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  • Beanfield asks CRTC to tear down Rogers' 'bulk agreements' with condo developers

    February 12, 2024 - 1:00 AM

    TORONTO - Independent telecommunications provider Beanfield Metroconnect is asking the industry regulator to outlaw arrangements between carriers and developers that provide turnkey internet service for all units of a particular condo building.

  • Turkey's Erdogan wins another term as president, extends rule into 3rd decade

    May 28, 2023 - 3:39 PM

    ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won reelection Sunday, extending his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade as the country reels from high inflation and the aftermath of an earthquake that leveled entire cities.

  • Enbridge snaps up stake in West Coast LNG plant as demand surges

    July 29, 2022 - 1:03 PM

    Enbridge Inc. has extended its push into liquefied natural gas as global demand soars, scooping up a stake in a proposed LNG project on the West Coast — even as the projected cost of the venture more than tripled.

  • Glut of social media posts, political divisiveness a challenge for content moderators

    May 22, 2022 - 9:00 AM

    TORONTO - Leigh Adams has seen a steady rise of material for review since she began moderating user comments on websites roughly 14 years ago, but she says the volume only exploded in the last few years as the content's nature became so divisive there's only one word for it: "Bonkers."

  • North Korea confirms 1st COVID outbreak, Kim orders lockdown

    May 11, 2022 - 9:39 PM

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea imposed a nationwide lockdown Thursday to control its first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak after holding for more than two years to a widely doubted claim of a perfect record keeping out the virus that has spread to nearly every place in the world.

  • EXPLAINER: Here is why crowd surges can kill people

    November 06, 2021 - 8:37 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — The crowd deaths at a Houston music festival added even more names to the long list of people who have been crushed at a major event.

  • Apple patches exploit attributed to hacker-for-hire firm

    September 13, 2021 - 2:30 PM

    BOSTON (AP) — Apple released an emergency software patch to fix a security vulnerability that researchers said could allow hackers to directly infect iPhones and other Apple devices without any user action.

  • Cybersecurity experts say Canadian businesses can learn from U.S. pipeline attack

    May 12, 2021 - 2:04 PM

    TORONTO - Canada's two largest pipeline companies say they have taken a proactive approach to avoid the type of cyberattack that has disrupted gasoline supplies in the U.S. Southeast and contributed to higher retail gasoline prices across North America.

  • Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff dies in prison at 82

    April 14, 2021 - 6:05 PM

    NEW YORK - Bernard Madoff, the infamous architect of an epic securities swindle that burned thousands of investors, outfoxed regulators and earned him a 150-year prison term, died behind bars early Wednesday. He was 82.

  • Q&A: What's behind the Twitter Bitcoin hack?

    July 16, 2020 - 2:15 PM

    OAKLAND, Calif. - Hackers broke into the Twitter accounts of world leaders, celebrities and tech moguls on Wednesday in one of the most high-profile security breaches in recent years, highlighting a major flaw with the service millions of people have come to rely on as an essential communications tool.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the first week of May 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjone

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