Wildfire seasons, amplified by climate change, are getting hotter, longer, and drier, and Canada’s resources are buckling under the weight of the number and scale. In the last three years, Canada has spent more days at National Preparedness Level (NPL) five—the highest, meaning domestic resources are maxed out—than in the combined years of the decade before.
This is the first time nurses have gone on strike in British Columbia since 1989, and the first province-wide nursing strike anywhere in Canada since nurses in Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador went on strike in 1999.
But the data centre boom is zeroing in on one province: Alberta. The prairie province accounts for 93 per cent of all planned data centre capacity in Canada, in large part because of its cheap natural gas-powered electricity. Plus, Alberta’s UCP government has been courting the AI industry, offering corporate tax incentives to data centre builders and exempting them from otherwise routine environmental impact assessments.
In an initial response to CBC’s questions about why there is no cell service in the village, a Bell MTS spokesperson said: “wireless expansion in rural regions, such as St. Lazare, is a challenge for private investment alone and we are open to partnerships with provincial and federal government to expand our network.”
The federal government says it’s simplifying the current ‘Buy Canadian’ procurement process to make it easier for small and medium-sized businesses to be competitive and get new projects to market faster.
Immediately following privatization, CN began prioritizing its new shareholders—within less than a year, CN initiated its first dividend payout in 1996, delivering $99 million to shareholders. Since then, dividend growth has been explosive, with increases of between 10 and 30 per cent year-over-year every year from 1997 to 2019, with the exception of a seven per cent increase in 2010.
Allegations that officers ripped locs from Black men to keep as ‘trophies’ have stunned the public. But those who have lived under aggressive policing say the accusations reveal a reality they’ve been describing for decades
Nine countries have committed to a new global defence bank, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Tuesday, in a boost for the multilateral drive to help rearm allied nations.
Canada’s economy was in a trade surplus for the third straight month in May and exports were up for the fourth month, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday.
I’m playing something of a devil’s advocate here, but I think there’s a case to be made that the three new pipelines announced recently could end up being a good thing–for the environment!
A British Columbia journalist who was targeted for months by followers of Chinese tycoon Guo Wengui says he’s feeling “tremendous relief” after Guo was sentenced to 30 years in a U.S. jail for fraud.
China-aligned attackers broke into the networks of U.S. and Canadian universities to steal sensitive data and establish persistent access via webshells and backdoors, Proofpoint threat researchers said Tuesday.
The old Mayor of Clarington, Ontario, John Mutton has been leading a hate campaign against a family with a hobby farm, who just happen to live in The Greenbelt (search Middle Road, Bowmanville - https://greenbelt.ca/maps).
This submission analyzes Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, which would enact broad surveillance obligations and reforms in Canada. Issues include: the bill’s sweeping scope, significant constitutional and human rights risks, transparency and accountability deficits, and dangers to encryption and Canada’s cybersecurity. We recommend entirely withdrawing several elements of the bill and suggest amendments to mitigate harms.
Rather than backing a divisive political movement, Windscribe revealed that Sak, the proud owner of a corgi named Snoop, had donated personal funds to Save Our Scruff, a dog rescue in Toronto.
When the government rushed Bill C-22 through the House of Commons last month, it defended the lawful access mandatory metadata retention requirement as consistent with similar rules established by Canada’s Five Eyes allies. Yet the U.S. has never imposed a comparable obligation to retain every subscriber’s transmission data, and this week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision that further solidifies the view that Bill C-22 is disproportionate and inconsistent with widely held understandings of privacy.
The beaver and moose may be enduring symbols of Canadian wildlife, but neither is uniquely Canadian from a genetic perspective. But a team of researchers from the University of Ottawa has now discovered something rare: a genetically distinct and exclusively Canadian population of western toad (Anaxyrus boreas). This discovery highlights the country’s unique biodiversity and has important implications for conservation and wildlife management.
Despite the manufactured controversy, the 12-metre exhibit is the first time the story of Palestinian dispossession is being told in a national institution
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