Buying Canadian-ish 🇨🇦 - Ottawa struggles to Buy Canadian, lab Lleak in Russia
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Buying Canadian-ish 🇨🇦 - Ottawa struggles to Buy Canadian, lab Lleak in Russia

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 6, 20266 min
  • News bulletin
  • Politics
  • About Canada

Ottawa’s push to buy Canadian is running into some hard limits: nearly a third of federal procurement dollars have gone to American-controlled companies since Mark Carney took office, as a shortage of homegrown alternatives and international trade rules complicate efforts to keep government spending at home. Plus, a lab worker’s death at a Siberian plague research institute has prompted quarantines and international scrutiny, with reports pointing to pneumonic plague — though Russian authorities say the situation is under control and no new cases have been discovered. And in The Big Picture: the University of Toront...

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Hey Pecals, I'm Alex Bluhenstein. And I am Jay Rosenthal. And what is this, Jay? Well, this is your peak daily for Tuesday, October 6, 2026, where we cover the biggest

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stories in Canadian and global business finance and tech, all in less than 10 minutes. Jay, a couple of questions for you. Yeah. First, do you believe that Alberta's population increased or decreased last year?

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Wow, that's a good question. I'm going to say decreased. Decreased. Okay, wrong.

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