Month: November 2018

Tesla, GM And Nissan Will Fight To Maintain EV Tax Credits Together | Engadget

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Tesla, GM and Nissan have teamed up on a new lobbying initiative to extend the $7,500 per vehicle tax credit for EVs. The “EV Drive Coalition” — which also counts industry giant ABB and non-profit Plug In America as its members — launched on Tuesday to spur lawmakers into passing reformative legislation that “works better for more consumers for a longer time frame.” Read full story here: Tesla, GM And Nissan Will Fight To Maintain EV Tax Credits Together | Engadget  

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Canada’s Key Satellite System Hit With Another Launch Delay | CBC News

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Canada’s showpiece satellite project has been hit with another launch delay, five years after the first of three spacecraft was scheduled for orbit. The RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) is now set to be launched from a California air force base sometime between Feb. 18 and Feb. 24, 2019. It’s the fifth such delay since the $1 billion project was hit with technical troubles and other problems. The mission follows RADARSAT-1 (1995-2012) and RADARSAT-2 (2007-present), pioneering Canadian satellite projects that use synthetic aperture radar to observe the Earth’s surface in fine detail, even through cloud…

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Scientists Are Redefining The Kilogram | CBC News

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Just as the redefinition of the second in 1967 helped to ease communication across the world via technologies like GPS and the internet, experts say the change in the kilogram will be better for technology, retail and health — though it probably won’t change the price of fish much. The kilogram has been defined since 1889 by a shiny piece of platinum-iridium held in Paris. All modern mass measurements are traceable back to it — from micrograms of pharmaceutical medicines to kilos of apples and pears and tonnes of steel or cement.…

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Smishing: A New Security Threat The Targets Smartphones By Text Message | Digital Trends

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Phishing remains a serious security problem. According to some reports, one in every 101 emails are malicious and most of those use some form of phishing as a primary scamming tactic. Most people are aware of phishing, but we only look out for threats when checking email. Criminals, however, are one step ahead. Security experts say phishing has come full-force to texting, and it carries even more potential danger than it does through email. Read full story here: Smishing: A New Security Threat The Targets Smartphones By Text Message | Digital…

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Chinese Electric Cars Are Coming To Canada, But You Can’t Have One Yet: Don Pittis | CBC News

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The Chinese are coming. After years of predictions that made-in-China electric-car technology was poised to dominate the global market, the country’s battery-powered cars will be driving on Canadian streets in a few months’ time. To anyone already shopping for an electric vehicle, it’s not a surprise that consumers can’t easily opt for one as their next family car. Despite attempts by various levels of government to encourage us to go electric and a sharp rise in annual sales, even familiar brands of battery-powered vehicles, such as Tesla and Nissan Leaf, and plug-in hybrids, like Toyota Prius and Chevy Volt, can’t…

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Tesla Model 3 Helps Push EV Sales In Canada To Record 8% Of New Car Sales | Electrek

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We are not talking about Norway-level of electric vehicle adoption just yet, but the start of volume deliveries of the Tesla Model 3 in Canada over the last two quarters has helped push EV sales to a new record high relative to new car sales. Electric vehicle sales now represent over 8-percent of new car sales in Canada. It might not seem that impressive, but it’s ahead of many other markets. Read full story here: Tesla Model 3 Helps Push EV Sales In Canada To Record 8% Of New Car Sales…

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Ottawa Short-Changed More Than 270,000 Veterans On Pensions, Disability Payments | CBC News

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More than 270,000 ex-soldiers were short-changed by Veterans Affairs Canada for over eight years because of an accounting error worth at least $165 million, CBC News has learned. The mistake was uncovered by the veterans ombudsman’s office, which has worked with the federal department for over a year to get it to confirm the mistake and make amends. A written statement from Veterans Affairs Minister Seamus O’Regan confirmed a retroactive compensation program is in the works — but the affected veterans will have to wait up to two years to get their money. Read full…

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Hidden Camera Reveals How Bank Employees Mislead And Upsell On Pricey Credit Card Insurance | CBC News

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A Marketplace hidden camera investigation is raising questions about how bank employees are selling a pricey and controversial product marketed to help with credit card payments if you lose your job or get sick. It’s called credit card balance insurance, or balance protection insurance — and if you’ve signed up for a credit card, chances are you’ve been asked to buy it. But many experts say the insurance comes with high fees — typically a percentage of a cardholder’s outstanding balance — and so many exclusions it can be hard…

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In A Data Driven Tomorrow, Does Privacy Need To Survive the Future? | Digital Trends

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“If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.” It was an argument we heard a lot in the years following Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s famous claim that privacy was no longer a social norm. A lot has changed in the eight years since. The web has evolved, new tools make it easier to protect our privacy online, and scandals with social networks and other online entities have made privacy itself a hot topic once again. Read full story here: In A Data Driven Tomorrow, Does Privacy Need To Survive the…

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New Privacy Rules Will Force Canadian Companies To Disclose Data Breaches | CBC News

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New privacy rules designed to better safeguard the personal data of Canadians and let them know when it has been breached kick in Thursday, but even security experts say they are far from perfect. The legislation, known as the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (or PIPEDA) does a lot of things, but most importantly from a consumer’s perspective, it requires Canadian companies to alert their customers any time their personal information may have fallen into the wrong hands. Much of the law is aimed at preventing breaches in the first place, but…

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