Ottawa is pledging more on defence — and Calgary wants a piece of the action
October 26, 2025
While Calgary is best known as an oil and gas town, a growing aerospace and defence industry has largely flown under the radar. The sector hopes to get a boost from a renewed national interest in defence spending, and in sourcing contracts from Canadian companies.
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Lecanemab is the first new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease to reach Canada in 20 years, and Health Canada’s recent authorization of the disease-modifying drug has understandably triggered hope and excitement.But for some researchers and clinicians who treat the disease, the development also represents a complicated story – one where enthusiasm for a new and desperately needed drug is tempered by sobering realities around its efficacy, accessibility and impact on an already strained health care system.
October 28, 2025 - 07:00 | Jennifer Yang | The Globe and Mail
Patience is a virtue but it didn't pay off for the Toronto Blue Jays fans who stuck it out until almost 3 a.m. at Rogers Centre for a watch party.
October 28, 2025 - 06:37 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
In 2023, a new meme began spreading among authors on Instagram. A screenshot of a search box holds an author’s name; below it, there’s a list of book titles. The author is relaying that each displayed title has been used without permission by a tech company to teach a large language model—or LLM—to speak and think. The captions contain expletives, or paragraphs about corporate greed, or AI’s exorbitant water use.
The first wave of these posts came in September of that year. The Atlantic scrutinized an AI training data set called Books3, composed of “large, unlabeled blocks of text” and...
October 28, 2025 - 06:31 | Thea Lim | Walrus
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