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Rogers Communications Announces Voting Results from Annual General Meeting of Shareholders


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Solana Price Pump and ETF Launch Mark a Turning Point

Solana (SOL), one of the fastest-growing blockchain networks, has been making waves in April 2025 with a surge in network activity and the launch of a pioneering exchange-traded fund (ETF) in Canada. With over $120 million in liquidity bridged to the network and a 12% increase in total value locked (TVL), Solana is reasserting its dominance in decentralized finance (DeFi) and memecoin trading. But what’s driving this momentum, and could the new ETF signal broader institutional adoption? This article dives into the details and explores what’s next for Solana.

What’s Happening with Solana?

The Event: Network Surge and ETF Debut

In mid-April 2025, Solana experienced a significant influx of capital, with crypto investors bridging over $120 million in liquidity from competing blockchains like Ethereum and BNB Chain, according to data from deBridge. This follows a challenging period marked by the Argentina LIBRA memecoin scandal, which saw $485 million exit the network. Meanwhile, Solana’s TVL grew by 12% to $7.08 billion, positioning it as the second-largest blockchain by TVL, ahead of Tron and Base.

On April 16, 2025, the 3iQ Solana Staking ETF launched on the Toronto Stock Exchange, closing 3.4% higher at $10.34 on its debut day. This ETF, which allows investors to gain exposure to SOL’s price and staking rewards, marks a significant step toward mainstream adoption. Solana’s trading volume also soared by 32.76% to $4.37 billion, making it the fifth-most transacted cryptocurrency in a 24-hour period.

Who’s Involved?

Key players include Solana Labs, led by CEO Anatoly Yakovenko, who is advocating for a “correlated slashing” mechanism to enhance validator accountability. Institutional investors, such as Ark Invest, which has a known focus on Solana alongside Bitcoin and Ethereum, are also driving interest. Additionally, Janover, a U.S.-based fintech company, has doubled its Solana holdings to $21.2 million, aiming to become the largest corporate holder of SOL in the United States.

When and Where?

The liquidity surge and ETF launch occurred in April 2025, with the ETF debuting on April 16 on Canada’s Toronto Stock Exchange. The capital inflows were tracked over the past 30 days, primarily through cross-chain bridges to Solana’s ecosystem, which operates globally but has seen notable activity in North America and Asia.

Why the Surge?

Several factors are fueling Solana’s resurgence:

  • Network Performance: Solana’s Proof-of-History (PoH) consensus mechanism enables thousands of transactions per second at low costs, making it a preferred platform for DeFi and memecoin trading.
  • Memecoin Hype: Solana-based memecoins like Fartcoin and BONK have driven retail interest, with Fartcoin surging 50% in early April despite market downturns.
  • Institutional Interest: The ETF launch and investments from firms like Janover signal growing confidence in Solana’s long-term potential.
  • Technological Upgrades: Recent upgrades, including a fivefold increase in block processing speed and fourfold improvement in RPC performance, as reported by Coinbase, have bolstered Solana’s ecosystem.

How It Works

Solana’s blockchain leverages PoH alongside Proof-of-Stake (PoS) to achieve high throughput and energy efficiency, using roughly the same energy per transaction as a few Google searches. The ETF, managed by 3iQ, allows investors to stake SOL tokens indirectly, earning an 8.31% annualized return while tracking SOL’s price. The capital inflows are facilitated by cross-chain bridges, enabling assets to move seamlessly from Ethereum or BNB Chain to Solana’s DeFi protocols and decentralized exchanges (DEXs).

Background and Context

Solana, launched in 2020, has positioned itself as a faster, cheaper alternative to Ethereum, particularly for DeFi and non-fungible token (NFT) applications. Despite outages in 2022, Solana has improved its reliability and scalability, attracting developers and users. Its ecosystem includes high-profile projects like Boba Guys, which boosted sales by 67% through a Solana-powered loyalty program, and Homebase, which tokenized real estate on the blockchain.

However, Solana faced challenges earlier in 2025, including a 60% price drop from its January peak of $295, driven by fading memecoin hype and the LIBRA scandal. The recent recovery, supported by technical upgrades and institutional backing, suggests Solana is regaining its footing.

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Anatoly Yakovenko, Solana Labs CEO, emphasized the network’s focus on decentralization: “Our goal is to make Solana the world’s most censorship-resistant blockchain, and mechanisms like correlated slashing will ensure validator accountability.”

