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…
SATURDAY ABE ORIGINALS | September 5, 2026 Somewhere in Africa today, a business owner is waiting for electricity. A farmer is trying to get produce to a city before it spoils. A shopkeeper cannot reliably restock inventory. A truck is travelling hundreds of kilometres with empty space. A family is trying to find an…
ABE NEWS | September 3, 2026 America has spent the past several years racing to build the physical infrastructure required for artificial intelligence. Now communities are beginning to ask a different question: Who is paying for it? Across the United States, enormous AI data centres are colliding with growing concerns over electricity prices, water…
ABE NEWS | August 31, 2026 South Africa’s long-troubled electricity giant Eskom has delivered one of the most dramatic financial turnarounds in its recent history, more than doubling annual profit to 30.3 billion rand — roughly US$1.9 billion — as power shortages collapsed, electricity sales improved and years of government intervention began producing visible…
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 | 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…
