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Social Security lists thousands of living immigrants as dead to prompt them to leave, AP sources say
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has moved to classify more than 6,000 living immigrants as dead, canceling their Social Security numbers and effectively wiping out their ability to work or receive benefits in an effort to get them to leave the country, according to two people familiar with the situation. The move will make…
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Travelling in Canada? Take your health card with you
Now that the number of Canadians crossing the border for travel has declined, many people are choosing to travel across Canada for a vacation. If you are travelling to another province, you will want to maintain your healthcare coverage when you are on the road. Before you leave home, you should make sure your health…
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Court of Appeal dismisses bid to overturn dashcam ruling
A BC Court of Appeal tribunal ruled it did not have jurisdiction to hear a forestry and construction company’s bid to overturn a BC Labour Relations Board decision against the use of surveillance cameras. Rehn Enterprises Ltd., part of the Kamloops-headquartered Roga Group, which has a location in Prince George, lost a review in January…
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Ransomware group LockBit apologizes saying ‘partner’ was behind SickKids attack
TORONTO — A global ransomware operator issued an apology and offered to unlock the data targeted in a ransomware attack on Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, a move cybersecurity experts say is rare, if not unprecedented, for the infamous group. LockBit, a ransomware group the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has called one of the…
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Toronto’s SickKids says it is ‘aware’ of online statement offering free decryptor
Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children says it is aware of an online statement from a ransomware group that offers a decryptor to restore systems impacted by a mid-December cybersecurity incident. Canada’s largest pediatric health-care centre says in a news release issued Sunday evening that the statement includes “an offer of a free decryptor” after some…
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Chief justice: Judges’ safety ‘essential’ to court system
WASHINGTON (AP) — With security threats to Supreme Court justices still fresh memories, Chief Justice John Roberts on Saturday praised programs that protect judges, saying that “we must support judges by ensuring their safety.” Roberts and other conservative Supreme Court justices were the subject of protests, some at their homes, after the May leak of…
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Indiana blocks Chinese owned app TikTok from state devices
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana has blocked the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from state devices, its technology office said Thursday. The Indiana Office of Technology “blocked TikTok from being used in our state system and on our state devices” as of Dec. 7, office spokesman Graig Lubsen told The Journal Gazette. The Office of Technology…
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Whistleblower group criticizes federal review of wrongdoing disclosure regime
OTTAWA — An advocacy group for those who reveal wrongdoing says it cannot support a new task force looking at the federal whistleblowing regime because it lacks someone with “lived experience” as an actual whistleblower. In a letter to Treasury Board President Mona Fortier, Whistleblowing Canada Research Society president Pamela Forward calls the absence a…
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Federal effort to boost election worker protections fizzles
ATLANTA (AP) — Federal proposals that would have significantly boosted security funding for election offices and heightened penalties for threatening their staff failed to advance this year, leaving state officials looking to their legislatures for support. The massive budget bill that passed Congress on Friday will send $75 million in election security grants to states,…