Paramedic students at a career college in northern Ontario who were approved to receive funding through a signature government program aiming to boost health-care staffing have been swept up in the provincewide pause on student aid. More than 40 affected students have already dropped out, their school says.  Members of Premier Doug Ford’s government have […]

Students using Google software in the classroom will not be allowed to access the company’s search engine unless their school system also opts in to using artificial intelligence, the tech giant said Tuesday. The Mountain View, California, company has been facing pushback from educators, child development experts and parents over the use of its technology […]

TRELEW, Argentina (AP) — Data centers have become one of the most polarizing issues in the world. Argentina’s president wants to lure as many of them as he can get. As residents and policymakers in the United States and Europe fight the facilities that power artificial intelligence, President Javier Milei is pitching Argentina as a […]

With the Chatham-Kent Crime Stoppers program temporarily suspended because of a national security breach, the Chatham-Kent Police Service has created a new tip line for public reports. Residents who want to report criminal activity or public safety concerns can now contact the Chatham-Kent Police Service Tip Line directly at 1-888-236-0993. This line connects tipsters directly […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee National Guard troops in Memphis last summer trained their handguns on a man as he lay dying on a sidewalk after a guard member shot him in the back, video released Monday by county prosecutors shows. A Memphis police officer can be heard in the footage from an officer’s body […]

Privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne says the government’s “lawful access” bill should be amended to limit the sort of information available to authorities under a new production order. Currently, police can obtain a general production order from a court to obtain subscriber information, such as the name, address and email linked to an account. The government […]

After a 21-week summer break, the PC government returned to Queen’s Park with another omnibus bill that made “anti-democratic” changes to Ontario’s oldest environmental laws, public consultation and land-use planning under the banner of cutting “unnecessary” red tape. The drastic move will supposedly eliminate nearly 220,000 days of approval processing time with the goal of […]

Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has filed a legal challenge against an order by British Columbia’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner to produce documents related to the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge. A statement from the independent privacy watchdog said the California-based company had requested a judicial review in B.C. Supreme Court, challenging the […]

Alberta RCMP are warning people not to hand over personal information after scammers posed as police officers and faked phone numbers to look like they were calling from local detachments. The warning came Friday. Police say they received several reports over Thursday from people who received the fake calls. The callers claimed to be RCMP […]

El Paso Matters filed a lawsuit Thursday asking a state judge to lift a blanket of near-total secrecy on records in the 2019 Walmart mass shooting held by El Paso police and prosecutors. The petition seeks a writ of mandamus, an order from a judge to a government official to perform a mandatory legal duty […]

Krystle Silverfox uses straight lines of colourful beads to cover names, places and events recorded in her mother’s Sixties Scoop files. On the art pieces, printed headlines and handwritten notes remain with information relevant to the family’s journey in the child welfare system. Apprehension, a body of work by Silverfox of Selkirk First Nation (Wolf […]

Your Access and Privacy Online News Summary for Saturday, October 31st. This week: the Crime Stoppers breach, Canada’s digital regulator, and student aid under scrutiny. Then, AI safety, American transparency battles, and the global scam industry.  With municipal and provincial elections across the country, the dust is still settling around newly elected leadership.  In the […]