PRESS DIGEST-Canada - March 4
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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