Technology

Canada and France sign General Security of Information Agreement

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3 months ago

June 12, 2026

Agreement creates new opportunities for Canadian workers and delivers economic benefits across high–value sectors

GATINEAU QC, June 12, 2026 /CNW/ – The Government of Canada is acting to strengthen Canada’s economic and security interests by deepening cooperation with trusted international partners. In a global economy where access, security and innovation drive growth, Canada is ensuring its industries are well-positioned to compete and succeed.

Today, the Honourable Joël Lightbound, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement and Quebec Lieutenant, and the Honourable Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced that Canada has signed a General Security of Information Agreement (GSOIA) with France.

The agreement establishes a trusted framework that allows Canada and France to exchange and protect classified information securely, enabling closer cooperation in areas such as defence, security and advanced technologies. Canada and France share a long–standing and close defence relationship as North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies, grounded in mutual trust and a shared commitment to international security and stability. The agreement lays the groundwork for deeper cooperation in defence, space, intelligence, and advanced technology by ensuring that sensitive information can be shared securely and confidently.

With this agreement in place, Canadian businesses will be better positioned to compete for and participate in defence, security and advanced technology projects with France, including contracts and research that require the secure exchange of sensitive information. This creates new opportunities for Canadian workers and delivers economic benefits across high–value sectors.

The agreement also supports cooperation on dual–use technologies, including aerospace, space, cybersecurity and advanced communications, while strengthening capabilities that contribute to national security, public safety, and international stability. France is among Canada’s most important partners in sectors where technologies routinely have civilian and military applications, including:

aerospace and space systemscybersecurity and secure communicationsartificial intelligence and advanced data systemsmaritime and underwater technologiesdefence and security platforms with civilian applications

By enabling the secure exchange of classified information, this agreement will strengthen cooperation on trade, innovation, advanced technologies, and security while creating new opportunities for Canadian businesses and workers. It will help position Canada as a trusted partner in strategic sectors, support economic growth, and contribute to building a stronger, more competitive Canadian economy.

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“Canada and France are strengthening a trusted partnership that delivers real and tangible benefits for Canadians. This agreement will make Canada safer by improving the protection of sensitive information, strengthening how our Armed Forces operate alongside one of our closest allies, and ensuring faster, more effective coordination when it matters most. It reinforces Canada’s ability to respond to emerging threats, support our security priorities at home, and work seamlessly with like-minded partners to protect Canadians and defend our shared interests in a more complex world.”

The Honourable Joël Lightbound
Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement and Quebec Lieutenant

“Canada’s relationship with France reflects a shared commitment to upholding international security and strengthening allied cooperation to address regional and global issues. This agreement reinforces Canada’s ability to work closely with a key European ally on shared strategic priorities, while underscoring Canada’s role as a reliable and engaged partner in an evolving global security environment.”

The Honourable Anita Anand
Minister of Foreign Affairs

“As longstanding allies, Canada and France have a proud history of working together to strengthen international peace and security. The trust that binds our two countries is particularly important right now, as the rules-based international order weakens across the world. The General Security of Information Agreement signed today strengthens Canada’s ability to cooperate with France on shared defence priorities, enhances military interoperability, and equips both countries to respond rapidly in an increasingly complex global security environment. This is another example of how our government is expanding partnership with like-minded allies to protect Canadians.”

The Honourable Stephen Fuhr
Secretary of State, Defence Procurement

Quick facts

Canada and France are long–standing NATO allies, cooperating on collective defence and international security since the alliance’s founding in 1949.France is among Canada’s leading European trading and investment partners, with billions of dollars in annual two–way trade.GSOIAs are negotiated by Public Services and Procurement Canada’s Industrial Security Sector, in collaboration with Global Affairs Canada and National Defence. Canada and France are both parties to the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, which has been provisionally applied since 2017, pending full ratification by all European Member States.

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RealNex Releases Major Navigator Enhancements to Power the Next Generation of CRE Brokerage Performance

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43 minutes ago

September 10, 2026

New release expands RealNex Navigator with KRM, RealNex Insights, RealNex Vault, RealNex Bridge, MarketEdge enhancements, and CRE Marketing Hub AI tools.

