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AI giants sign federal pledge that Canadian data centres will bring benefits
Anthropic, Bell, Cohere, Google and Meta are among the 23 signatories of Ottawa’s accord that promises their compute facilities won’t raise power prices or waste water -
Macklem keeps benchmark interest rate at 2.25% as trade war heats up
Canada’s economic recovery continues despite new tariffs and the war in Iran, the Bank of Canada says—but it’s looking fragile
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Business
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Canada’s Big Six shrug off the impacts of the trade war
U.S. loan growth is helping offset softer Canadian lending, as the banks build reserves for tariff risks -
Thomson Reuters launches its own AI model to reduce reliance on big tech
The large language model, dubbed Thomson, will be an early test of whether domain-specific AI can compete with the likes of Anthropic and OpenAI -
Canadian investors are dumping U.S. government debt for American corporate bonds
Concerns over U.S. fiscal policy and a surge in AI-related borrowing are reshaping Canadian investors’ portfolios, economists say -
Canada’s businesses brace for the impact of new tariffs as hopes for a deal vanish for now
New U.S. tariffs target everything from industrial machinery makers to small clothing makers -
For decades, lawyers hustled to make partner. AI is changing that
Internal tech roles at Big Law firms are no longer relegated to support staff, as senior lawyers are tapped to design agentic AI tools
National
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Canada-U.K. digital trade is set to grow under new phase of Pacific Rim trade pact
Rules that take effect Tuesday make it easier for British and Canadian tech firms to do business in each other’s countries -
Canada’s counter-tariffs would hit the Prairies hard, trade data shows
Analysis by The Logic finds the share of U.S. imports hit by the retaliatory duties would be highest in Manitoba and Saskatchewan -
U.S. industry leaders plead for truce as tariff fight escalates
While politicians upped the ante on social media, business leaders called for negotiators to return to the table with cooler heads -
Canada fires back at Trump with tariffs on nearly $28B worth of U.S. goods
Ottawa slaps counter-tariffs on products ranging from lipstick to motorcycles, while promising $7.5 billion worth of relief for businesses and workers -
Automakers warn Trump’s 50% tariffs would be ‘devastating’
Industry stakeholders say doubling tariffs on Canadian vehicles and potentially extending them to parts would have a sizable impact on both sides of the border
Tech
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Meissner gets big-name backing to use AI in hunt for new superconductors
The Toronto startup is aiming to track down metallic alloys that could become superconductors. Prominent Canadian tech executives have already invested in its hunt. -
Xanadu gets $195M from federal government to build a quantum computer factory in Toronto
The company is building a packaging and assembly facility in a former soup plant -
The Creative Destruction Lab is using data to reveal what makes startups successful
The non-profit is combing more than a decade of data from its network of firms and venture capitalists to help researchers better understand what works -
Canadian universities are still struggling to commercialize their research, new data shows
Canadian research institutions filed more patents and launched more startups in 2025. The flurry of activity has led to a fall, rather than an increase, in commercial returns. -
Anthropic wants to add ‘gigawatts’ of AI compute in Canada
The Claude maker is hiring local staff to lead data-centre development and community relations, starting in Alberta
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The Big Read
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The $20B risk at the heart of Carney and Smith’s grand pipeline bargain
The oilpatch once called Ottawa’s pipeline-for-Pathways bargain “unfinanceable.” Now the industry seems to be changing its mind.
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Meet Canada’s leading innovators from the Class of 2026
From AI and space exploration to sustainable mining and accessible technology, this year’s Top Prospects are building the ideas and innovations that could shape Canada’s future -
Inside Bell’s all-Canadian plan to power the country’s AI future
The telecom giant is spending big to develop the infrastructure and services it hopes will power a national AI boom. Will the country buy into its vision? -
The small team in Montreal trying to save the world from AI
LawZero is a humble non-profit with a startup vibe and a core of determined staff. Its quest to create safe AI is anything but modest.
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