Canadian food bank use hits 2.3 million monthly visits due to grocery costs: report - Castanet

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demonstrates Muse, Meta's artificial intelligence agent, during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, Sept. 23, 2026. Minh Connors | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMeta is slated to report third-quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday, and investors will be looking for signs that the company's latest artificial intelligence efforts will bolster future sales. Here's what analysts polled by LSEG are expecting:  Earnings per share: $5.75Revenue: $63.2 billionIt's been a big quarter for Mark Zuckerberg's company due to the initial success of the Muse AI personal assistant tool that debuted in September and shot to the top of Apple's iOS app store. That AI momentum helped Meta end September with its best month on Wall Street since 2022. Meta isn't the first to create a digital assistant that can organize people's email and scan the web for headphone deals, but the company's empire, which includes Facebook and Instagram, has helped introduce AI agents to the masses.

Elon Musk has pledged to give one SpaceX share to every child in the United States next year – a gift that could be worth more than $10bn. “This will be the first of many,” the world’s richest man wrote on X on Monday. About 73 million children under 18 live in the US, according to US Census Bureau data. At Friday’s closing price of $146.03, the pledge would be worth about $10.7bn. President Donald Trump thanked Musk on his Truth Social platform, and claimed the shares would be given to children “through TRUMP ACCOUNTS”, the tax-friendly investment accounts for children created under his signature tax and spending law last year. The pledge comes two weeks before the November 3 midterm elections. Musk is the biggest known donor in the run-up to those elections, having given more than $276m to Republican groups since July. Musk has not said which children will qualify, when the shares will be handed over, or how. So how might the giveaway work, and who stands to gain? Here’s what you need to know:SpaceX, the world’s seventh-largest company, began trading on the Nasdaq in June at an initial public offering price of $135 per share. That price has been volatile. SpaceX shares have

Cyberattacks on fridges in French supermarkets spark food security fears Millions of dollars' worth of food has been thrown out in France, where fridges in hundreds of supermarkets were targeted by cyberattacks. As Heidi Petracek explains, it's highlighting just how vulnerable critical food systems can be in Canada and around the world – Oct 13, 2026