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A Quebec-made video game set in a fictionalized version of the American Deep South, called South of Midnight,won the top prize at last week's Canadian Game Awards — a fitting example of a larger tension in Canada's game industry. Canada is one of the giants of the global games industry, employing thousands in studios large and small and contributing $5.5 billion to the country's GDP, according to the Entertainment Software Association of Canada. But for all the games made here, few are recognizably set here. That tension was echoed throughout the awards, where none of the Game of the Year nominees featured Canadian settings, even as a video package celebrated how developers in this country have helped shape the industry.

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I'm Juan Santapau (he/him), and I make THE SECRET KNOTS, which is a series of short stories in comic form. I live in Chile. Hola.

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May 13, 2026

Two new large-scale data centres are set to break ground in Vancouver this year.

There are 16 data centres already dotted around Vancouver, with a majority located in the downtown core and Mount Pleasant. They have various purposes, with some serving as colocation centers—where retail customers can rent equipment and bandwidth—and others purpose-built for AI.

The two new data centres coming to Vancouver, a joint project between telecommunications giant Telus and the federal government, are meant to improve and increase the scale of Canada’s sovereign AI infrastructure, Telus said Monday. The project was proposed under the federal government’s AI initiatives introduced in 2025 that support the development of these large-scale data centres.

These centres have been quietly popping up across Vancouver for a number of years, occupying hundreds of thousands of square feet in unassuming buildings. These tech towers have been storing cloud data and hosting website domains for over a decade in the city. Their existence is not necessarily benign, though.