Government of Canada invests $36 million in Ottawa semiconductor firm Ranovus and highlights U.S. – Canada collaboration

This week, Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced a C$36 million contribution to Ranovus Inc. to support a C$100 million project aimed at advancing the domestic production of semiconductor products and services. The announcement came as U.S. President Joe Biden unveiled ...

Deloitte Canada launches its first generative AI lab program

Deloitte Canada is pouncing on the generative AI (GenAI) buzz with a new program aimed at educating and training organizations to use GenAI and its associated applications. Its Generative AI Lab Program is a two-lab session that offers participants an ...

“Don’t mess with the regulator,” says Champagne as he clears Rogers-Shaw merger with legal conditions

After two extended deadlines, countless legal hurdles and a spate of criticism, the historic C$26 billion takeover of Shaw by Rogers has been cleared. Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne gave the final verdict today in a press conference in Ottawa, and ...

Rogers-Shaw merger: A look into the legal conditions and what critics are saying

Today, Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne approved the transfer of Freedom Mobile’s spectrum licenses to Vidéotron, pushing the historic Rogers-Shaw merger over the finish line. But Champagne also bared his fangs, announcing a total of 21 legal conditions that Rogers and ...

Unifor seeks updates on Competition Bureau investigation of Google’s ad practices and deplores “crisis in news media sector”

Canada’s largest private sector union, Unifor, is urging the Competition Bureau to release the findings of its civil investigation into Google’s alleged anti-competitive online ad practices. The scope of the investigation, initiated in October 2021, was to examine whether Google’s ...