Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a press conference during the second day of the inaugural Canada Investment Summit in Toronto, Ont. on Sept. 15, 2026. (Credit: VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)
It’s Tuesday, Sept. 15. Here are the top stories we’re following today.
‘Different times’: Carney touts private investment in airports as ‘smart’ use of assets
Prime Minister Mark Carney kicked off the Canada Investment Summit’s Tuesday program by announcing that Ottawa will seek private investment to operate the country’s four biggest airports and use the capital raised — expected to be in the “tens of billions of dollars” — to reinvest in other priorities.
“Around the world, wherever I am, and it is truly almost every single time I am in another jurisdiction … countries are asking how we can partner with Canada,” Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand said.
Disruptions to the world order on trade and an increase in military conflict are turning the spotlight on Canada as a reliable potential partner for global investment, foreign affairs minister Anita Anand said Monday as her government kicked off its inaugural Canada Investment Summit.
About 18 per cent of parents gave their adult children (aged 18 to 40) between $10,000 and $19,999 over the past year.
More than 50% of Canadian parents financially support their adult children, says RBC report
More than half of Canadian parents provided financial support to their adult children over the past year, giving an average of $6,151, according to a Royal Bank of Canada report this week.
Construction on Bell’s newly expanded $1.7-billion, 300-megawatt data centre in Sherwood, Sask. has already begun.
Here’s how Saskatchewan’s new data centre plan stacks up against others in Canada
BCE Inc. says it’s quadrupling the size of its planned artificial intelligence data centre in Saskatchewan to 1.2 gigawatts by building three additional facilities. The project, Bell AI Fabric, at full buildout, including data centre infrastructure and related power generation, could exceed $50 billion in “capital investment and economic activity,” BCE chief executive Mirko Bibic said in a speech on Monday.
Nearly half of working Canadians feel less financially secure than a year ago.
Revived trust reporting rules may seem simpler, but they still pose a lot of problems
The instructions for Canada’s revived trust reporting rules — determining whether an arrangement is a trust at all, whether it’s a bare trust or whether one of the many carve-outs applies — remain vague, built on undefined terms and facts that are often genuinely unknowable at the time you need them.