DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Hackers with possible links to Israel have drained more than $90 million from Nobitex, Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, according to blockchain analytics firms. The group that claimed responsibility for the hack leaked on Thursday what it said was the company’s full source code. “ASSETS LEFT IN NOBITEX ARE NOW […]

Valemount Council discussed employees’ pension plans, water metering and plasma donation in northern B.C. during its regular meeting on Tuesday, June 10th. Mayor Owen Torgerson called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. After adopting the minutes of the May 27th regular meeting as well as the May 27th public hearing, Council received two delegations. […]

The world is on pace to emit enough greenhouse gas emissions over the next three years to blow by an international target to limit global warming to 1.5 C, according to a new study co-authored by a Canadian researcher who says the finding underlines the need for urgent transformational change.  The study by more than […]

An organization that helps LGBTQ+ people file refugee claims says it has seen a spike in pleas for assistance from around the world since 2020. Devon Matthews, program head with Rainbow Railroad, said the explosion in the number of requests for help reflects a trend of nations backsliding on LGBTQ rights — or even embracing […]

GUYSBOROUGH – In rural Nova Scotia, a team of women from four organizations is ensuring womeniors and others are kept in the loop and aware of the dangers that lurk online. Travelling throughout Antigonish and Guysborough counties, the team gives a collaborative presentation focused on fraud prevention, online  safety and scam awareness. Each presenter speaks […]

More than 300 civil society organizations are calling on the Liberal government to withdraw its new border bill, saying the legislation threatens liberties, refugee and migrant rights and the privacy of all Canadians. Representatives of four major coalitions held a news conference today to ramp up pressure on Ottawa to scrap the proposed Strong Borders […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — The acting chair of the country’s top agency for enforcing worker rights will face questions at a Senate committee hearing Wednesday over her efforts to prioritize anti-diversity investigations while sidelining certain racial and gender discrimination cases and quashing protections for transgender workers. Andrea Lucas, who was first appointed to the Equal […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Anxious lawmakers convened Wednesday under heightened security in Wisconsin’s state Capitol, one of the most publicly accessible statehouses in the country, days after a legislator and her husband in neighboring Minnesota were shot and killed at their home and others were targeted. The tension playing out in Wisconsin and other states […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — California’s two U.S. senators demanded on Wednesday that the Trump administration stop using personal data of millions of Medicaid enrollees — including their immigration status — as part of its sweeping deportation campaign. In a letter to top administration officials, Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla expressed alarm over an Associated […]

In the quiet hours of May 7, when many Waswanipi members had scattered to bush camps for Goose Break, a massive landslide hurtled towards Lac Rouge on William Dixon’s trapline W26. Two days later, his son Freddie Dixon discovered that the lake had completely disappeared. Eagles and crows scavenged the remains. “It happened all of […]

Inadequate security measures opened the door to a data breach discovered two years ago at genetic testing company 23andMe, Canada’s privacy watchdog says. Privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne and U.K. information commissioner John Edwards released the findings from their joint investigation of the breach, which affected almost seven million people, including nearly 320,000 in Canada. Dufresne […]

An organization that monitors the effect of information flows on human rights says the new federal border security bill appears to “roll out a welcome mat” for expanded data-sharing agreements with the United States and other countries. Researchers with The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto say they want the federal government to reveal […]