After two years of work and thanks to a $65,000 federal grant, the Wilmot Family Resource Centre has officially rebranded as the Wilmot and Wellesley Resource Centre and it launched a new website aimed at improving its internal operations and its communication with the people and communities it serves. According to resource centre executive director […]

Nova Scotia Power’s CEO says up to 140,000 social insurance numbers could have been stolen by cyber-thieves who recently hacked into the utility’s customer records. Peter Gregg said in an interview Thursday that the privately owned utility collected the numbers from customers to authenticate their identities. “If there are a number of John MacDonalds, it […]

A new amendment to the Township of Wellesley’s dog-kennel bylaw removing tattooing as an acceptable form of identification for dogs and puppies, thereby leaving microchipping as the only option locally, has several local kennel owners questioning the future of their operations. At township council’s May 13 meeting, councillors heard from two local kennel owners seeking […]

British Columbia’s Interior Health Authority has been hit with a class-action lawsuit over a data breach in 2009 that allegedly compromised thousands of employees’ personal information that ended up being sold on the dark web.  The lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme Court on Thursday says the data breach occurred in December 2009, exposing “highly sensitive” […]

The cost of democracy, both figurative and literal, was discussed at local council meetings recently as municipalities look towards the October 2026 elections. Staff reports on voting methods made their way to respective councils in Tay Township and Penetanguishene with councillors weighing the merits and flaws for voting through paper ballots, internet/telephone voting and a […]

Nova Scotia’s electric utility says data stolen from its customers includes credit histories, social insurance numbers and information on driver’s licences and bank accounts. In an update today, Nova Scotia Power says some customers’ names, ages, phone numbers, as well as email, mailing and service addresses may have also been taken. The utility’s release says […]

Security experts say the theft of customer data from Nova Scotia’s electric utility has the hallmarks of an extortion attempt by cybercriminals. In a news release following the April 25 data breach, the utility said it notified police about the theft and confirmed that “certain customer personal information was accessed and taken by an unauthorized […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Progressive advocates have filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging new restrictions on Florida’s process to get citizen-driven initiatives on the ballot before voters. Florida Decides Healthcare, the campaign to secure a measure on the 2026 ballot to expand Medicaid in the state, is bringing the legal challenge, along with the […]

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has blocked aid from entering Gaza for two months and says it won’t allow food, fuel, water or medicine into the besieged territory until it puts in place a system giving it control over the distribution. But officials from the U.N. and aid groups say proposals Israel has floated […]

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 […]

A federal appeals court says it won’t lift restrictions on the access that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has to Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans. The full panel of judges on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 9-6 to keep the ruling from U.S. District Judge Ellen […]

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, whose 1991 film “JFK” portrayed President John F. Kennedy’s assassination as the work of a shadowy government conspiracy, called Tuesday for a new congressional investigation of the killing during a hearing that aired conspiracy theories about it. The freewheeling hearing of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, where […]