ABE NEWS | September 14, 2026 For decades, Canada has enjoyed one of the most valuable economic relationships any country could ask for. Immediately to its south sits the world’s largest economy. Canadian oil, cars, lumber, minerals, machinery, electricity and countless other products could cross one of the world’s longest borders into an enormous American…
ABE NEWS | September 6, 2026 Europe’s effort to rebuild its independent access to space reached an important milestone this weekend after German startup Isar Aerospace successfully sent its Spectrum rocket into orbit from northern Norway, becoming the first commercial European company to place satellites into orbit with its own launch vehicle. The rocket…
ABE NEWS | Week in Business | Friday, September 4, 2026 Welcome to ABE NEWS Week in Business — our Friday look back at the companies, markets, money and economic developments that defined the week. And this week delivered something remarkable. Nearly everywhere you looked, businesses were confronting the same fundamental question: How much…
ABE NEWS | August 31, 2026 Canada’s escalating trade confrontation with the United States is threatening to hit two companies that are not Canadian and not American particularly hard. They are Japanese. Toyota and Honda have spent decades building enormous manufacturing operations in Ontario, turning Canada into an important production base for some of…
ABE NEWS | August 30, 2026 Canada is positioning itself at the centre of an ambitious attempt to transform how Western countries finance defence, as Prime Minister Mark Carney throws Ottawa’s weight behind a proposed international bank seeking to mobilize roughly €100 billion — about US$116 billion — for defence, security and military-industrial investment….
ABE NEWS | August 29, 2026 The artificial-intelligence race is usually presented as a competition between a handful of technology giants. OpenAI releases a new model. Google responds. Meta spends billions. Nvidia sells more chips. Governments announce national AI strategies, investors pour money into startups, and every few months another company promises that its…
ABE NEWS | THE WEEK IN BUSINESS | August 28, 2026 It was a week when artificial intelligence delivered staggering numbers, Canada discovered its economy was stronger than expected just as another trade shock arrived, one of the world’s biggest social-media companies agreed to one of the most consequential settlements in the industry’s history,…
ABE NEWS | August 28, 2026 Canada’s economy has delivered a surprisingly powerful comeback. After months of weak growth, recession fears and mounting pressure from its trade confrontation with the United States, the Canadian economy expanded at an annualized rate of 3.3% in the second quarter of 2026, its strongest pace of growth since…
ABE NEWS | August 27, 2026 One of North America’s five Great Lakes has suddenly become the latest battleground in the deteriorating relationship between the United States and Canada. U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the American federal government to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” turning what had been…
ABE NEWS | August 27, 2026 A catastrophic wall of ice, rock and mud has torn through the Himalayan border region between Nepal and China’s Tibet, killing hundreds of people, destroying communities and leaving more than 1,000 people missing as rescuers race against time to find survivors. The scale of the disaster continued to…
