Privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne says he will investigate whether social media platform X is respecting the law on the use of Canadians’ personal information. In a letter to New Democrat MP Brian Masse, Dufresne says he will look at whether X complies with federal privacy law concerning the platform’s collection, use and disclosure of personal […]

The Competition Bureau has confirmed it’s investigating the possible use of AI-driven algorithmic pricing in Canadian real estate rental markets. The practice involves real estate companies using programs that track what competitors are charging for rent and leases. An American antitrust lawsuit alleges companies are using this software to collude and artificially inflate rents. That […]

In August 2021, a Toronto drug case took a dramatic turn when a prosecutor made what the judge called a “highly unusual” request, asking the court to throw out evidence by a key police witness. It came after defence lawyers had grilled Toronto Police Service Const. Ryan Kotzer over “disparaging comments about black people” in […]

New Brunswick’s liquor and cannabis stores had to shut down their debit and credit card machines last week after detecting a cybersecurity threat, and the problem has yet to be fixed. Florence Gouton, a spokesperson for NB Liquor, said “some anomalies” were found Jan. 7 and external experts were called in to investigate, but much […]

School boards in multiple provinces have been affected by a data breach involving software used by schools across North America to store student information.   Ontario’s Toronto, Peel and Durham district school boards issued similarly worded notices about a “cyber incident” targeting PowerSchool, a third-party application that’s also used to store some school-based staff information.  The […]

As a Communist Party member in Calgary in the early 1940s, Frank Hadesbeck performed clerical work at the party office, printed leaflets and sold books. But he also had tasks his party comrades could know nothing about: snooping on mail, copying phone numbers from scratch pads and rummaging through waste baskets. Hadesbeck, known to his […]

When the organizer of the We Unify Reclaiming Canada event contacted officials about booking the Victoria Conference Centre, he touted invitees from across the political spectrum, including liberal luminaries such as Amal Clooney, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, B.C.’s NDP Premier David Eby, movie stars and more. Jonathan Bower told the sales director of the city-owned […]

A review of information provided by provinces and territories shows more than 400 criminal cases have been halted across Canada since the start of last year because they had exceeded time limits on how long trials can take before violating an accused’s Charter rights.  Here’s the breakdown of the numbers of recent cases scrapped because […]

The federal privacy watchdog has opened an investigation into cyberattacks on the Canada Revenue Agency that led to more than 30,000 privacy breaches dating back to 2020.  In a news release, the office of privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne says the federal revenue agency reported the breaches in May of this year. The commissioner’s office says […]

Another beluga whale has died at Marineland and four years into a provincial probe, Ontario’s solicitor general is saying little about the investigation’s progress. The latest beluga death is the fourth in the past year, provincial records show. Since 2019, 16 belugas and one killer whale have died at the Niagara Falls, Ont., tourist attraction, […]

An officer in Lethbridge, Alta., has received a reprimand for improperly accessing information in a police database about former NDP legislature member Shannon Phillips. Phillips was environment minister when she was surveilled and photographed at a diner in 2017 by officers concerned she was making off-highway changes at a nearby wilderness area. Her information was […]

The police officer who was shot and seriously injured in Toronto’s midtown on Wednesday was released from hospital the next day, a spokeswoman for the Toronto Police Association confirmed Friday. The shooting in the Yonge and Eglinton neighbourhood fuelled concerns about a recent spate of Toronto gun violence and recharged political debates about Canada’s bail […]