Raoul Pal, founder of Real Vision, remains bullish, predicting a potential 20x rally for Solana due to its “advanced blockchain technology and growing ecosystem.” However, some analysts caution that Solana’s high staking returns (8.31% vs. Ethereum’s 2.98%) may divert capital from DeFi, potentially stifling innovation. Tushar Jain of Multicoin Capital noted, “It’s not rational to invest in DeFi when staking offers a risk-free return.”

Visual Element: Solana’s TVL Growth

A line chart illustrating Solana’s TVL growth from January to April 2025 would enhance understanding. The chart could compare Solana’s $7.08 billion TVL to competitors like Ethereum ($31 billion) and BNB Chain ($6.1 billion), highlighting its rapid recovery post-LIBRA scandal. Data from DefiLlama would provide a credible source for this visual.

Analysis: Opportunities and Challenges

The ETF launch and liquidity surge signal Solana’s growing appeal to institutional and retail investors. The ETF could pave the way for similar products in the U.S., where firms like VanEck and 21Shares have filed applications, though approvals remain pending. Solana’s dominance in DEX volumes ($15.8 billion in a week, surpassing Ethereum’s scaling solutions) underscores its strength in trading activity.

However, challenges persist. Technical indicators, such as a bearish divergence in the Relative Strength Index (RSI), suggest SOL’s price may struggle to sustain gains above $130. Competition from Ethereum, Avalanche, and Cardano, which are also advancing their scalability, could threaten Solana’s market share. Additionally, reliance on memecoin hype raises questions about long-term sustainability.

Conclusion

Solana’s recent network surge and ETF launch mark a pivotal moment for the blockchain, reinforcing its position as a leader in DeFi and high-speed transactions. With institutional backing, technological upgrades, and a vibrant ecosystem, Solana is well-poised for growth. However, overcoming technical resistance, addressing DeFi stagnation, and navigating competitive pressures will be critical to sustaining this momentum. As Solana approaches key price levels like $180, the crypto community will be watching closely to see if it can reclaim its January highs—or chart a new path forward.

TFI International Reports on Shareholders’ Voting Results for the Election of Directors


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Cartier Resources Closes Offering with Paradigm Capital and Concurrent Offering for Aggregate Gross Proceeds of $11,398,596


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Tech shares boost TSX after Trump says he won’t fire Fed chair Powell

By Ragini Mathur

(Reuters) -Canada’s main stock index rose on Wednesday, with technology shares leading the charge, as investors welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump’s assurance that he would not fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX Composite Index climbed 1% to 24,535.52 points, its highest level since April 3.

Markets this week have grappled with worries about the Fed’s autonomy, as Trump intensified his criticism of Chairman Powell for maintaining current interest rates despite Trump’s vocal demands for cuts.

“Markets are not being controlled by fundamentals for now,” said Allan Small, senior investment advisor at Allan Small Financial Group with iA Private Wealth.

“It’s not based on fact, it’s primarily based on what comes out of the White House.”

Trump also said he wanted to reach a deal with China where tariffs would not be anywhere near 145%, adding that he would set the terms of a deal if Beijing did not enter talks.

Ten of the eleven major sectors on TSX gained on Wednesday with information technology shares leading the rise, up 5.7%.

E-commerce giant Shopify and electronics manufacturing services company Celestica were among the best performers on TSX.

Metal mining was the only sector that traded in the red after gold prices dipped as worries about global trade tensions eased. The sector was down 2.4%.

Yet NovaGold Resources topped the benchmark index gains by rising 14.2% and extending its previous session’s rise on buying a stake in the Donlin gold project in Alaska from Barrick Gold.

Heavy-weight financials were up 2%.

Among individual stocks, Rogers Communications posted lower-than-expected quarterly subscriber additions on Wednesday, as the wireless giant grapples with a pricing war and strict immigration practices. Its shares, however, were up 2.8%.

Looking ahead, Friday’s Canadian retail sales figures will shed light on consumer spending trends as the country navigates economic uncertainty surrounding U.S. tariffs.

(Reporting by Ragini Mathur in Bengaluru; Editing by Sahal Muhammed)

The PWHL has arrived in Vancouver, bringing hockey back to the Pacific Coliseum

The team doesn’t have a name yet, but the dream is now real for young Vancouver women’s hockey players. They have a team of their own.

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When 12-year-old Lauren Fraser walks out the front door in the morning on the way to school in east Vancouver, she gets a clear view of the Pacific Coliseum.

