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Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s administration cancelled the basic income pilot on Tuesday, which was supposed to run for three years and gave participants a monthly no-strings-attached support payment. Continue reading Conservatives Just Killed Canada’s Basic Income Pilot
Rattled by a string of gun violence this year, Toronto city council just approved ShotSpotter, a US-based audio surveillance system that purports to detect the sound of gunshots. Continue reading Toronto Approves Gunshot-Detecting Surveillance Tech Days After Mass Shooting
Visitors to Ethereum blockchain explorer Etherscan.io on Monday were shown a pop-up that said, “l337,” but the hackers could have tricked site visitors by superficially changing values on the blockchain record. Continue reading An Incredibly Simple Hack Had the Potential to Manipulate Cryptocurrency Markets
Jeremy Parsons had enough of poor service from Bell Canada, and took an axe to a modem outside a Bell store. Continue reading Watch This Guy Smash a Modem With an Axe In Front of His ISP Over Poor Service
A federal study found that out of 17 environmental indicators at Wood Buffalo National Park—the second-largest national park in the world—15 are declining. Continue reading Deformed Fish, Rabbits With Two Genitals: Canada’s Largest National Park Is Falling Apart
The DIY aircraft crashed in Alberta, killing the pilot. Continue reading Canadian Man Dies in ‘Amateur-Built’ Helicopter Crash
The Russian hacking team singled out in the Mueller probe’s latest indictment allegedly mined Bitcoins and banked on cryptocurrency’s pseudonymity to keep their identities hidden. Continue reading The Russians Who Allegedly Hacked the DNC Mined Bitcoin to Fund Their Operation
Is it any surprise that Canadians have some of the lowest rates of mobile data usage globally? Continue reading Canadian Telecoms Make the Most Money on Mobile Data in the World
The upcoming Finney phone by Sirin Labs and the HTC Exodus let users keep their cryptocurrency in cold storage; but is being your own bank really such a good idea? Continue reading A Blockchain Phone Is an Interesting Idea Until You Lose It
And climate change is halting recovery efforts. Continue reading The Baltic Sea’s Oxygen Levels Are At a 1,500-Year Low