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Proposed Canadian law puts burden on large internet providers to police child porn, hate

Howard Solomon -
Designated social media providers, live-streaming services and adult sites that allow users to upload content will have to scrutinize and delete objectionable messages, images,...

Sidebar: The powerful Digital Safety Commission

Howard Solomon -
The Online Harm Act’s proposed Digital Safety Commission — whose members would be full-time government employees with renewable terms of up to five years...

Cyber attack on Hamilton knocks out municipal phone, email

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One of Ontario’s biggest cities is in the second day of dealing with a cyber attack. Hamilton, a municipality of about 570,000 on the shore...

FedDev Ontario invests $17 million in 12 companies to advance quantum computing

Ashee Pamma -
Today, the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) announced a total repayable investment of C$17.2 million to help 12 local companies...

Opposition MPs hammer head of PHAC over ArriveCAN app

Howard Solomon -
Opposition MPs hammered the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) on Tuesday for its role in not tightly overseeing the $59...

Bell, Rogers and Telus state their conditions as CRTC considers expanding wholesale internet mandate

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Last week, the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) kicked off a series of public hearings as part of a proceeding to examine its existing...

Ottawa willing to improve cybersecurity bill, ministers tell MPs

Howard Solomon -
Two senior Canadian cabinet ministers have told a parliamentary committee that the government is willing to make changes to its proposed cybersecurity legislation for...

Inadequate ID authentication blamed for 2020 data thefts at Canada Revenue, ESDC

Howard Solomon -
The theft of tax and employment records of 48,000 of Canadians four years ago was the fault of poor IT authentication security, says the...

EY Canada, Microsoft launch climate stress testing initiative for FIs

Paul Barker -
Consulting and accounting firm EY Canada today launched the EY Climate Stress Testing and Scenario Analysis solution, a service running on Microsoft Azure which...

NRC announces funding for quantum collaborations

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The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) today announced that 11 Canadian companies have been selected to receive funding to collaborate on projects with...

Serious IT incidents in Canadian financial sector almost tripled in 2023

Howard Solomon -
Canadian federal financial institutions suffered almost three times as many serious reportable IT incidents in 2023 as in the year before, a parliamentary committee...

Government departments ignored management practices, failed to oversee ArriveCan app: Auditor General

Howard Solomon -
Three federal government agencies failed to follow good management practices in the contracting, development, and implementation of the $59.5 million ArriveCAN application, Canada’s auditor...

Canada falling behind G7 peers in cybersecurity oversight, warns BlackBerry

Howard Solomon -
Opposing viewpoints on the Liberal government’s proposed cybersecurity law for critical infrastructure providers highlighted a Parliamentary committee hearing on Thursday. A BlackBerry official urged MPs...

Defence department upbraided for not doing PIAs on data extraction tools

Howard Solomon -
Senior Canadian Defence Department IT officials have been rebuked by an MP for not doing a privacy impact assessment on software that can extract...

Critical infrastructure cyber law needed ‘more than ever,’ Parliament told

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The Canadian government’s proposed law forcing critical infrastructure providers to toughen their cybersecurity is “needed now more than ever,” an expert told a parliamentary...
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