July 15, 2026
OTTAWA - CHEO and the CHEO Research Institute are partnering with Anthropic through its AI for science initiative to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can help improve child health research, hospital operations and, ultimately, the experience of children, youth and families.
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July 15, 2026
CALGARY – Meta plans to spend more than $13 billion to build a massive artificial intelligence data centre in Sturgeon County, north of Edmonton, marking the technology company’s first such facility in Canada.
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July 8, 2026
TORONTO - The Vector Institute has launched UnBias-Plus, a free, open-source AI tool built by Vector’s AI Safety research scientists that helps detect, explain, and rewrite biased language in written content and AI training datasets – in seconds.
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June 24, 2026
TORONTO - Evan Solomon (pictured), Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, and Maggie Chi, parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Health, announced a $100 million investment in the VITAL health data platform.
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June 3, 2026
TORONTO - The federal government’s artificial intelligence strategy will include up to $100 million in funding to expand an Ontario-based health data initiative to the rest of Canada.
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May 13, 2026
SURREY, BC - At Fraser Health, the Centre for Advanced Analytics, Data Science and Innovation (CAADSI) has developed an AI-enabled decision-support platform that’s designed for reuse across clinical and operational contexts, rather than building isolated point solutions. This work was recognized as a Runner-Up in the 2025 Gartner Eye on Innovation Awards, reflecting a broader shift toward treating AI as a scalable system capability rather than standalone use cases.
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May 6, 2026
TORONTO - A new report, written by Will Falk (pictured) and published by CSA Group, argues that accelerated, supervised adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in healthcare is both necessary and defensible. The balance of risk now favours a fast-paced but thoughtful bias toward implementation.
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May 1, 2026
Erie Shores HealthCare’s Emergency Department in Leamington, Ontario, 50 kilometres southeast of Windsor, has reduced the average time until initial physician assessment (PIA) by more than 40 percent – from 7.7 hours to 4.5 hours – thanks to innovative technology from Ontario-based SiMLQ. Read More
May 1, 2026
LAS VEGAS – At a HIMSS session on how hospitals are deploying real-world AI solutions, Evan Lyons, executive vice president and chief information officer at Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC), described a major AI-driven platform that’s about to be rolled out at his organization in the next few months. Read More
May 1, 2026
Most health IT leaders know the picture. Everett Rogers drew it in 1962. A bell curve. Innovators at the left, then early adopters, early and late majority, laggards at the right. Technology diffuses slowly, over years. Resistance is expected. Change is managed. Read More