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Until Wednesday, seeing the old hockey barn that once served as home to the Vancouver Canucks and Giants was nothing special.

But now, after news that Vancouver is getting a PWHL team, the Coliseum is a now a dream.

Lauren is an avid hockey player. She’s on the Vancouver Angels U13 A1 team. And she’s thrilled that professional women’s hockey is coming full-time to Vancouver.

“It opens up space for girls hockey,” she said Tuesday morning, after finishing up an early-morning practice in Burnaby. “I’m pretty excited for it.”

Starting next fall, she’ll be able to walk to the rink and cheer on a team of her very own. The yet-to-be-named Vancouver entry into the Professional Women’s Hockey League will play their games at an upgraded Pacific Coliseum — the PNE is footing the bill for renovations, including a brand-new score board — and will also use the neighbouring Agrodome as a dedicated practice and training facility. Again, those renovations are being paid for by the city-owned PNE.

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That’s an extra-cool wrinkle to the story, Fraser figures. That’s where she and her teammates often play games. And now she’s dreaming that one day maybe she can take the big step up and find her way into the PWHL and play at the Coliseum.

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Lauren Fraser, right, pictured here with her brother Everett, is inspired and excited to have a PWHL team in her East Vancouver neighbourhood. Handout: Fraser family

Fraser and her teammates are exactly who the PWHL is hoping to inspire, Hockey Hall of Famer Jayna Hefford said. Hefford is the executive vice-president of hockey operations for the PWHL. She was on the Canadian team that won gold at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and was elated by the massive turnout at January’s Takeover Tour game at Rogers Arena between the Toronto Sceptres and Montreal Victoire. It drew the largest crowd to watch a hockey in Vancouver during the 2024-25 season.

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That’s a point that prompted Hefford to smile. It drew her back to 2010.

“The success we had at those games, and the success of hockey at those games and now we’re starting to see players play at the international level, on both the women’s team and the men’s team, really high level players coming out of the (Vancouver) area,” she said. “And you have to think they’re probably connected to the success that happened in 2010.”

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Professional Women’s Hockey League senior vice president of hockey operations Jayna Hefford speaks before the PWHL Toronto team opened the Toronto Stock Exchange in Toronto, Jan. 12, 2024. Photo by Cole Burston /THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Vancouver is the seventh team to join the PWHL, which just finished its second season. Already in the league are Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Boston, New York and Minnesota. It’s rumoured an eighth team will also join the circuit, likely in Seattle, but the PWHL isn’t commenting on that.

All teams in the league are owned centrally by American billionaire Mark Walter, who made his wealth in insurance and other investments. He owns the Los Angeles Dodgers and also has interests in motorsport, the Los Angeles Lakers and Sparks as well as Chelsea, among others.

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The Vancouver team will be launching a series of hosting camps, clinics and other events to build up connections with fans across the Lower Mainland.

Moving into the upgraded Coliseum presents a league first: it’s the first time a PWHL team will be able to call a dedicated arena solely their own. The Coliseum will still take bookings for concerts and ice shows and movie shoots, as it always has, but the primary tenant will be the PWHL team. This is their building, just as Rogers Arena is the Canucks’ or the Langley Events Centre is the Giants’.

“For us to be the primary tenant, I think was big and pretty cool,” explained Shefford’s colleague Amy Scheer, the PWHL’s executive vice-president of business operations. “When we start to think about game dates and playoffs it’s a nice factor for us to be first in line.”

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Scheer has a long track record of running professional sports teams, both men’s and women’s, in North America. She’s thrilled about the setup that’s coming together at the Coliseum and Agrodome.

“We are making significant upgrades to all of the player areas, the locker rooms, the coaches offices,” she explained. “Same for the Agrodome, building out a player area as well. So significant upgrades are happening to both venues.”

A new scoreboard will be installed by the PNE at the Pacific Coliseum and the broadcast technology in the building is being upgraded as well.

The team has no name but they’ve picked “pacific blue” as their primary colour and cream as the secondary colour. The Vancouver squad will have some sort of expansion draft, Hefford said, and they’ll be in the PWHL draft on June 24 as well. Hefford said last year 167 women put their names forward for the league draft, but just 42 were drafted.

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There’s a lot of spare talent out there.

“We’re not looking for an expansion team that’s going to build and take five years to be competitive,” she declared. “The priority for us is that they’re competitive on day one.”

Lauren’s dad Mike is a longtime hockey player himself. He got a little choked up explaining how thrilled he is about the PWHL launching.

