Business
The telecom giant took the final 25 per cent stake from Larry Tanenbaum’s Kilmer Sports, folding the Leafs, Raptors, Toronto FC and Argonauts into a new Rogers Sports unit alongside the Blue Jays.
Canada
Carney and Alberta’s Danielle Smith put the one-million-barrel-a-day West Coast oil pipeline on Schedule 1 of the Building Canada Act, aiming for conditions by September 2027 and operations around 2032–33.
Opinions
Chasing every new chatbot will not save your career. Building fluency in a short stack of mainstream tools — matched to how you already work — will.
Opinions
Washington is assembling a third carrier near Iran. Tehran is shopping a seven-day Hormuz roadmap through Qatar. Military posture, energy markets, and diplomacy are all pointing at November — without agreeing on an exit.
Technology
Unveiled at Québec City’s Convergence 2026, the isolated Canadian-jurisdiction copy aims to help organizations restart after ransomware; $45-million from FTQ and Investissement Québec backs the build.
Business
Eligible Corporate Card clients in Canada and the U.S. can initiate virtual-card payouts inside ERP, procurement, AP and travel platforms via Mastercard Commercial Express.
Money
A leaked summit communiqué eyed for late October also sketches digital trade, critical-minerals investment and water-bomber purchases as Ottawa courts deeper Europe ties.
Politics
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon calls the Crown role “unacceptable”; constitutional scholars say scrapping it unilaterally would fail in court and could feed a later referendum fight.
Reviews
Amazon’s faster 4K stick ships with Vega OS and Alexa+; independent coverage flags manufacturer speed claims and sideloading questions buyers should check.
Products
Canadian pre-orders cover redesigned flush-front Kindles, Paperwhites and the first colour E Ink Colorsoft family, plus new page-turn accessories.
Lifestyle
Free registered screenings run Fridays and Saturdays from Oct. 2 to 24 on the former Downsview lands, pairing movies with Small World Music performances.
Science
A BMC Psychiatry protocol details a six-site master observational study of multimorbidity in ages 11–24, with deep phenotyping and room for embedded trials.
Money
A Calgary Herald–Financial Post analysis puts typical F-150 drivers hundreds of dollars over 2025 fuel costs this year; economists say the tax holiday eases pain but does not erase oil-driven inflation risk.
Technology
The 2-billion-parameter model, built on Qwen3.5-2B, scores predefined options with confidence instead of writing free text; weights are on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0.
Business
Group president John Watson called the build pace “extraordinary” as four halls take shape; a non-binding plan could add up to 900 MW of gas-fired power later.
Politics
The Parliamentary Budget Officer’s range sits above Alto’s $60- to $90-billion working estimate; operating costs and ridership will get a later report.
Canada
Falcon 9 lifted off at 11:10 a.m. ET Oct. 1 from Cape Canaveral with Watkins, Delaney and Teteryatnikov; CSA’s first Commercial Crew mission and fourth long-duration Station flight.
Politics
A former CAF member says an Ontario meetup turned to Hitler praise, racial slurs as a loyalty test and a confidentiality contract; the group is federally incorporated as a numbered company.