Month: November 2019

When Nova Scotia Decided To Go With Both Metric And Imperial | CBC News

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By 1983, Canada had driven well down the road toward metric conversion, but one Maritime province tried to give its motorists the option of taking a slight detour. Nova Scotia Premier John Buchanan announced that November that his province would put up a small number of road signs near provincial border crossings that listed distances in both miles and kilometres. “What I’m doing is giving people the right that they should have in this country, the right that I believe they have under the law to have that option of either…

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Google Has Access To Detailed Health Records On Tens Of Millions Of Americans | Ars Technica

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Google quietly partnered last year with Ascension—the country’s second-largest health system—and has since gained access to detailed medical records on tens of millions of Americans, according to a November 11 report by The Wall Street Journal. The endeavor, code-named “Project Nightingale,” has enabled at least 150 Google employees to see patient health information, which includes diagnoses, laboratory test results, hospitalization records, and other data, according to internal documents and the newspaper’s sources. In all, the data amounts to complete medical records, WSJ notes, and contains patient names and birth dates.…

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Nearly A Million Canadian Bank Records Sent To IRS | CBC News

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The number of banking records the Canadian government is sharing with U.S. tax authorities under a controversial information-sharing deal has increased sharply, CBC News has learned. The Canada Revenue Agency sent 900,000 financial records belonging to Canadian residents to the Internal Revenue Service in September — nearly a third more than it sent the previous year. The records were for the 2018 tax year. It also has updated the number of records shared for the 2017 tax year to 700,000 from the 600,000 originally reported. Read full story here: Nearly A…

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Bargain Prices For Oil And Gas Companies As They Hit The Discount Bin | CBC News

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It was a rough week for the Canadian oilpatch, to say the least, with the Keystone pipeline shutting down after a leak, Encana deciding to become American, and a new drilling forecast for 2020 that is woeful at best. To cap things off, Pengrowth Energy announced its pending sale. The Calgary-based company was a homegrown success story and was once worth billions of dollars. Its share price was more than $13 in 2011. Read full story here: Bargain Prices For Oil And Gas Companies As They Hit The Discount Bin…

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