The Canadian advertising market has been in turmoil for some years, with local broadcasters and online media players cutting jobs and losing market share amid shifting advertising demand, marketing budget cuts and U.S. streaming giants with ad tiers increasingly dominating the domestic media space, The Hollywood Reporter reported. But now that volatility has reached the Canadian podcasting business, with news The Podcast Exchange, a Toronto-based advertising reseller and branded content producer, has signaled it may seek bankruptcy protection.

More than 34,000 Quebec households filed for insolvencies, which includes bankruptcies, from June 2024 to May 2025, according to the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy (OSB), the Montreal City News reported. That’s equivalent to 94 families in financial distress every day. This represents a 4.7 per cent increase — or 1,546 more cases — from the same time period last year. While this number is slightly lower than the national average, Quebec consumers outrank other provinces with the increase of bankruptcies filed in the past year.

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware has issued an order holding Byju’s founder, Byju Raveendran, in civil contempt for failing to comply with earlier court orders related to limited expedited discovery, The Economic Times reported. “This court has personal jurisdiction over Raveendran,” it said in an order on Monday. The court has further directed Raveendran to comply with the discovery orders. “Raveendran shall remit to the clerk of court the sum of $10,000 for each day he remains in contempt of the orders,” it said.

Walk down the aisles of a Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods Market in the U.S., and chances are many of the piles of oranges, lemons, limes and grapefruit will be labeled “Produce of South Africa,” Bloomberg reported. They have become a staple in the U.S. — the world’s largest citrus importer — especially during the off-season summer months when in the southern hemisphere the South African winter harvest is at its peak. But now, those supplies are threatened by a potential 31% tariff President Donald Trump has slapped on the country.

The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it would seek to limit Chinese and foreign purchases of American farmland, citing a threat to national security, the New York Times reported. In a seven-point national security plan, the Agriculture Department said it would enhance public disclosures of foreign ownership of farmland, enact steeper penalties for false filings and work with Congress and states to ban purchases from foreign adversaries.

Fewer Canadians are shopping for U.S. homes, new data shows, amid anecdotes that President Trump’s tariff and immigration policies have put off home buyers from across the border, Mansion Global reported. The number of Canadians house hunting in the U.S. via Redfin plunged more than 26% in May compared to a year ago. Overall searches on the listing site took a very slight dip that month, but the decline was nowhere near enough to explain the large dropoff in Canadian shoppers, according to a report from Redfin on Monday.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday set a 25% tax on goods imported from Japan and South Korea, as well as new tariff rates on a dozen other nations that would go into effect on Aug. 1, the Associated Press reported. Trump provided notice by posting letters on Truth Social that were addressed to the leaders of the various countries. The letters warned them to not retaliate by increasing their own import taxes, or else the Trump administration would further increase tariffs.