Tucson migrant advocates have designed a new tool to help track immigration-related enforcement in and around the city as arrests surge under President Donald Trump’s mass deportation initiative. Tucson Migra Map allows people to document and visualize enforcement activities by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies. While revealing patterns, the tool also raises […]

Weston Miller says Niagara-on-the-Lake is at a turning point. “If we’re not thoughtful about the decisions that we make today, tomorrow, we might not recognize the town we all love,” he said in an interview. Miller, a NOTL realtor who serves as president of the Chautauqua Residents Association, treasurer of the Niagara Foundation, a board […]

Ontario Liberal legislator aclough has entered the party’s leadership race. The rookie member of provincial parliament pried away one of three seats from the Progressive Conservatives in Etobicoke, where Premier Doug Ford lives, in the 2025 snap election. Fairclough said she would focus on affordability, improving health care and education. “Doug Ford has stopped listening,” […]

Your Access and Privacy Online News Summary for Saturday, May 9th. This week, we begin with the still-unfolding Alberta voter list breach — where nearly three million electors’ personal information may have been exposed through a searchable database tied to separatist organizing.  The latest developments now include investigations by Elections Alberta, the RCMP, and Alberta’s Privacy Commissioner — along […]

If the spring season has brought an urge to scrub your living space from top to bottom, why not clear out the digital detritus cluttering your electronic devices and online accounts at the same time? Carrying out the digital equivalent of spring cleaning a home isn’t just an opportunity to tidy up our online lives. […]

French prosecutors are seeking charges against Elon Musk and his social platform X for child sexual abuse images on the platform, deepfakes, disinformation and complicity in denying crimes against humanity by the platform’s artificial intelligence system, Grok. The Paris public prosecutor’s office said Wednesday it has opened an investigation into X on charges including complicity […]

A system that thousands of schools and universities use was offline Thursday during a cyberattack, creating chaos as students tried to study for finals and underscoring education’s dependence on technology. The hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach at Canvas, said Luke Connolly, a threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm Emisoft. Instructure, the […]

Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney says reports that Alberta separatists are targeting and spreading his personal information has prompted him to alter his security but won’t stop him from speaking out. “I’m not someone to live in fear,” Kenney said Thursday in a phone interview from Ottawa. “In fact, it only encourages me to double […]

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s office says she has been granted security clearance to receive briefings from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Her office provided few other details but says in a statement that the clearance allows her to be briefed on national security matters. “The premier has now obtained her top-secret clearance in order to […]

The federal privacy watchdog says there have been more than 42,000 breaches at the Canada Revenue Agency since 2020 as a result of people gaining unauthorized access to, or modifying, taxpayer information. In a special report tabled Thursday in Parliament, privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne pointed to gaps in the revenue agency’s prevention, monitoring, detection and […]

Alberta’s elections agency said Thursday it believes 568 people accessed a voter list at the heart of a massive privacy breach involving a separatist group. The group, called the Centurion Project, had made a publicly accessible database featuring the names and addresses of nearly three million Alberta voters. The website was shut down last week […]

Both engines were shut off and there was a cockpit struggle before a China Eastern Airlines jet slammed into a mountain in 2022 and killed all 132 people aboard, newly released data released by American investigators suggests. In response to a public records request, the National Transportation Safety Board released a report recently on what […]