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Ottawa’s Responsible Data Centre Development Principles, signed by 23 firms on Sept. 3, are voluntary. Provinces and municipalities still hold the approval power.

Ottawa named ex-Google CFO Patrick Pichette to lead Digital Transformation Canada, which absorbs Shared Services Canada and a federal IT backlog auditors flagged.

Protein Industries Canada put $2.2 million into two farm AI projects on Sept. 2. Statistics Canada says agriculture has Canada’s lowest AI adoption rate.

Ottawa’s AI transparency consultation closes Sept. 23, 2026. Canada has had no AI statute since AIDA died in January 2025, leaving businesses a patchwork.

Protein Industries Canada is putting $2.2 million into AI for pulse disease forecasting and grain bin scanning. The problems both target are bigger than the cheque.

Co.Labs launched AI adoption training for non-tech firms this week. Statistics Canada data puts rural business AI use at 9.9 per cent, against 21 per cent in cities.

Ottawa’s AI transparency consultation closes Sept. 23. Its own discussion paper says most large Canadian firms lost profit to AI-powered fraud.

SOCAN filed a Federal Court claim against AI music generator Suno on Sept. 2, alleging outputs streamed in Canada replicate songs by its members.

Regina-based cluster commits up to $2.2M to AI for Ascochyta blight forecasting and LiDAR grain-bin scanning, as strobilurin resistance raises the stakes on spray timing.

Twenty-three AI, cloud and telecom companies have signed Canada’s Responsible Data Centre Development Principles, a federal framework that asks operators not to shift electricity costs onto other ratepayers. It carries no binding definitions and no penalties, and the AI minister says provinces are the ones who can add legislative teeth.