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What changed, and whether it changes anything for you
Something in Canadian AI policy, funding or tooling moves most weeks. Most of it does not reach a business of ten or fifty people. When it does, the story goes here: what happened, the primary sources, and the action, or an explicit statement that there is no action. The longer playbooks are in the notes.
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Stories are published when something clears the bar, which is two to four times a month. A quiet month gets no filler.
What gets published here, and what does not
Four tests, and a story has to pass all of them. It has to be real, meaning a regulator's finding, a statute in force, a published statistic, a documented program change or a vendor's own announcement. It has to reach a business of twelve people. There has to be something the reader can do, or something they can stop worrying about. And it cannot repeat a story already here.
Most things fail the second test. A model benchmark, a funding round, a partnership announcement and an opinion column are all real and none of them changes anything for an Ontario business, so none of them appears. Publishing nothing in a quiet month is the correct outcome and it happens.
Every story carries two to four sources on at least two different hosts, and at least one is primary: the regulator, the statistical agency, the funding administrator or the vendor. The feeds watched each round are the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Ontario Newsroom, Statistics Canada's The Daily, Innovation Science and Economic Development Canada, and the trade press. Trade press alone is corroboration, not proof.
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