After 18 years in operation, Spotify will enjoy its first year of profitability in 2024, a feat that was achieved thanks to subscriber growth, reduced spending, layoffs, and price increases. This profitability came at a cost, chiefly at the expense of smaller artists and the employees who built the company’s success. One such change is the company’s newly instituted payment policy that will see the larger artists on the platform receive the majority of these gains, while the smaller artists may not see anything—or very little—from their...

The Ontario Government and Starlink have agreed to a deal believed to be valued at $100 million to provide high-speed internet to parts of northern and rural Ontario, regions that are currently underserved. The Musk-owned company, which is run and engineered by SpaceX, entered a competitive bid that was selected to provide satellite internet to approximately 15,000 households and businesses effective June 2025. The system is supported by low-orbiting satellites which offer higher speed internet access where infrastructure is harder to install...

It might take a little longer for mail to arrive in Canada, as 55,000 postal workers are on strike just ahead of the holiday season, which is putting additional pressure on the nation’s mail system that is struggling to manage a $3 billion deficit that it has continually added to since 2018. Workers represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) started strike action on Friday, November 15 at 12:01 am ET after failing to come to an agreement with the Crown Corporation. Mail and parcel delivery will be halted during the strike,...