The company said the 600,000-square-foot warehouse in Parkland County will be its first in the province to use its robotics technology and should open in 2022. (The Logic)

Talking point: The company introduced robotics into its warehouses starting in 2012. The first in Canada opened in Brampton, Ont. in 2016. As of 2020, Amazon had 16 warehouses in Canada either open or underway, as well as two sortation centres and 15 delivery stations. The company has been growing rapidly during the pandemic, expanding its ability to fulfill orders quickly as onlines sales boomed. The uptick in sales prompted more concerns around worker safety and increased efforts to unionize Amazon’s distribution and logistics workers. Most recently, the Teamsters union voted to help the company’s workers in the U.S. and Canada join its ranks. Amazon’s presence in Alberta is expanding beyond just delivery operations. It recently announced two investments in renewable-energy projects in the province.