• Ontario’s World-Class Nuclear Supply Chain Building Canada’s First Microreactor Project

  Source: Ontario - Ministry of Energy and Mines
  Date: 2026-10-05 21:15:00.0
  Tags: [Ontario, New Brunswick, Energy, Technology, Infrastructure, Indigenous]

  Ontario-based BWXT Canada has been selected to fabricate and deploy Canada's first Transportable Nuclear Power Plant using BWXT Advanced Nuclear Reactor technology for an Indigenous-led 50-megawatt pilot project in Belledune, New Brunswick. Developed by Prodigy Clean Energy under an agreement with Pabineau First Nation and Eel River Bar First Nation, the facility will provide clean baseload power for up to 40,000 homes. The project will create more than 150 development jobs, roughly 40 long-term operational positions, and establish a centralized hub and Indigenous Energy Innovation Visitor Centre.

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• Ottawa lays out plan for AI data centres as community backlash grows

  Source: Global News Politics
  Date: 2026-09-03 19:59:23.0
  Tags: [National, Ontario, Technology, Infrastructure, Energy, Environment]

  AI Minister Evan Solomon unveiled a federal five-point national framework in Markham, Ontario, introducing voluntary principles for the construction of large-scale artificial intelligence data centres to address community concerns regarding electricity, water use, and noise. The framework is endorsed by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and signatories including Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Bell Canada, and TELUS, though the federal government acknowledged it lacks the jurisdiction to enforce the standards, leaving enforcement to provinces and municipalities. A study by York University researchers Lyndsey Rolheiser and Alexander Carlo noted that while only four active AI-specific data centres operate in Canada, 49 additional facilities are announced or under construction.

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• Want to build a data centre in Canada? These are the federal government's new expectations

  Source: CBC Politics
  Date: 2026-09-03 15:30:00.0
  Tags: [National, Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Technology, Energy, Infrastructure]

  The federal government announced a new framework outlining five core expectations for responsible AI data centre development, responding to public pushback over electricity and water consumption. Signatories to the framework include major corporations such as Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Bell Canada, Cohere, eStruxture, Hypertec, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Telus. The policy follows major regional developments, including Meta's planned $13-billion AI data centre and $4.6-billion natural gas-fired power plant in Alberta, a contested Telus project in Vancouver, and provincial initiatives like Ontario's Data Centre Playbook and Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew's cancellation of a facility south of Winnipeg.

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