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Ottawa named six Canadian suppliers for up to $50 million in drone contracts. Its own backgrounder shows two of the six platforms are made in Britain.

Google will estimate Canadians’ ages from search and YouTube history. Canada’s own privacy guidance says age systems should not be built to find children.

Quebec City’s Micrologic raised $45 million from a labour fund and the province’s investment arm, but Quebec’s own digital sovereignty policy binds no one.

The U.S. took minority stakes in D-Wave, Rigetti and Quantinuum for $100 million US each. Ottawa’s own equity fund exists, but it is scoped to AI, not quantum.

Apple’s Sept. 9 event brought Canadian pricing for the iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max and folding iPhone Duo, plus quiet price hikes of up to $450 on the iPhone 17 lineup the same day.

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.

Protein Industries Canada is putting up to $2.2 million into two farm AI projects. Spreading fungicide resistance in Saskatchewan is why spray timing matters.

Canada’s counter-tariffs hit phones and game consoles at 50 per cent as of Tuesday. Almost none of those devices are American in origin, so the rate may not bite.

Co.Labs opens AI training to non-tech firms across Saskatchewan as Statistics Canada data puts rural business AI use at 9.9 per cent, half the urban rate.

U.S. private venture funds invested $808 million in Canadian companies in H1 2026, more than Canada’s private, government and corporate funds combined.