Ottawa Is Consulting on AI Transparency. Europe Shipped It
ISED opened a public consultation on AI transparency on July 23, closing September 23. It asks the questions the EU answered on August 2. For a small Canadian firm buying software today, the gap is the story.
A US Order Just Cut Canadians Off From a Frontier Model
On June 12, a US export-control order forced Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every foreign national, Canadians included. Model access is now a sovereignty risk, not only a data-residency one.
Colorado Just Gutted Its Own AI Law. A Lesson for Canada
Colorado signed a bill repealing its landmark AI Act, dropping impact assessments and sliding the start date to 2027. For Canadian small firms with no federal AI law either, the takeaway is about software.
The Canadian Small Firm AI Stack in 2026
A practical roundup of the AI tools small Canadian firms are actually running in 2026 for drafting, research, intake, and entity work. With prices, gotchas, and what is missing.
Law 25 Is Now Enforced. Your AI Stack Probably Isn't Ready.
Quebec's Law 25 finished rolling out in September 2024. By May 2026 the CAI has teeth, and AI tools pull solo firms across three obligations most have not documented.