This time, it’s personal 🍔 - Another Canadian prediction market, McDonald’s gets personal with pricing.
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This time, it’s personal 🍔 - Another Canadian prediction market, McDonald’s gets personal with pricing.

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 2, 20267 min
  • Business & money

Canada could soon get another regulated prediction market as Verdx seeks approval to offer event contracts to retail and institutional investors — though strict rules barring bets on politics and sports could make it difficult to lure users away from offshore platforms. Plus, McDonald’s is using AI to recommend different prices for the same menu items based on each location’s customer base, fuelling concerns that algorithmic pricing is shifting from charging more when demand spikes to calculating exactly how much individual customers will tolerate. And in The Big Picture: Canada Rocket Company unveils plans for a...

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Hey Peak Pals, I'm Alex Blumenstein. And I am Jay Rosenthal. And what is this Jay? Well this is your Peak Daily for TGIF October 2nd, 2026 where we cover the biggest stories

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in Canadian and global business, finance and tech all in less than 10 minutes. Jay, we've talked about the Alto High Speed Rail Project several times on this podcast And now the number for how much it's going to cost keeps increasing. Do you want to take a guess at the current estimate?

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This is the high speed rail line between Toronto and Quebec city. I don't know what the estimate is, but it's not going up because we're talking about it. Let's just say.

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