On June 14, 2022, the Government of Canada introduced “Bill C-26: An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts.” If passed into law, it will significantly reform the Telecommunications Act as well as impose new requirements on federally regulated critical infrastructure providers
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January 22, 2016
Authored by Matti Siemiatycki, associate professor in Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto, the new IMFG report shows the causes of cost overruns are not merely technical. Instead, Siemiatycki argues, there are deep psychological and political economic factors that also contribute.
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November 5, 2015
Professors Dan Breznitz and David A. Wolfe, co-directors of the Innovation Policy Lab, with support from Assistant Professor Shiri Breznitz, have released a report on the region’s financial services technology (“Fintech”) sector and its impact on the region’s future economic success.
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October 9, 2012
At the SecTor conference in Toronto last week, security researcher Seth Hardy of the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab research center warned that 2012 has seen a significant increase in new variants of targeted, Mac-focused malware reported to the group by the human rights organizations it seeks to aid.
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July 25, 2012
The technical evidence of a match came from the work of Morgan Marquis-Boire, a security researcher at Citizen Lab, who analyzed the infected e-mails for this story.
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July 11, 2012
The Syrian conflict has triggered something more fundamental than a difference of opinion over intervention, something more than an argument about whether the Security Council should authorize the use of force.
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May 30, 2012
Simurgh is an Iranian stand-alone proxy software for Microsoft Windows. It has been used mainly by Iranian users to bypass censorship since 2009. The downloadable file is less than 1 MB and can be downloaded within a reasonable amount of time even with a slow internet connection, which makes it convenient for many users in Iran.
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May 10, 2012
As the world prepared for the G-8, G-20, and NATO Summits in May and June of 2012, this event gave expert presenters an opportunity to preview the summits’ issues, significance, and likely outcomes.
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April 14, 2012
Though drone strikes in Pakistan have declined sharply this year, the recent attacks on al-Qaeda fighters in Yemen have brought attention to the United States’ expanding and secretive campaign. Incidents like these have inspired the fear that drones make it easier to not only conduct but perhaps even go to war.
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March 15, 2012
The Rio+20 UN conference on sustainable developmentshould mark nothing less than a constitutional moment, putting the planet on a more sustainable path. But, it is in grave danger of being stillborn, lacking the political will to commit to the transformations required to collectively thrive within planetary boundaries.
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February 29, 2012
Bashar al-Assad’s artillery shells blast into Homs and families huddle in dark and unheated basements trying to stay alive as the shuddering assault edges ever closer. With the bombardment entering its fourth week, those watching video clips filmed with mobile phone cameras feel the same emotion they felt watching the siege of Sarajevo twenty years ago. It is the feeling of shame.
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