Culture Minister Marc Miller says while he shares concerns about how long the government’s new digital regulator will take to set up, he’s unable to say exactly when that will happen. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Miller said the government is moving as quickly as possible on digital safety bill C-34, which includes […]

Toronto Crime Stoppers has temporarily stopped accepting tips after it said more than 175,000 of them were stolen by hackers earlier this year, alongside nearly 15,000 names. The pause comes after CBC reported that 1.5 million tips submitted to Canadian Crime Stoppers programs over the last 25 years were exposed in a massive data breach.  […]

A company planning a massive data centre in Nova Scotia for artificial intelligence giant Anthropic is in the midst of a dispute about land fees for a troubled wind-powered hydrogen project in southern Newfoundland. The Newfoundland and Labrador government confirmed Tuesday that it was still trying to collect outstanding fees from EverWind Fuels for Crown […]

Paul St-Pierre Plamondon was sworn in as Quebec’s 34th premier on Wednesday, bringing the sovereigntist Parti Québécois back to power after more than a decade. The premier named 22 ministers, including one who is responsible for Quebec independence, as well as a president and whip. St-Pierre Plamondon also appointed himself as homelessness minister. His cabinet […]

Public school officials in Burnaby, B.C., say hackers may have obtained student and parental information in a recent cyberattack. The Burnaby School District says in an online notice that the ransomware attack it suffered on Sept. 21 affected school websites and portals, internal network services and phone lines. The notice says hackers copied and stole […]

A pause on student financial assistance payments across all private post-secondary institutions in Ontario will stay in effect until at least the new year, the province’s colleges and universities minister announced Tuesday.Nolan Quinn said in a late afternoon statement that the government intends to strengthen the approval process for career colleges and other private post-secondary […]

Chris Watson says he was very concerned when he reviewed a New Brunswick business development agency’s recent correspondence about data centres. Over the past year, he has been at the forefront of citizen-led opposition to a major data centre project in his neighbourhood in Saint John, N.B. But when he reviewed the correspondence, released through […]

An Ontario career college has suspended its academic operations as a result of a province-wide pause on student financial assistance to all private post-secondary institutions. Trillium College, with campuses in St. Catharines, Kingston, Oshawa, Sudbury and Cobourg, paused classroom and online instruction as of Friday, it said in a notice to students obtained and confirmed […]

An online user claimed on social media that Alberta residents who are not Canadian citizens can falsely declare their citizenship at polling stations and vote in the Oct. 19 referendum. The user questioned Elections Alberta’s verification process and raised the spectre of a surge of ineligible voters changing the outcome of an election. Elections Alberta […]

Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada is denouncing new allegations of police misconduct in recent encounters with unhoused people that have prompted the suspension of two officers. One of the officers allegedly urinated on an unhoused person while on duty. The other suspended officer allegedly posed for photos in which he appears to mock a suspect […]

A recent pause on financial assistance payments to private post-secondary institutions in Ontario is affecting divinity schools, Canada’s National Ballet School and many others, with students feeling unfairly swept up in what they describe as a trawling net-like policy. Colleges and Universities Minister Nolan Quinn announced last week that the province had tasked KPMG with […]

Ontario’s Colleges and Universities Ministry is alleging it could not “reliably determine bona fide studies” at two of the career colleges it barred from student financial aid — a decision those schools are now challenging in court. Two campuses of Citi College of Canadian Careers are among six schools the province blocked from the Ontario […]