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China dangles BYD as bait to reboot Canada trade talks - The Logic
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Trump's trade war has made Chinese-made EVs look a lot more appealing, but Canada still has reasons to resist.
on Mon, 10PM
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Canada Proud is dominating Facebook ahead of the election - The Logic
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The conservative group’s posts about the election are finding a huge audience in the vacuum created by Meta’s ongoing ban on all news in Canada.
on Mon, 7PM
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Amazon’s Quebec business is growing, despite pledges to rip up contracts - The Logic
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Quebec Premier François Legault said he’d cancel Amazon contracts after the company closed its warehouses in the province. Sources confirm it’s continuing to build huge new facilities.
on Mon, 3PM
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Inside the great untangling of Canada’s internal trade mess - The Logic
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Fixing internal trade has been presented as a silver bullet to fix Canada’s productivity crisis and protect the country against the ongoing trade war. If only it were that simple.
on Fri, 5PM
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Alberta has abandoned plans for a video game tax credit - The Logic
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Years after it took steps to revive a tax break for game developers, the province confirms the idea has been shelved.
on Mar 24
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Everything you need to know about Canada's trade war election - The Logic
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Canadians will go to the polls in the thick of a tariff war, and who'd do the best job fighting Trump is the issue that matters most.
on Mar 23
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Build Canada has published 14 policy ideas—all of them written by men - The Logic
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Senior figures behind Build Canada say it’s wrong to characterize the project as male-led and that questions about diversity distract from the issues it is trying to address.
on Mar 20
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Canada has a Tesla problem - The Logic
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Before he became Trump's hatchet man, Elon Musk and his company helped shape Canada's EV ecosystem.
on Mar 17
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Since October, U.S. customs officers have made 3,768 seizures of bird and poultry-related products, including eggs, compared to 352 fentanyl seizures.
on Mar 7
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Canadian police seize fentanyl and make hundreds of arrests as tariff threat looms large - The Logic
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The result of a 'national sprint' to tackle illegal drugs comes just days before U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs are due to hit.
on Mar 1
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Fintrac was hacked a year ago. Businesses are still struggling with the fallout - The Logic
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The security breach at Canada’s anti-money-laundering agency has caused chaos for thousands of small businesses.
on Feb 24
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Shopify lays off team supporting Black, Indigenous and women entrepreneurs - The Logic
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The layoffs coincided with the closure of major diversity initiatives at Shopify, sources said, with major partners ghosted and Slack communities left abandoned
on Feb 19
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Telus has $500M in copper ready to be mined—right over your head - The Logic
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Near-record copper prices have telcos looking to cash in on old wires before thieves plunder them
on Feb 19
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In private comments, Trudeau said the Trump White House was using dis- and misinformation for political purposes, leaked audio obtained by The Logic reveals
on Feb 15
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This Canadian company is out to stop the biggest quantum computing threat - The Logic
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Ontario-based QEYnet would use photons to beam codes up and down from satellites
on Feb 14
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Shopify says risk of fraud, not Nazi swastika, was reason for Kanye West store takedown - The Logic
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After initial silence, commerce company says the rap star violated its terms
on Feb 13
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A trade war would destroy the Big Mac - The Logic
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The U.S. depends on Canada for almost all its supply of potash, a crucial fertilizer ingredient. Tariffs will strain the supply chain for everything from fast food to fresh fruit.
on Feb 12
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This university lab takes aim at the game industry's biggest problems - The Logic
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Privacy, addiction and online hate under microscope as students do battle in League of Legends
on Feb 11
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Shopify tells support staff to give ‘no comment’ on Kanye West Nazi T-shirt - The Logic
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One former Shopify employee told The Logic it was ‘heartbreaking to see your life’s work perverted by full-on friggin’ Nazis’
on Feb 11
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Canada would suffer most from Trump tariffs on steel and aluminum - The Logic
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President promises to hit U.S.’s biggest outside supplier of key metals as early as Monday.
on Feb 10
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Trade war or not, Canada will keep working with the U.S. on cybersecurity - The Logic
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Critical systems of both countries at risk if they don't cooperate, says new head of cyber centre.
on Feb 10
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Leaked audio: Trudeau says Trump wants to annex Canada for its critical minerals - The Logic
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In closed-door session with business leaders, PM suggests 51st state talk is serious, says Canada needs to mend fences with Mexico.
on Feb 7
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How an IT worker from Saskatchewan made the best game of the year - The Logic
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Balatro is up for every video game award going. Its developer, an anonymous former IT worker from Saskatchewan, explains where the idea came from.
on Feb 6
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Major tech figures get into politics with launch of Build Canada - The Logic
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Entrepreneurs including Tobi Lütke, Andrew Graham and Michael Katchen are backing the effort, which is being led in part by former Shopify executive Daniel Debow.
