Sporting a black T-shirt and slacks, artificial-intelligence startup worker Sigrid Jin walked onstage for a live interview last Monday in front of the few thousand tech workers, founders and investors gathered in Vancouver. The startup software worker — initially famous for being one of the top users of Anthropic’s coding assistant, Claude Code — had […]

Eloina Alberto remembers coming to Canada from Mexico about a decade ago. Although she had applied for a work permit, she was not yet covered by the BC Medical Services Plan. “I was really stressed and I was pregnant,” she said. “I was thinking, ‘If I’m not getting MSP on time, how much will I […]

THUNDER BAY — When a first responder arrives at a home, ERIK can provide them with “immediate information to help the client if they’re unconscious or can’t communicate,” according to Donna Nagy. Nagy is chair of Age Friendly Thunder Bay, which launched a revamped ERIK (emergency response information kit) alongside the Thunder Bay District Health […]

Alberta lawmakers are rising for the summer after a spring sitting overshadowed by the province’s vocal separatist movement and the political tensions that came with it. The sitting saw legislation that will affect everything from books on public library shelves to who can access medical assistance in dying. But all spring, the issue of secession […]

On Friday, May 1, Ontario Environment Minister Todd McCarthy sent a letter to all conservation authority heads directing them to halt any “significant financial, asset or employment decisions” as the government begins consolidating the agencies tasked with protecting watersheds.  The letter signals that the work to amalgamate authorities from 36 to nine, and shift oversight […]

Elections Alberta says the separatist group at the centre of a massive voter information breach may not have shared the full list of individuals who accessed its public database. The agency says it’s possible that thousands of people viewed the private information. The group, called the Centurion Project, created an app containing the names and […]

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is clarifying his remarks that he uses “11 AI agents” to do a lot of his work, saying it’s in a strictly personal capacity. Sim had praised the efficiency of AI tools at the Web Summit in Vancouver on Tuesday, saying he expects AI to be 64 times better in three […]

LONDON (AP) — Meta Platforms said Wednesday it’s rolling out an “incognito” mode for WhatsApp users to have private conversations with its AI chatbot, a move intended to ease privacy concerns about sensitive information that users share in chats. The social media company said in a blog post that incognito chat mode provides a way […]

Newfoundland and Labrador’s information and privacy commissioner says governments need to work together to hold big technology companies to account in the wake of a cyberattack that affected millions of Canadians. Kerry Hatfield released a report Tuesday after her office’s investigation into a 2024 hack of the PowerSchool platform. The breach hit schools across the […]

NDP public safety critic Jenny Kwan says Canadians deserve to know what information the RCMP is sharing under an agreement with China’s Ministry of Public Security. In an open letter, Kwan urged Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand to disclose the full text of the memorandum of understanding. Kwan said […]

New artificial intelligence transcription services for doctors are at risk of providing inaccurate information and outright hallucinations, the province’s auditor general concluded in a special report released Tuesday. Shelley Spence said the so-called “AI scribe” software was not evaluated adequately before implementation. “We found gaps in how AI scribe systems used to generate medical notes […]

The man at the centre of a massive public data leak isn’t co-operating with an investigation by Elections Alberta, says the agency. Chief electoral officer Gordon McClure said Tuesday that David Parker, leader of the Centurion Project, has so far refused to comply with a cease-and-desist letter sent last week.  The letter required Parker to […]