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News by month
August 2026
- Canada’s retaliation list reaches the equipment its own AI buildout runs onPolicy & Resources
- Alberta argued about power for two years. The transformers are the queue that actually binds.Energy Tech
- Calgary’s quantum programme just took on a defence customer, and that changes the clockQuantum
- Two town halls in, Alberta’s data centre plan has a consent problem it did not budget forPolicy & Resources
- The quantum industry is meeting in Toronto next month, and the guest list has changedQuantum
- Anthropic is hiring for Alberta, and the job description is the announcementAI
- Hyperscaler spending keeps rising while its growth rate collapses, and that is the tradeMarkets
- Washington’s 50 percent tariffs are live, and Canadian electronics are on the listPolicy & Resources
- Canada’s biggest AI trade is a contract manufacturer, and that is a stranger position than it looksMarkets
- The Strait of Hormuz is still closed, and Alberta’s constraint is no longer priceOil & Gas Tech
- Alberta is building an aerospace sector next to an airport, and almost nobody noticedAerospace
- A single earnings report in California will move more Canadian technology value than anything on the TSXMarkets
- A First Nations-led LNG project wants to move Alberta gas east, and the route is the argumentEnergy Tech
- Alberta has 41,505 farms and a technology sector that has to earn its way onto themAgtech
- Alberta’s life sciences sector is bigger than its profile, and that is the problemLife Sciences
- A methane rule wrote Alberta a cleantech market, and the buyers are oil companiesOil & Gas Tech
- Alberta’s power grid, not its politics, now sets the pace for AI data centresAI
- Bring your own generation: how Alberta decides which data centres get builtPolicy & Resources
- Amii’s $50-million mandate shifts Alberta AI from research to adoptionAI
- Calgary’s startup ecosystem passed $1 billion raised. The harder number is what comes next.Startups
- Wonder Valley and the problem with measuring projects in billionsEnergy Tech
- Quantum City is Alberta’s second technology bet, and it runs on a longer clockQuantum
- Canada’s public technology market is narrow, which makes single names load-bearingMarkets
- Post-quantum cryptography is a migration project, and the clock started alreadyCybersecurity
- Canada committed $2 billion to owning its own AI compute. The hard part is what runs on itAI
- Canada rewrote its largest innovation subsidy. Most founders are still budgeting for the old rulesPolicy & Resources
- Canada funds first rounds well and later rounds badly, and that gap decides where companies end upStartups
- Canada’s cyber threat assessment points at the operators least able to defend themselvesCybersecurity
Insights
- How an Alberta data centre actually gets approved, and where the public gets a sayAI & Data Centres
- Why Fort McMurray is a serious data centre proposition, and the four questions it still has to answerAI & Data Centres
- How Alberta’s electricity market actually worksEnergy
- How technology companies actually get funded in AlbertaStartups
- The Alberta data centre buildout, term by termAI & Data Centres
Company profiles
- 1PasswordCybersecurity
- AttaboticsRobotics
- BenevityEnterprise software
- ClioEnterprise software
- CohereArtificial intelligence
- CraftyWandDesign software and AI
- DrivewyzeTransport technology
- Future FieldsLife sciences
- JobberEnterprise software
- Nanoprecise Sci CorpIndustrial AI
- Neo FinancialFintech
- SymendEnterprise software