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Customers’ personal information stolen during cybersecurity breach: Nova Scotia Power
Nova Scotia’s electric utility says personal information belonging to some customers was taken during a recent cybersecurity breach. In a statement, Nova Scotia Power says the theft occurred last Friday when the privately owned company detected unusual activity on its network. At the time, the utility said there was unauthorized access into certain parts of…
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Rules that govern rulers – updates to procedural bylaw for Southgate Township
The procedural bylaw lays out rules for how council conducts its business, but also generally allows council to suspend those rules when two-thirds of council agrees. Presenting on a new draft of those procedural rules was the team that did the updates, Michelle Smibert and Michelle Casavecchia Somers. They presented an updated procedural bylaw, and…
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OPP detachment board’s ‘Traveling Wilburys’ seek meeting location
As the Southern Georgian Bay OPP detachment board continues to hit the ground running, members hope to find a permanent meeting locale. Board administrator Phil DeBruyne presided over this week’s meeting in Tiny Township with nearly-official community representative Judy Contin who was awaiting finalization on CSPA requirements before her full participation next meeting. A verbal…
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Cape Breton based employment organization mismanaged $1 million: auditor general
HALIFAX — A Cape Breton-based employment services organization mismanaged more than $1 million in government funds in what Nova Scotia’s auditor general says was a “perfect storm” of deliberate, systemic actions that benefited select managers and staff. Kim Adair’s audit of the Island Employment Association found numerous instances of “gross mismanagement of public funds,” including…
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Thai activists sue government agencies for allegedly using Pegasus spyware against them
BANGKOK (AP) — Two prominent Thai activists filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing the government of using the internationally notorious Pegasus spyware to infiltrate their mobile devices during a period of political unrest almost three years ago. Law reform advocate Yingcheep Atchanont and human rights lawyer Arnon Nampa accuse nine state agencies in the administration…
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Europe, US urged to investigate the type of AI that powers systems like ChatGPT
LONDON (AP) — European Union consumer protection groups urged regulators on Tuesday to investigate the type of artificial intelligence underpinning systems like ChatGPT, citing risks that leave people vulnerable and the delay before the bloc’s groundbreaking AI regulations take effect. In a coordinated effort, 13 watchdog groups wrote to their national consumer, data protection, competition…
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No investigation of political interference allegations in SNC Lavalin affair: RCMP
OTTAWA — The RCMP says it is not investigating allegations of political interference in the federal handling of criminal charges against engineering firm SNC-Lavalin. In a statement today, the Mounties set the record straight after a recent response to a public interest group’s Access to Information request suggested the Mounties were conducting such a probe.…
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Judge in Larry Nassar case calls on Canada for athlete protection at hearing
OTTAWA — Canada has a chance to become a world leader when it comes to helping athletes alleging abuse against coaches, a prominent American judge told a parliamentary committee. Judge Rosemarie Aquilina sentenced former U.S. gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar to 40 to 175 years in prison in 2018 after he admitted to molesting top gymnasts…
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Like Daniel Ellsberg, others who leaked US government secrets have been seen as traitors and heroes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Daniel Ellsberg’s decision to leak a secret Defense Department study of the U.S. war in Vietnam — the Pentagon Papers — made him a traitor in the eyes of the White House and its supporters and an instant hero to opponents of the war. That’s been true of others who released top-secret…
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Appeal Court denies release of man who killed five people in Calgary
EDMONTON — A man who stabbed five young people to death at a Calgary house party will not be released from a group home after a ruling Thursday from Alberta’s highest court. Matthew de Grood, who is now in his early 30s, was found not criminally responsible in 2016 for the killings of Zackariah Rathwell,…
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Energy Department among federal agencies breached by Russian ransomware gang
The Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were compromised in a Russian cyber-extortion gang’s global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments, but the impact was not expected to be great, Homeland Security officials said Thursday. But for others among what could be hundreds of victims from industry to higher…