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Privacy, AI rules, streaming and news laws, digital taxes.
- Daily Briefing
Jensen Huang quits Nvidia, instant payments go live, and Microsoft 365 goes dark
The week in Canadian tech: Huang's exit and our pensions, Real-Time Rail's first eight, a two-day Outlook outage, Bill C-22, Xplore, Rogers and Blue J.
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Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia. What we know, what's alleged, and what it means for Canada
A timeline of the scandal that ended Huang's 33 years running Nvidia, separating what's confirmed from what's reported, plus the stakes for Canadian pensions and AI companies.
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Rogers' rivals take its Monday Night Hockey exclusive to the CRTC. Here's how to watch for now
Cogeco, Eastlink and SaskTel say making Monday games a Sportsnet+ exclusive breaks a Rogers-Shaw merger condition. What it costs to watch in the meantime.
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Canada and Cohere signed a Paris pledge on AI safety. Here's what it actually commits them to
Six governments and ten AI companies promised shared testing, clearer liability and shutdown switches. Nothing in it is binding, and Canada still has no AI-specific law.
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What Bill C-22 would actually require, and why Signal says it would rather leave Canada
The lawful access bill is now before the Senate. We read the text: what it asks of apps and carriers, what it says about encryption, and who says they'd pull out.
- Daily Briefing
Apple faces a B.C. class action, Ottawa's $25B fund gets a CEO, and GTA 6 preloads
A B.C. court lets a search-ad class action against Apple proceed, the Canada Strong Fund gets a CEO, Brampton's plant goes to Roshel, and an SSH bug to patch.
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Instagram will now guess your teen's age in Canada too. Here's what changes
Meta is expanding its AI age estimation worldwide, moving teens who claim to be adults into Teen Accounts. What that means for families in Canada.
- Daily Briefing
Instant payments go live, Nvidia's board investigates Jensen Huang, and the budget's media money
Real-Time Rail launches, Nvidia opens a probe into its CEO, the budget's $1.5 billion for news and culture, a new online regulator, and an Apple gift card payout.
- Daily Briefing
What the budget means for tech, instant payments arrive Monday, and Meta may bring back news
Budget 2026's startup tax break and $0 fraud liability, Real-Time Rail goes live, Meta hints news could return to Canada, and a Bose battery recall.
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Budget 2026 for tech: a startup tax break, $0 fraud liability and 500 MW of AI computing
Everything in the federal budget for tech, startups, AI, telecom and your bank account, with what it costs and when it takes effect.
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Federal Budget 2026: live coverage of the tech, AI and telecom measures
Budget 2026 brings a capital gains break for startups, a wider SR&ED credit, $0 fraud liability for bank customers and 500 MW of AI computing. Our live updates.
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Unifor wants to unionize Amazon's Ontario warehouses. Here's what it would take
Unifor is targeting thousands of Amazon workers in the GTA. Only two Amazon warehouses anywhere are unionized, and Ontario's rules add an extra step.
- Daily Briefing
Budget day, AMD's $2.9-billion Taalas price tag, and a $20-million phone scam in Edmonton
The federal budget lands at 4 p.m., AMD prices its Toronto chip deal, Gemini starts shopping for Canadians, Unifor targets Amazon, and Edmonton police bust a phone scam.
- Daily Briefing
Shopify misses, Hydro-Québec warns of a power shortfall, and how Binance got robbed
Shopify's first revenue miss in four years, Hydro-Québec sees a deficit from 2029, a First Nation takes on Wonder Valley, and Binance explains its $6.3-billion hack.
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Telesat faces a $2.3-billion debt deadline in December, and its lenders want Lightspeed
The FT reports Telesat's lenders are pushing for first claim on Lightspeed, Canada's planned Starlink alternative, if it can't pay. An analyst warns it could default.
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AI data centres want Canada's electricity. Who pays for the power?
Alberta, Quebec, Ontario and B.C. all promise data centres will pay their own way. They have four very different plans for making sure of it, and the details matter for your bill.
