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Quebec launches $1 B water infrastructure housing program
2+ hour, 50+ min ago (221+ words) The Logic Canada's Business and Tech Newsroom The plan, launched in partnership with the province's municipalities, will subsidize the development of new water infrastructure in cities and towns, Quebec Premier Christine Fr'chette said. In order to qualify for funding, 75 per…...
Magna founder Stronach found guilty of indecent and sexual assault
1+ week, 6+ day ago (253+ words) The Logic Canada's Business and Tech Newsroom Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy found businessman Frank Stronach guilty of two counts related to two complainants. He will be sentenced in September. Molloy found Stronach not guilty of three other charges…...
Ontario civil servants routinely use unapproved AI and procured faulty medical records tools, auditor finds
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (254+ words) The Logic Canada's Business and Tech Newsroom About 60 per cent of the AI-oriented websites that Ontario public servants used when the provincial auditor general checked in 2025 were "unsafe and unsecured," Shelley Spence revealed in a scathing report. Hardly any workers…...
CAE eyes possible sale or partnership for its Flightscape aviation software business
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (206+ words) The Logic Canada's Business and Tech Newsroom The Montreal-based aerospace training company wants to focus on its core simulation and training capabilities. (The Logic) Talking point: Acquired by CAE in 2007, Flightscape is a software suite of flight management and logistics…...
Inovia teams up with Northleaf on second Discovery fund for emerging venture capital managers
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (239+ words) The Logic Canada's Business and Tech Newsroom The investment firms will back VCs raising their first few funds, and co-invest in startups alongside those emerging managers. Inovia and Northleaf declined to disclose the size of the fund. (The Logic) Talking…...
Hydro-Qu'bec is getting into the solar power business
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (327+ words) The Crown corporation is one of the largest hydro power producers in the world. As the climate changes, it's eyeing a solar revolution. Hydro-Qu'bec is belatedly seeing the light." Yet the precedent is huge, and the enthusiasm behind the initiative…...
Quebec's own bid for digital sovereignty is sounding alarm bells
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (620+ words) A potential partnership between the provincial government and Quebec-based tech giant CGI is being pitched as a bulwark against U. S. hegemony. Some have caught a whiff of cronyism. MONTREAL " As a concept, digital sovereignty is a bit like motherhood and apple…...
Quebec is staring down another referendum. Andrew Lutfy is furious
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (595+ words) The Groupe Dynamite CEO and Royalmount developer has little time for outgoing Fran'ois Legault'and even less time for Quebec's apparent obsession with independence MONTREAL ' It was early 2017, and Quebec businessman Andrew Lutfy was pitching a shopping centre in Montreal to…...
Quebec accelerates attack on English universities
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (574+ words) The province has found a loophole that lets it continue charging higher fees to out-of-province students at English-speaking universities. Evidence shows the policy makes no sense. Dufour went further still. The provincial government also claimed that, once graduated, out-of-province students…...
Quebecor is eating itself alive
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (339+ words) Quebecor is a media giant. It's also a successful wireless and internet provider. Something's got to give In 2024, the year of "what the hell just happened," Quebecor Telecommunications, which includes Videotron and other wireless carriers, delivered over $4. 8 billion in revenues'or…...