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Ottawa launched its National AI Literacy Initiative in Edmonton on Wednesday, built around post-secondary campuses. StatCan data shows the adoption gap sits mostly off campus.
Ottawa’s one-time $150 Canada Disability Benefit supplement lands this month. It only reaches people already approved, and Alberta still claws back the rest.
Ottawa committed $405 million to the Mackenzie Valley Highway on Sept. 8, 2026. The money covers one bridge, one access road and completion of an environmental assessment running since 2013, not a highway. The Northwest Territories estimates roughly a decade of construction for the 321-kilometre Wrigley to Norman Wells leg alone.
Canada’s biggest news websites are CBC News, CTV News, Global News, the Globe and Mail, the National Post and the Toronto Star. There is no single biggest in every sense: CBC has the largest newsroom and reach, the Globe and Mail carries the most authority on business and politics, and regional papers still break most local stories first.
Carolina signed defenceman Pierre-Olivier Joseph to a one-year, $850,000 deal Tuesday. Brother Mathieu is on a one-year deal in Edmonton. They meet Oct. 22.
The European Union and Canada are preparing a partnership spanning trade, defence, raw materials and space, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, with the plan expected to be unveiled in Strasbourg on Sept. 16.
Transat reports Thursday after $175 million in extra fuel costs over two quarters. Ottawa is now its lender, its creditor and a 19.9 per cent shareholder.
Trump signed proclamations Tuesday barring Canadian alcohol, whey and large motorcycles from the U.S. market as of Sept. 29, using a 1930 law that cuts off access rather than raising prices.
Tamarack Valley Energy and Headwater Exploration will merge in an all-stock deal valued at about $10 billion, creating the largest publicly traded producer in Alberta’s Clearwater oil play.
Affordability improved for a record 10th straight quarter in Q2 2026. National Bank data shows the entire gain came from falling prices, not cheaper rates.












