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Ransomware attacks, such as one that recently saw the University of Calgary pay cyber criminals $20,000 to unlock its computer systems, are on the rise around the globe. Government and industry experts say at small businesses, at hospitals and even at home, more people are suddenly finding their computer systems locked with screens displaying a […]
By Jason Contant | June 10, 2016
2 min read
The government of Alberta has introduced a new website and updated mobile app to help “keep Albertans informed and allow municipalities to respond faster and more efficiently if conditions change.” Although Alberta Environment and Parks (AEP) noted in a press release on Friday that warm spring temperatures, an early snowpack melt and slightly above-average precipitation […]
By Canadian Underwriter | June 10, 2016
3 min read
The British Columbia government said Friday that as of March 31, the province’s forests, lands and natural resource operations department recognized $508 million in pollution-related liabilities related to property managed by the Crown Contaminated Sites Program. The ministry on Friday released the Crown Contaminated Sites Program 2016 Biennial Report. Under that program, the province has […]
A shift in terrorist tactics and targets in Western countries may come down to efficiency – from the perspective of terrorists – but should encourage governments and businesses to enhance security in busy public places, suggests Andrew Majoran, lead terrorism analyst for the Risk Advisory Group. Speaking at the World Conference on Disaster Management in […]
By Angela Stelmakowich | June 10, 2016
4 min read
TORONTO – A Liberal politician whose husband was killed while riding his bicycle wants to change Ontario’s Highway Traffic Act so drivers who injure or kill someone in an accident will face the real possibility of going to jail. Police say they will charge a motorist with careless driving instead of the more serious Criminal […]
The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday it will hear an appeal from Deloitte & Touche, which was sued for $84 million in Ontario by the special receiver for Live Entertainment Corporation of Canada Inc., essentially for failing to detect a fraud scheme perpetrated during the 1990s by senior Livent officials. At that time, Livent […]
By Canadian Underwriter | June 9, 2016
5 min read
One of the biggest threats to a company’s supply chain cannot even been seen, but surely will be felt should it take hold, Nexbridge Inc.’s Randall Becker suggested Wednesday during the World Conference on Disaster Management in Toronto. Practical drift, which he defines as an unnoticed drift, “is what happens when processes drift off specification,” […]
By Angela Stelmakowich | June 9, 2016
Non-profit organizations need to be prepared for natural disasters so they can help deliver public services, speakers suggested Tuesday at the World Conference on Disaster Management. From research conducted after the floods in affecting southern Alberta in 2013, the Calgary Chamber of Voluntary Organizations found that fewer than 50% of non-profit organizations “actually had business […]
By Jason Contant | June 9, 2016
WABASCA, Alta. – An out-of-control wildfire in northern Alberta that prompted two companies to curtail heavy oil production in the Pelican Lake area is now being held, one of the companies says. Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX:CVE) said it safely shut down about 23,000 barrels a day of production and ordered the evacuation of 118 staff […]
By The Canadian Press | June 9, 2016
PARIS – The Louvre and the Orsay, the premier museums of Paris, have reopened after an emergency closure last week to move masterpieces to higher ground during the city’s worst flooding in decades. Visitors lined up to see the Mona Lisa and other famed works in the Louvre after Wednesday’s reopening. Louvre officials moved 35,000 […]
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