Alice was 24 when she died by suicide. In a suit against OpenAI, her mother claims the firm’s chatbot answered questions about the relative effectiveness of certain suicide methods. thelogic.co/news/openai-...

The roles that platforms, app stores and government play in the ban is an “ongoing conversation,” Culture Minister Marc Miller told The Logic. thelogic.co/news/miller-...

In the throes of a pandemic-fuelled midlife crisis, Daniel Sax founded a company to mine the moon. Now he has federal space contracts, and wants to power the Arctic with microreactors. thelogic.co/news/the-big...

Big Tech says it will work with Ottawa on plan to ban kids from social media. The online safety bill would also allow a new regulator to levy fines of up to $10 million against companies that don’t follow the rules. thelogic.co/news/online-...

Under pressure from the U.S., the Liberals are pushing forward legislation to beef up Canada’s ban on imports made with forced labour. thelogic.co/news/critics...

The Edmonton-based firm has hired a games industry veteran to help sell its AI technology, which it says can make gameplay more realistic and dynamic. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

New funding Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala is a boost for Toronto-based fintech Koho as it attempts to secure a banking licence. thelogic.co/news/koho-mu...

The Liberals’ online safety bill would create a regulator with power to slap AI and social media platforms with massive fines, includes a social media ban for kids under 16 and puts onus on AI companies to keep chatbots from communicating harmful content. thelogic.co/news/online-...

Ralph Berg is leaving OMERS, where he led a shift in private equity strategy, to join Singapore’s Temasek. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

Many major financial firms support the new AI plan but say it is short on tax and privacy details. thelogic.co/news/bay-str...

Tiff Macklem says the Bank of Canada soon ‘may need to be nimble’ after holding rates steady for the fifth straight time.

Nations Royalty, Canada’s first majority-Indigenous-owned public company, is working with TMX Group to encourage Indigenous communities to use public markets and build long-term wealth. thelogic.co/news/nations...

Another story based on an Access to Information request: A memo prepared for Prime Minister Mark Carney ahead of his meeting with the CEO of CIBC highlights the important role that business lending plays in trade diversification. Read in @thelogic.co thelogic.co/news/diversi... #TradeSky #cdnfoi

Helping firms take the leap into new markets was a key theme of Carney’s meeting with CIBC boss Harry Culham, a memo obtained by The Logic shows. thelogic.co/news/diversi...

Demand for short-term rentals in Vancouver is lower for the World Cup than it was a year ago. In Toronto, some hotels are dropping rates to try and fill rooms. thelogic.co/news/fifa-wo...

Quebec is spending $1.5 billion to digitize its health service—and is handing control of millions of patient records to an American company in the process. thelogic.co/commentary/q...

Kevin Carmichael: We do need to think about how AI will affect employment. Panicking won’t help. thelogic.co/commentary/k...

AI executives say being Canadian can help firms make international sales. First, though, Ottawa needs to step up on procurement and export support. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

A crackdown on mislabelled “spent fowl” uncovered rampant tariff evasion. The hard part is recouping the cash. thelogic.co/news/million...

Canada’s new AI strategy includes funding to help domestic firms grow and commercialize the technology. How well that money works may depend on how much Ottawa is willing to get out of the way. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

Ottawa’s AI plan doesn’t detail how the government intends to protect children from risks the technology poses. Carney says that law’s coming within weeks. thelogic.co/news/ai-stra...

Ottawa believes widespread AI adoption could add almost $200 billion to the economy—and it’s investing hundreds of millions of dollars in a bid to get there. thelogic.co/news/special...

Stellarex co-founder Spencer Pitcher made his name researching fusion in labs across the Atlantic. Now, his startup wants to build a commercial reactor in Canada. thelogic.co/news/spencer...

Canada’s new AI strategy includes a $500 million fund to back key firms. Ottawa also plans to expand funding for AI adoption, researchers and commercialization as part of a suite of new and renewed programs, The Logic has learned. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

The mediator who had tried to help Amazon and Unifor reach a first collective agreement for its unionized Delta, B.C., workers outlines why talks are an impasse, and what the parties couldn't agree on and why, in his report recommending binding mediation-arbitration: thelogic.co/news/amazon-...

