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Using in-depth interviews with Francophone and Anglophone journalists as well as topic modelling on data collected from five major newspapers, we find that routine news making processes between journalists, experts, entrepreneurs, and governments build, maintain, and promote Canada's artificial intelligence ecosystem. 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