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Canada has the money. Who owns what it buys?
Editor’s Note: The Icebreaker will be at DEFSEC Atlantic this week. Make sure to say hello!
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Spending is no longer the constraint. Capture is. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s Business Data Lab put the decade on one...
The Arsenal of Democracy Is Waiting on a Screw
Editor’s Note: The Icebreaker and Source Canada are offering a limited number of free passes to Source Canada 2026 (October 22 in Toronto) to serving members (Regular and Reserve) of the Canadian Armed Forces. If you want to meet the defenc...
"AI allows you to get to a bad idea faster"
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The allied arsenal is empty, and the machine filling the targeting gap is hallucinating. Washington told allies to expect delays of as much as five years on missiles and air defence after the Iran war drained its own...
Ottawa's First Drone Money, and a 100-Year Promise to Kyiv
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$2 billion behind Canada’s SMB defence builders.
CIBC is committing $2 billion over five years to finance Canadian defence and dual-use small and medium businesses, a pledge confirmed to include infrastructure, ener...
Canada gets first photonic quantum computer
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Guzman is out. Fuhr, the F-35 skeptic, now owns the file.
Doug Guzman is stepping down as CEO of the Defence Investment Agency less than a year after Ottawa stood the organization up. Days later, CBC profiled Stephe...
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