Canada's reflex is to cut down anyone who gets big or thinks big, then wonder why our best companies leave & wonder why GDP & the economy is down. The Cohere backlash is tall poppy syndrome in action. If we want the future built here, we have to back the ppl building it here.

To all these cynics dunking on the @cohere round; Canada has invested in private entities for years. The CDC has done it for decades successfully in mining, petrochemicals and pharma (TMC pipeline and many others). This is a regular practice in defense and military. AI is at least as important. It's not picking a winner. It's co-investment with the best company in the world @nvidia. Just celebrate great Canadian entrepreneurs doing something ambitious or go back to bed.

We’re expanding our commitment to Canada 🇨🇦 Cohere is advancing plans to invest more than C$4 billion in R&D and AI infrastructure and create over 1,500 jobs through 2031.

Secure, sovereign AI. Built in Canada for the benefit of all Canadians.

We're proud to announce the initial close of our Series E, targeting up to CAD $7 billion at a CAD $35.7 billion valuation; marking the largest private financing round in Canadian startup history.

Canada’s sovereignty depends on our ability to build, adopt, and govern AI on our own terms. That’s why Canada is taking an equity stake in Cohere — one of the world’s leading builders of secure AI. Sovereign AI. Built here at home. Read more: pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releas…

Prime Minister @MarkJCarney said Canada is investing $1.6 billion in Toronto frontier AI developer @cohere as the "Canadian success story" targets a nearly $36 billion valuation in a new round of financing. betakit.com/canada-to-invest…

Eby gambled the province on a snap election and lost. The years of damage to our economy and our future is real. But this wasn't left vs right. It was about choosing a pragmatic, optimistic path forward. @LDoerkson was that candidate. I feel a new hope in our province.

How could you not love Lorne!

Félicitations, @LDoerkson, pour votre victoire électorale. J’ai hâte de travailler avec vous, en tant que premier ministre, pour faire construire davantage de logements, libérer tout notre potentiel en tant que superpuissance énergétique et bâtir une Colombie-Britannique plus forte, ainsi qu’un Canada plus fort pour tous. Merci, premier ministre @Dave_Eby, pour votre engagement et tout ce que nous avons accompli ensemble. Des projets d’infrastructure d’envergure ont été lancés. Des marchés d’exportation ont été ouverts. Des emplois ont été préservés. Je vous souhaite, à vous et à votre famille, tout le meilleur pour ce nouveau chapitre.

BC has spoken! The David Eby NDP era is over. That $10/day daycare fiasco sums up how they ran things and of course the utter fiscal incompetence on display. vancouverunfinished.com/p/bc…

Eby might be one of the dumbest politicians alive!

Everyone always talks about @Sethrogen or @VancityReynolds when it comes to #Vancouver’s Hollywood elites. Well it’s time @nathanfielder got some dumb Starbucks points too! vancouverunfinished.com/p/na…

“Everything is speeding up, and the thing that’s getting scarce isn’t information, it’s trust.” — Dan Burgar on @BCBusiness. Three AI takeaways from Frontier Summit 2026: bcbusiness.ca/business/tech-…

Be Nathan Fielder: > grow up in Vancouver, Canada > join your high school improv group alongside Seth Rogen > graduate with a commerce degree in 2005 > decide accounting isn't for you > start doing comedy > land a correspondent role on This Hour Has 22 Minutes > create a segment called Nathan on Your Side > give real people increasingly ridiculous advice with a completely straight face > turn the concept into Nathan for You on Comedy Central in 2013 at 29 > spend four seasons convincing real businesses to try increasingly absurd marketing schemes > sign an overall production deal with HBO in 2019 > convince them to fund The Rehearsal > build an exact replica of a New York bar so one man can practise a conversation > co-create The Curse with Benny Safdie and cast Emma Stone > return to The Rehearsal in 2025 and spend over two years learning to fly >actually pilot a Boeing 737 carrying more than 100 actors >secretly spend three years filming convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes > co-direct You Can See Everything with Lance Oppenheim > convince A24 to release the nearly three-hour documentary > make it for roughly $7 million > open in 2026 to $15 million from just 855 cinemas > sell out more than 2,000 screenings in one weekend deliver the biggest non-music documentary opening in over 20 years nice x.com/hbomax/status/21111935…

Vancouver’s very own

Five years ago, we set out to bring people together, intentionally. We walked into Frontier Summit with doom and gloom. We left with hope and agency. It was the moments in between, like a dinner party where everyone ends up at the kitchen island. 🌲 This is only the beginning.

@dburgar incredible night at Frontier Summit, great minds, great views, and so much energy around innovation. What a moment to be building. #frontiersummit

Vancouver in autumn. Gold leaves, mountain air, ocean light. This is the city you're arriving into for Frontier Summit @FrontierBC 2026. See you tomorrow. 🍁 instagram.com/reel/Dd7u88vCN…

With Michelin’s run in #Vancouver over after this year. Where does the City go in promoting Vancouver beyond the usual mountains and oceans? Surely one of the better food cities in North America deserves more of a spotlight. vancouverunfinished.com/p/mi…