on Feb 5
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Canada has ‘strong case’ to launch legal challenge against Trump’s tariffs - The Logic
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The U.S. has used fentanyl as an excuse to declare a trade war with Canada and ‘blatantly violated’ trade laws
on Feb 4
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Tariffs will shut down North American auto production within a week, industry warns - The Logic
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Canada’s auto sector exported $51 billion worth of vehicles in 2023 and 93 per cent of them went to the U.S. Within days, the entire industry could shut down.
on Feb 2
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Canada and the U.S. are ready to lock horns over dairy - The Logic
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America’s push for more dairy concessions from Canada is like ‘being nibbled to death by ducks,’ according to one trade expert.
on Jan 31
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Trump's trade threats are a boon for this supply chain planning firm - The Logic
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Business at Ottawa-based Kinaxis soared in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, as a trade war looms, it's booming once more.
on Jan 31
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Who pays the DST when you buy on Amazon Marketplace? Not Amazon - The Logic
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U.S. tech giant passes cost of digital services tax to small Canadian businesses
on Jan 29
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Here's how Canadian tech salaries compare to the U.S. - The Logic
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Canadian tech workers earn way less than their U.S. counterparts, even considering cost of living
on Jan 29
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Inside Canadian tech’s not-so-quiet shift to the right - The Logic
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Canada’s tech leaders are cozying up with Pierre Poilievre in hopes he’ll deliver the innovation agenda the Liberals promised.
on Jan 27
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Amazon open to talks with feds after shock Quebec exit - The Logic
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The tech giant extended an olive branch after Ottawa threatened to review its federal contracts in response to mass layoffs in Quebec.
on Jan 24
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AI hardware has a power problem. This company is using lasers to fix it - The Logic
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Ranovus builds tech to move data between chips faster and more efficiently. It’s one of a growing list of companies racing to meet demand for more powerful AI hardware.
on Jan 23
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Cost-cutting in the oilsands has made Canadian crude hard for Trump to quit - The Logic
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Canadian oilsands firms spent years driving down costs. Those efforts will be pivotal as Trump looks to slap tariffs on imports and boost U.S. oil production.
on Jan 23
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Carmichael: Canada doesn’t need more trade deals—it needs more traders - The Logic
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The best way to fight Trump’s trade policy is to focus on the home front.
on Jan 22
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Canada’s digital services tax is right in Trump’s crosshairs - The Logic
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An executive order looks set to trigger the long-promised ‘big fight’ over the tax on U.S. tech platforms’ Canadian income.
on Jan 22
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Big banks keep using screen scraping—despite the security risks - The Logic
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Privacy advocates, government and the banks themselves have all raised alarms about the data-harvesting practice
on Jan 22
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As Trump tariffs loom, who speaks for Canada? - The Logic
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Leadership vacuum in Ottawa leaves premiers, would-be prime ministers and business leaders forging their own paths.
on Jan 21
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Tariffs on Canada could come Feb. 1, Trump says - The Logic
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White House signals Trump will roll back auto emission caps and declare an 'energy emergency' to clear the way for oil drilling
on Jan 21
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Canadians ready to ditch capital gains tax hike but not dental care - The Logic
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New poll finds support for key Liberal programs even as Trudeau heads for the exit
on Jan 16
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Tech leaders have a plan to protect Bluesky from Elon Musk - The Logic
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Free our Feeds, a collective of tech leaders including Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Mozilla Foundation president Mark Surman, wants to raise US$30M to protect Bluesky.
on Jan 13
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Justin Trudeau says he’ll resign but not before dealing with new Trump administration - The Logic
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Liberal party rules for choosing successor imply government could fall before new leader (and PM) is chosen.
on Jan 6
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Cabinet shuffle: The moves that matter to Canadian business and the innovation economy - The Logic
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Veteran MP but rookie minister McGuinty takes up border duties, Anand tackles internal trade.
on Dec 20
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How Doug Ford’s threat to cut power to the U.S. could work - The Logic
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Cross-border trade in electricity mainly about cost efficiency, not keeping the lights on
on Dec 13
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Inside the wild collapse of Sandvine - The Logic
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Sandvine rose from the ruins of the dot-com crash to become one of Canada’s leading tech companies. Then everything went horribly wrong.
on Dec 12
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A strange, bitcoin-powered community is taking shape in rural Quebec - The Logic
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It’s just one house sitting in a muddy field on the outskirts of Montreal right now, but the bitcoin enthusiasts behind the project have big ambitions—and some serious backing.
on Dec 8
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Carmichael: A pair of little books expose the economy's big problem - The Logic
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In Canada, the competitive impulse has been dulled by monopoly and oligopoly.
on Dec 7
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Carmichael: Parliamentary shenanigans matter to the economy - The Logic
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Look no further than the plight of Canadian fintechs.
on Nov 30
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How Northvolt burned through its billions - The Logic
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US$8B and political support in Europe and North America wasn’t enough to beat China’s battery empire.
on Nov 29
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Trump’s dislike of Trudeau a big liability, Abacus poll of Canadians finds - The Logic
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Poilievre heavily favoured to work with president-elect but respondents split on best approach.
on Nov 21