“As a girl-dad, yeah, you know, you just want to see opportunities and role models for your kids,” he said. “This is giving the girls a dream that the boys already have — to play in the NHL. For girls, (the PWHL) just gives them this huge set of role models that they aspire to be like and cheer for and have their own team.”

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Mullen Group Ltd. Reports 2025 First Quarter Financial Results

OKOTOKS, Alberta, April 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — (TSX: MTL) Mullen Group Ltd. (“Mullen Group”, “We”, “Our” and/or the “Corporation”), one of Canada’s largest logistics providers today reported its financial and operating results for the period ended March 31, 2025, with comparisons to the same period last year.   Full details of our results may be found within our First Quarter Interim Report, which is available on the Corporation’s issuer profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca or on our website at www.mullen-group.com.

There were a number of newsworthy headlines in the first quarter of 2025, none that were either constructive or confidence builders, leaving both consumers and shippers uncertain about the future direction for the economy. The on again, off again, tariff issues quite simply restrict trade and stymies economic growth. It is within this backdrop that I am pleased with the performance of our 39 Business Units in the first quarter. Collectively, they managed some difficult circumstances, doing well to generate results very close to last year’s levels. And, as we have articulated for some time now, we know that acquisitions are the only plausible way to grow given the current market dynamics. This is precisely the case again in the first quarter of 2025. In fact, the acquisitions we completed last year provided the growth in revenues during the current quarter. Our job now is to leverage these new opportunities into profitable businesses. It is then that our shareholders will benefit from the investments we have made,” commented Mr. Murray K. Mullen, Chair and Senior Executive Officer.

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Equities Jump In First Hour

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Canada’s main stock index opened higher on Tuesday, recovering from previous session’s steep decline, but investor sentiment remains cautious following U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
The TSX Composite Index screamed higher 292.91 points, or 1.2%, to 24,301.77
The Canadian dollar was flat at 72.24 cents U.S.
The Toronto Stock Exchange fell on Monday, snapping its five-day winning streak, as investors were jittery after U.S. President Donald Trump’s scathing attack on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates.
The president called Powell a “major loser” in a social media post on Monday, which raised concerns about the independence of the central bank.
In corporate news, a U.S. appeals court on Monday revived a proposed data privacy class action against Shopify, whose shares began Tuesday up $2.18, or 1.9%, to $115.10.
Economically speaking, Statistics Canada said its March Industrial Product Price Index rose 0.5% month over month in and increased 4.7% year over year.
The same month, its Raw Materials Price Index declined 1.0% month over month in and grew 3.9% year over year.
ON BAYSTREET
The TSX Venture Exchange recovered 6.33 points, or 1%, to 637.25.
All 12 subgroups were higher in the first hour, led by health-care, zooming 3.3%, while energy soared 1.6% and financials were richer 1.5%.
ON WALLSTREET
Stocks rose Tuesday as traders tried to recover following a rough day on Wall Street, as President Donald Trump’s latest criticism of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hurt sentiment.
The Dow Jones Industrials recovered 696.58 points, or 1.8%, to 38,866.99.
The S&P index climbed 89.69 points, or 1.1%, to 5,247.89
The NASDAQ Composite spiked 315.2 points, or 2%, to 16,186.10
Tesla shares rose 3% ahead of the company’s first-quarter report after the bell. Netflix climbed 4%, while Meta improved 1% and Amazon advanced 2%. Manufacturing conglomerate 3M rose 6% on the back of better-than-expected earnings, leading the blue-chip Dow higher.
Tuesday’s action comes on the heels of a sharp selloff. The Dow dropped more than 970 points in the regular session, while the S&P 500 and NASDAQ both slid more than 2%. Monday marked the fourth straight losing session for the Dow and NASDAQ.
Investors grew increasingly uncertain after Trump posted on Truth Social that the economy would slow if the Fed did not cut interest rates. In the latest of multiple recent posts calling out Powell by name, he called the Fed chief“Mr. Too Late” and a“major loser.”
Trump hinted at Powell’s“termination” last week, an unprecedented action that White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett said the president’s team was currently studying. Powell has said he cannot be fired under law and intends to serve through the end of his term in May 2026.
Prices for the 10-year Treasury regained strength Tuesday, raising yields to 4.39% from Monday’s 4.41%. Treasury prices and yields in opposite directions.
Oil prices forged ahead $1.02 to $64.10 U.S. a barrel.
Prices for gold popped $18.00 to $3,443.30 U.S.

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