Tara Deschamps
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The Canadian Press business reporter, covering tech (including AI) and retail. Cinephile. [email protected]
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Since March, I’ve written 75 stories on the fall of Hudson’s Bay and yet the closure of its stores today still feels surreal.

If you’ve missed any of my coverage, find it all here:

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Branding is seen at the Hudson's Bay store in Toronto on Monday, March 10, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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Several news organizations, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsmax and NPR, have announced that their journalists will not sign a new set of Pentagon restrictions affecting news gathering in the massive military complex.
Several News Outlets Reject Pentagon’s Reporting Restrictions
The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsmax and others said their journalists would not agree to the Defense Department’s policies on news gathering ahead of a Tuesday deadline.
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If the new president of Microsoft Canada is concerned a trade war with the U.S. will diminish his employer's stature north of the border, he wasn’t showing it, when I recently interviewed him.

I delved into the sovereignty challenges facing his company: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/science/ai-s...
AI sovereignty in the spotlight as Microsoft Canada gets new president
TORONTO - If the new president of Microsoft Canada is concerned that a trade war with the United States will diminish his employer's stature north of the border, he’s not
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Heffel is hosting an auction for the Hudson’s Bay collection.

The auction house’s head told me what it was like to get HBC’s call:
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/sale-of-hudsons-bay-collection-is-a-watershed-moment-auction-house-heffel/article_ead70f97-567c-5db3-b476-28f94630b770.html
Heffel president David Heffel poses for a photo in Toronto on Friday, Dec. 2, 2016. Heffel's auction business is selling the Hudson's Bay collection of art and artifacts. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Melissa Renwick
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New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
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"AI should not just be 'We’re going to build data centres and ship the power to other parts of the world.'"

OpenAI's chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane says Canada has to figure out how to turn its Ai advantages into economic opportunity.

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Canada must turn its AI advantages into economic opportunities: OpenAI exec
TORONTO - OpenAI's chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane grew up in Maine, where he recalls there was no shortage of trees.
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Hudson's Bay wants to revert to its original plan to auction off its founding charter after more parties signalled interest in buying and then donating the 1670 document.

Also, its art auction could happen in November with 24 Indigenous pieces removed.

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Hudson's Bay to seek court permission to auction off charter, docs say
TORONTO - New court documents say Hudson's Bay wants to revert to its original plan to auction off its founding charter after more parties signalled interest in buying and then
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