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An anonymous Polymarket trader made $400,000 betting on Maduro’s downfall—and now Washington wants answers thumbnail
Canada Inquirer

An anonymous Polymarket trader made $400,000 betting on Maduro’s downfall—and now Washington wants answers

On Jan. 3, soon after U.S. forces captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro at his compound in Caracas, the political researcher Tyson Brody noticed...

Polygon Labs buys two crypto startups for $250 million as it looks to compete with Stripe thumbnail
Canada Inquirer

Polygon Labs buys two crypto startups for $250 million as it looks to compete with Stripe

The blockchain developer Polygon Labs has closed deals to buy the crypto startups Coinme and Sequence. The total purchase price for the two...

U.S workers just took home their smallest share of capital since 1947, at least thumbnail
Canada Inquirer

U.S workers just took home their smallest share of capital since 1947, at least

As corporate earnings soar and the U.S. GDP balloons, the American workforce isn’t feeling the same boom. American workers are taking home less...

Carhartt CEO says they always focused on blue-collar workers—but hipsters came anyway: ‘We welcome anyone … that wants to celebrate hard work’ thumbnail
Canada Inquirer

Carhartt CEO says they always focused on blue-collar workers—but hipsters came anyway: ‘We welcome anyone … that wants to celebrate hard work’

In an era where fashion brands frequently pivot to chase the latest influencer trends, Carhartt remains an outlier by standing perfectly still. Despite...

What Apple’s AI deal with Google means for the two tech giants, and for $500 billion ‘upstart’ OpenAI thumbnail
Canada Inquirer

What Apple’s AI deal with Google means for the two tech giants, and for $500 billion ‘upstart’ OpenAI

Apple and Google’s surprise AI partnership announcement on Monday sent shockwaves across the tech industry (and lifted Google’s market cap above $4 trillion)....

Greenland, Denmark officials meet with White House to discuss Trump’s ‘takeover’ threats thumbnail
Canada Inquirer

Greenland, Denmark officials meet with White House to discuss Trump’s ‘takeover’ threats

Denmark and Greenland’s envoys to Washington have begun a vigorous effort to urge U.S. lawmakers as well as key Trump administration officials to...

From George Floyd to Trump calling Somali immigrants ‘garbage’ to a fatal ICE shooting, Minnesota’s in the crosshairs thumbnail
Canada Inquirer

From George Floyd to Trump calling Somali immigrants ‘garbage’ to a fatal ICE shooting, Minnesota’s in the crosshairs

Federal officers have encountered opposition in nearly all of the cities targeted by President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign. But it was in...

Mass shootings on campus give rise to a new kind of life-saving service journalism: an anonymous message board called Sidechat thumbnail
Canada Inquirer

Mass shootings on campus give rise to a new kind of life-saving service journalism: an anonymous message board called Sidechat

When a gunman began firing inside an academic building on the Brown University campus, students didn’t wait for official alerts warning of trouble. They got...

Tennessee theater professor reinstated, with $500,000 settlement, after losing his job over a Charlie Kirk-related social media post thumbnail
Canada Inquirer

Tennessee theater professor reinstated, with $500,000 settlement, after losing his job over a Charlie Kirk-related social media post

Austin Peay State University has reinstated a professor who was fired for his social media post after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk....

Singapore-based startup founder Anand Roy thinks generative AI can help fix a broken music sector thumbnail
Canada Inquirer

Singapore-based startup founder Anand Roy thinks generative AI can help fix a broken music sector

For Anand Roy, making music used to mean jamming with his progressive rock band based out of Bangalore. Today, the one-time metalhead now...