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Author: Lisa Johnson
Publication Date: August 20, 2026 - 13:02
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Alberta minister met with jeers at AI data centre town hall
August 20, 2026
Alberta's technology minister was met with jeering, badgering and boos at a town hall discussing the province's plans for artificial intelligence data centres. Nate Glubish says the province has carefully crafted a strategy to protect local water supplies, electricity bills, and land use, but attendees say they don't trust the Alberta government to regulate the industry's risks.
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August 26, 2026 - 20:58 | | The Globe and Mail
Council today received an update on actions taken since the 2024 Rural Summit to improve services and quality of life in rural Ottawa.
The update reflects priorities identified through the summit, six community workshops attended by 450 residents, and a survey that collected more than 1,200 responses. Since the summit, the City has advanced work across six key areas:
Investing in infrastructure and roads and protecting the environment: The City has doubled annual ditch maintenance funding to $3.6 million and completed more than 86 kilometres of ditch maintenance since...
August 26, 2026 - 20:33 | City of Ottawa - Media Relations / Ville d'Ottawa - Relations avec les médias | City of Ottawa News Releases
With the 25th anniversary of 9/11 on the horizon, the CBC has circulated a memo to reporters and editors across all its news platforms reminding them not to refer to the attacks that claimed 3,000 lives and changed the modern world as “terrorist attacks.” The missive from the broadcaster’s journalistic standards and practices office, a copy of which was obtained by National Post, includes a section of the “longstanding language guidance” on the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks carried out by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda. “Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks,” it...
August 26, 2026 - 20:16 | Kenn Oliver | National Post
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