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• Canada Immigration: The Business of Winning and Losing

• What Happened To The Royal Pop? (and the Swatch you should be buying instead)

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Canada Immigration: The Business of Winning and Losing

Canada’s immigration story is impossible to miss. Whenever I’m at a grocery store in a major Canadian city, there’s a 90% chance I’ll bump into a fellow immigrant—staff and shoppers alike. It’s wild to see how government policy plays out on the ground: from recent arrivals on temporary foreign worker or student permits to first-generation families who built lives here decades ago and their nth-generation kids. It really feels like Canada’s entire history in one aisle.

For about a decade, Canada ran one of the boldest growth experiments in the developed world. The plan was simple: pull in people — students, workers, permanent residents — and let them power the economy. In raw terms, it worked. The economy got bigger. The problem is that “bigger” and “better off” turned out to be two very different things, and most of us have spent the last two years living in the gap between them. The tell is Total GDP kept climbing, but GDP per capita actually fell. The pie got bigger while everyone’s slice got smaller.

Read the full article here.

🌐 What Happened To The Royal Pop? (and the Swatch you should be buying instead)

Swatch had the most important watch release of 2026 with the Royal Pop. There was unprecedented hype as soon as the product was announced, leading to a disastrous product launch. Is the hype dead? Is the Royal Pop attainable? From a watch nerd who wears both an Audemars Piguet and a Swatch, here are some thoughts on the Royal Pop.

People lost their minds over the release of the Royal Pop, the collab between the prestigious Audemars Piguet and the cheap and cheerful Swatch. The iconic and coveted Royal Oak was being re-imagined in combinations of colourful plastic (sorry, bioceramic!).

Read the full article here.

Mirvish Productions: THE SECRET CHORD: A LEONARD COHEN EXPERIENCE.

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