Tag Archives: Data

The Conservative Party has written to Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne asking him to speed up his investigation of a federal government data breach that exposed the identities of hundreds of Afghans seeking Canada’s help to escape from the Taliban in October 2021. Dufresne announced on November 15 of last year …

This story is part of Situation Critical, a series from CBC British Columbia reporting on the barriers people in this province face in accessing timely and appropriate health care. (CBC) Data shows that sick leaves in B.C.’s health-care sector are up by a marked amount compared to pre-pandemic levels. According to numbers requested by CBC News, an average of 9.7 per cent of health-care workers in the public system were off sick for at least …

An average of 40 people a night were told there was no bed available for them in Toronto homeless shelters in the last year and a half, newly released city data shows. And for the first six months of this year, an average of 63 people a night were “unmatched …

Hospitalizations for cycling injuries in Canada increased by 25 per cent during the pandemic, according to data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information. CIHI, a non-profit organization that tracks hospitalizations and emergency visits across the country, reported last week that between April 1, 2020, and March 31, 2021, the …

Documents obtained by CBC News through a freedom of information (FOI) request show that more than 12 per cent of scheduled shifts at Alberta’s AHS-run 911 call centres went unfilled over the first four months of the year. The union representing workers in the centres says the data is representative of a system — …

Statistics Canada releases data on families and households, Canadian income profiles and Canadian military experience. News Source link

Patients in emergency rooms around Ontario are waiting record lengths of time to get admitted to hospital, a situation medical professionals say only appears to be getting worse.  The trend is particularly worrisome for hospitals because it’s happening despite a diminishing COVID-19 caseload, and because it comes at a time of …

Children across the globe and Canada who used online educational technology during the pandemic had their personal data secretly harvested and sent to advertising companies, according to a new report published by Human Rights Watch. According to the report, these online educational products had the capacity to monitor children and collect data on “who …

Nina Trentmann / Wall Street Journal: Q&A with Cory Hrncirik, Microsoft’s Modern Finance project lead, on flattening the company’s finance head count with AI and data lakes, using Excel, and more  —  The new tools help automate tasks.  But ‘we love Excel,’ says Cory Hrncirik, who leads Microsoft’s Modern Finance …

Joel Khalili / TechRadar: A profile of Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive, which marked its 25th anniversary earlier this year and is now home to over 70 PB of data  —  Meet Brewster Kahle, the internet’s chief librarian  —  Audio player loading…  On the same day in 1996, Brewster …