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At the end of spring, Canada’s National Observer published a five-part series on the incredible odds stacked against First Nation students in northern Ontario who must travel hundreds of kilometres away from their families to get a high school education. This is what we found.

If Canada wants to make a meaningful dent in its industrial carbon emissions, the data makes clear that the name of the game is fossil fuels.

Canadians are united not by hockey or poutine or some other overplayed national stereotype, writes columnist Max Fawcett — they're bound together by unreasonably high cellphone bills.

Cities, like people, can be smart. They can use technology and data to improve the efficiency of operations and movement. That's what was up for discussion at the Nobel Prize Summit on Wednesday.

The department of Public Safety did not respond to Canada’s National Observer's request for comment on whether the government demanded users’ data from the company. However, cybersecurity experts see a flaw in Canada's privacy laws that goes beyond Amazon.

The old-fashioned way Canada records deaths means the country could be missing out on data important to addressing the COVID-19 crisis.

For earthquake scientists, having hundreds of millions of people off the streets and out of the skies is providing a bonanza of data about the planet.

A privacy expert says Alberta's plan to use smartphone technology to enforce quarantines should come with a clear end date and detailed explanation of how data would be handled.

The Conservatives want to know what federal officials are doing about China's alleged involvement in stealing data from thousands of Canadians.

Business leaders want Canada's newly elected lawmakers to shift their attention to the economy following an election campaign that sorely lacked a critical conversation: how to secure the country's future prosperity.

The son of a 71-year-old woman ticketed for distracted driving in downtown Vancouver says a $368 citation issued to his mother has been cancelled by police with an apology.

A number of organizations, including ProPublica, have developed tools to let the public see exactly how Facebook users are being targeted by advertisers.     

Canada's competition regulator says it's not the size of the data, but the size of the deception that it must guard against as it considers protecting innovation and competition in a marketplace where big data is seen as a growing concern.

Uber Canada said late Monday that 815,000 Canadian riders and drivers may have been affected as part of its worldwide data breach announced in November. The disclosure came the same day the federal privacy commissioner said it had opened a formal investigation into the data breach, which saw the theft of information from some 57 million Uber accounts globally in October, 2016.

Members of the 'Five Eyes' intelligence-sharing alliance will automatically provide data to one another that critics say could threaten refugees and others.