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The Logic @thelogic.co · 03/10/2026

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

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 02/10/2026

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...

Prime Minister Mark Carney stands at a lectern speaking. The sign on front says "AI for All / L'IA pour tous"

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 02/10/2026

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...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 01/10/2026

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

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 01/10/2026

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...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 01/10/2026

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...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 30/09/2026

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...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 30/09/2026

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...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 29/09/2026

“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-...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 29/09/2026

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-...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 29/09/2026

Canada’s major pension funds will invest billions of extra dollars in domestic assets. Some worry the country’s innovation economy could miss out. thelogic.co/news/maple-8...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 28/09/2026

The prime minister promised key building projects will wait no more than a year for approval. That means figuring out how to cut wait times by as much as two-thirds. thelogic.co/news/major-p...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 25/09/2026

Canada’s landmark ESG case heads to a final decision, as OSC and Purpose Investments clash over how far firms can go in marketing sustainability strategies as regulators pursue more “greenwashing” cases. thelogic.co/news/purpose...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 25/09/2026

Some proponents seeking Canadian and Indigenous financing say investors’ minimum deal sizes could put institutional capital out of reach. thelogic.co/news/cis-pro...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 24/09/2026

Transformer Lab has built an entire world of AI scientists to automate research. thelogic.co/news/transfo...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 24/09/2026

An internal government memo obtained by The Logic urges Ottawa to focus on non-U.S. markets for exports like music, TV shows and video games. thelogic.co/news/china-i...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 23/09/2026

Through the fall of the Soviet Union to the rise of power-hungry AI, Saskatoon-based Cameco has served the nuclear power needs of both Canada and the U.S. That’s about to get tricky. thelogic.co/news/the-big...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 22/09/2026

A new partnership between MaRS and defence accelerator Vimy Forge aims to connect investors with promising military and dual-use companies. thelogic.co/news/mars-pa...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 21/09/2026

A new sprawling bill called the “Building Canada Strong Act” aims to speed up reviews and reshapes labour rules at ports and railways. thelogic.co/news/bill-c3...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 21/09/2026

New Delhi’s top envoy to Canada says talks for a comprehensive deal are on track for a December signing. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 19/09/2026

Kevin Carmichael: A new report shows that Canada’s exporters have been surrendering ground to their international peers since NAFTA. thelogic.co/commentary/k...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 18/09/2026

After nearly two decades on the frontlines, Willie Gagnon says shareholder activism must change its approach to continue to have a voice. thelogic.co/news/gagnon-...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 18/09/2026

Kevin Carmichael: The Canada Investment Summit did what it needed to do. thelogic.co/commentary/k...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 17/09/2026

Yoshua Bengio tells us LawZero wants the backing of more countries and donors as it tries to show rule-following systems can compete with ChatGPT and Claude. thelogic.co/news/yoshua-...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 17/09/2026

Trump steps up effort to block Canadian goods from U.S. procurement—but his order leaves a lot untouched. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 17/09/2026

Pension funds are lining up for a stake in Canada’s airports; under the new model, private operators will expect to earn a profit on their investment. What that might mean for airline and passenger fees remains unclear. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 17/09/2026

Getting into Canada’s deal book led to many meetings for Alberta defence entrepreneur JR Cox—even if he was excluded from the main event. thelogic.co/news/alberta...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 16/09/2026

As the EU formally proposes closer ties with Canada, governments in the bloc are making it clear that words matter. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 16/09/2026

Mark Carney’s $500 billion investment claim requires some generous math. thelogic.co/news/analysi...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 16/09/2026

OpenAI will give free credits to startups enrolled at Toronto’s Creative Destruction Lab. Top participants identified by CDL will also receive support from OpenAI staff. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 16/09/2026

MaRS, the Toronto innovation hub, targets foreign customers for Canadian startups with a new global network. thelogic.co/news/mars-ca...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 16/09/2026

LawZero gets $300M from Canada and Germany to develop safer AI. thelogic.co/news/lawzero...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 16/09/2026

Cohere agrees on terms with Aleph Alpha as it seeks scale and compute. thelogic.co/news/cohere-...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 16/09/2026

The real test of Canada’s $1-trillion investment push will be execution, says APG Group’s CEO. thelogic.co/news/apg-ceo...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 15/09/2026

The prime minister unveiled measures he says will make Canada more competitive for investors, including a $36-billion tax measure and a one-year deadline for major project decisions. thelogic.co/news/special...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 15/09/2026

Radical Ventures raises over US$1 billion to back AI’s next behemoths. thelogic.co/news/radical...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 15/09/2026

We analyzed the 167 projects in the official summit prospectus by sector, province and capital expenditure, then boiled them down into a handful of charts. thelogic.co/news/investm...

Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers remarks to Canadian business leaders at the Canada Investment Summit welcome reception in Toronto on Sept. 13, 2026.

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 15/09/2026

Canada’s investment problem isn’t a lack of money, investors say at Milken Institute event. They point to tax policy and regulatory uncertainty as key obstacles to unlocking investment. thelogic.co/news/milken-...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 14/09/2026

Mark Carney says Canada has what the world wants. Some investors say what’s on offer might not be big enough. thelogic.co/news/canadia...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 14/09/2026

Bell has signed a non-binding deal with Saskatchewan to add 900 megawatts of capacity—and bring its own power. thelogic.co/news/bell-ai...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 14/09/2026

The Velocity Agri-Capital fund has raised $150 million from lead investor Farm Credit Canada in a bid to reduce the sector’s reliance on the U.S. thelogic.co/news/velocit...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 14/09/2026

Draft provincial deal books The Logic obtained reveal projects and financing details that don’t appear in Ottawa’s federal investment prospectus for the Canada Investment Summit. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 14/09/2026

Canada walked away after American negotiators demanded a say in its future trade deals. Other nations haven’t been so reluctant, a new analysis shows. thelogic.co/news/analysi...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 11/09/2026

Export Development Canada, the trade finance agency, has put over $700 million into the AI sector and billions more into digital industries in a bid to boost exports. thelogic.co/news/export-...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 11/09/2026

Bouwinvest’s CEO is coming to the Canada Investment Summit to warn—again—that double taxation is sending Dutch pension money south of the border. thelogic.co/news/dutch-p...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 10/09/2026

Canadian cleantech investment has dropped sharply from its 2022 peak, leaving many companies in the sector struggling to find money they need to scale at home, new data shows. thelogic.co/news/cleante...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 10/09/2026

Canadians support pension fund investment most when governments retain ownership of public infrastructure, set price limits and reinvest proceeds into new projects, a survey by Australian asset manager IFM found. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 10/09/2026

Economic damage from Trump’s latest trade salvo may not be as bad as feared. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 10/09/2026

PSP CEO Deborah Orida says the pension manager expects its Canadian investments to surpass $100 billion over the next few years, about 30 to 40 per cent above current levels. thelogic.co/news/psp-exp...

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The Logic @thelogic.co · 10/09/2026

A prospectus prepared for the Canada Investment Summit lists 167 projects, including mines, data centres and digital technology, that are looking for backers. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

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