ABE NEWS | TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2026 The trade confrontation between Canada and the United States has moved directly into one of the most important industries connecting the two economies. President Donald Trump is threatening to impose 50% tariffs on Canadian-made cars, trucks and automotive parts beginning January 1, 2027, dramatically escalating the dispute…
ABE NEWS | TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2026 | NEWS O’CLOCK For days, Washington had been promising what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described as an “economic D-Day” against Iran. Now the first major pieces of that campaign have arrived, and they reveal an American strategy that is both aggressive and surprisingly cautious. The United States…
ABE NEWS | MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2026 China has a problem. The world’s second-largest economy is still growing, but one of the engines that helped power its extraordinary rise is moving in the wrong direction. Investment is falling. During the first seven months of 2026, China’s fixed-asset investment contracted 6.7%. Economic growth slowed from…
ABE NEWS | MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2026 Alibaba just made one of the biggest financial bets of the artificial-intelligence boom. The Chinese technology giant is raising HK$80 billion — approximately US$10.2 billion — by selling 710 million new shares. And Alibaba has already decided where essentially all of that money is going. Artificial intelligence….
ABE NEWS | SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2026 There is a narrow stretch of water between Iran and Oman that most people will never see. It is only about 33 kilometres wide at its narrowest point. Yet what happens there can influence how much families pay to fill their cars, how much airlines spend on…
ABE NEWS | SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2026 The Democratic Republic of Congo is facing an Ebola crisis on a scale the country has never experienced before. More than 5,000 confirmed infections. More than 2,500 deaths. Six provinces affected. Dozens of health zones reporting cases. And health authorities are warning that transmission has still not…
ABE ORIGINAL | SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2026 There is something deeply strange happening in Hollywood. Writers are teaching artificial intelligence how to write screenplays. Directors are helping machines understand filmmaking decisions. Producers are showing AI how to plan shoots, organize productions and solve problems that professionals normally spend years learning to handle. And some…
ABE FOUNDERS | SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2026 The humanoid-robot industry has become very good at producing moments that look like science fiction. Robots can dance. They can box. They can work through obstacle courses. And, as we reported earlier today, one Chinese humanoid has now completed a 100-metre test run in 9.32 seconds. But…
ABE NEWS | SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2026 For more than 16 years, one number has represented the outer edge of human sprinting: 9.58 seconds. That is how long it took Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt to run 100 metres at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin, establishing a men’s world record that no human athlete…
ABE NEWS | SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2026 For three days, Canada and the United States appeared to be moving toward a trade agreement. By midnight, it was gone. After intense negotiations in Washington, the two countries failed to finalize a deal Friday night. At 12:01 a.m. Saturday, the United States imposed new 50% tariffs…
