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With the SecNumCloud qualification of its Cloud Avenue SecNum Dynamic offering, Orange Business now provides two complementary environments to meet organizations' distinct needs for sovereignty, resilience and computing capacity. Organizations today face a growing range of cloud requirements: protecting sensitive data, ensuring the continuity of critical applications and accessing the computing power needed for AI. These use cases require different levels of resilience, isolation or infrastructure. In addition, France is strengthening the governance for highly sensitive data hosted in the cloud. A Ministerial Order issued on 12 August 2026 approved version 3.2 of the SecNumCloud framework and clarified the requirements for certain cloud services used by the French State, public operators and public-interest bodies to process particularly sensitive information.

TORONTO & MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A new partnership between Porter Airlines and Air Creebec will improve access to air travel across Canada, leveraging Porter’s growing domestic network and Air Creebec’s regional

The Government of Saskatchewan will host the 2026 Business Expo and Procurement Forum at the Conexus Arts Centre in Regina on October 22, 2026, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The forum gives businesses, vendors and suppliers a chance to connect with the public sector, including executive government and Crown corporations, along with municipalities, post-secondary institutions, school divisions and health-care organizations.

On Monday of this week, Brandon Police was dispatched south of Brandon where a male was arrested and charged with uttering threats to cause death, resisting arrest, assaulting a peace officer and possession of a weapon. On October 5th, 2026, Brandon Police Service was notified that a male was communicating with a Brandon business’s contact centre through a mobile app and making serious threats toward the business and its employees.

An injury to a worker at the Eagle River mine from falling rock in 2024 resulted in a $100,000 fine to Wesdome Gold Mines. The incident happened underground at the mine on Sept. 22, 2024, 50 kilometres west of Wawa.

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Police asking for public's help to locate suspects Six Nations Police Service is investigating a series of incidents at businesses along Highway 54 in Ohsweken, including two break-and-enters and an armed robbery.

The RPA-era ROI model misses most of the value agentic automation creates. This post gives AI center of excellence leaders a framework to size the full value of agents across time savings, exception handling, decision quality, and maintenance economics, and to prioritize which workflows to automate first.

The Canadian family that once owned Selfridges department store has bought the UK pharmacy and beauty retailer Boots for $8.9bn (£6.74bn). Wittington Investments, the holding company of the Weston family that controls the Loblaws grocery chain and Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacy outlets in Canada, will own Boots’ UK and Irish retail operations and opticians chain, the No7 beauty brand and a franchise arm in Thailand. The acquisition of the Nottingham-headquartered chain, which has 1,800 stores across the UK and employs 50,000 people, is also being backed by the investment firm Fairfax, which owns The Sporting Life Group and Sleep Country, Canada’s largest mattress retailer, which owns Simba Sleep in the UK. Galen Weston, the chair of Wittington, who is likely to become chair of Boots, said: “Boots is one of Britain’s most enduring businesses, with a rich heritage, a trusted name and a vital role in everyday life across the UK and Ireland.

A recent theft from a business in Mount Forest has Wellington County OPP on the hunt for a suspect. According to police, on October 1 at 10 a.m., officers responded to a reported theft at the Shoppers Drug Mart on Main Street in Mount Forest. Investigators were told that during the evening hours of September 30, an unknown suspect came into the store and stole approximately $1,000 worth of merchandise. The suspect is described as a 6' tall male, who was wearing a black ball cap, blue rain jacket, black vest, black jeans, and Nike Air Max 90 shoes at the time of the theft. Anyone who has any information, or who can identify the suspect, should contact Wellington County OPP or Crime Stoppers. Wellington County OPP are trying to identify this suspect in connection to a $1,000 theft from the Shoppers Drug Mart on Main Street in Mount Forest. The theft occurred on September 30, 2026. (Photo provided by the Wellington County OPP)

Nine students from Cambrian College in Sudbury have secured thousands of dollars in trades scholarships that will cover their tuition, tools and living expenses. The students are the recipients of Schulich Builders Scholarships for Skilled Trades, which are awarded annually from The Schulich Foundation in an effort to help promote careers in the skilled trades.

NWI manufactures high-precision parts, including engine shafts, thrust links, aerospace masts, and nuclear reactor pressure tubing.

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Lance Bright remembers helping plant trees around Whistler as a child. Decades later, the Whistler mayoral candidate sees some of those same forests very differently.

Despite how common the setbacks are, roughly a quarter of small business owners carry no insurance at all, says TD Insurance's Tang Trang When a small business grows, hires, adds inventory, or expands into a new market, updating the insurance policy is the owner's responsibility, not the insurers'. Most owners follow through on that, according to Tang Trang (pictured), TD Insurance's vice president of small business insurance, but there is a significant part of those who don’t.