The Short Report: May 6, 2026


Feds spinning off NRC's photonics fabrication centre; government funds for private surgical facilities is a perilous approach; why Canada's health innovation bottleneck is adoption, not invention; debate in Canada over "sovereign cloud" services is confusing security via control with location of computer infrastructure; Canada's "Buy Canadian" policy needs clarity; foreign interference and espionage by state actors in Canada likely to increase; and more.

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