Tim Hortons is ending its loyalty credit card program with Neo Financial, as branded credit cards are no longer Neo’s “core strategy,” executive says. thelogic.co/news/tim-hor...

E-commerce giant Amazon slowed down negotiations and attempted to cut the union out of key decisions, according to a mediator appointed to try and break an impasse between the two parties. thelogic.co/news/amazon-...

Culture Minister Marc Miller tells CRTC to start over on Cancon spending rules for streamers. thelogic.co/news/cancon-...

Only 30 per cent of Canadian SMEs are using generative AI, according to BDC, despite the bank’s estimate that broader adoption could add billions to the economy. thelogic.co/news/small-b...

From data centres to housing, ports and pipelines, there’s a lot to build. The problem is there aren’t enough skilled tradespeople to do the building. thelogic.co/news/the-big...

The share of borrowers rated as risky or worse has reached nearly 20 per cent, according to Moody’s, driven in part by a surge in private equity ownership. thelogic.co/news/analysi...

Canadian political and business leaders see little reason to cough up concessions as the review of the North American trade pact inches closer. But there are risks to playing it cool. thelogic.co/news/analysi...

Unifor and Amazon have been at loggerheads since its Delta, B.C., warehouse workers were allowed to unionize in July. We reviewed some Amazon docs Unifor wanted to use in its unfair labour practice complaints. Here's what they show us about how Amazon thinks about unions: thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

Saskatchewan pulled back from the idea of a teen social media ban after taking a hard look, says Premier Scott Moe. Now it’s waiting to see what Ottawa does. thelogic.co/news/social-...

Unifor claims confidential internal documents show how Amazon trains managers to harass and manipulate their colleagues in a bid to stop unionization efforts. Amazon says it has done nothing wrong. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

Lion Electric, once valued at $4.7 billion, filed for bankruptcy protection in December 2024. Now it’s back with new owners and a new plan. thelogic.co/news/lion-el...

Kevin Carmichael: In his infrequent interviews, CPP Investments CEO John Graham demystifies what the $800 billion asset manager is doing with Canadians’ money. thelogic.co/commentary/k...

A record crowd of 21,300 registered for the annual military trade show Cansec, where Mark Carney announced billions in new spending and attendees could sit in a Gripen fighter. thelogic.co/news/defence...

South Bow says it has enough oil-shipping deals to go ahead with its Prairie Connector project, which would bring Alberta crude to U.S. pipeline hubs and supply Gulf Coast refineries. thelogic.co/news/prairie...

Canada’s Big Six banks are on a hot streak. Strong trading and wealth-management revenue lifted profits, but executives warned of growing economic risks. thelogic.co/news/big-six...

Nearly 80 per cent of respondents to The Logic’s latest subscriber survey said they would like to see Canada prioritize AI sovereignty even in the face of possible retaliatory trade measures from the U.S. thelogic.co/intelligence...

Executives at L3Harris had been talking to Canada for months before being shut out by Canada’s surprise plan to buy Saab command jets. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

Speaking to investors in Halifax, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said growing international interest in Canada is creating an opportunity to scale more domestic companies. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

Premier Scott Moe says Saskatchewan will negotiate its own carbon pricing scheme, even though Carney said the Alberta benchmarks apply across the country. thelogic.co/news/carbon-...

Markets are rewarding investors who are all in on AI. The head of the CPP Investments, the country’s biggest public pension fund, is looking at a different scoreboard. thelogic.co/news/the-int...

Exclusive: RBC Insurance chief to depart in shakeup of key strategic role. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

Consulting firm KPMG hopes AI whisperer Andrew Forde will bring “evidence, not hype” to corporate AI adoption. thelogic.co/news/kpmg-ai...

ApplyBoard, the edtech unicorn, turned the foreign-student bubble into a $4-billion Trudeau-era success story, but let workplace norms take a back seat to growth. Now everyone’s feeling the hangover. thelogic.co/news/the-big...

The plight of one Ontario steel-parts firm shows how poorly co-ordinated trade measures can hurt the industry they’re supposed to protect. thelogic.co/news/steel-q...

Letter from the editor: Why we built The Logic Professional, a new suite of products to give you and your team a competitive edge. thelogic.co/commentary/i...