Press Digest: Canada - September 18

Robinhood Markets

18/09/2026 12:12

The following are the top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

THE GLOBE AND MAIL
** Retail trading platform Robinhood Markets HOOD.O grew its Canadian work force to more than 200 employees and moved into a new Toronto office, after officially launching in the country in August.

** The Unifor union representing 9,000 Stellantis workers in Canada said it will not return to collective bargaining with Stellantis STLAM.MI without assurances the federal government will refuse to allow the automaker to close and sell its car plant in Brampton, Ontario.

** The University of Toronto learned earlier this month that a tool it uses to make web links easier to share had been re-purposed by AI agents from OpenAI to communicate with one another, unknown to their human creators.

 (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
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