Jenny Hervieux white-knuckled her way from Quebec City in a storm Tuesday, arriving just as the sun set over downtown.
She spent hours dodging snow drifts and black ice so that, come nightfall, she could be on the front lines of Montreal’s homelessness crisis. And while the icy pellets battered the city, another storm has been raging in the streets since Christmas.
Controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI broke Canadian laws and had at least 48 accounts in agencies across the country, most of them police forces, federal and provincial privacy commissioners said today.
And legislation — including proposed reforms — will not be adequate to deter similar privacy-harming software in the future, they said in a telephone press conference to discuss the release of their report.
A Vancouver man who has been accused of repeatedly throwing large penthouse parties during the pandemic, including one that resulted in $17,000 in fines, is calling for police to be charged for damaging his home and violating his privacy.
Long haul truck drivers are “not confident in the current training guidelines” for new drivers in Canada, says a new study from the University of Saskatchewan.
OTTAWA — How many government staffers do you need to polish a veteran Liberal’s “friendly” question for a government minister? The answer, according to internal emails released by the House of Commons’ health committee, is at least 10.
Did you pay a big cell phone cancellation fee to Rogers a decade ago? You might be eligible for over $300 in reimbursement thanks to a class-action lawsuit.
And time is running out to claim the money.
An independent panel is urging the Yukon government to develop a wetlands policy to protect unique streams, bogs, fens and peatland from mining because there are no known ways to fully restore these sensitive ecosystems once disturbed.
Wetlands filter water, provide habitat to species and sequester carbon but are quickly being lost to development worldwide — an issue drawing attention on World Wetlands Day Feb. 2.
Doug Ford’s government is turning to one of the Mulroney’s old family friends to help run Ontario’s new procurement agency.
Paul G. Smith, CEO of Toronto tech company Rally Enterprises & Communications, was recently named as Chair of Supply Ontario, a new centralized procurement agency in charge of buying goods and services for the public sector, including supplies for Ontario schools and hospitals.
We now have much data which shows -- in the words of one report -- there is a "lower quality of care" in privately owned, for-profit long-term care facilities than in public or not-for-profit homes.
In November, when it issued that report, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) suggested Canadian governments, both federal and provincial, should make moves to eventually abolish the for-profit long-term care sector. The CCPA said doing so should be a key part of any federal exercise in setting national standards for long-term care.
After a year of upheaval for the arts and culture sector, an Ontario-based advocacy group is collecting testimony from artists to support a national basic income plan.
Over the weekend, the Media Arts Network of Ontario hosted two full-day panels inviting 20 artists from across Canada to testify to a group of sector experts about the merits of a basic income.