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Minister Hodgson marks milestone in Canada and Poland’s energy and economic security partnership

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GDANSK, Poland, July 10, 2026 /CNW/ – Canada and Poland are strengthening their partnership and deepening ties across trade, defence and energy security by investing in key sectors that support clean, secure, reliable and affordable energy systems and economic development in both countries.

Today, the Honourable Tim Hodgson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, joined the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk; Polish dignitaries; and Canadian and Polish private sector leaders to celebrate the achievement of “first power” at Baltic Power, Poland’s first offshore wind project. Minister Hodgson also marked the completion of the Choczewo substation, Poland’s first major grid hub designed specifically to receive power from offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea and transmit it inland through the national grid to homes and businesses across Poland.

The 1.1-GW Baltic Power project is Poland’s first offshore wind farm, built through a partnership between Poland’s ORLEN and Canada’s Northland Power. As a flagship example of what can be achieved when Canada and Poland work together, the project combines Canadian expertise, technology and investment with Poland’s ambition to strengthen its energy security and accelerate its clean energy transition. Once fully operational later this year, Baltic Power is expected to generate approximately four terawatt-hours of electricity annually — enough to power more than 1.5 million homes and cover approximately three percent of Poland’s national electricity demand while avoiding approximately 2.8 million tonnes of annual CO2 emissions. Baltic Power demonstrates how Canadian industry expertise, innovation and investment can help deliver world-class clean energy in partnership with European allies, contributing to global energy security and Canada’s trade diversification and job creation ambitions.

This milestone opens the door to deeper Canada–Poland energy co-operation and joint investments, which will help Canadian companies compete and succeed in international markets. By expanding commercial opportunities for Canadian firms and strengthening economic ties with trusted NATO, G7 and other allies, projects like this support global energy security, create Canadian jobs, attract investment and advance Canada’s broader objective of diversifying trade and building more resilient economic partnerships.

From energy and natural resources deposits to world-leading financial institutions and industry expertise, Canada has what the world wants — and we are unlocking it to bring prosperity, security and sustainability to Canadians and our partners abroad.

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“The world is facing an energy crisis, and Canada is leading the way to secure energy supplies and systems at home and abroad by unlocking our resources and supporting our allies to build new infrastructure, like Northland Power and ORLEN’s Baltic Power project. I congratulate Northland, ORLEN and everyone involved in reaching first power. This is how we strengthen energy security worldwide, attract bilateral investment and create economic opportunity and prosperity.”

The Honourable Tim Hodgson
Minister of Energy and Natural Resources

“Baltic Power is proof of what can be achieved when governments, industry and communities come together with a shared purpose and a determination to deliver. As a Canadian company and one of the world’s leading offshore wind operators, Northland is proud to stand with ORLEN in bringing Poland’s offshore wind industry to life. This historic milestone demonstrates how Canadian expertise, investment and innovation can help strengthen energy security, create economic opportunity and deliver lasting impact far beyond our borders.”

Christine Healy
President and CEO, Northland Power

“The first electricity generated by offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea is a major success for Poland’s energy sector and a confirmation of the effectiveness of Polish–Canadian co-operation. The Baltic Power project demonstrates that a consistently implemented energy policy and co-operation with reliable partners deliver tangible results. Together, we are building modern infrastructure that strengthens Poland’s and Europe’s energy security, drives economic development and paves the way for further joint investments in offshore wind, nuclear energy and energy storage. This partnership brings benefits to both Poland and Canada, strengthening our alliance and our strategic relationship.”

Miłosz Motyka
Minister of Energy of Republic of Poland 

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The completion of a joint Canadian–Polish energy infrastructure project builds on Minister Hodgson’s recent meeting with Poland’s Minister of Energy, Miłosz Motyka, on June 29, 2026, in Montreal — where the ministers discussed expanding co-operation on offshore wind, nuclear energy, LNG and electricity infrastructure — as well as a meeting between Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Tusk in May 2026 and visits to Poland by Minister Hodgson in February 2026 and Prime Minister Carney in 2025.Poland’s offshore wind program is a central part of its energy-transition and energy-security strategy, with a target of up to 18 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2040.As a top global offshore wind player, Northland brings more than a decade of offshore wind operating experience across international markets, including development, financing, construction, operations and asset management capabilities.ORLEN is advancing additional offshore wind developments, including the proposed 900-MW Baltic East project, creating opportunities for continued Canada–Poland collaboration.Under the strategic partnership advanced by Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Tusk, Canada and Poland are working to strengthen collaboration, prosperity and investment across energy and natural resource industries. For example, in January 2025, Canada and Poland signed an updated Agreement for Co-operation on the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, strengthening bilateral co-operation on nuclear energy and enabling future collaboration between Canadian and Polish organizations.

