

Musk must raise Tesla's market cap to $8.5 trillion as one of conditions of receiving payout

Economics

8 d. ago Elon Musk pourrait devenir le premier trillionnaire au monde grâce à une offre de Tesla

Elon Musk pourrait devenir le premier trillionnaire au monde si une offre de rémunération globale est approuvée par les actionnaires de Tesla.

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9 d. ago John Ivison: Poilievre takes a risk on scrapping temporary foreign workers

From a political perspective, it’s not an obvious win for Poilievre, even if the public is sympathetic to the intent

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9 d. ago 2 Toronto hospital patients get Elon Musk’s Neuralink implants in Canadian 1st

Two Toronto hospital patients are now the first Canadians to have Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip implanted in the country.

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1 week ago John Ivison: The Liberals’ EV mandate will see Canada’s carmakers paying billions to Elon Musk

Carmakers that don’t hit Ottawa's arbitrary target — which will be all of them except Tesla — will have to buy credits from Tesla to comply

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1 week ago John Ivison: Carney’s reputation is holding up better outside of Canada than in

His political authority rests on the perception of competence and, if the economy slows further, people will start doubting he has it

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2 w. ago B.C. receiving initial payment of $3.6B in tobacco settlement money

B.C. has begun to receive the initial payment from its multi-billion-dollar share of the settlement in a pan-Canadian lawsuit against big tobacco.

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2 w. ago Tesla asks court to throw out big damage award in crash by arguing comments about Musk misled jury

NEW YORK (AP) — The car company run by Elon Musk asked a federal court Friday to dismiss massive damages awarded to victims of a deadly crash, arguing that their lawyers had misled the jury by improperly bringing up the billionaire during the trial. The filing in Miami federal court seeks to overturn the $243 […]

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2 w. ago Tesla sales plunge again in Europe as anger at Musk keeps buyers away for 7th month in a row

NEW YORK (AP) — Europeans angry at Elon Musk still aren’t buying his cars months after the billionaire predicted a “major rebound” in Tesla sales, data released Thursday shows. Tesla sales plunged 40% in July in the 27 European Union countries compared with the year earlier even as sales overall of electric vehicle soared, according […]

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2 w. ago Advocates seeking more mitigation efforts as provinces await smoking lawsuit cash

MONTREAL — Anti-smoking advocates urged the provinces and territories to use money from a historic tobacco settlement on public health programs as the provinces are set to receive initial amounts starting Friday. In March, an Ontario judge sanctioned a $32.5-billion plan requiring three major tobacco companies to pay out billions of dollars in compensation to […]

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2 w. ago SpaceX’s Starship deploys 8 dummy satellites, splashes down into Indian Ocean — as planned

NASA has ordered two Starships to land astronauts on the moon later this decade, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's ultimate goal is Mars

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