News · Global
Mark Carney welcomed a European Union proposal to make Canada its first associate member, but officials on both sides admit the status does not exist in EU treaties and its terms are still unwritten.
Money · Startups & Tech Money
Canada's largest pension funds and banks have backed a new US$1 billion venture vehicle designed to stop homegrown AI companies from being pulled south for late-stage capital, though the fund itself is free to invest anywhere in the Western world.
News · Global
Ursula von der Leyen invited Canada to become the EU's first associate member in her Strasbourg address, and reporting since indicates neither the legal content nor the approval route has been defined.
News · Global
The Commission president used her Strasbourg address to propose a leaders' security forum with Britain, Norway, Canada and Ukraine, and conservative lawmakers in her own group dismissed it almost immediately.
News · National
Britain, the United States and the Netherlands jointly warned this week of an Iranian spyware campaign called Chosen Brick that targets dissidents, activists and journalists, but Canada, home to one of the largest Iranian diaspora communities in the West, was not party to the advisory.