# Bidding war ↖️ -   The battle to sell Canada new submarines, A short selling scheme blows up. Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peak-daily-3379374/bidding-war-the-battle-to-sell-canada-new-submarines-a-short-selling-scheme-blows-up Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peak-daily-3379374/bidding-war-the-battle-to-sell-canada-new-submarines-a-short-selling-scheme-blows-up.md Podcast: [The Peak Daily](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peak-daily-3379374) Published: 2026-06-04T09:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/ae81116b Audio file: https://op3.dev/e/media.transistor.fm/ae81116b/095fcf60.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-peak-daily-3379374/episodes/bidding-war-the-battle-to-sell-canada-new-submarines-a-short-selling-scheme-blows-up Duration seconds: 515 ## Resource Canada’s coming submarine super-deal turns into a full-on bidding war as South Korea dangles “Project Beaver” — a massive hydrogen-trucking investment — to win a 12-sub contract potentially worth $120B over 70 years. Plus, famous short seller Andrew Left is found guilty of securities fraud in a “short-and-distort” scheme, raising fresh questions about market manipulation in the social media era. In The Big Picture: a proposed new U.S. tariff on Canada tied to forced-labour imports, Ottawa backs off its Cancon streamer rules, and Meta launches an AI agent for businesses. The Peak Daily is produced in partnership with reframevid.com ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-peak-daily-3379374/episodes/bidding-war-the-battle-to-sell-canada-new-submarines-a-short-selling-scheme-blows-up/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peak-daily-3379374/bidding-war-the-battle-to-sell-canada-new-submarines-a-short-selling-scheme-blows-up.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.