3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (447+ words) Meta representatives made the case for its $13 billion Sturgeon County data centre during the Alberta Industrial Heartland Association’s (AIHA) annual conference this Thursday. Meta first announced plans to build the company’s first Canadian data centre last July. The one-gigawatt facility…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (208+ words) Halifax-based Galaxia Space Systems has raised $4.5 million CAD to build out sovereign compute infrastructure in space. Galaxia said the funding will support its next phase of growth, including the deployment of its satellite systems and hybrid space networking capacity, as…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (108+ words) More than 1,000 homes in a planned community near Winnipeg’s University of Manitoba campus will heat and cool their homes with geothermal energy after the Province announced $4 million in funding yesterday. From the source: “Our hope is to transform the University…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (504+ words) The Government of Canada unveiled its National AI Literacy Initiative Wednesday morning, delivering on a promise outlined in Canada’s broader National Artificial Intelligence Strategy. The initiative was announced by federal AI Minister Evan Solomon at a launch event at Edmonton’s…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (422+ words) BetaKit The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has revealed plans to raise and anchor a new, $1-billion USD ($1.4-billion CAD) fund to back scaling Canadian technology companies. The news: RBC announced the RBCx Growth Fund on Wednesday morning. The fund…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (578+ words) As discussions around making governments more efficient flourish, the City of Toronto is betting on Canadian AI solutions and the problems that technology companies want to solve. But turning that interest into an actual municipal deployment is much harder. That…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (779+ words) Data centre development is ramping up in Canada, with the giant facilities meant to power AI cropping up across the country. While the US has already spent several years building out the infrastructure behind the AI revolution, Canada is just…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (626+ words) 1996 was a big year for tech: Dolly the Sheep, Internet Explorer 3.0, and the launch of the app currently at the heart of Canada’s digital sovereignty battle. MapQuest, which predates today’s popular mapping apps, holds up pretty well in 2026. Gone are…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (311+ words) Executives from OpenText, MDA Space, and La Caisse joined a group of 23 businesses and organizations that met with Prime Minister Mark Carney for a closed-door economic update meeting Monday. The news: The Prime Minister’s Office notified the media of the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (389+ words) BetaKit Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA), the provincial public agency responsible for investing in clean technology, has pumped nearly $51 million into more than a dozen projects it says could lower greenhouse gas emissions by more than 100,000 tonnes by 2030. The news: On…...