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Mitacs AI Advantage Funds 10,000 Placements With $162 Million
On September 25, 2026 Ottawa pledged up to $162 million over five years for Mitacs AI Advantage—10,000 co-funded AI work placements for students and graduates to help Canadian SMEs adopt and commercialise artificial intelligence under the AI for All strategy.
Read article →Bell AI Fabric Maps Path to 1.2 GW Saskatchewan Hub
On September 14, 2026 Bell and Saskatchewan signed a non-binding MoU to add up to 900 MW of Bell AI Fabric capacity near Regina, creating a path to a 1.2 GW sovereign AI hub that could exceed $50 billion if customers and permits follow.
Read article →Bell Cyber and Cohere Deploy Sovereign AI for Canadian SOC Investigations
On September 23, 2026 Bell Cyber and Cohere rolled out a Canada-hosted cybersecurity LLM inside Bell’s Autonomous SOC, trained on nearly a decade of Bell Cyber data and running on Bell AI Fabric.
Read article →TD Commits $25 Million to Layer 6–Cohere Enterprise AI Collaboration
On September 22, 2026, TD Bank Group said it will invest up to C$25 million over three years in a strategic collaboration between its Layer 6 AI lab and Toronto-based Cohere to apply secure enterprise models inside the bank.
Read article →Meta Muse Hits No. 1 in Canada — Claim Referral Token Bonus With Code X5WRU6
Meta’s Muse personal AI agent topped Canada’s free iPhone App Store after a mid-September launch. New U.S. and Canada users can claim a large token bonus with referral code X5WRU6 at muse.ai/join—AI4Canada last verified the code still worked on September 22, 2026.
Read article →Bank of Canada Names Prima AI Primary Model for October Forecasts
On September 21, 2026 in Halifax, Governor Tiff Macklem said the Bank of Canada’s new Prima AI forecasting model will be the primary tool for the October 28 Monetary Policy Report, helping officials separate temporary inflation shocks from persistent ones.
Read article →Amii Opens Free National AI Literacy Streams for Students and Educators
Beginning September 21, 2026, Amii’s federal National AI Literacy Initiative lets post-secondary schools join a free three-hour student course consortium while the first educators’ chapter goes public, aiming to reach up to one million students and more than 50,000 K-12 teachers.
Read article →Mila and Mozilla Back Open-Source AI Package for Canadian Businesses
At Montréal’s ALL IN conference, Mila and Mozilla announced a federal-backed ready-to-use open-source AI package for businesses, with Mozilla investing C$5 million and Hypertec adding C$1 million, aiming for working technical standards within about six months.
Read article →Cohere and OpenText Pair North Agents With Enterprise Data Layer
At Montréal’s ALL IN conference week, Toronto’s Cohere and Waterloo’s OpenText said they will connect Cohere’s North agentic platform to OpenText’s enterprise data and Aviator context layer for roughly 120,000 clients, with availability aimed at early 2027 for regulated industries and government.
Read article →Cohere and Aleph Alpha Seal Transatlantic Sovereign AI Merger
On September 16, 2026 at Montréal’s ALL IN conference week, Toronto’s Cohere and Germany’s Aleph Alpha signed a definitive business-combination agreement to operate as Cohere with dual headquarters in Toronto and Berlin, targeting roughly a US$20 billion combined sovereign enterprise AI platform.
Read article →Canada and Germany Back LawZero With Up to $300 Million for Scientist AI
At Montréal’s ALL IN conference on September 16, 2026, Canada and Germany announced planned investments of CAD 150 million and EUR 100 million in Yoshua Bengio’s LawZero non-profit to develop safe-by-design Scientist AI with sovereign Canadian compute.
Read article →Ottawa AI Transparency Consultation Closes Sept. 23 Amid Deepfake Fraud Surge
Canadians and firms have until September 23, 2026 to weigh in on federal AI transparency rules covering deepfake labelling, chatbot disclosure, incident reporting, and AI-agent tracking, as ISED cites KPMG findings that nearly three-quarters of large Canadian businesses lost profits to AI-powered fraud.
Read article →Carney Pitches Global Technology Stability Board for AI Guardrails
On September 14, 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney told Bloomberg that Canada wants a global technology stability body for AI oversight, modelled on the Financial Stability Board, while wooing investors at a Toronto summit.
Read article →Bell AI Fabric Eyes 1.2 GW Hub in Saskatchewan With $50B Path
On September 14, 2026, Bell Canada and Saskatchewan signed a non-binding MOU to add up to 900 MW to Bell AI Fabric, aiming for a 1.2 GW Canadian AI infrastructure hub with potential capital above $50 billion and a provincial head office.
Read article →Canada Launches Responsible Data Centre Development Principles in Markham
Innovation Minister Evan Solomon unveiled Canada’s Responsible Data Centre Development Principles around September 3, 2026 in Markham, with 23 firms including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere signing on voluntarily while provinces and municipalities still decide local approvals.
Read article →Canada Launches $13 Million National AI Literacy Initiative at Amii
Federal AI Minister Evan Solomon unveiled a $13 million National AI Literacy Initiative at Edmonton’s Amii on September 9, 2026, with free bilingual courses rolling out from September 21.
Read article →Montreal’s ALL IN 2026 Puts Canadian AI on a Global Stage
ALL IN 2026 returns to Montreal’s Palais des congrès on September 16–17 with Cohere speakers, SCALE AI as co-organizer, and more than 7,500 expected attendees from 40-plus countries.
Read article →Quebec Signs Exploratory Deal to Test Cohere in Public Service
Quebec’s cybersecurity ministry inked a non-binding MOU with Toronto-based Cohere to workshop responsible AI use in provincial administration—its first provincial pact of this kind.
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Waabi Raises $1 Billion for Autonomous Vehicles
Canadian AV company Waabi secures largest fundraise in Canadian history to expand into robotaxis.
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Mila Launches $100M University Spinout Fund
Quebec AI research institute partners with Inovia Capital to invest in AI research from Canadian universities.
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AI to Contribute $298 Billion to Canadian Economy by 2035
New research from Deloitte Canada commissioned by the Vector Institute reveals that AI-related jobs contributed between $82-100 billion to the Canadian economy over the last five years, with Ontario leading at $42-52 billion. Future adoption is projected to generate 41,500 new jobs annually.
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Small Businesses Embracing AI Across Canada
New report shows 53% of Canadian workers use generative AI weekly, with small businesses seeing 10-35% sales increases.
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Cohere Partners with Canadian Government
Toronto-based AI startup Cohere announces new partnerships to transform government operations and collaborate on AI safety research.
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