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OTTAWA – The federal government is determined to improve aboriginal housing, Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett said Friday after an Ontario chief blasted Ottawa for a lack of action following a deadly blaze that killed a family of five. The government had already rejected a plea for money to upgrade 50 houses at the Oneida […]
By Jason Contant | December 19, 2016
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The government of Alberta has announced an additional $45 million in funding for flood and drought protection. Over the next four years, the government will invest an additional $31 million in the Alberta Community Resilience Program (ACRP) and $14 million in the Watershed Resiliency and Restoration Program (WRRP), which was scheduled to wrap up in […]
By Canadian Underwriter | December 19, 2016
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WASHINGTON – A new scientific report finds man-made climate change played some role in two dozen extreme weather events last year but not in a few other weird weather instances around the world. An annual report released Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found climate change was a factor, however small or large, […]
By Jason Contant | December 16, 2016
Residential flood insurance should be available and affordable and the government should provide a backstop without being an “insurer of first resort,” the Insurance Brokers Association of Canada said in a document released this week. Personal flood insurance “must be available to Canadians who need insurance,” IBAC stated in its flood principles document, which it […]
By Canadian Underwriter | December 16, 2016
In a pilot project involving anonymous volunteers, several police departments across Canada will start using oral fluid screening devices to test drivers for drugs such as marijuana and cocaine, the federal government announced Wednesday. “None of the results from the testing will be used against volunteers in court as evidence in any criminal or administrative […]
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Experts with New York City-based cloud security platform Avanan reported on Wednesday that they have discovered a new cyberattack targeting business email users of Microsoft’s Office 365. Avanan said in a blog post that the phishing attack was found using Punycode – generally speaking, a computer encoding system – to go undetected by both Microsoft’s […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Uber is riding its self-driving cars into a legal showdown with California regulators. The ride-hailing company is refusing to obey demands by the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles that it immediately stop picking up San Francisco passengers in self-driving cars. Hours after Uber launched a self-driving service Wednesday morning with a handful […]
By Jason Contant | December 15, 2016
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Total economic losses from natural and man-made disasters in 2016 were at least US$158 billion, 68% higher than the US$94 billion losses in 2015, according to preliminary Swiss Re sigma estimates released on Thursday. The US$158 billion estimate in total economic losses was caused by large natural catastrophes, such as earthquakes and floods, Swiss Re […]
By Canadian Underwriter | December 15, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo has discovered a 3-year-old security breach that enabled a hacker to compromise more than 1 billion user accounts, breaking the company’s own humiliating record for the biggest security breach in history. The digital heist disclosed Wednesday occurred in August 2013, more than a year before a separate hack that Yahoo announced […]
NASHVILLE – Deadly wildfires caused more than $500 million in damage as they tore through a tourism community in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains and killed 14 people, local officials estimated Tuesday. Sevier County Mayor Larry Waters put a dollar figure on the damage for the first time at a news conference Tuesday, […]
By Jason Contant | December 14, 2016
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