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PCO clerk Sabia stayed on Mastercard Foundation board for a year with no conflict screen
The charity has met with several government figures during Michael Sabia’s tenure as Canada top civil servant, but says he was not involved -
Alberta wants to be a model for government AI and power Canada-wide adoption
The province has built its own AI tools to modernize its technology systems, and has open sourced the whole stack so that other public services and firms can do the same -
Canadian firms are ready to help with digital sovereignty. Their challenge is getting approved
Montreal software company Nakisa spent 18 months documenting its security practices to qualify for contracts—a journey others will find long and costly, its CEO warns
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Business
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Canada bets on graphite as allies scramble for critical minerals
Officials are touting graphite’s potential for national defence operations, as well as its role in the energy grid -
Canada’s ETF industry is almost a trillion-dollar business
Investors are piling into Canadian ETFs, with actively managed ETFs more than quadrupling in value since 2020 -
A niche white-collar role is becoming the AI industry’s hot new job
Tech companies are sending developers into clients’ offices to build bespoke AI systems, blurring the line between software vendor and consultant -
Banks must share account numbers and product data under draft open banking rules
The proposed rules don’t include a launch date, adding to the evidence that open banking won’t go live in 2026 as promised -
Smaller VCs face $1.6B fundraising gap as capital gets stuck at the top
Five venture funds captured 80 per cent of all fundraising in Canada last year, according to RBCx data, making it harder for emerging managers and the startups they back to raise capital
National
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Canada’s submarine decision just paid off for Nova Scotia’s spaceport
A German rocket maker signed a 10-year deal with Maritime Launch Services the day after Canada picked TKMS to build its subs -
The $100B bet Canada is putting on European submarines
Ottawa chose NATO allies Germany and Norway over a South Korean bid that promised vehicle plants, rockets and an LNG platform -
Smith and Ford revive push for a west-to-east oil pipeline
The proposed route would run from the Alberta oilpatch to Sarnia, Ont. Skeptics are already raising concerns. -
Feds move to help small firms with new Buy Canadian rules
Cash-starved Innovative Solutions Canada program will get new money under the next phase of Buy Canadian -
Canadian pensions should fund rival projects in Alaska, says key U.S. Arctic official
Canada is not putting the “same emphasis” on developing resources in the North as the U.S. is in Alaska, according to U.S. Arctic Research Commission chair Thomas Dans
Tech
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Meta to spend $13B on sprawling Alberta data-centre complex
The province says it has learned from the conflicts that mega-sized AI data centres have attracted in other places -
Zero Point Cryogenics wants to freeze the quantum world
On an industrial lot in Edmonton, next to a Nerf-battle birthday venue, one firm is building the near-absolute zero freezers the quantum industry desperately needs -
What happened when a VC firm let AI do almost everything
Ripple Ventures built an AI system that allowed its four-person team to do the work of 100. Rival firms are taking note. -
Canada joins the movement to make AI more open source
As allies and major tech players work together on systems without strings, Ottawa wants to lead international efforts and boost domestic adoption -
Alberta to free up a huge amount of power to attract Big Tech and its data centres
New rules would provide 1.6 gigawatts to “large-load” users that agree to build their own power sources, stepping up the province’s pursuit of AI data centres
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The Big Read
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What Alberta’s corporate heavyweights really think about separation
Predictions of capital flight and the loss of head offices loomed large in Canada’s past secession debates. In Alberta, executives who spoke to The Logic had a different take.
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How Sheldon McCormick brought Communitech back from the brink
The former Uber executive and startup founder inherited a tech hub struggling to stay relevant. His turnaround effort could offer a model for what startup organizations look like in the age of AI. -
Mining the moon. Selling nuclear reactors. For this Canadian, it’s all part of the plan
In the throes of a pandemic-fuelled midlife crisis, Daniel Sax founded a company to mine the moon. Now he has federal space contracts, and wants to power the Arctic with microreactors. -
Canada’s AI boom is about to collide with a major labour shortage
From data centres to housing, ports and pipelines, there’s a lot to build. The problem is there aren’t enough skilled tradespeople to do the building.
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