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Minister Hodgson Meets with Poland’s Minister of Energy, Milosz MotykaPrime Minister Carney meets with Prime Minister of Poland Donald TuskMinister Hodgson advances energy security and international partnerships in Poland and FranceCanada strengthens partnership with Poland in trade, defence and energyThe Canada–Poland Nuclear Energy Co-operation Agreement

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PRAVAAH Launches to Bring Together South Asian Business Leaders Across North America Through Sports

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New platform will create unique and creative sports events to connect business leaders, brands, technology innovators, and community leaders from multicultural communities together, building strategic partnerships, business development opportunities and cultural engagement.

NEW YORK, July 10, 2026 /CNW/ — PRAVAAH today announced its official launch, introducing a new platform dedicated to accelerating business growth and community engagement across the global South Asian diaspora and South Asian audiences throughout North America.

Derived from the Sanskrit word for “flow,” PRAVAAH is built on the belief that sports has the power to create meaningful connections across cultures: businesses, brands, investors, technology leaders, cultures, fans, and media. The organization will work with sports rightsholders, properties, and investors to create meaningful business relationships with South Asian audiences through creative experiential programming, strategic advisory, and partnerships.

PRAVAAH aims to serve as a trusted bridge between the sports industry and the South Asian audience, one of North America’s fastest-growing multicultural communities.

PRAVAAH is a joint venture between Ocgrow Ventures and Tulsea Sports Marketing, giving the organization the ability to leverage their extensive networks of relationships across professional sports, business, government, community organizations, celebrities and influencers, and ethnic media.

“PRAVAAH is far more than a sports platform. It’s a global movement built on the belief that sport has the power to unite people, ideas, cultures, and opportunity. Across North America and around the world, South Asian entrepreneurs, executives, investors, and innovators are helping shape the future of the global economy.

Our vision is to build the world’s leading network where sports, business, technology, investment, and culture converge. By creating meaningful connections and authentic partnerships, PRAVAAH will unlock new opportunities for business leaders, brands, and sports organizations while inspiring the next generation of global leaders. This is only the beginning.” , quoted Harish Consul, Co-Founder of PRAVAAH & Founder/CEO of Ocgrow Ventures.

The company’s initial areas of focus will be on connecting sports rightsholders with business leaders and founders from multicultural communities through creative experiential programming, using sports as a platform to support and amplify the South Asian business community.

During its first year, PRAVAAH anticipates launching initiatives in several key South Asian population hubs in North America, including Calgary, Toronto, the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Vancouver, and New York, with additional markets expected to be announced throughout the year, together with our global expansion in 2027 ahead.

“Sports has a unique ability to unite people across generations, cultures, and industries,” said Sreesha Vaman, Co-Founder of PRAVAAH and Partner/Co-Founder of Tulsea Sports Marketing. “PRAVAAH harnesses that power to bring together South Asian business leaders with the communities they serve, creating authentic connections that strengthen relationships and unlock new opportunities.”

With multicultural populations representing one of the fastest growing segments of sports fans and consumers across North America, PRAVAAH is positioned to help organizations move beyond one-time campaigns toward sustained, authentic engagement.

For more information, visit pravaahsports.com.

About PRAVAAH

PRAVAAH is a multicultural sports business platform that connects sports, business, and culture through experiential programming, strategic partnerships, and community engagement. Working with sports rightsholders, brands, investors, technology leaders, and community organizations, PRAVAAH helps organizations unlock growth opportunities by building meaningful relationships with fast-growing South Asian audiences across North America.

www.pravaahsports.com

About Ocgrow Ventures

Ocgrow Ventures is a leading global venture capital fund based in Canada. Founded by Harish Consul (www.harishconsul.com), Ocgrow Ventures (www.ocgrowgroup.com) is focused on investments with exceptional global founders to help build exponential growth companies, with AI First focus in multiple verticals globally. Ocgrow Ventures has been an early investor in Amazon, Shopify, Garuda Aerospace, Bloom Energy, Fizz Social and many more.

About Tulsea Sports Marketing

Tulsea Sports Marketing advises sports rightsholders on their multicultural marketing efforts, with a unique focus on South Asians. TSM brings a unique, holistic approach to our clients, including trusted strategic advisory, deep connectivity to the global community, world-class expertise in messaging and communications, and extensive experience in implementation. TSM’s mission is to amplify the global commercial presence of South Asians in the sports industry. TSM has offices in New York and Los Angeles.

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Havoc Named to Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Startup Workplaces 2026

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Recognition highlights Havoc’s mission-driven culture and rapid growth as the company builds the future of all-domain collaborative autonomy

PROVIDENCE, R.I., July 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Havoc, the all-domain collaborative autonomy company, today announced it has been named to Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Startup Workplaces 2026, presented in partnership with Plant-A Insights Group. The recognition honors startups that demonstrate excellence in workplace culture while achieving sustainable growth and long-term business success.

Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group evaluated startups using publicly available data and multiple third-party platforms to assess employee experience, organizational health, and company growth since inception.

