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Gus Carlson

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McDonald’s big mistake with its Christmas ad wasn’t using AI

24.12.2025 20

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AI has allegedly pushed a young man to suicide. What’s next?

15.12.2025 5

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The moment of truth has dawned for the electric vehicle industry

08.12.2025 20

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Government attempts to regulate Big Tech are a Sisyphean mess

24.11.2025 8

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Warren Buffett’s words are a warm hug in a harsh world

17.11.2025 5

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Mamdani is turning Wall Street enemies into friends

10.11.2025 10

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Ford the bully, Carney the conciliator: the dream team

01.11.2025 10

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As New Yorkers again look to Florida, Canadian snowbirds have found the moment to sell

20.10.2025 7

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Canadian leaders are naive to be shocked over Stellantis pulling Jeeps from Brampton

16.10.2025 6

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Dear New York, you are no longer the centre of the world

13.10.2025 10

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TikTok, Trump and the MAGA megaphone

29.09.2025 9

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Trump’s proposal for semi-annual financial reporting could help businesses in the long run

22.09.2025 8

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The AI boom is bringing life back into North American cities. Can they handle it?

15.09.2025 10

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Do CEOs think they are above the law in their workplaces?

08.09.2025 8

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What we learned from Cracker Barrel and the raging corporate culture wars

01.09.2025 10

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Struggling Intel could sink Trump’s chip-making scheme

23.08.2025 5

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Ford’s ‘Model T moment’ couldn’t come at a worse time

16.08.2025 10

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Starbucks and the art of knowing where you come from

04.08.2025 10

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In Buffalo, Wyoming, where the old ways keep the new ways out

03.08.2025 10

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Why has Donald Trump become Boeing’s most prolific sales agent?

27.07.2025 10

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Emperor Elon Musk is having a bad time entirely of his own making

14.07.2025 20

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Facing such fancy Chinese EVs, do Western carmakers even have a future?

07.07.2025 20

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Will life ever go back to normal for Canadian snowbirds in Florida?

30.06.2025 20

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Why does Meta want to push ads in WhatsApp now? Trump might be at the heart of it

22.06.2025 10

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Warner Bros. Discovery and Comcast are doing the divestiture dance again. Will it save them?

16.06.2025 10

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Can OpenAI really go the way of Apple and capture lightning in a bottle?

09.06.2025 30

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With a brand new CEO, Stellantis sets itself up for failure once again

02.06.2025 10

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In raging against companies raising prices, Trump is just like Biden

25.05.2025 10

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Companies are trying to save DEI from Trump. But can they save DEI from itself?

19.05.2025 10

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Welcome back to Tesla, Elon Musk. We’ve missed you

12.05.2025 8

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The new big fight: Jeff Bezos vs. Elon Musk, in space

05.05.2025 20

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Boeing’s self-inflicted damage leaves it vulnerable in trade war as China halts delivery of company’s jets

21.04.2025 10

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Poof, and the one bright spot in the U.S. economy disappears

14.04.2025 9

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23andMe was a disaster waiting to happen. What did anyone expect?

31.03.2025 10

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Storm in an ice-cream cup: Ben & Jerry’s social activism vs. its corporate owner

24.03.2025 10

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The new hate for Elon Musk is childish and hypocritical

17.03.2025 20

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What’s so wrong with Elon Musk’s e-mail asking bureaucrats to sum up their work?

03.03.2025 10

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Trump and Zuckerberg, a new bromance for a brave new world

24.02.2025 10

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Trump was right to kill the penny. Now, onto the nickel

17.02.2025 10

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Astronauts stranded by Boeing are set to finally come home. But the company remains lost

08.02.2025 10

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It’s Donald Trump’s game, and Canada needs to learn how to play it

03.02.2025 10

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In keeping TikTok in the U.S., Donald Trump is channelling his inner Sun Tzu

25.01.2025 10

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With Nippon barred from buying U.S. Steel, it’s now unclear who or what can save it

18.01.2025 10

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Behold as mercenary business interests bow before Donald Trump

10.01.2025 4

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Both Zuckerberg and Musk agree OpenAI shouldn’t be for-profit. Maybe they are right

Gus Carlson is a U.S.-based columnist for The Globe and Mail. When it comes to making strange bedfellows, Big Tech is giving politics a run for its...

06.01.2025 9

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Honda and Nissan are in Hail Mary merger talks. Their desperation speaks volumes

Gus Carlson is a U.S.-based columnist for The Globe and Mail. Revelations this week that Honda and Nissan are in merger talks should come as no...

20.12.2024 8

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In ousters at Intel and Stellantis, the boards were at fault for acting too late

Earlier this week, Intel's board gave CEO Pat Gelsinger the option to retire or be fired. He chose the former. Gelsinger delivers a speech at the...

06.12.2024 4

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Arkansas just found a large lithium deposit. But lithium ain’t what it used to be

Gus Carlson is a U.S.-based columnist for The Globe and Mail. Just weeks after a discovery that could transform humble Arkansas into an unexpected...

23.11.2024 4

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With Trump’s return, suddenly TikTok no longer seems a national-security threat

Trump's turnaround on the high-profile TikTok issue could redefine what a national-security threat is in this context, even though the facts of the...

15.11.2024 2

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Is Subway not serving enough meat? New lawsuit shows how not to do marketing

Gus Carlson is a U.S.-based columnist for The Globe and Mail. If you are of a certain age, you may remember Wendy’s iconic 1980s advertising slogan,...

09.11.2024 10

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