Press Digest: Canada - October 27

BCE

27/10/2026 11:55

The following are the top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
     
     
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** Canadian telecom firm BCE BCE.TO is sellinga minority stake in its cellphone towers to global investment group La Caisse for C$2.45 billion ($1.75 billion), money the telecom provider will use to pay down debt and expand its data centre business. 
     
** Alberta's power regulator has approved a 920-megawatt power-plant project intended to service a large-scale data centre north-east of Edmonton. 
     
** Canada and eight other countries will gather on November 30 to sign the charter for a new multinational defence bank, after talks to merge it with a British defence-procurement initiative broke down last week. 
         


     
($1 = 1.4021 Canadian dollars)

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