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"It's pretty clear the government has gone down a lot of the laundry lists from businesses and entrepreneurs and just said, 'OK, well, what if we do all of the above?'"
The federal government's budget "about entrepreneurs" is here. Budget 2026 contains updates to past commitments (defence & dual-use), expected new commitments (capital gains tax cuts), and a few big surprises (BDC/EDC merger?).
It's a lot. Budget 2026 shows a federal government trying to do everything, everywhere, all at once. How is that going to work out?
BetaKit's Policy Power Panel once again assembles to talk prioritization, efficacy, and sweat the details. Featuring: Laurent Carbonneau (Council of Canadian Innovators), Jaxson Khan (Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy), and Vass Bednar (Canadian Shield Institute). 
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Related Links:
What's in Budget 2026 for Canadian tech?
The feds plan to merge BDC and EDC. What might that mean for Canada's largest VC investor?
Canada to implement QSBS-style tax incentive and "level playing field" with US
ALL of BetaKit's Budget 2026 coverage

"The United States economy definitely has a cold right now. And when the US sneezes, the whole world catches a cold."
Economic commentator and New York Times bestselling author Kyla Scanlon joins to discuss the concerning connection between debt and the AI data centre buildout, how AI companies drive the US economy with impunity, and the impacts of AI adoption on the labour market.
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Waving the AI bubble red flags
Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them. 
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Amid global uncertainty, the path forward is clear: Canada's moment to build is now.
Presented by Uber Canada, DMZ, and National Bank of Canada, BetaKit Most Ambitious is back, telling stories of nearly 100 Canadian innovators strengthening our nation's autonomy, security, and prosperity.
Read BetaKit Most Ambitious now.

"I think that we will look back on prediction markets the same way we look back on altcoins and … NFTs." 
Canada's newest FinTech unicorn also seems poised to become Canada's newest bank. In a wide-ranging interview, Koho CEO Daniel Eberhard discusses what both milestones mean for the company, the impact of international competition flooding into Canada, the possibilities of launching a telecom (!), and why Koho won't touch prediction markets. Let's dig in.
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Amid global uncertainty, the path forward is clear: Canada's moment to build is now.
Presented by Uber Canada, DMZ, and National Bank of Canada, BetaKit Most Ambitious is back, telling stories of nearly 100 Canadian innovators strengthening our nation's autonomy, security, and prosperity.
Read BetaKit Most Ambitious now.

"Transformative technology doesn't become transformative when we invent it. It becomes transformative when we adopt it."
AI and quantum are two potentially transformative technologies at very different stages of development. Leaders from Xanadu (Nikki Bhatia), Nord Quantique (Marc-Antoine Lemonde), IonQ (Lisa Lambert), and CGI (Chris Juryn) discuss where they intersect live on stage at ALL IN 2026.
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Amid global uncertainty, the path forward is clear: Canada's moment to build is now.
Presented by Uber Canada, DMZ, and National Bank of Canada, BetaKit Most Ambitious is back, telling stories of nearly 100 Canadian innovators strengthening our nation's autonomy, security, and prosperity.
Read BetaKit Most Ambitious now.

"I think—and I hope I'm right—that we can build the next OpenAI, or Anthropic, or world model here in Canada."
Mila entrepreneur-in-residence Alex Shee joins to explain the cultural shift among academic institutions toward supporting the entrepreneurial journeys of locally trained AI scientists and the "generational opportunity" it could create for Canada. Recorded live at ALL IN 2026.
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Amid global uncertainty, the path forward is clear: Canada's moment to build is now.
Presented by Uber Canada, DMZ, and National Bank of Canada, BetaKit Most Ambitious is back, telling stories of nearly 100 Canadian innovators strengthening our nation's autonomy, security, and prosperity.
Read BetaKit Most Ambitious now.