Tag: Technology & Science

  • Veterans Affairs Canada Offers Mobile Apps for Your Smart Phone

    Veterans Affairs Canada Offers Mobile Apps for Your Smart Phone

    PTSD Coach Canada The PTSD Coach Canada app can help you learn about and manage symptoms that can occur after trauma. Features include:  Reliable information on PTSD and treatments that work  Tools for screening and tracking your symptoms  Convenient, easy-to-use tools to help you handle stress symptoms  Direct links to support and help  Always with…

  • Bar U Ranch NHS on Google Earth

    Bar U Ranch NHS on Google Earth

    You can now visit even more of Canada’s national historic sites and national parks from coast to coast on Google Maps or Google Earth. Earlier this summer, Google visited Bar U Ranch National Historic Site. The data collected is now online for you to virtual visit. To try it out, visit Google Maps or Google…

  • CRTC works with small business to stop malicious spam from being sent to Canadians

    CRTC works with small business to stop malicious spam from being sent to Canadians

    Ottawa-Gatineau – The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced today that by working with a small Saskatchewan business, it has stopped malicious spam messages from being sent to Canadians. Millions of spam messages were unknowingly being sent from a server owned by a Saskatchewan-based computer reseller. In July 2014, the Spam Reporting Centre received…

  • Company Website and Facebook Are Top e-commerce Tools for Canadian SMEs

    Company Website and Facebook Are Top e-commerce Tools for Canadian SMEs

    Small and medium-sized enterprises identify customer demand for online promotion and sale platforms MISSISSAUGA, ON /CNW/ – According to a recent UPS Canada survey, the majority of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) agree that e-commerce plays an important role in their business (62 per cent). The first of two parts of the Small Business Challenges survey,…

  • Junior-high girls share coding knowledge through MOOC

    Junior-high girls share coding knowledge through MOOC

    UAlberta outreach program launches world’s first free online computer coding course made by youth for youth. By Richard Cairney on October 1, 2014 (Edmonton) An outreach program from the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Engineering is launching the world’s first free online computer coding course made by youth for youth. Called Intro to Coding, the…

  • 25th Anniversary of the Canadian Space Agency Celebrated on Silver Collector Coin

    25th Anniversary of the Canadian Space Agency Celebrated on Silver Collector Coin

    TORONTO, Sept. 30, 2014 /CNW/ – This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the organization which is committed to leading the development and application of space knowledge for the benefit of Canadians and humanity.The Royal Canadian Mint proudly celebrates this milestone with a unique silver collector coin featuring an achromatic hologram…

  • Global Privacy Sweep Raises Concerns about Mobile Apps

    Global Privacy Sweep Raises Concerns about Mobile Apps

    Clear, concise privacy language builds consumer trust and is good for business, according to privacy authorities that took part in this year’s global sweep of more than 1,200 mobile apps. As mobile apps explode in popularity, many of them are seeking access to large amounts of personal information without adequately explaining how that information is…

  • AMA Survey Puts a Finger on Albertans’ Texting and Driving Habits

    AMA Survey Puts a Finger on Albertans’ Texting and Driving Habits

    [break] Albertans’ thumbs are getting plenty of exercise these days. If you’ve pulled up to a red light lately and think you’ve noticed the drivers around you staring into their laps as they madly scratch at their phones, you aren’t alone. A recent AMA survey probed a little deeper into behaviours like text messaging while…

  • Security Bug In “Bash” Could Be Bigger Threat Than “Heartbleed”

    Security Bug In “Bash” Could Be Bigger Threat Than “Heartbleed”

    [break] A newly discovered security bug in a widely used piece of Linux software, known as “Bash,” could pose a bigger threat to computer users than the “Heartbleed” bug that surfaced in April, cyber experts have warned. Bash is the software used to control the command prompt on many Unix computers. Hackers can exploit a…

  • We’ve Got an App for That!

    We’ve Got an App for That!

    Harper Government launches first-ever CRA mobile app for small and medium-sized businesses. Vancouver, British Columbia – The Honourable Kerry-Lynne D. Findlay, P.C., Q.C., M.P., Minister of National Revenue, today took part in a roundtable with businesses to launch the first-ever mobile app for small and medium-sized businesses from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). The new…

  • Canadian group hosts international platform for massive Internet Slowdown Day to show what Internet would be like if we lost net neutrality rules

    Canadian group hosts international platform for massive Internet Slowdown Day to show what Internet would be like if we lost net neutrality rules

    OpenMedia.ca joins with major websites Netflix, reddit, and huge coalition as experts warn of damaging consequences for Canada if net neutrality is undermined in U.S. or here in Canada Vancouver-based digital rights group OpenMedia.ca is joining with Netflix, reddit, Vimeo, and a huge international coalition to support Internet Slowdown Day. Dozens of major websites have…

  • Cooking up a Creative Storm with Arts, Science and Engineering at This Year’s Beakerhead

    Cooking up a Creative Storm with Arts, Science and Engineering at This Year’s Beakerhead

    Member of Parliament Joan Crockett announces support for the Beakerhead Creative Society September 11, 2014 – Calgary – The Beakerhead Creative Society will receive $86,000 through the Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage program to present the 2nd edition of the Beakerhead Festival. Activities on offer will include temporary installations, exhibits of large-scale interactive art…

  • Minister of National Defence marked 13th anniversary of September 11, 2001 attacks – Reaffirms the importance of NORAD in a post 9/11 era

    Minister of National Defence marked 13th anniversary of September 11, 2001 attacks – Reaffirms the importance of NORAD in a post 9/11 era

    September 11, 2014 – Colorado Springs, Colorado Department of National Defence The Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Niagara Falls, Minister of National Defence today marked the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States by attending a commemoration at NORAD headquarters in Colorado Springs, CO. Addressing the approximately 700 attendees and U.S.…

  • Hayley Todesco, CWSF ’14 wins the Stockholm Junior Water Prize

    Hayley Todesco, CWSF ’14 wins the Stockholm Junior Water Prize

    By Brad McCabe Hayley Todesco from Calgary, Alberta received the 2014 Stockholm Junior Water Prize on September 3rd for inventing a method that uses sand filters to treat oil contaminated water and recover water for reuse. H.R.H. Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden presented the prize at an award ceremony during the World Water Week in Stockholm. The…

  • Well-Balanced Health Care Delivery

    Well-Balanced Health Care Delivery

    AHS clinic offers one-stop care for dizziness Story and Photo by Greg Harris Nova Lee Turner knows all too well what can happen when the delicate system in the inner ear malfunctions. December (2012), after suffering a bout of the flu that affected her inner ear, the Calgary IT professional became so ill that she…