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Three Calgary AI startups store data in Canada. Their AI features can still send it abroad

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Coveo bought product data enrichment

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The AI training opt-out is one robots.txt line now. Most Canadian sites we checked name no AI crawler

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Three Calgary AI startups store data in Canada. Their AI features can still send it abroad

Three Calgary AI startups store data in Canada, and each names an AI feature

byHarper Singh
October 31, 2026
Rows of colour swatches printed on rippled fabric, a stand-in for the product data enrichment a catalogue needs

Coveo just bought product data enrichment. None of 37 Canadian stores we checked tells AI the material

Coveo bought product data enrichment

byDavid Okafor
October 31, 2026
Two builders framing a wood house in a residential neighbourhood in the Vancouver area, BC

Burnaby’s AI building permit review comes with two sets of terms that disagree on training

Burnaby's AI building permit review runs on two sets of terms that read

byMarcus Laporte
October 31, 2026
Orange and blue light streaks on a black background, an abstract stand-in for the AI training opt-out signal

The AI training opt-out is one robots.txt line now. Most Canadian sites we checked name no AI crawler

The AI training opt-out is one robots

byPriya Chen
October 31, 2026
Mixed herd of cattle grazing a green hillside pasture with a muddy track and mountains behind
  • AI Startup Profiles
  • Canadian AI Spotlight

Three Calgary AI startups store data in Canada. Their AI features can still send it abroad

Three Calgary AI startups store data in Canada, and each names an AI feature

byHarper Singh
October 31, 2026
Rows of colour swatches printed on rippled fabric, a stand-in for the product data enrichment a catalogue needs
  • AI in Business

Coveo just bought product data enrichment. None of 37 Canadian stores we checked tells AI the material

Coveo bought product data enrichment

byDavid Okafor
October 31, 2026
Two builders framing a wood house in a residential neighbourhood in the Vancouver area, BC
  • AI Policy in Canada

Burnaby’s AI building permit review comes with two sets of terms that disagree on training

Burnaby's AI building permit review runs on two sets of terms that read

byMarcus Laporte
October 31, 2026
Orange and blue light streaks on a black background, an abstract stand-in for the AI training opt-out signal
  • Practical AI Tips

The AI training opt-out is one robots.txt line now. Most Canadian sites we checked name no AI crawler

The AI training opt-out is one robots

October 31, 2026
Rideau Canal locks in Ottawa in autumn, the city where the AI governance challenge sponsor is based
  • Canadian AI Innovators
  • Canadian AI Spotlight

Ottawa’s $2 million AI governance challenge scores running the project above your code

The AI governance challenge pays up to $2 million, but 70 of its 130 points

October 31, 2026
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  • AI Tools and Reviews

The malicious Claude Code extension lasted 11 hours. A one-day install delay would have skipped it

A malicious Claude Code extension sat in Cursor for 11 hours

October 31, 2026
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  • AI Policy in Canada

The Canada-EU Digital Trade Agreement is concluded. No exporter can read it yet

The Canada-EU Digital Trade Agreement is concluded, unsigned and unpublished

October 31, 2026
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  • AI in Business

The Chamber AI Adoption Program averages $270 a business. Only 540 get hands-on cohorts

Google

October 31, 2026
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  • Practical AI Tips

Your AI mailroom can read every receipt. CRA decides when you can shred them

Scanned receipts count with CRA only after seven imaging conditions

October 30, 2026
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  • Canadian AI Research
  • Canadian AI Spotlight

Canada EuroHPC deal names JUPITER, but its startup fast lane is full

Canada EuroHPC membership is official

October 30, 2026
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  • AI Data Centres

The $10 billion Nova Scotia data centre buys 215 jobs and a promise to unplug first

At $46

October 30, 2026
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  • Practical AI Tips

Claude now flags its own chats. Your staff’s plan decides how long they stay

Canadian teams pasting client data into Claude: flagged chats are kept for

October 30, 2026
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  • Canadian AI Research
  • Canadian AI Spotlight

Canada’s privacy regulators want ethics boards ready for your AI health study

Canadian health researchers using AI should expect ethics boards to ask privacy

October 30, 2026
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  • AI Policy in Canada

Ottawa puts a human on the final AI call. Anthropic shows the agent can still make it

Canadian federal AI rules require human sign-off, yet in Anthropic's Oct 27

October 30, 2026
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  • AI in Business

Microsoft’s $2.5 billion AI deployment bet says the rollout is the hard part

Canadian firms buying AI spend the most effort at deployment, not licences

October 29, 2026
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  • AI in Business

Before you hire, outsource or automate, fix the process first

Canadian small businesses can test hire vs outsource vs automate in one

October 29, 2026
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  • AI Startup Profiles
  • Canadian AI Spotlight

Ottawa’s $1.6B Cohere investment buys less than buyers think

Ottawa's up to $1

October 29, 2026
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  • AI Tools and Reviews

The self-hosted AI model that said no tools, then tried to reach Beijing

Canadian teams running open-weight AI models in-house: Cohere caught a Qwen

October 29, 2026
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  • AI in Business

Ontario’s AI hiring rule is hiding inside your applicant tracking system

Ontario employers with 25+ staff must disclose AI use in job postings

October 29, 2026
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  • AI Policy in Canada

Alberta’s deepfake bill puts careless sharing on the hook too

Alberta employers: Bill 33 would cover AI-made intimate images and careless

October 29, 2026
Golden wheat field under a cloudy Saskatchewan sky, where the Amii AI adoption program is expanding
  • Canadian AI Spotlight

Amii’s new Prairie AI seats are worth about $100,000 each. Bring old data

Prairie small businesses can apply for 25 Amii AI adoption seats worth about

October 29, 2026
Keys on a wooden table beside a cup, a reminder that third-party AI agents need their own access keys
  • AI Policy in Canada

RBC is right to lock out AI agents. Give yours a key of its own

Canadian businesses using AI agents for banking: RBC blocks shared passwords

October 29, 2026
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