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Workers are well into station construction, but the cost is still creeping upArticle contentTransportation Minister Mike Farnworth joined journalists Monday to descend several storeys into the cavernous concrete box that will become the Broadway subway line’s Emily Carr-Northern Way station to get a glimpse of its progress.

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Advertisement 1Canada needs more 'sovereign compute' to get ahead in the AI race. Telecom giant Bell is committing to build a substantial chunk of it in B.C.Article content“Sovereign AI compute” was the buzz term on the lips of people in B.C.’s artificial intelligence sector at last week’s Web Summit conference in Vancouver. Sign In or Create an AccountArticle contentArticle contentIt is something increasingly essential to the country’s booming AI sector, but is an area where Canada is behind.

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Advertisement 1B.C.'s regulatory system is still standoffish to autonomous transportation, but experts say the technology has reached an "inflection point."Article contentSelf-driving cars aren’t something you will find on B.C. streets — last year, the province prohibited the use of fully automated features — but tech optimists promise that autonomous transportation really is just around the corner, after more than a decade of experiments.

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Skip to ContentAdvertisement 1More than 300 B.C.-based startups are represented at Web Summit Vancouver, the North American edition of the globally known series of conferencesArticle contentThe international tech conference Web Summit that landed in Vancouver this week is the kind of big-pond event that British Columbia’s startup companies usually have to travel to in search of the financing and talent they need to advance.

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Advertisement 1The Nisga'a First Nation backed Ksi Lisims LNG proposal awaits a key decision for its pipeline, but four other B.C. plants are in processArticle contentThe Ksi Lisims LNG project, which is backed by the Nisga’a First Nation, requires a key decision by environmental regulators before it can proceed. Sign In or Create an AccountArticle contentWe apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team.