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Welcome back to Canada Daily, the newsletter on business, economics and politics from Vancouver to Montreal and beyond. If this was forwarded to you, sign up here . As a Brit who moved to Canada, Alberta’s independence movement has been giving me a case of déjà vu. Mark Carney’s probably feeling it, too. Almost 10 years ago, UK Prime Minister David Cameron held a public vote on whether his country should leave the European Union, betting he could nip a nagging secession movement in the bud. He campaigned against Brexit and lost. Carney, who was governor of the Bank of England at the time, had to deal with the economic aftermath. Now, Alberta separatists who want the province to leave Canada are gathering signatures to trigger a referendum. They only need 177,732 names by May, equivalent to 6% of Alberta’s voting-age population. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she’s against secession. But she called a Oct. 19 vote on other measures to increase Alberta’s sovereignty, including taking more control over immigration policy, and her government lowered the number of signatures required for placing the break-up question on the ballot. Of course, this time there’s also a wild card – US President Donald Trump, who launched a trade war with Canada and has suggested he wants to make it the 51st state. Alberta is not the UK, and separatist sentiments in western Canada are not brand new. The province has its own, long-running issues driving a possible “Wexit.” To understand the forces behind this movement and get a handle on how things might go, I spoke with the premier and with activists on both sides of the debate, along with business executives and economist Trevor Tombe, who looked at the Alberta Prosperity Project’s draft fiscal plan for an independent state. So what’s happening in Alberta doesn’t look the same as Brexit. In fact, it’s interesting for all sorts of different reasons. But it bears understanding – and watching. You can read the whole story here . Also in to...

TORONTO, March 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- “ This year , we delivered solid net earnings driven by significant investment gains across our mining portfolio , alongside sizeable monetization transactions that strengthened Dundee’s year-end cash position and financial flexibility , ” said Jonathan Goodman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dundee Corporation. “With a strong balance sheet and ample liquidity, we are in a strong position to redeploy capital toward returns-focused growth and deliver sustained shareholder value.”

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有报道称埃隆・马斯克旗下的 SpaceX 最快将于本周提交上市申请，周三太空概念股应声飙升。 卫星设计公司 AST SpaceMobile 与 Rocket Lab 股价均上涨约 10%。今年 8 月上市的火箭制造商 Firefly Aerospace 股价攀升 16%；今年 1 月完成 IPO 的航天企业 York Space 受此消息影响上涨 5%。 据科技媒体 The Information 报道，备受市场期待的 SpaceX 上市或将募资超 750 亿美元。此前曾报道，此次 IPO 有望成为史上规模最大的首次公开募股，目标估值达 1.75 万亿美元。 上月，SpaceX 收购了马斯克旗下的 xAI，合并后公司整体估值为 1.25 万亿美元。 涵盖国防领域企业的太空板块，受益于 SpaceX 上市预期、特朗普总统提出的 “金色穹顶” 防御系统计划，以及人工智能基础设施需求的激增。 为支撑人工智能而快速扩建的数据中心被认为是电力成本上涨的原因之一。将数据中心部署到太空被提议作为解决方案，但面临诸多障碍，包括高昂成本与火箭发射资源有限。 SpaceX 目前运营着星链星座，在轨卫星数量超 9500 颗。今年 1 月，马斯克提出一项更宏大的计划，拟发射 100 万颗卫星，该计划因环境威胁遭到科学家强烈反对。 责任编辑：丁文武

BlackRock Inc.'s Rick Rieder says the Federal Reserve should cut interest rates, renewing his call for looser monetary policy. He speaks with Bloomberg's Julie Fine in Dallas. (Source: Bloomberg)

Grab (NASDAQ:GRAB), a Southeast Asia superapp for mobility, delivery, and digital finance, closed Wednesday at $3.73, down 1.58%. The stock slid lower after earlier gains tied to a $400 million accelerated share buyback and a $600 million deal for Taiwanese upstart Foodpanda. Tra

