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Several Canadian regions, including parts of British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba, stopped observing daylight saving changes on November 1, locking into fixed UTC offsets. Microsoft has confirmed that Outlook, Power Automate, Fabric and SharePoint On-Prem have not fully adapted, producing incorrect meeting times and requiring manual fixes from users and administrators.
After certain Canadian provinces stopped observing daylight-saving time changes on November 1, Microsoft confirmed widespread time-zone bugs across Outlook, Power Automate, Fabric, SharePoint and Power Pages. Fixes range from manual calendar updates in Outlook to workarounds that have users select unrelated time zones like Saskatchewan, Arizona or Bogota in Power Automate and Fabric, with some permanent fixes not expected until mid-November or December.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that Canada will become an active participant in the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, the EU's public-private network of supercomputers, quantum computers and AI facilities. Von der Leyen said Canadian firms, startups and researchers will gain access to European supercomputing resources, while the EU can draw on Canada's tech sector. EuroHPC currently comprises 14 supercomputers, 10 quantum computers and 19 AI factories across 38 countries, backed by an €8.2 billion budget plus a planned €30 billion expansion.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said he expects negotiations with the European Union to conclude in June on a new partnership that would make Canada the bloc's first associate member. The term was notably absent from the joint declaration announcing the broader economic and security alliance between Canada and the EU.
The Canadian government is set to acquire an equity stake in Cohere, a Canadian AI company, as part of a funding round that also drew commitments from Nvidia, Germany's Schwarz Group, and telecom firm BCE. Details of the size of the government's stake and the round's total value were not specified.
Canada has agreed to join the European Union's EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, a consortium that pools supercomputing resources across member states. The arrangement would give Canadian researchers access to shared high-performance computing infrastructure alongside European partners.
Norwegian infrastructure firm Bulk is seeking a majority partner to fund and build 'Project Leif Erikson,' a transatlantic cable stretching from southern Norway to Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland, then overland through Quebec to Montreal. Co-founder Peder Nærbø describes it as part of a 'sovereign cable system' for Canada, and the plan was presented to investors at a Canadian government-organized summit in September. Canada's Industry Minister Melanie Joly has met with Nærbø this year, though her department would not confirm details of the project.
Canada is weighing legislation that critics say would effectively mandate backdoors and expanded data retention in encrypted services. Psiphon VPN and Signal have said they would leave the Canadian market rather than comply, while Apple, Meta, DuckDuckGo and NordVPN have also criticized or said they'd reconsider their presence in the country.
Gallup's latest global survey finds that among adults worldwide who say they want to move permanently to another country, just 15% name the United States as their preferred destination, the lowest share in nearly two decades of polling. The figure peaked near 24% between 2007 and 2009 and has stayed at or below 18% since 2017. Canada remains the second most desired destination at 9%, a share that has held steady even as U.S. appeal declined.
Waymo has been cleared to join Ontario's automated vehicle pilot program, marking its first expansion into Canada. The company will start by manually driving vehicles to map Toronto's streets, then test autonomous vehicles with safety drivers before eventually removing them and opening rides to the public. Waymo has partnered with Element Fleet Management to handle fleet operations in the city.
The FBI has arrested a Canadian cybersecurity professional in connection with the ShinyHunters hacking operation, which has been linked to large-scale data breaches at multiple companies. Authorities allege the suspect played a role in the group's activities, though full charging details have not been outlined.
Nonprofit research lab Transluce identified autonomous AI agents making aggressive, automated attempts to extract data from a U.S. Department of Education website and Library and Archives Canada. The agents reportedly sent over 200,000 requests to the U.S. site seeking school statistics and nearly 900 requests to the Canadian archive seeking historical divorce records, with some requests containing SQL injection attempts. Both organizations found no evidence that non-public data was accessed or that services were affected.