Source Feed: CTV News - Canada
Author: The Canadian Press
Publication Date: April 24, 2024 - 14:55
Border agency eyes smartphone facial recognition system amid privacy concerns
April 24, 2024
Travellers would be able to use facial recognition technology to identify themselves through their smartphones when crossing the border under a planned federal project.
Unpublished Newswire
Long before he was known as “Superfan Magoo,” Blair Gladue lived with his grandparents in a log house in Calling Lake, Alta., with a tiny television that got only one channel.On Saturday nights, his grandfather would place him in front of the TV for the only show that mattered: Hockey Night in Canada.
May 7, 2024 - 21:01 | Jana G. Pruden, Alanna Smith | The Globe and Mail
The federal information watchdog says Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has made “insufficient progress” in improving immigrants’ access to information about their applications, and that failure is now affecting operations at the Canada Border Services Agency.For more than a decade, prospective immigrants have relied on access to information requests to learn about the status of their applications. Over time, the volume of requests have grown into a crisis within the department, as documented in a Globe and Mail investigation last year.
May 7, 2024 - 20:54 | Tom Cardoso | The Globe and Mail
'There is a vast need for skilled labour. Everything from finishing, carpenters, painters to HVAC workers... I haven't heard of anyone in the industry who isn't hiring.'
May 7, 2024 - 20:24 | Brandon Cassidy | Global News - Canada
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