Andre Mayer

Jul 17, 2024 | cbc.ca | Andre Mayer

Business·AnalysisWhile AI's inevitability has been a recurring refrain in much of the business media, there has been a small chorus of skeptics demanding proof of its ability to do what corporations need most: make money. Recent Goldman Sachs report casts doubt on profitability of AIAndre Mayer · CBC News · Posted: Jul 18, 2024 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 minute agoOpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the Microsoft Build conference in Seattle on May 21.

Jun 24, 2024 | ici.radio-canada.ca | Zone Économie |Andre Mayer

Automakers focus on bigger vehicles amid lenient emissions regulations, higher profit marginsLast August, Paul Marriott emailed CBC's What on Earth? newsletter to share his frustration buying a vehicle. In looking to replace his 2006 Toyota Matrix, a compact hatchback, the Ontario resident had detected a pattern. It is impossible to buy a new small car, he wrote. Gone are the Honda Fit, the Toyota Yaris, GM Spark, Nissan Versa, Ford Fiesta, etc.

Apr 15, 2024 | cbc.ca | Andre Mayer

Paul Kershaw, a public policy professor at the University of British Columbia and founder of the affordability advocacy group Generation Squeeze, says the emphasis on increasing housing supply obscures our collective addiction to ever-rising home prices.

Apr 14, 2024 | msn.com | Andre Mayer

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Mar 27, 2024 | cbc.ca | Andre Mayer

If chocolate is your pleasure, you've undoubtedly noticed it costs more these days to get your fill. You can thank the scarcity of cocoa for that. The majority of it grows in West Africa, where drought and disease have severely reduced crop yields. As a result, the cost of cocoa has tripled in the last year, hitting $10,000 US a ton for the first time ever. It's proof of how global warming is hitting our pocketbooks, says Pascal Thériault, an agricultural economist at McGill University in Montreal.