OTTAWA — The federal government posted a deficit of $5.36 billion for the first five months of its 2026-27 fiscal year.
In its monthly fiscal monitor report, the Finance Department says the result compared with a deficit of $11.07 billion in the same April-to-August period a year earlier.
And Anthropic posted an $80B in the first half of 2026, keep that in mind when you decide whether you want to spend your money on AI subscriptions or your country.
The big 400MW data centre project announced for Tupper Point in Nova Scotia and touted as a big invest-in-Canada win is going have Anthropic as its anchor resident on a 20-year lease. We’re all tied up together.
Well, our country’s spending money on AI so…