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Internal records obtained by the Toronto Star show iGaming Ontario, the government agency responsible for online gambling, secretly shelved a research study intended to track rates of problem gambling in the province. The government agency responsible for online gambling in Ontario secretly shelved a research study intended to track rates of problem gambling in the province.iGaming Ontario commissioned the study in the months before the province launched its regulated online market for sports betting and casino games in April 2022. The agency had vowed to make the research public, saying it would establish a baseline for problem gambling in Ontario while informing how they tailored their responsible gambling program.

"If you can't raise a dog, you cannot run an office. "That was the message Nico Laqua, cofounder and CEO of buzzy insurance startup Corgi, sent to staff in the New York office about one of the company's short-legged mascots. A vet had told the employees that the puppy, Hamilton, should not be outside because he wasn't fully vaccinated, so they were using pee pads in the office. After Laqua, based in San Francisco, heard that workers were not walking Hamilton, he laid down the law in a July 19 missive. "Buying pee pads of any sort for Hamilton is a fireable office [sic], on the spot," he wrote in the message. Those who refused to take the corgi to the street should book a one-on-one. "The best case scenario for this meeting will be a PIP," he said, using shorthand for the disciplinary process known as a performance improvement plan. It's hard to imagine this kind of C-suite drama playing out at Liberty Mutual, Berkshire Hathaway, or other giants of the buttoned-up commercial underwriting industry. But Corgi is decidedly not your granddaddy's insurance company. The CEO is loudly online, bragging his way across X while communicating with his staff on the messaging app Telegram.

A group of Nova Scotians gathered on the waterfront in Halifax on Saturday with a message for Premier Tim Houston: allowing the construction of a large data centre will be detrimental to the environment and the community. “These companies don’t have a lot of information that they’re able to give us, we don’t know what this is gonna look like, we already have wells that are drying up in the summertime. I don’t think we can afford to do this,” Megan Boudreau, one of the protest organizers, told Global News. Energy and infrastructure company, EverWind, announced on Friday $10 billion in private investment in a data centre campus at its existing Point Tupper site. The site would be leased and run by AI development company Anthropic, the creator of the AI assistant Claude. “Canadians are using Claude in growing numbers, and we want our infrastructure to be closer to the people who rely on it,” said Jacob Glick, head of Canada Public Policy with Anthropic. Story continues below advertisement