“This recognition belongs to every member of the Havoc team whose commitment, ingenuity, and relentless execution have made our culture what it is today,” said Paul Lwin, co-founder and CEO of Havoc. “At Havoc, our mission is to build collaborative autonomy that strengthens America’s and our allies’ defensive capabilities while advancing the commercial industries that keep our world moving. That mission attracts people who want to solve hard problems, move with urgency, and deliver capabilities that matter. Thank you to Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group for this recognition.”

Since its founding in 2024, Havoc has rapidly expanded its team and operations while delivering autonomous capabilities across maritime, aerial, and ground domains. The company has grown to more than 200 employees across multiple U.S. locations and continues to attract engineers, operators, veterans, and technologists committed to advancing the future of defense and commercial technologies.

“At a startup, your people aren’t just building the product—they’re building the company, and great leaders inspire them to become the best versions of themselves along the way. The businesses named to Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Startup Workplaces 2026 have created cultures of trust and ownership, where employees are coached, heard, and empowered to do the most meaningful work of their careers. For job seekers, this list points to where they can grow with an organization on the rise.” Ryan Kinney, Senior Vice President, Newsweek.

About Havoc
Havoc is a leader in all-domain collaborative autonomy. Its software-defined hardware approach powers military and commercial-grade autonomous systems across sea, air, and land to sense, decide, and act together in complex and contested environments. Havoc connects assets, enabling them to share information, adapt in real time, and continue operating even when communications are disrupted or denied. Havoc optimizes mission performance and minimizes human risk. Learn more at havocai.com.

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Innovative Eyewear, Inc. Announces New Claude AI Integration for All Lucyd Smart Eyewear

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MIAMI, July 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Innovative Eyewear, Inc. (“Innovative Eyewear” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: LUCY; LUCYW), the developer & manufacturer of smart eyewear under the Lucyd®, Lucyd Armor®, Reebok®, Eddie Bauer®, and Nautica® brands, is pleased to announce that it has developed a new Claude AI integration for its smart eyewear products, launching next week for all models of Lucyd glasses.

The new integration provides fast, free access to the powerful Claude AI from Lucyd smart glasses via the Lucyd app. In the first version launching next week, the user activates the functionality by opening the Lucyd app, then chooses their preferred Claude model, and converses with it using the audio interface on Lucyd glasses.

Some key features of the update:

Multiple AI models in one place — chat with the best of OpenAI (ChatGPT) and Claude from a single screen.

Switch models mid-conversation — move from ChatGPT to Claude without losing context; the conversation continues seamlessly.

Understands your images and documents — upload a photo or a PDF and ask anything; the AI analyzes the content and responds.

AI image generation — create images from a simple prompt and save them straight to your photo library with a single tap.

Incognito Mode — private, ephemeral conversations that are never saved; when you leave, they’re automatically wiped from the server.

Conversation history — pick up any past chat right where you left off, organized by date.

Rich content rendering — displays code with syntax highlighting, math formulas, tables, and formatted text, all natively.

Answers with sources — when the AI pulls from the web, it shows its sources so you can verify the information.

Real-time streaming responses — text appears word by word as the AI responds, for a fluid, immediate experience.

In a future update, anticipated to launch in late Q3 2026, users will be able to query Claude with the phone locked and in their pocket. This is similar to the Company’s groundbreaking hands-free ChatGPT integration, which was the first hands-free voice interface for the world’s largest LLM.

Harrison Gross, CEO of Innovative Eyewear said, “This is an important step forward in our mission to make the most flexible and powerful AI glasses on the market. We have a pending patent on multi-AI access glasses, and we are bringing this incredible functionality to all our customers at no additional cost. We envision that in the future, the Lucyd user can access several of the world’s most powerful AI models with a simple voice command, through its designer, lightweight, smart eyewear. We believe that this is the most practical way to expand human abilities through wearables. We look forward to continuing to Upgrade Your Eyewear® with useful smart features that make you more aware, knowledgeable, and more easily connected to the people and systems you care about.”

About Innovative Eyewear, Inc.

Innovative Eyewear is a developer & manufacturer of cutting-edge AI-enabled smart eyewear, under the Lucyd®, Nautica®, Eddie Bauer®, and Reebok® brands. True to our mission to Upgrade Your Eyewear®, our Bluetooth audio glasses allow users to stay safely and ergonomically connected to their digital lives and are offered in hundreds of frame and lens combinations to meet the needs of the optical, sunglass, sporting goods, and safety eyewear markets. To learn more and explore our continuously evolving collection of smart eyewear, please visit www.lucyd.co.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including those relating to the new Claude AI integration. Forward-looking statements are based on the Company’s current expectations and assumptions. The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a safe harbor for forward-looking statements. These statements may be identified by the use of forward-looking expressions, including, but not limited to, “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “estimate,” “expect,” “future,” “intend,” “may,” “outlook,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “will,” “would” and similar expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are set forth in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its annual report on Form 10-K under the caption “Risk Factors.”

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New York, NY 10036
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