The Town of Gananoque is warning vendors and applicants to remain cautious after reports of fraudulent emails targeting those connected to the Gananoque Farmers’ and Craft Market. Town officials said at least one vendor recently received a fake email falsely claiming they had been accepted into the market and requesting payment through an email address […]

General Motors agreed to pay $12.75 million in civil penalties for selling driving data of hundreds of thousands of California motorists to data brokers, allegedly without their consent. The settlement, announced Friday, is the largest ever for violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act, a 2018 law that requires companies to tell consumers about how […]

Alberta’s chief electoral officer says he’s swamped with so much extra work —  petitions, referendums, preparing for an election — that he deserves a raise.  But members of Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party caucus who decide such pay bumps say no. On Monday, UCP members used their majority on a legislature committee to reject […]

Premier Danielle Smith says the buck stops with her caucus when it comes to questions over why Smith didn’t know sooner about a massive breach of private information on Albertans. Smith’s United Conservative caucus has previously said one of their staffers was at an April 16 meeting in which private information on Albertans was shown […]

British Columbia conservation biologist Chris Shepherd has spent more than three decades, oftentimes undercover, inside wildlife markets across the globe.  The gruesome sights he has witnessed make it hard to believe that “outbreaks like COVID don’t happen far more often”. In the early 90s, Shepherd had just completed high school, unaware of the world he […]

The National Transportation Safety Board on Sunday said it is gathering information about the evacuation of a Frontier Airlines plane after it hit and killed a person on the runway at Denver International Airport during takeoff. The plane, on route from Denver to Los Angeles International Airport, “reported striking a pedestrian during takeoff at DEN […]

A Liberal government bill that would make it easier for police and spies to navigate the online world is running into fierce opposition from major digital companies, civil liberties groups and law professors who say it would open the door to serious privacy infringements. The government says the bill — “An Act respecting lawful access” […]

Tens of thousands of students studying for final exams around the world Friday regained access to a key online learning system after a cyberattack had earlier knocked it offline, throwing schools and universities into turmoil. Elizabeth Polo was in a creative writing class at the University of Maryland late Thursday afternoon when a classmate shouted, […]

Schools and universities across the country are recovering from an outage that knocked down Canvas, an online platform that manages exams, course notes, lecture videos and grades. The disruption tied to a cyberattack hit in the middle of finals period for many colleges, a high-stress time when students and instructors rely heavily on the platform. […]

Commuters across the GO Transit network will begin to see a visible shift in how safety is managed, as Metrolinx officially rolled out body-worn cameras for its frontline officers starting on April 20. The initiative introduces small, uniform-mounted devices for Customer Protection Officers, Revenue Protection Officers, and Station Safety Ambassadors. These cameras are designed to […]

Multiple post-secondary institutions across Canada say they’ve been impacted by a cyberattack targeting an education system used by thousands of schools globally. Technology company Instructure said it launched an investigation on April 29 after detecting “unauthorized activity” in Canvas, a learning platform for schools that manages student coursework, grades and other education materials. Information affected […]

PHOENIX (AP) — The only person ever charged in the unsolved 2021 disappearance of Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay, whose case became emblematic of a crisis fueled by disproportionately high rates of violence faced by Native Americans, has been sentenced to five years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Douglas Rayes in Phoenix on Friday […]