Today, the Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI) announced a national expansion and is adding government relations experts in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario. The national council says its practice leads in those three
Published on: April 12th, 2021 Pragya Sehgal @itbusinessca
Ransomware continues to strike Canadian organizations directly or through their suppliers. The federal government issued a cryptic statement Friday afternoon, saying that on March 14 it became "aware of a possible ransomware attack
Published on: March 19th, 2021 Howard Solomon @howarditwc
Nearly 50 per cent of Canadian businesses say they are still not prepared to support or maintain long-term remote work because of the rapid digitization that it necessitates, according to a recent survey
Published on: July 30th, 2020 Pragya Sehgal @itbusinessca
Canada Learning Code's education programs manager says Ontario's updated elementary school curriculum is addressing serious gaps in tech education and digital literacy. “One of the things that we strive towards at Canada Learning
Published on: June 30th, 2020 Pragya Sehgal @itbusinessca
The Ontario provincial government has announced a $150 million investment in providing reliable broadband and cellular services to rural communities as phase one of its $315 million Up to Speed: Ontario’s Broadband and
TekSavvy Solutions announced today that it has chosen Ericsson to upgrade TekSavvy’s existing fixed wireless access (FWA) services and network in rural southwestern Ontario. The modernization of the existing FWA infrastructure is expected
Published on: February 20th, 2020 Pragya Sehgal @itbusinessca
The e-scooter company, Bird Canada, will be providing the vulnerable and at-risk youth seeking employment in Toronto with an opportunity to work in operations roles with them. The company has partnered with Youth
Published on: December 13th, 2019 Pragya Sehgal @itbusinessca
A new survey from the Ontario Student Trustees' Association (OSTA-AECO) revealed that 95 per cent of the 6087 students surveyed disapprove of the e-learning mandate introduced by the provincial government back in March.
The recent recall of romaine lettuce due to E. coli has been in effect across Canada and the U.S. since Nov. 26th, but the problem started long before that, likely in a California
Published on: December 7th, 2018 Meagan Simpson @megesimpson
Ontario's Ministry of Education is failing to provide students with consistent access to computers and lacks proper security training and practices to protect the personal information of students, according to the Auditor General
David Livingston, chief of staff for ex-Liberal Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty, has been sentenced to four months in jail for illegally deleting emails related to the cancellation of two Ontario gas plants in
Ontario introduces new legislation aimed at trimming the gender pay gap. A huge study of tech jobs reveals who’s getting paid the most. And a new app for project management geeks. https://twitter.com/karynbyrne/status/971032901239361537 Trending
Ontario’ first chief digital officer has been on the job since April and has spent the first several months slowly chipping away at the government’s old legacy services. Hillary Hartley has been tasked
Published on: December 14th, 2017 Mandy Kovacs @MandyVKovacs
Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly reported $485 million in funding committed to the project. The correct number is $185 million. Identification systems have been based on face-to-face interactions and on
Published on: September 22nd, 2017 Mandy Kovacs @MandyVKovacs