Iran said it rejected a US ceasefire proposal and maintained attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab states, delivering a blow to Washington’s efforts to end a war the Trump administration started alongside Israel almost a month ago. America’s 15-point peace plan stipulates that the Islamic Republic dismantle its main nuclear facilities and use a reduced missile arsenal in self-defense only, according to several people familiar with the matter. Iran would get certain concessions in return, including sanctions relief. But Tehran has its own conditions for a ceasefire . Iran wants guarantees that the US and Israel won’t resume their attacks, alongside reparations for war damages and recognition of its authority over the Strait of Hormuz, it said. The White House insisted that peace talks with Iran are ongoing, even as Tehran publicly rejected US overtures. Vice President JD Vance may travel to Pakistan for Iran talks this weekend, CNN reported. Trump has said he hopes to reach an agreement by the end of the week. — Jordan Parker Erb What You Need to Know Today Meta and Google were found liable and must pay damages to a 20-year-old woman who alleged that her addiction to the companies’ social media platforms caused her to suffer a mental health crisis, a jury said. In the first case of its kind to go to trial, the 12-person jury in California state court was asked to decide whether Meta and Google were negligent in the design and operation of their platforms and should have warned that their products might be dangerous for minors. Jurors said Meta must pay at least $2.1 million in damages, and Google must pay at least $900,000. In more Meta news , the company is cutting several hundred jobs as part of a restructuring effort that’s had an impact on teams including sales, recruiting and the Reality Labs hardware division. The layoffs are said to affect fewer than 1,000 of Meta’s 79,000 employees, both in the US and internationally. Some of the personnel impacted will be offered ...

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The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) rose 0.54% to 6,591.90, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) added 0.77% to 21,929.83 in another headline-driven day of trading. and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI) climbed 0.66% to 46,429.49. Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) both gained over 7% on reports of plans to increase CPU prices. Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM) soared 16% after launching its own line of chips. Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) closed up more than 4%. Consumer cyclicals, including Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) gained as oil prices dropped. Pet-supplies retailer Chewy (NYSE:CHWY) surged 14% following its Q4 earnings. Continue reading

MillerKnoll (MLKN) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of -4.44% and -1.59%, respectively, for the quarter ended February 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

Microsoft and Meta Platforms look like bargains now.

Not only have Micron's sales been surging, but its gross margin is also far higher than it was a year ago.

Key PointsMicron's sales nearly tripled in its most recent quarterly results.

Key PointsNothing has changed about the investment thesis for Microsoft, yet its stock is down nearly 30% from its all-time high.

Report Alleges Trump's Daily Military Briefing Scrubs Out Iran War Setbacks A fresh NBC report has alleged that President Trump is being presented with a very incomplete picture of how the Iran war is going , with the conflict now approaching its first month, and as Washington struggles to find an offramp amid global oil market disruptions. The report says that his daily military briefing provided by the Pentagon features a roughly 2-minute long video update for President Trump that shows the biggest , most successful strikes on Iranian targets of the prior 48 hours. Negative developments frequently get omitted or glossed over. via Associated Press Anonymous US officials have voiced fears that the video briefings, which the president tends to respond positively to, fail to represent the full scope of what's going on. Also, Trump's aides have reportedly voiced greater approval for the briefings, which feature Iranian military equipment and bases and sites getting blown up. The NBC report, which has been rejected by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt , in essence suggests Trump is not getting properly briefed on major negative developments . Or in other words, the fear is that briefers are simply favoring information that he wants to hear, and too afraid to deliver bad news. According to NBC : They said the videos are also driving Trump’s increasing frustration with news coverage of the war . Trump has pointed to the success depicted in the daily videos to privately question why his administration can’t better influence the public narrative, asking aides why the news media doesn’t emphasize what he’s seeing, one of the current U.S. officials and the former U.S. official said. Again, Leavitt has called all of this "an absolutely false assertion" from people who aren't in the briefing room; however NBC does offer the following example which seems consistent with its reporting : One example came this month when five U.S. Air Force refueling planes were hit in a...

The spyware founder's comments are the most direct suggestion yet from anyone inside Intellexa that the Mitsotakis government authorized the hacking of dozens of phones belonging to senior Greek government ministers, opposition leaders, military officials, and journalists.

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Micron is loved by analysts more than ever. It hasn’t helped the stock—yet. MSN