Toronto – September 22, 2026 -- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation has secured a $100 million gift from an anonymous donor, the largest single donation in the foundation's history and the largest cancer-related gift ever recorded in Canada.
Montreal – September 22, 2026 -- PMET Resources Inc. has completed a Phase 2 bench-scale testwork program with Koch Technology Solutions (KTS) that demonstrates a simplified, more selective pathway to convert pollucite concentrate from its Shaakichiuwaanaan Project into high-purity caesium chemical products.
Ottawa – September 22, 2026 -- Nearly 60% of Ottawa's occupied private dwellings were built in 1990 or earlier, placing them squarely within the era when asbestos was commonly used in construction, according to a housing-age analysis published by PatchBoyz Asbestos Removal. Statistics Canada's 2021 Census counts 243,080 of Ottawa's 407,250 occupied private dwellings as built in 1990 or earlier, equal to 59.7%.
Québec – September 22, 2026 -- Strøm Old Quebec has been named Canada's Best Day Spa at the World Spa Awards for the third consecutive year, STROM Group announced.
Montreal – September 22, 2026 -- AECOM used One Click LCA's Carbon Designer 3D platform to model whole-life carbon emissions for a major transportation corridor redevelopment in the City of Montreal before detailed engineering plans existed, enabling early comparison of low-carbon design options.
Toronto – September 22, 2026 -- OSCPS Motion Sensing Inc., operating as OSCP, released an open-source ROS 2 driver for its MK2 family of inertial measurement units, targeting robots that navigate GNSS-denied indoor environments such as warehouses, inspection tunnels and greenhouses.
Toronto – September 21, 2026 -- Sun Life Financial Inc. (TSX: SLF) (NYSE: SLF) will redeem all $500 million principal amount of its outstanding Series 2021-1 Subordinated Unsecured 2.46% Fixed/Floating Debentures on November 18, 2026, funding the buyback entirely from existing cash and liquid assets.
Drayton Valley – September 21, 2026 -- Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE: WY) has committed $1 million in multi-year investment to Drayton Valley, Alberta, marking the first Canadian community selected for its Thrive rural-development program.
Toronto – September 21, 2026 -- Sun Life Financial Inc. (TSX: SLF) (NYSE: SLF) will have 8,000,000 Class A Non-cumulative Rate Reset Preferred Shares Series 10R issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2026, after a share conversion process eliminated its floating-rate Series 11QR class entirely.
Waterloo, ON – September 21, 2026 -- Applied Brain Research (ABR) has released the ABR SDK, a production toolkit combining its Niagara streaming speech recognition and Nith streaming speech synthesis models into a single API that runs entirely on edge processor hardware, eliminating network dependency for voice interfaces.
