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Not enough small businesses in Canada are implementing training programs and establishing protocols to help employees recognize risks to information security despite staff awareness and errors being among the biggest threats, suggest results of Shred-it’s 2016 Security Tracker Survey. Canadian C-suite executives and small business owners (SBOs) from the survey recognize employee lack of knowledge […]
By Canadian Underwriter | May 31, 2016
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EDMONTON – Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says up to 2,000 evacuees expecting to move back to their homes in fire-damaged Fort McMurray this week will not be able to do so until possibly September. She says more than 500 homes and about a dozen apartment complexes that escaped a wildfire earlier this month in three […]
By Steve Wilson | May 30, 2016
VANCOUVER – Dozens of international climate scientists are calling on the Canadian government to reject a proposed liquefied natural gas project in northwestern British Columbia, saying it would have dire environmental effects. Ninety academics from Canada, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom released an open letter Monday saying the Pacific NorthWest LNG project […]
By Jason Contant | May 30, 2016
The Government of Alberta, in partnership with the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (RMWB), is moving forward on initial steps to support small- and medium-sized businesses in their re-entry with a small business support centre. Government has also confirmed its intention to prefer local companies in recovery contracts. A statement from Alberta’s Office of the […]
By Canadian Underwriter | May 30, 2016
Tropical Storm Risk (TSR), which is part of Aon Benfield Research’s academic and industry collaboration, is forecasting 17 named storms, nine hurricanes and four major (Category 3+) hurricanes between the months of June and November. TSR issued its May forecast for the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season on May 28. TSR noted in a release that […]
A defendant in a lawsuit filed by an employee injured in a go-kart collision is applying for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, the court announced Friday. Ontario’s Workplace Safety Insurance Act essentially prohibits employees from suing employers if they are covered by the Workplace Safety Insurance Board, but go-kart tracks are […]
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Contractors and environmental consultants in Canada and the United States now have access to enhanced protection under XL Catlin’s contractor’s professional and pollution legal liability insurance with the addition of rectification expense coverage. Standard professional liability coverage addresses third-party claims related to an error and omission, XL Catlin notes in a statement last week. The […]
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HOUSTON – Authorities in central Texas have found two more bodies along flooded streams, bringing the death toll from flooding in the state to six. It was unclear Sunday whether a body found in Travis County near Austin is one of the two people still missing in Texas. An 11-year-old boy was still missing in […]
Insurance rating firm A.M. Best Company said on Thursday that it believes that pending legislation that would encourage more private insurers to write flood insurance in the United States would be a positive development for the current flood insurance marketplace and a benefit for consumers that would have additional coverage options. The Flood Insurance Market […]
By Canadian Underwriter | May 27, 2016
The Premiers of Alberta and Ontario announced on Thursday a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to accelerate the development of cleantech initiatives. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne met in Edmonton on Thursday to discuss new opportunities to partner on energy and climate change initiatives, the two governments said in a joint […]
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