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The Financial Data Exchange is the most widely used technical standard for financial data sharing in North America, but Ottawa has questions about its American roots. thelogic.co/news/open-ba...

Canada faces a satellite-launch crunch as SpaceX retires its workhorse rocket. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

Kevin Carmichael: It’s been a long time since the country has faced real constraints—but constraints are what spark creativity. thelogic.co/commentary/c...

Ottawa is softening its ban on stablecoin yield; under new draft regulations, issuers can pay rewards on stablecoin balances based on transaction activity, not passive holding. thelogic.co/news/stablec...

Ranovus CEO Hamid Arabzadeh says the federal photonics fabricator will be among the first targets of the chipmaker’s new venture arm thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

Ottawa's new $1.75B venture funding program aims to attract billions in private investment, with most of a separate $750-million fund earmarked for later-stage companies. thelogic.co/news/growth-...

Oil tycoon Adam Waterous is proposing a crude-by-rail export terminal at Prince Rupert, B.C., that he says could ship an additional 250,000 barrels a day to Asian markets. thelogic.co/news/adam-wa...

RBC’s AI chief Bruce Ross says the bank is concerned about letting AI agents access customer accounts and move money without the right safeguards in place. thelogic.co/news/rbc-art...

Amid an ambitious expansion plan, National Bank CEO Laurent Ferreira says AI will mean banks face more intense competition and slimmer retail banking margins. thelogic.co/news/nationa...

Lenders are tightening oversight of AI agents and pulling the plug on tools that don’t deliver measurable results. thelogic.co/news/banks-a...

Brookfield’s new CEO flexes the firm’s soft power with its $50 billion Canadian bet. thelogic.co/news/brookfi...

Alberta’s decisive rejection of separation was greeted with relief Tuesday by some business leaders, even as financial markets largely shrugged off the result showing that, at the latest count, just over 75 per cent of voters favoured remaining in Canada. thelogic.co/news/alberta...

The long-awaited voluntary framework sets common standards for green investment as Canada catches up with other economies. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

Microsoft beefs up its digital sovereignty tech as businesses seek more control. thelogic.co/news/microso...

Canada has some world-class science research sites but it’s not using them properly or preparing them for the future, according to a new report, commissioned by the federal government itself. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

The Big Read: Beacon is building an AI empire by fixing Main Street’s software. thelogic.co/news/the-big...

Kevin Carmichael: The federal government hasn’t conducted a thorough review of the tax system since John Diefenbaker was prime minister. We’re all paying the price. thelogic.co/commentary/k...

The bruising battle over separation has left business owners anxious and immigrants feeling unwelcome. If Albertans agree on one thing, it’s that Monday’s vote will not bring closure. thelogic.co/news/the-big...

Anthropic revealed as client for EverWind’s $10 billion Nova Scotia data centre. The 95-megawatt facility will power the AI giant's Claude AI models and is set to come online in late 2027. thelogic.co/news/anthrop...

Alberta’s potential exit from the Canada Pension Plan could drive up contribution rates for workers and employers in other provinces, say pension experts. thelogic.co/news/analysi...

Cohere plans to acquire cyber startup Aisle in a deal that would add security tools for customers seeking more control over their AI systems and expand the AI developer’s business in Europe. thelogic.co/news/cohere-...

Businesses are expanding their customers, markets and suppliers while stepping up efforts to boost productivity, according to a new survey from BDC. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

Canada could be a leader in the growing market for AI agent-led crypto transactions, a Coinbase-backed lobby group argues in a new report. thelogic.co/news/coinbas...

AI developers are working toward recursive self-improvement, where AI models will be able to create better versions of themselves with little or no human intervention. thelogic.co/news/recursi...

As trade links grow between Canada and the U.K., Northern Ireland is pitching itself as a gateway to both British and European markets. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

Norway’s Vianode eyes Canadian backers as it advances plans for a $3.2 billion Ontario plant. thelogic.co/news/vianode...

Kevin Carmichael: Canadian ignorance about India is a strategic weakness. thelogic.co/commentary/c...

India wants to buy less Canadian uranium. The American consortium that runs Canada’s national nuclear lab is helping develop a fuel that could cut into that market. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

Export Development Canada is exploring how it can put together and finance packages of domestic products and services in sectors like AI compute and critical minerals. thelogic.co/news/edc-tec...

Two years after Canada’s reckoning over student visas, colleges are working on a plan to provide training and expertise to India for high-demand sectors like AI and nuclear energy. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

Canada’s banking regulator is mulling new minimum standards for banks as frontier models and autonomous AI agents create fresh risks. thelogic.co/news/osfi-ro...

Startups like Periodic Labs, Meissner and FL01 combine AI models for physics and chemistry with increasingly automated labs to come up with new substances. thelogic.co/news/artific...

Emera's surprise merger would create an energy behemoth capable of pursuing megaprojects envisioned by Prime Minister Mark Carney. thelogic.co/news/emera-m...

ApplyBoard was the worst-performing Canadian startup in Fidelity’s portfolio in 2026. thelogic.co/news/applybo...

Investors and CEOs are urging Ottawa to expand tax breaks for entrepreneurs. thelogic.co/news/busines...

TD cracks the global top 10 for AI again, and RBC remains the world’s third-ranked bank for AI maturity, as leading lenders accelerate deployment and keep recruiting AI talent. thelogic.co/news/td-rbc-...

Cenovus announces $5.7B takeover of Athabasca, with a nod to Carney’s Mega Deduction. thelogic.co/news/cenovus...

Cohere opens up its AI platform to give businesses more control over costs and technology. thelogic.co/news/cohere-...

Critical minerals face a funding "valley of death." Miners hope tax breaks will change that. thelogic.co/news/critica...

Federal laws all but prohibit the gear needed to find out how drones would perform against well-equipped enemies, forcing military drone makers to test in Texas. thelogic.co/news/radio-j...

Kevin Carmichael: A small country bordering a superpower can take control of its economic future. Just ask Finland. thelogic.co/commentary/f...

Yoshua Bengio, Sanja Fidler, Jordan Jacobs and John Graham are among the industry experts who will provide input on Ottawa’s AI strategy and policy. thelogic.co/news/mark-ca...

Respondents to The Logic’s latest subscriber survey said Albertan secession would be an economic “disaster” for the province, but some sympathize with the frustrations behind the movement. thelogic.co/intelligence...

Feds give West Coast pipeline "national interest" status despite Indigenous objections. thelogic.co/news/pacific...

Dominic Barton played a key role wooing deal makers at Canada’s investment summit. The real challenge, he tells The Logic, will be delivering results. thelogic.co/news/dominic...

French AI firm Mistral, which has already signed a deal with the Quebec government, is hiring both technical and sales staff in Canada to meet business demand. thelogic.co/news/mistral...

The tech arm of German retail conglomerate Schwarz Digits is set to make a major investment in Cohere, as it looks to challenge the U.S. cloud giants. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

Ryan Grant spent more than a decade in the U.S. working on some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Now the Ontario native is back in Canada with an audacious plan. thelogic.co/news/the-big...

“Twelve months from referral to final investment decision is the pace that this pivotal moment in Canada’s history demands,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said at a news conference in Vancouver on Tuesday. thelogic.co/news/carney-...

Despite improvements, the Financial Action Task Force found Canada falls short of international standards for enforcing money-laundering controls at banks. thelogic.co/news/canada-...