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This Week's Round-Up: March 30, 2026 |
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The bill would ban using personal data to charge customers different prices for the same goods
BY CARMINE STARNINO, VASS BEDNAR |
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“Once firms get consumers used to being sorted, profiled, and priced differently, the practice starts to feel inevitable. But it is not. It is a choice about what kind of business practices we expect. Personalized algorithmic pricing pulls together affordability, privacy, competition, consumer protection, and data extraction all at once. It asks whether companies should be allowed to use increasingly intimate signals about our behaviour to decide what we see, what we pay, and what discounts we never even knew existed.
In a cost-of-living crisis, that really matters.”
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Wildfires are no longer a once-a-year emergency in Canada. With smoke and other side-effects now crossing provincial and national borders, Canadians are asking not whether this will continue, but how we respond.
Join us at The Walrus Talks Wildfires to hear from leading experts, engage with the latest research and perspectives, and explore promising solutions that can shape Canada’s response. |
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A MESSAGE FROM THE WALRUS LAB IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DELOITTE |
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Inside a Strategy for Growth and Innovation |
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How is Ontario navigating trade, innovation, and long-term growth in a shifting global landscape?
In this episode, Minister Vic Fedeli shares how the province is approaching economic strategy through bold policies and targeted investments. Drawing on experience in both government and business, the conversation highlights lessons in resilience, collaboration, and the importance of planning for long-term prosperity. |
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This week on What Happened Next, host Nathan Whitlock is joined by Giles Blunt, whose most recent book is the novel Bad Juliet. He talks to Nathan about the shift from crime writing to historical fiction that Bad Juliet represents; about the notes to himself he will sometimes insert into his manuscripts, indicating his intention to quit writing them; and about why his most recent book has been harder to let go of than anything else he has written. |
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I’m Brett, a contributing writer with The Walrus. This winter, I reported from Nuuk, Greenland, the quiet capital transformed by the threat of an American invasion into an unlikely stage for a global showdown.
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— Brett Popplewell
Contributing Writer, The Walrus |
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