- Daily Briefing
A budget 'about entrepreneurs,' big banks block AI agents, and Apple's record quarter
Champagne previews Thursday's budget, four big banks shut out personal AI agents, Apple posts a record September quarter, and Microsoft trips on Western Canada's clocks.
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Supercomputers, instant payments and a data cable: what's in the Canada-EU tech deal
Friday's Canada-EU alliance gives Canadian researchers access to a European supercomputer now. Most of the rest is still talks and studies.
- Daily Briefing
Canada joins Europe's supercomputers, Carney on Starlink, and the FBI names Binance's hackers
Canada gets access to Europe's supercomputers, Carney warns about relying on Starlink, the FBI blames North Korea for the Binance theft, and smart clocks miss the time change.
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Rogers must pay $15 million over 'unlimited' data ads. Here's what that means for you
The Competition Tribunal sided with the Bureau over Rogers' Infinite plans. No refunds were ordered, and Rogers is weighing its next steps.
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Ottawa's telecom roadmap promises cheaper phone and internet bills. Here's what's in it
Industry Minister Mélanie Joly's first Telecom Competition Roadmap lists actions on networks, fees, spectrum and switching. It doesn't set deadlines or price targets.
- Daily Briefing
Midweek roundup: a touchscreen Mac, a $13.8-billion Wealthsimple, and ChatGPT's favourite newsroom
The week so far in Canadian tech, five stories we haven't covered yet, and the odd and funny bits worth knowing about.
- Daily Briefing
BioWare closes, Rogers adds a credit card fee, and Tenstorrent raises $1.5 billion
The week in Canadian tech: EA shuts its Edmonton studio, Rogers bills get a 1.6% card fee, Ottawa details its VC money and proposes stablecoin rules.
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NDP leader Avi Lewis says BioWare's developers should get to buy their studio
After EA shut the Edmonton studio, Lewis called for federal support to help its workers take it over. Ottawa has been quiet.
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Ontario takes another run at digital ID, and promises it'll stay optional
Consultations start this year on a phone-based Photo Card first, with driver's licences and health cards to follow, plus a law protecting physical ID.
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Ontario will allow over-the-counter hearing aids, opening the door to AirPods
A coming law change lets adults with mild hearing loss skip the prescription, so earbuds with hearing-aid features could finally be used as one.
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Critical PHP flaws take some federal government websites offline
Ottawa pulled sites as a precaution after two severe bugs in PHP, the language behind about 70% of the web. Here's what happened and what to do.
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Rogers, Bell and Telus want phone locking back and roaming caps gone
In filings to the CRTC's consumer code review, the Big Three ask for a 60-day phone lock, longer financing and an end to bill-shock protections.
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Canada's biggest publishers sue Anthropic, as Cape Breton pushes back on its data centre
Postmedia, Torstar, the Globe and The Canadian Press say Claude was built on their journalism without a licence. Meanwhile, thousands have signed a petition against the Nova Scotia project.
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Canada's signals intelligence agency plans a data centre worth up to $1.8 billion
A Defence Construction Canada notice points to a new Ottawa-area facility for the Communications Security Establishment.
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Ottawa wants towers approved faster, and rivals given roaming on request
ISED's proposals would give municipalities 45 days to object, exempt small towers from consultation, and require roaming and tower sharing.
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Carney says Canada will move away from Starlink, 'no question'
The prime minister wants allied satellite options instead of reliance on Elon Musk's SpaceX. That's easier said than done in rural Canada.
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U.S. court says border agents can search your phone without suspicion
A Second Circuit ruling removes the reasonable-suspicion bar for device searches at the U.S. border. Here's what Canadian travellers should know.
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Carney pitches a 'sovereign broadband backbone' to keep Canadian traffic at home
Ottawa will help finance a coast-to-coast network with direct links to Europe and Asia. Most Canadian internet traffic currently detours through other countries.
