Perhaps there were no greater words spoken at this year’s Collision Conference, Canada’s biggest tech conference, then that of Canada’s Immigration Minister Sean Fraser, who had the following words of support for Canada’s tech sector, “We are in a global race for the same pool of talent with competitors around the entire world.  Now in… Read more »

In last week’s edition of The Voice Magazine, I highlighted the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, their Intelligence and Organized Crime Committee, and the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada, which was comprised of one federal bureau and ten provincial bureaus, one in every province, and which included Criminal Intelligence Service Ontario, as well as covering… Read more »

Workplace hazards have historically been viewed as physical harms, inspiring the communication behind Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) labels that show up on potentially dangerous products like chemicals.  But a new set of identified hazards is poised to move us away from the traditional thinking that sees hazards as being solely physical and toward… Read more »

In last week’s edition of The Voice Magazine, I wrote about the role that the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency and the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians play in keeping the promise of Canada alive and well.  All that was remaining was to explore “national” security through a provincial lens; that path… Read more »

In last week’s edition of The Voice Magazine, I wrote about how organized crime might just be Canada’s greatest national security threat, and how it might be time for us to consider it so.  Organized crime is far too dangerous, and society’s safety is far too important, to ever give credence to any idea that… Read more »

After speaking with Canadian stakeholders regarding the practice of recycling telephone numbers and the privacy implications associated with it, my journey led me to the North American Numbering Planning Administrator (NANPA), from who I found out that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was responsible for awarding them with their contract to administer numbering services across… Read more »

Ask anyone who has reached the pinnacle of their profession as to what they attribute their success to, through professions ranging from sports to science, and what you should hear them say is that they attribute it to the non-stop dedication to getting better at whatever they do. The term “getting better” can be a… Read more »

The alarm has been sounded about foreign interference attacks on Canada’s government and institutions.  What makes the matter even more troubling is that former Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently spoke at a conference where he stated that national security issues were far worse than we could imagine. Additionally, reporting seems to be coming out and… Read more »

If US policy makers were not busy making airwaves for slinging mud at one another, there are stories like the creation of a “first-of-its-kind” legislative policy that is being brought into law that should be on every news headline.  But it is not because negativity gets people coverage.  One of those positive policy changes comes… Read more »

Does anyone miss the comedic days of the world’s biggest influencers preaching about crypto and the digital world, and making suggestions like how it was possible for people to monetize everyday receipts by transforming them into “non-fungible tokens” or how people could create and sell their own “whatever”-coins? What about the ridiculousness of seeing the… Read more »