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Terry Fox Research Institute is funding 14 Canadian AI health projects chosen from over 200 proposals, with a second call for applications set for fall 2026.

Three funds worth US$2.5B launched in one week at Carney’s investment summit, racing to keep Canadian AI firms from selling abroad or relocating south.

Ottawa and Berlin are putting up to $300M into Yoshua Bengio’s Montreal AI safety nonprofit, filling a gap critics flagged in Canada’s AI strategy.

OpenAI says Canada is an obvious place to look for data centre capacity, but Alberta has allocated its full 1,200 MW cap and Quebec is rationing power.

Toronto Pearson is running four Air Canada face-scan boarding gates. The federal privacy law that covers them was written in 2000 and still has not changed.

BDC will put $1 billion of its $6-billion Defence Platform into defence tech funds and startups, nine months after launching it. Only $700 million is itemized.

Photonic proposes a $500M shared Canadian chip plant, 17 days after rival Xanadu signed a $195M federal deal for its own. Two models, one gap.

Cohere’s Aidan Gomez says the AI slowdown push by Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI is cartel behaviour. Canada, meanwhile, has had no binding AI law since 2025.

Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez is opposing a proposal by leading U.S. AI labs to coordinate on the pace of development under an antitrust waiver, calling it a cartel. His essay also says he supports independent testing of advanced systems.

Bell Canada will add up to 900 megawatts of AI data centre capacity in Saskatchewan under a non-binding agreement announced Monday in Toronto, but has not named a single new project and says construction starts only once customers sign on.