Government & Public Sector

Recently I wrote about privacy challenges that can affect companies, particularly those doing business

Financial independence is a key goal of an ongoing investment by Ontario's provincial government in information technology training for low-income women. Currently offered at Conestoga College in Kitchener, the program will expand to the Community MicroSkills Development Centres in Etobicoke and Scarborough this fall.

While the Canadian Radio-Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) legalese-free "bill of rights" - covering local telephone service - may be lauded a pro-consumer initiative in that it untangles confusing rules and regulations, it fails to offer protections to cell phone and Internet service users, says a consumer advocacy group.

A U.S. government employee who used his work computer to download child pornography for about 10 years was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said.

The contract manufacturer of the iPod music player has filed lawsuits against two Chinese journalists who wrote articles about working conditions at factories where iPods are made.

Federal agencies have until Sept. 8 to provide an update on their readiness to comply with a presidential directive on issuing Personal Identity Verification (PIV) smart cards to all employees and contractors by the end of October.

A person suffering extreme breathing difficulty and high fever is rushed to a hospital. The patient's condition rapidly deteriorates and a nurse at his bedside develops similar symptoms. Moments later a diagnosis confirms Toronto's first human case of avian flu.

A person suffering extreme breathing difficulty and high fever is rushed to a hospital. The patient's condition rapidly deteriorates and a nurse at his bedside develops similar symptoms. nMoments later a diagnosis confirms Toronto's first human case of avian flu.