News of the day: Airport privatization, provincial collaboration, financially supporting adult children, Bell’s new data centre, revived trust reporting rules and more

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Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a press conference during the second day of the inaugural Canada Investment Summit in Toronto, Ont. on Sept. 15, 2026.Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a press conference during the second day of the inaugural Canada Investment Summit in Toronto, Ont. on Sept. 15, 2026. Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images

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Prime Minister Mark Carney kicked off the Canada Investment Summit‘s Tuesday program by announcing that Ottawa will seek private investment to operate the country’s four biggest airports and use the capital raised — expected to be in the “tens of billions of dollars” — to reinvest in other priorities.

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Anita Anand “Around the world, wherever I am, and it is truly almost every single time I am in another jurisdiction … countries are asking how we can partner with Canada,” Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand said. Photo by HYUNGCHEOL PARK /Postmedia

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Disruptions to the world order on trade and an increase in military conflict are turning the spotlight on Canada as a reliable potential partner for global investment, foreign affairs minister Anita Anand said Monday as her government kicked off its inaugural Canada Investment Summit.

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About 18 per cent of parents gave their adult children (aged 18 to 40) between $10,000 and $19,999 over the past year. About 18 per cent of parents gave their adult children (aged 18 to 40) between $10,000 and $19,999 over the past year. Photo by Getty Images/iStockphoto

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More than half of Canadian parents provided financial support to their adult children over the past year, giving an average of $6,151, according to a Royal Bank of Canada report this week.

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A worker and machinery can be seen at a construction site for Bell’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Centre in Rural Municipality of Sherwood, Sask., on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. Construction on Bell’s newly expanded $1.7-billion, 300-megawatt data centre in Sherwood, Sask. has already begun. Photo by Heywood Yu/Postmedia

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BCE Inc. says it’s quadrupling the size of its planned artificial intelligence data centre in Saskatchewan to 1.2 gigawatts by building three additional facilities. The project, Bell AI Fabric, at full buildout, including data centre infrastructure and related power generation, could exceed $50 billion in “capital investment and economic activity,” BCE chief executive Mirko Bibic said in a speech on Monday.

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Nearly half of working Canadians feel less financially secure than a year ago. Nearly half of working Canadians feel less financially secure than a year ago. Photo by SB Arts Media - stock.adobe.com

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The instructions for Canada’s revived trust reporting rules — determining whether an arrangement is a trust at all, whether it’s a bare trust or whether one of the many carve-outs applies — remain vague, built on undefined terms and facts that are often genuinely unknowable at the time you need them.

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