Ontario Backs $1.3-Billion Push to Offload GTA’s Condo Glut as Rentals
Ontario’s provincial infrastructure bank and a private investment firm announced March 10 a $1.3-billion fund to buy unsold condominiums across the Greater Toronto Area and convert them into long-term rentals — with a slice set aside as permanently affordable housing. The deal pairs High Art Capital with the Building Ontario Fund, a Crown agency the […]
New $35M Prediction Market Fund Backed By Rivals Polymark, Kalshi Execs
Prediction markets are now mature enough to attract specialized venture capital, and investment firm 5c(c) Capital’s launch signals that investors are no longer just backing the exchanges themselves. According to an investment document viewed by Bloomberg News, the new firm is launching with support from a broad roster of prominent investors, including Polymarket founder Shayne […]
Musk’s Starlink Stumbles Again In Africa As Namibia Says No
Namibia rejected Starlink’s request to operate satellite internet services in the country, denying the Elon Musk-backed company both a telecommunications service licence and access to radio spectrum. The refusal blocks Starlink’s planned nationwide rollout through its local unit, Starlink Internet Services Namibia, and marks the company’s second regulatory setback in southern Africa after failing to […]
Iran Denies Trump’s Talk Claims; Israel Strikes Anew During US Pause
The current US/Israel war against Iran seems to be diverging in multiple ways: President Donald Trump said Washington and Tehran have reached “major points of agreement” and paused planned US strikes on Iranian power plants for five days, while Iran denied any talks took place and Israel launched a new wide-scale strike package across Tehran. […]
EU Antitrust Watchdog Opens Broad AI Stack Probes — Cloud, Data, and Chatbot Markets All in Scope
The European Commission is targeting nearly every layer of the artificial intelligence value chain — cloud infrastructure, training data, and chatbot distribution — in a wave of parallel antitrust investigations that regulators say is designed to prevent any single company from locking up the emerging AI ecosystem before competition law can catch up. “We are […]
Ukraine Strikes Russia’s Largest Baltic Oil Port in Escalating Energy War
Ukrainian drones hit the port of Primorsk on the Baltic Sea early Monday, setting fuel tanks ablaze at Russia’s most important crude export hub in the region and forcing an evacuation of port personnel, Russian authorities said. Leningrad region Governor Alexander Drozdenko confirmed the attack in a Telegram post, saying firefighters were battling the blaze […]
Gold’s Worst Losing Streak in Three Years Is a Paper Market Story, Not a Physical One
Gold has now fallen for nine consecutive sessions — its longest losing streak since 2023 — trading near $4,250 as of Monday. Silver has tracked even lower, sliding to around $65 per ounce. What the price charts don’t show is who wasn’t selling. Read: Gold Sheds Nearly $400 in Two Sessions as Hawkish Fed and […]
Who’s Betting on an Iran Ceasefire — and What Do They Know?
Weeks after an anonymous Polymarket account called “Magamyman” collected more than $553,000 betting on the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader, a new cluster of coordinated wallets has drawn fresh scrutiny — this time on ceasefire contracts. Blockchain watchers flagged 10 newly created wallets that loaded more than $160,000 into contracts predicting a US-Iran ceasefire by […]
Coeur Mining Updates 2026 Guidance After New Gold Acquisition Closes
Coeur Mining (TSX: CDE) updated its 2026 outlook after completing its acquisition of New Gold. The combined company now guiding to 680,000 to 815,000 ounces of gold, 18.68 million to 21.93 million ounces of silver, and 50 million to 65 million pounds of copper in 2026, reflecting nine months of contribution from New Afton and […]
Liberty Gold Offloads Goldstrike Project For US$72.5 Million To Heliostar
Liberty Gold (TSX: LGD) is cleaning up its portfolio to focus on its most promising asset, with the company this morning announcing that it is offloading its Goldstrike Project in southern Utah to Heliostar Metals (TSXV: HSTR) for total consideration of US$72.5 million. The deal provides the precious metals developer with non-dilutive capital over a […]