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Government of Canada to invest over $7 million in the Kitchener-Waterloo tech sector

Samira Balsara -
Today, the Honourable Filomena Tassi, Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), announced an investment of C$7.5 million in...

Cybersecurity webinar open for all Canadian federal public servants

Howard Solomon -
Canadian federal government employees are being encouraged to attend a bilingual cybersecurity webinar next month. The session, which coincides with the annual October Cybersecurity Awareness...

 Diia – Ukraine implements world leading digital government in the middle of a war. What’s our excuse?

Jim Love -
Ukraine has managed to implement an astonishingly comprehensive set of digital government services, with 70 key public services available, half the adult population participating,...

Attorney General of California announces lawsuit against Amazon for anti-competitive practices

Ashee Pamma -
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has announced a lawsuit against Amazon, alleging that the company is causing increased prices across California with anticompetitive practices,...

New Gartner survey reveals gaps in government tech purchase process

Ashee Pamma -
According to a recent survey from Gartner Inc., the public sector has the longest buying cycle for technology purchases, at 22 months on average. Gartner...

Major Canadian telecommunication companies agree to an emergency outage deal

Samira Balsara -
Major telecommunication companies have agreed to an emergency outage deal following Roger’s July outage, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry,...

Quebec’s privacy bill 64: Is your business ready?

Renaud Larue Langlois -
Certain provisions of the “An Act to modernize legislative provisions for the protection of personal information” (formerly known as Bill 64) will come into...

Canada faces a shortage in digital and STEM skills, says C.D Howe Institute report

Ashee Pamma -
Toronto-based policy research organization, C.D Howe Institute has released a study examining the shortage in digital and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills...

RCMP: Spyware only used with court approval

Howard Solomon -
The RCMP keeps adding new information about its court-approved use of spyware on the wireless phones of criminal suspects, leading some members of Parliament...

U.S., Canada urged to toughen fight against commercial spyware

Howard Solomon -
U.S. government intelligence employees should be banned for life from working for "foreign offensive operators" as one means of fighting commercial spyware, a member...

Government of Canada invests $3 million to help SMEs adopt low-carbon processes and products

Samira Balsara -
The Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) has announced an investment of $3 million for Lambton College of Applied Arts and Technology in partnership with Fanshawe...

Hardware vendor differences led to Rogers outage, says Rogers CTO

Tom Li -
Rogers chief executive officer Tony Staffieri today appeared alongside Ron McKenzie, the company's newly appointed chief technology officer, before the House of Commons Standing...

More conditions may be imposed on telcos as result of Rogers outage, says government

Howard Solomon -
The federal government may impose more conditions on telecommunications providers to improve their resiliency as the investigation into the huge July 8 Rogers outage...

Coffee Briefing July 19, 2022 – Government of Canada invests C$7.7 million in tech SMEs and green recovery; Thomson Reuters expands remote work benefits;...

Ashee Pamma -
Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed last week’s Coffee...

CRTC orders Rogers to explain its network failure

Tom Li -
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has ordered Rogers Communications to provide a “comprehensive explanation” of the network outage that occurred on July...
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