Importers brace for fight over iPods and TVs
Importers of popular electronics such as big-screen TVs and MP3 players are ramping up their fight against federal tariff changes, accusing the government of misleading them by offering tariff breaks that it planned to claw back later. Importers of televisions are already on the hook for about $16 million in retroactive duties from 2011 after [...]
3-D printing of airway tube helps save U.S. baby
In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day. It’s the latest advance from the booming field of regenerative medicine, making body parts in the lab. In the case of [...]
Kindle Fire HD to be available in Canada in June
Canadians will finally be able to purchase Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD tablet starting June 13, two years after the first generation of the device became available in the U.S., the company announced Thursday. The online retailing giant began taking pre-orders for the tablets Thursday. They will come in two screen sizes—- seven inches and 8.9 [...]
Canada’s privacy laws inadequate for digital age, watchdog says
Canadians’ trust in the digital economy is at risk because our laws don’t have enough teeth to compel companies to protect consumers’ privacy, Canada’s privacy commissioner says. “It is increasingly clear that the law is not up to the task of meeting the challenges of today – and certainly not those of tomorrow,” Jennifer Stoddart [...]
RCMP Google Doodle salutes 140 years of Mounties
View the story “RCMP Google Doodle salutes 140 years of Mounties” on Storify Storified by Investor Central Community· Thu, May 23 2013 04:12:16 Google Canada has marked the 140th anniversary of the founding of the North-West Mounted Police, the force that would later merge with the Dominion Police to become the RCMP. Nice #google doodle, [...]
Internet bill would unlock personal details, says watchdog
The Harper government’s recent bid to give police more information about Internet users would have unlocked numerous revealing personal details—- from web-surfing habits to names of friends, says a new study by the federal privacy watchdog. The online surveillance bill was effectively a digital key to determining someone’s leanings, the people they know and where [...]
Arctic bacteria discovered breeding at record -15 C
Bacteria that can live and multiply in High Arctic permafrost at temperatures well below the freezing point of water have been discovered by a Canadian-led team of researchers, offering clues about the types of organisms that might exist in similar extreme environments elsewhere in our solar system. The OR1 strain of the microbe Planococcus halocryophilus [...]