Archives — September 2026

As NATO countries increase defence spending amid rising geopolitical tensions, Canada faces pressure to strengthen its military. The federal government has committed billions of dollars to modernizing the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), but increased spending does not automatically translate into greater military capability. Major defence projects have faced years of delays, while personnel shortages and challenges in recruitment, retention and training continue to limit the CAF’s readiness.  The capacity of Canada’s defence industry to meet growing military demands presents an additional challenge. Defence procurement is one of the clearest examples of this problem. Buying new aircraft, ships, weapons, and other military equipment can take years, and sometimes decades. Other NATO countries face many of the same challenges, but some have taken different approaches to buying equipment and working with their defence industries. Comparing these systems with Canada’s offers useful lessons about what can be done differently.

AMC Entertainment Holdings has more than doubled year to date, which puts a spotlight on a simple question for you as a shareholder or watcher: do the cash flows from this cinema business support where the stock now trades? With the share price up 104.3% year to date, a lot now hinges on whether the market is putting too much or too little weight on AMC Entertainment’s future cash generation. The planned US$3.97b debt refinancing can reshape interest costs and repayment schedules, which may support different expectations for cash flow available to equity over time. Prefer to judge AMC Entertainment Holdings on sales? See why AMC Entertainment Holdings's 0.6x P/S tells a different valuation story. The issue now is whether AMC Entertainment’s current price is aligned with what its cash flows suggest is a reasonable intrinsic value. If you want more context around AMC Entertainment Holdings and its refinancing story, it can help to compare it with other companies flagged in solid balance sheet and fundamentals stocks screener (25 results). Is AMC Entertainment Holdings Fairly Priced on Cash Flow?

Sony will not attend the Consumer Electronics Show in 2027, ending an unbroken presence at the Las Vegas trade show that stretches back to 1967. The company confirmed that neither it nor its affiliates plan to exhibit products at the January event. The Japanese electronics and entertainment conglomerate said the decision reflects a strategic pivot toward its entertainment businesses, including games, anime, films and music, as well as intellectual property and technology that supports creators. "We continuously and strategically evaluate our approach to events and communications based on the needs and priorities of our diverse business," Sony said in a statement.

When you think about skilled trades, baking might not be the first career that comes to mind. But after spending a day learning from two talented young professional bakers, I can tell you that there is a lot more to baking than following a recipe! For this episode of Trade Up with Sherry Holmes, in partnership with Skills Canada, I stepped completely outside my comfort zone and into the kitchen at Humber College to explore the world of professional baking.

General Intuition Inc. today announced that it has raised $220 million in funding at a $6.2 billion valuation. The capital was provided by Valor Equity Partners, Atreides, Seven Seven Six, Point72, Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst. The investment comes a year after General Intuition spun out of video sharing startup Medal B. V.

Around 200 Government leaders, experts, researchers and development partners gathered in Ha Noi this week for the Second National Conference on Combating Air Pollution and Improving Air Quality in Viet Nam. Jointly organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, the Ministry of Health, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Viet Nam, the conference focused on turning national air quality commitments into action under the theme "Combatting Air Pollution and Improving Air Quality in Viet Nam - Turning Policy into Action". Air pollution is a major public health and environmental challenge in Viet Nam, contributing to disease, premature death and significant economic costs. Urban areas including Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City continue to experience periods of poor air quality affecting millions of people. The conference comes as Viet Nam moves to implement the National Action Plan on Overcoming Pollution and Managing Air Quality for 2026-2030, approved by the Government in November 2025.

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The civil war at the summit of global football has reached a boiling point as FIFA launched a scathing attack on UEFA in a United States federal court. The global governing body has accused their European counterparts of orchestrating a calculated campaign of misinformation designed to destabilise the organisation and sabotage the upcoming presidential elections.

CHARLOTTE – Tepper Sports & Entertainment (TSE) today announced that Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT) has been named a Cornerstone Partner, extending a long-term commitment to the future of Bank of America Stadium. The company will serve as the exclusive Official Climate Technology Partner and an Official Sustainability Partner of both the Carolina Panthers and Charlotte FC. The designation places Trane Technologies among a select group of Cornerstone Partners and reflects the company's deep ties to the Carolinas. Trane Technologies, a global climate innovator with more than 45,000 employees around the world, maintains its North American headquarters in Davidson, North Carolina and employs more than 4,600 employees across North Carolina and South Carolina. The announcement builds on a relationship that began in 2018 when the organizations first worked together on a comprehensive upgrade to Bank of America Stadium's climate and cooling systems to improve fan comfort, indoor air quality and energy efficiency.

Most enterprises are still deploying AI tools in narrow use cases, but leaders who treat AI as a full business transformation are seeing 10% to 25% EBITDA growth. The new competitive variable is absorption speed, the pace at which companies can put AI to work, and vendors are adopting forward-deployed engineering models to help enterprises break the bottleneck.

Canada’s U20 Men’s Rugby Team will compete in the 2026 World Rugby U20 Challenger Cup, with 30 players announced for the travelling squad by Head Coach Christiaan Esterhuizen. Canada’s U20 Men’s Rugby Team will compete in the 2026 World Rugby U20 Challenger Cup, with 30 players announced for the travelling squad by Head Coach Christiaan Esterhuizen.

MONTREAL - Dylan Wynn is back with the Montreal Alouettes.

Staff Writer Sept. 29, 2026 10:38 AM PT Barbara Palvin and Dylan Sprouse have welcomed their first child together. The new parents shared their happy life update in a joint Instagram post Monday featuring the public social media debut of their new bundle of joy. “We took Labor Day literally this year,” Palvin wrote in the caption accompanying a photo of she and Sprouse holding their baby girl between them. The snapshot captured the family of three from the back as they watch a Dodgers game on TV while wearing matching jerseys. The model debuted her baby bump in May at the Cannes Film Festival, where the couple posed together while walking a red carpet. They also announced that they were expecting on social media. Sprouse later shared in a July episode of his “Wildmen” podcast that they would be having a baby girl and that he was “excited to be a girl dad.” On Tuesday, the actor once again took to his podcast to share some new tidbits about his daughter and life as a new parent. “She’s very lovely, her name is Sylvie,” Sprouse said of his daughter. “Sylvie Sprouse.

Innovation clusters – whether they be innovation-driven cities or regions – are the beating heart of national innovation systems. Such hubs unite top universities, researchers, inventors, venture capitalists and research and development (R&D) firms in driving forward breakthrough ideas. From Paris to Mexico City, Shenzhen to Stockholm, Seoul or San Francisco, global cities blend research, startups and R&D firms to power innovation. Each year, the Global Innovation Index (GII) ranks the top 100 innovation clusters worldwide (Map 1). Employing a bottom-up, data-driven methodology that disregards administrative and political borders, the GII pinpoints those geographic areas that have a high density of inventors, scientific authors and/or venture capital (VC) activity. The clusters identified according to these criteria often span several municipal districts or sub-federal states, and sometimes even two or more countries. Three metrics are used to define the top 100 clusters globally (see Appendix IV for details and a comparison to earlier methods). The first focuses on the location of inventors listed in published patent applications under the WIPO Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).

Ottawa, ON (September 29, 2026) – Gymnastics Canada is pleased to announce the athlete selected to represent Canada at the Trampoline World Cup, taking place in Cottbus, Germany, from October 17–18, 2026. Canada will be represented in the Men’s Individual Trampoline competition by Alex Beaulieu (QC), who will compete alongside some of the world’s top trampoline athletes.