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Canadian renewable energy leaders at ETC 2026 in Toronto see a $100-billion decade ahead, but warn that labour gaps and unstable policy could stall growth.

A new Canada competitiveness report from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and PwC finds AI, minerals, energy, defence and agri-food all missing the same pieces.

After the first Canada Investment Summit in Toronto, the Business Council of Canada says MPs must now turn summit ambition into legislative action.

August 2026 immigration data shows 48% fewer USCIS applications, 74% drop in H-1B visas, and record processing delays that have pushed the backlog to over 12 million pending cases. Analysis of what these trends mean for employers, families, and international students.

A two-year investigation reports that heat-related deaths in the United States are far higher than official mortality records show, pointing to gaps in how death certificates classify extreme heat and what that means for climate preparedness.

OpenAI announced GPT-5 Turbo on August 5, 2025, citing significant improvements in context handling and multimodal capabilities. Here is a plain-language breakdown of what was confirmed, what was left unspecified, and why the release matters.

The U.S. Department of Defense has launched GenAI.mil, a secure generative AI portal for 3 million personnel that bundles ChatGPT Mil, Grok for Government, and Google Gemini, with 1.7 million users onboarded on day one.

More than 100 technology, security and financial companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft — have signed an open letter urging governments and private industry to build coordinated defenses against AI-enabled cyber attacks.

Google’s legal AI platform, Apple’s push for on-device processing, Enflame’s Shanghai IPO, Anthropic’s market estimate, and new deployments in finance and Latin America point to an AI market maturing into specialized software and contested infrastructure.

Google restructures DeepMind leadership with Demis Hassabis moving to chairman role as Anthropic locks in $71 billion in compute commitments. Latest AI industry developments.