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The U of T, UBC and U of A are amongst the major Canadian post-secondary institutions dealing with fallout from a cybersecurity incident involving a popular platform called Canvas.

U.S. President Donald Trump called off a signing ceremony Thursday for a new order on artificial intelligence because he worried it could dull America’s edge on AI technology.

“With AI, they can craft emails that are so believable compared to years past,” Kaseya cybersecurity expert Miles Walker told Consumer Matters.

The government of Alberta said it managed close to 3,000 cybersecurity incidents last year — a 35 per cent increase compared with 2024.

Manitoba may become the first province to implement a ban on social media and artificial intelligence for children, according to Premier Wab Kinew.

The meeting comes as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration acknowledges the advanced capabilities of Anthropic's new AI model, Mythos.

The system is designed to replace paper files and fragmented platforms with a centralized digital record, giving health-care providers quicker access to patient information.

Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem says while there's been a fair amount of discussion about Antrhopic's Mythos, no one knows yet the full implications of this latest AI advance.

Regulators and global standard‑setting bodies have stepped up warnings about the risks posed by the rollout of AI across the financial sector.

Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon met on Tuesday with representatives of Anthropic — the company that said its latest chatbot, Mythos, is too risky for public release.

Dubbed Claude Mythos, the software is part of the Claude AI family, an artificial intelligence model that can act like a chatbot and AI assistant, like ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.

While officials insist the bill wouldn't allow police to read your emails, and could only access the metadata with a warrant, experts warn the retention policy alone is concerning.

Canada’s privacy commissioner says Nova Scotia’s largest power utility will strengthen its security following a cyberattack last year. 

RCMP say a hacker behind a blackmail attempt on a member of the Nova Scotia legislature was trying to extort bitcoin.

The new CEO of Nova Scotia’s private electric utility says the firm has hit key milestones in its recovery from last year’s cyberattack.

Industry Minister Melanie Joly responded to concerns that language in Bill C-8, which she said targets telecommunication service providers, would apply to online speech.

Ontario Health atHome came under scrutiny last year after one of its vendors was hit by a cyberattack that was kept under wraps for months. We now know the attack was ransomware.

As experts gathered at a summit to discuss digital safety and privacy, especially among youth, the recent mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., was not far from people’s minds.

In April 2025, servers belonging to Ontario Medical Supply, which works with Crown agency Ontario Health atHome, were locked after a ransomware attack.

Some experts say that a cyberwar through 'proxies' may be the next stage of the Iran war, with civilian infrastructure also coming under threat.