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New Supreme Court of Canada guidance on liability for Canadian clients operating overseas

February 28, 2020 by Greg Meckbach

If you place commercial liability insurance for clients with supply chains outside of Canada, be sure and check out Friday’s Supreme Court of Canada ruling in Nevsun Resources Ltd. v. Araya. In its divided ruling, Canada’s top court ruled that

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Privacy commissioners reveal how egregious employee snooping has become

February 25, 2020 by Jason Contant

Cases of egregious employee “snooping” in Alberta have exploded to the point where some affected individuals won’t even seek health treatment within their communities anymore, the province’s privacy commissioner said at a conference Friday. Jill Clayton, Alberta’s information and privacy

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Watchdogs to probe use of facial recognition technology

February 25, 2020 by The Canadian Press

OTTAWA – The federal privacy watchdog and three of his provincial counterparts will jointly investigate Canadian use of facial-recognition technology supplied by U.S. firm Clearview AI. Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien says he will be joined in the probe by ombudsmen

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How much are the risk pros making?

February 24, 2020 by Adam Malik

Canadian risk pros are making a median annual base salary of $101,000 as of June 1, 2019. That’s up 3.6% over the previous year, according to the Risk Management Compensation Survey published by the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS).

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Police move to clear rail blockade on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory

February 24, 2020 by Adrian Wyld and Paola Loriggio - THE CANADIAN PRESS

TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY, Ont. – Several protesters were detained Monday morning as provincial police moved in to clear a rail blockade on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in central Ontario that has brought freight and passenger rail traffic to a virtual standstill.

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Ottawa eases speed restrictions imposed after Saskatchewan derailment

February 18, 2020 by The Canadian Press

OTTAWA – Transport Minister Marc Garneau is easing speed restrictions placed on certain trains following a derailment in Saskatchewan earlier this month that spilled 1.2 million litres of crude oil and started a massive fire. Garneau says the move is

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CN Rail shuts down eastern Canada rail network

February 14, 2020 by Laura Kane -  THE CANADIAN PRESS

Blockades set up by anti-pipeline protesters have forced Canadian National Railway Co. to shut down its entire network in Eastern Canada and Via Rail to cancel passenger service across the country. CN said Thursday that the company must initiate a

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Why culture is so important for data-driven companies

February 14, 2020 by Jason Contant

The biggest obstacles to creating data-based businesses aren’t technical, they’re cultural, said David Waller, a partner and head of data science and analytics for Oliver Wyman Labs. “It is simple enough to describe how to inject data into a decision-making

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This is how serious feds take suspected breaches on cabinet ministers

February 12, 2020 by Jim Bronskill - THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA – Federal cabinet ministers now have their own special hotline to report suspected hacking incidents. Officials at the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security set up the round-the-clock telephone service last year to respond swiftly to possible security breaches, newly

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Cyber criminals using coronavirus-themed emails to deliver malware

February 10, 2020 by The Canadian Press

TORONTO – A U.S. cybersecurity company says criminal groups are exploiting fears over the new coronavirus to attack the global shipping industry. California-based Proofpoint says it has detected a new email campaign that uses Microsoft Word attachments designed to trick

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Overseas working conditions: Is your client on the hook?

February 8, 2020 by Greg Meckbach, Associate Editor

Corporate clients who get their goods from jurisdictions with inadequate protection for workers’ rights could end up being named as defendants

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Why near-misses may hold the key to improved road safety

February 6, 2020 by Jason Contant

A startup based in Winnipeg is using near-miss data from intersections in an attempt to proactively, rather than reactively, help reduce traffic fatalities. “Up until now, traffic engineers have focused on using historical crash data that involve a fatality to