STAFFORD, Texas, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — RealNex, a commercial real estate technology company, today announced a major release of updates and enhancements to RealNex Navigator, its integrated platform for commercial real estate professionals.

The release includes the evolution of RealNex CRM into KRM — Knowledge and Relationship Management, embedded RealNex Insights Power BI dashboards, the launch of RealNex Vault, the upgraded RealNex Bridge transaction workflow, enhanced MarketEdge analysis and presentation tools, and CRE-trained AI tools powered through CRE Marketing Hub.

Together, the enhancements make RealNex Navigator a more connected platform for managing knowledge, sharpening strategy, and activating execution across the full CRE deal cycle. The result is what RealNex calls The CRE Intelligence Advantage: a more effective way to make brokerage knowledge measurable, visible, and actionable.

“Commercial real estate has always been a knowledge business — and the broker who knows their market deepest wins. Every AI tool in the world cannot change that. What we have built changes something more fundamental: it makes that knowledge measurable, visible, and actionable at a scale no individual broker could achieve alone.”

— Mark Kingston, Executive Chairman, RealNex

KRM reflects the reality that CRE professionals manage more than contacts. They manage properties, markets, companies, owners, tenants, activity, assignments, and transaction history. RealNex Insights turns live KRM data into Power BI dashboards covering pipeline health, market inventory, financial performance, production activity, and business development performance.

RealNex Vault is a purpose-built virtual deal room for commercial real estate, with staged bidder progression, tiered access, NDA e-signature, dynamic watermarking, two-factor authentication, audit trails, and bidder engagement analytics. Vault is included at no additional charge for MarketEdge and Navigator subscribers.

RealNex Bridge, formerly Transaction Manager, now includes a redesigned interface, nationwide commercial property database, direct MarketPlace and KRM integration, enhanced proposal comparison, and one-click branded PDF tour books.

MarketEdge enhancements include a refreshed UI, widget-based design editor, auto-sizing text, expanded demographics, and enhanced sale-leaseback and lease vs. buy reports.

CRE Marketing Hub AI tools are available to support property and market analysis, business development strategy, targeted marketing plans, content creation, underwriting and investment analysis, social media messaging, and video scripting.

All updates are live for RealNex subscribers as of September 9, 2026.

About RealNex

RealNex is a commercial real estate technology company providing an integrated platform including KRM — Knowledge and Relationship Management — MarketEdge, RealNex Bridge, RealNex Vault, and RealNex Insights, with AI tools powered through a partnership with CRE Marketing Hub. RealNex serves brokerage firms, leasing professionals, tenant representatives, investment sales teams, and property owners across the United States and internationally.

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97% of America’s Red-Eye Flights Take Off in the West, and Overnight Flying Is at a Record High, 26 Years of Federal Data Show

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44 minutes ago

September 10, 2026

Champion Traveler analysis of every US domestic flight since 2000 finds red-eyes concentrated in the Pacific and Mountain time zones, growing, and more reliable than daytime flights

SOUTH JORDAN, Utah, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — About one in sixty US domestic flights is a red-eye, and 97 percent of them take off in the western United States, according to a new Champion Traveler analysis of 26 years of Bureau of Transportation Statistics flight records.

The study counted every scheduled domestic flight reported to the federal government from 2000 through 2025 and classified as a red-eye any flight scheduled to depart between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. and land between 3 a.m. and 10 a.m. local time. In 2025, 115,580 of 6.9 million flights met that definition.

Key findings:

Red-eyes are a western phenomenon. 97 percent of 2025’s overnight flights departed from the Pacific and Mountain states plus Alaska and Hawaii, a share that has never fallen below 95 percent since 2000.The red-eye is at a record high. Overnight flights grew 54 percent, from 75,158 in 2000 to 115,580 in 2025, after a low in 2009 and a collapse in 2020.Anchorage is the red-eye capital by share: 26 percent of its departures are overnight flights. Los Angeles leads by count with 19,064. Las Vegas flew the most red-eyes in America in 2000, lost more than half by 2010, and has since recovered.The middle-of-the-night departure is disappearing. Flights leaving after midnight were 31 percent of red-eyes in 2000 and 14 percent in 2025.The legacy airlines lost the overnight market. American, Delta and United flew 97 percent of red-eyes in 2000 and 64 percent in 2025. Alaska Airlines is now the most red-eye-heavy carrier, and Southwest, which flew none for 25 years, took 5.6 percent of the market in its first year.Red-eyes are more reliable. In 2025, 82.4 percent arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, against 77.6 percent of other flights, and they were cancelled less often.

