Press Digest: Canada - March 4

Royal Bank of Canada

04/03/2026 12:18

March 4 (Reuters) - 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

** Legal artificial-intelligence software startup Spellbook secured $40-million in debt financing from Royal Bank of Canada Ry.TO to buy smaller competitors that rushed into the hot generative AI market but are now struggling.

** Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney said that a developing alliance between Canada and Australia on critical minerals is the kind of coalition-building that middle powers should be undertaking in a fractured global order.

NATIONAL POST

** Canada's province Ontario is updating its critical mineral strategy a year ahead of schedule to be more "hawkish" and "aggressive" in the face of shifting global supply chains and geopolitical tensions, said its Energy and Mines Minister Stephen Lecce.

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