A Remote Indigenous Community Built One of Canada’s Fastest Fiber Networks
A Remote Indigenous Community Built One of Canada’s Fastest Fiber Networks

In February 2024, a young man lay somewhere on the frozen shore of James Bay, Canada, surrounded by snow and darkness, succumbing to hypothermia. When he failed to get home on time, his frantic mother sent a Facebook message to Elizabeth Kataquapit, t…

New 6 passenger, 780-mile PHEV from GM has North America written all over it
New 6 passenger, 780-mile PHEV from GM has North America written all over it

GM thinks its newest Starlight L PHEV SUV could be China’s best value hybrid, offering 260 km (~160 miles) of all-electric range, spacious six-passenger seating, and a modern technology package at an affordable price. And it’s exactly the kind of vehic…

Anthropic commits $10 million to Canadian AI research across eight institutions
Anthropic commits $10 million to Canadian AI research across eight institutions

Anthropic is committing $10 million CAD to eight Canadian research institutions to fund work on beneficial and responsible AI applications. The partnerships span Canada’s three leading regional AI institutes, Amii in Edmonton, Mila in Montréal, and the…

Canada’s banking regulator named Claude Mythos in a warning to banks
Canada’s banking regulator named Claude Mythos in a warning to banks

An April email to bank technology chiefs, released under access-to-information rules, shows OSFI naming Anthropic’s frontier model as a reason the window for fixing flaws is closing. Regulators do not usually name products. They write about “emerging t…

Canada scores fresh Lotus EVs in first canola-for-cars deal
Canada scores fresh Lotus EVs in first canola-for-cars deal

The canola-for-cars deal cooked up by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping is about to bear its most exotic fruit yet: a shipment of sporty new Lotus Eletre EVs set to arrive in Montreal this month.

Canadian spy agency says it hacked drug traffickers, extremists and a ransomware gang last year

The hacking operations disclosed in a Canadian spy agency’s annual report underscores some pressing national security threats facing the country and its top allies.

Ottawa’s Dominion Dynamics raises CA$139M, a record for Canadian defence
Ottawa’s Dominion Dynamics raises CA$139M, a record for Canadian defence

Canada just produced the biggest Series A in its defence history. The money is going into autonomous drones and the software to run a war in the Arctic. Dominion Dynamics, an Ottawa defence-technology company, has raised CA$139mn ($100mn) in a Series A…

Canadian workers have few defences against workplace surveillance
Canadian workers have few defences against workplace surveillance

TD’s plan to monitor some staff has exposed a legal gap: in much of Canada, an employer can watch you work and owes you little more than a notice. Then Toronto-Dominion Bank told some of its staff that software would soon be watching how they worked, t…

Canada buys Australian Arctic radar in A$2.5bn defence-export first
Canada buys Australian Arctic radar in A$2.5bn defence-export first

Australia has been refining the same unusual piece of radar for decades, a system that bounces signals off the ionosphere to see thousands of kilometres past the curve of the Earth, and for all that time it kept the technology to itself. On Sunday it s…

The first mile: Port of Vancouver launches new electric semi truck pilot
The first mile: Port of Vancouver launches new electric semi truck pilot

A fleet of electric Peterbilt 579EV Class 8 trucks is being put to work on container-hauling routes at the Port of Vancouver as part of a new, data-sharing pilot program designed to measure real-world benefits of electric drayage trucks on first-mile d…