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Canadians' electronic health records need more protections to prevent foreign entities from accessing patient data, according to commentary in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

"Canadian privacy law is badly outdated," said Michael Geist, law professor and Canada Research Chair in internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa and co-author of the commentary. "We're now talking about decades since the last major change."

Geist says electronic medical records systems from clinics and hospitals — containing patients' personal health information — are often controlled by U.S. companies. The data is encrypted and primarily stored on cloud servers in Canada, but because those are owned by American companies, they are subject to American laws.

For example, Geist points out, the U.S. passed the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act in 2018, which can compel companies to disclose customer information for criminal investigations, even if it's stored outside the United States. The law allows for bilateral agreements with the U.S. and other countries. Canada and the U.S. began negotiations in 2022.

The companies have "Canadian laws that may say they've got to provide appropriate protections for that data," Geist said. "But they may have U.S. law that could compel them to disclose that information."

Canada's laws, Geist says, have not yet found a way to respond to that.

"Canada has failed to co-operate in curbing the ongoing flood of fentanyl and other illicit drugs, and it has retaliated against the United States for the president's actions to address this unusual and extraordinary threat," says the statement. 

If I remember correctly most of the fentanyl found was heading north to Canada not south to the US.

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Rachael Gilmore - Canada intends to recognize the state of Palestine. But what does that mean?

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CBC - Cautious optimism, pointed criticism over Canada's decision to recognize Palestinian statehood

"Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine," Trump posted on Truth Social. "That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh' Canada!!!"

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Can someone please remind this adjudicated rapist, serial sexual harasser, likely pedophile, pathological liar, convicted felon, maligant narcissist gangrenous sack of pustulant assholes that he is not the king of Canada?

It's time for world leaders to start telling him to fuck off on those words.

The provincial agency overseeing Ontario’s home care system was informed about a massive data breach in April, Global News has learned, more than two months before the public, along with hundreds of thousands of impacted patients, were notified.

Ontario Health atHome, a Crown agency recently created by the Ford government to coordinate resources for home care and palliative patients, has been under scrutiny after a cyberattack that impacted one of its vendors was kept under wraps for months.

The attack, believed to have affected as many as 200,000 patients, took place sometime in March but was only revealed to the public in late June.

Now, officials with the agency have confirmed that they were made aware of a cybersecurity incident as early as April 14, but waited until the end of May to inform Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner — as required by law — and until June 27 to tell patients.

“On April 14, Ontario Medical Supply (OMS) notified Ontario Health atHome that it was experiencing system outages and a potential cyberattack impacting their information system and operations,” a spokesperson for Ontario Health atHome told Global News.

The latest revelation has led to accusations of “deception” by the health agency, which indirectly reports to Health Minister Sylvia Jones.