Parliamentarians are taking a hard look at Canada’s overseas intelligence gathering capabilities as debate simmers over the need for a new foreign spy agency. The MPs and senators who make up the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians are examining the effectiveness of Canada’s foreign intelligence collection. The secretariat of the highly secretive committee […]

Alberta’s government said Friday it has made temporary changes to rules governing provincial voter lists after a major privacy breach earlier this year. However, the move drew concern from the Opposition NDP, who said the government could be opening the door to voter fraud in next month’s referendum. The province published a new policy Thursday […]

The Saskatchewan Health Authority has launched an investigation into the death of a Saskatoon woman who was waiting for surgery to fix her broken ankle. The authority said Friday it will be speaking with Kirsten Hanke’s family as part of a formal internal review. It declined to provide details of her care due to privacy […]

Élections Québec knew it would not be allowed to send voter information in English over a year before the election campaign, The Canadian Press has learned.  The provincial election authority had tried to pressure the government to amend its language legislation — and even provided proposed wording of an amendment — but the government refused, […]

Bell Canada intends to quadruple the size of its planned data centre project in Saskatchewan, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe announced at Canada’s first-ever investment summit on Monday. Carney said the project is expected to bring in more than $50 billion in capital investment, and amounts to the largest capital investment […]

Naheed Nenshi, the NDP leader of Alberta’s Opposition, is accusing Premier Danielle Smith of a scheme that could increase power bills for Albertans “so she can build AI data centres for her foreign billionaire friends.”  The comments come from a news conference organized by the NDP in response to reporting by The Narwhal on a […]

A lawyer for Élections Québec told a Montreal courtroom on Thursday that there might be time to send out one piece of English-language voter information by mail, as the elections agency and provincial government faced a court challenge over French-only mailouts. But Henrick Lavoie also told a Quebec Superior Court judge that it’s too late […]

The federal artificial intelligence minister said the government is closely following the situation at Anthropic after a researcher who resigned from the company Tuesday said people in the industry fear AI could “kill us all.” Evan Solomon also told reporters Wednesday such warnings aren’t new and that there are both regulatory and technical solutions to […]

Calgary city councillor Landon Johnston said Tuesday he is apologetic — but unrepentant –for recently leaking private budget documents to the media. City councillors, meanwhile, were told they can’t do anything to sanction him for misconduct for the leak because recent law changes by the provincial government took that power away. “I apologize for breaking […]

Quebec’s courts have issued new guidelines restricting judges’ use of generative artificial intelligence, stressing that judging must remain a fundamentally human responsibility. The guidelines, jointly adopted by the Quebec Court of Appeal, Superior Court, Court of Quebec and the province’s municipal courts, say generative AI can be used for certain supporting tasks but cannot replace […]

Hundreds of Quebecers are occupying hospital beds while waiting for a spot in a long-term care facility, and the number is on the rise, reveals data released by Santé Québec through an access to information request. It’s a situation that raises concerns for patients rights advocates who warn many elderly people now living in an […]

The Federal Court has ordered the release of some long-concealed passages of a 1986 study prepared for a landmark federal commission of inquiry on war crimes. In a new ruling, Federal Court Justice Simon Fothergill directed the government to disclose previously redacted portions of the study on the resettlement of alleged Nazi war criminals in […]