The geography has a simple cause. An overnight flight from the West Coast crosses three time zones and lands on the East Coast at breakfast; the same trip westbound would land in the middle of the night, so airlines schedule almost no overnight flights in that direction. Among the 300 busiest red-eye routes in the study, 82 percent land in the Central or Eastern time zones.

The full study, with a sortable table of every US airport’s red-eye departures in 2000, 2010, 2019 and 2025, airline shares back to 2000, departure hours, seasonality and reliability, is at https://championtraveler.com/news/red-eye-flights-share-of-us-flights/. Journalists can request data for any airport, airline or route.

About Champion Traveler: Champion Traveler publishes data-driven travel research, including the Best Time to Travel tool covering more than 35,000 destinations, the Air Quality Travel Index and the Flyover States study. Champion Traveler is operated by Terra Lake Data, an enterprise data company.

Media contact: Edwin Ivanauskas, (385) 462-2956, 422341@email4pr.com

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Rentvine Names Nat Kunes as CEO as Its AI Platform Enters Its Next Chapter

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44 minutes ago

September 10, 2026

The fastest-growing property management software in the single-family rentals industry strengthens its leadership team as it enters its next phase of growth.

ESTERO, Fla., Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Rentvine, the fastest-growing property management software in the single-family rentals industry, today announced Nat Kunes as Chief Executive Officer, effective September 9. Kunes will lead company strategy and assume day-to-day leadership, building on the AI and open foundation Rentvine has already established with its recent launch of MCP and Pro Skills. Rentvine founder, Dave Borden will continue as a hands-on member of the leadership team and board of directors, closely involved in Rentvine’s vision, and industry relationships.

“We’re building the experience property managers deserve. The company’s focus on actively listening to property managers and executing based on their needs is rare, and it’s the foundation I get to build on as we push further into what AI can do for this industry.”

Nat Kunes brings a rare combination of experience: more than 20 years of product leadership, including at one of the largest property management software providers in the industry, paired with a track record of leading AI software organizations through their accelerated growth stages. That blend is precisely what Rentvine has been building in its next chapter, with that vision already taking shape inside the platform.

“What drew me to Rentvine was that our product, support, and culture already set the standard,” said Kunes. “We’re not running a predefined playbook. We’re building the experience property managers deserve. The company’s focus on actively listening to property managers and executing based on their needs is rare, and it’s the foundation I get to build on as we push further into what AI can do for this industry.”

“As founder, this company has always been my passion, and that’s not changing,” said Dave Borden. “Nat’s experience within property management will undoubtedly extend Rentvine’s industry leadership in AI. I will focus on the industry relationships, strategy, and culture, all near and dear to me, as we build our next chapter.”

“Adding Nat to our leadership team alongside Dave and me is exactly the kind of move that helps our customers win,” said Jonathan Ewen, Co-Founder and President of Rentvine. “He shares our commitment to the Herd, and having all three of us driving the business forward means we can move faster without losing what makes Rentvine, Rentvine.”

Rentvine’s product, team, and commitments to property managers remain unchanged. While Borden remains active in the business, Kunes will work alongside Borden and Ewen to make sure employees, customers, and partners continue to receive the same experience they’ve always received from Rentvine.

About Rentvine

Rentvine is the fastest-growing property management software in the single-family rentals industry. Built for property managers who want to scale with confidence and clarity, we deliver the best trust accounting in property management, giving operators unmatched accuracy, visibility, and control over their financials. From leasing, maintenance, and CRM tools to owner reporting and performance analytics, everything lives in one modern, AI-connected platform with an open API.

To learn more, visit www.rentvine.com.

Media Contact

Chris Brasher, Rentvine, 1 888-597-2611, chris.brasher@rentvine.com, www.rentvine.com

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