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Canadian Tire says recent breach of e-commerce database involved customer info - Business News

Cathy Farrow @cathyfarrow.bsky.social · 4h

Canadian Tire says recent breach of e-commerce database involved customer info - Business News www.castanet.net/news/Busines...

Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. says it has identified a data breach involving personal information belonging to customers, which was stored in an e-commerce database.

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Cattivo Strega ✅bonafide🇨🇦 @theteapixie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Vancouver Island is being hammered by #addiction The lack of impact on addiction is directly impacting businesses that are encircled with addicted people shooting up. This shouldn’t be a political issue. People need care. They need to be in care facilities. The healing needs are vast and varied […]

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Cathy Farrow @cathyfarrow.bsky.social · 16h

'The predicament of my life.' Wrongfully convicted N.B. man dies from cancer - Canada News www.castanet.net/news/Canada/...

'The predicament of my life.' Wrongfully convicted N.B. man dies from cancer - Canada News

Robert Mailman spent more than half of his life under the cloud of a wrongful murder conviction.

Weir stays on to lead Interior Health - Kelowna Capital News

Cathy Farrow @cathyfarrow.bsky.social · 1d

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Hopefully will come clean on the IH data breach!

Sylvia Weir will shed interim title with appointment to serve as IH president and CEO

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Cathy Farrow @cathyfarrow.bsky.social · 1d

Are your kids stuck to their devices? More screen time linked to lower test scores, study finds | CBC News

A new study by a team of researchers from two Toronto hospitals found that children who spent more time on screens before age eight scored lower on standardized tests. The study's lead author says the...

Cathy Farrow @cathyfarrow.bsky.social · 1d

Tens of thousands of taxpayer accounts hacked as CRA repeatedly paid out millions in bogus refunds | CBC News

At the height of this year’s tax season, the Canada Revenue Agency discovered that hackers had obtained confidential data used by one of the country’s largest tax preparation firms, H&R Block Canada.

Cathy Farrow @cathyfarrow.bsky.social · 1d

CRA accounts hacked after 28,000 social insurance numbers stolen in data breach | CBC News

Imposters hacked into B.C. health-care workers’ CRA accounts after a massive breach of employees’ private identification from the B.C. government’s Interior Health authority, which runs hospitals and ...

Cathy Farrow @cathyfarrow.bsky.social · 1d

They were victims of a massive data breach in 2009. Their employer denied it for a decade | CBC News

For a decade, a B.C. government agency denied a data breach that affected 28,000 health-care workers, creating a situation that one privacy expert says opened the door for fraud artists to continue cr...

Cathy Farrow @cathyfarrow.bsky.social · 1d

'Injector Barbie' targeted by College of Physicians after butt injections allegedly leak fluid | CBC News

A former Miss Universe Canada contestant is accused of giving Botox and dermal filler injections without registration from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C.

Cathy Farrow @cathyfarrow.bsky.social · 1d

Quebec man admits to murdering 10-year-old girl in 1994 | CBC News

A 62-year-old Quebec man has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the killing of a 10-year-old girl in a Montreal suburb more than 31 years ago.

Cathy Farrow @cathyfarrow.bsky.social · 1d

RCMP suspect foul play in disappearance of 51-year-old mother | CBC News

RCMP continue to investigate after mother of three Jennifer Provencal, 51, was reported missing in April 2025, nearly three months after she reportedly had an argument with her husband, when she was l...

Cathy Farrow @cathyfarrow.bsky.social · 1d

American spirit exports to Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group | CBC News

American spirit exports to Canada "plummeted" 85 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calling the situation "very troubling" as consumers in ...

Cathy Farrow @cathyfarrow.bsky.social · 1d

Parts of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick experiencing once-in-50-year drought | CBC News

Parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are in the midst of exceptional drought — the most extreme category on the national scale.

Cathy Farrow @cathyfarrow.bsky.social · 1d

Sask. man undergoes invasive medical procedures in hospital hallway due to overcapacity | CBC News

Kay Roberts never imagined he would receive invasive medical treatment in a busy hallway. He spent four nights and five days on a stretch bed while experiencing confusion and other cognitive issues.

She lost five siblings to the same disease. A new report on global deaths shows she's far from alone | CBC News

Cathy Farrow @cathyfarrow.bsky.social · 1d

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Question: any connection to Covid?

A new report on global deaths shows that the top causes of mortality are shifting back to familiar threats like heart disease, dislodging COVID-19 as the number one global killer. Scientists warn ther...

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Cathy Farrow @cathyfarrow.bsky.social · 1d

ANALYSIS | The Trump administration is investing in Canadian critical mineral companies. But Ottawa can stop it | CBC News

The Trump administration has purchased a stake in two Canadian critical mineral companies, a move experts say is unusual, and which raises questions about whether Ottawa should block the deals in the ...

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Cathy Farrow @cathyfarrow.bsky.social · 1d

‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: the philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists

When 50 men went on trial in France, accused of raping a woman who had been drugged by her husband, Manon Garcia was in the courtroom – and in the prosecutors’ closing arguments. How does she make sen...

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Hundreds of medical samples ruined in July truck crash near Westwold - Vernon News

Cathy Farrow @cathyfarrow.bsky.social · 1d

Hundreds of medical samples ruined in July truck crash near Westwold - Vernon News www.castanet.net/news/Vernon/...

A transport truck that crashed through a barn in Westwold back in July was carrying 348 medical samples, all of which were ruined.

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Cathy Farrow @cathyfarrow.bsky.social · 2d

Family of Cobble Hill boy killed in crash starts petition to change law

Proposes to suspend licences until trial, impose lifetime bans

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Trump says inflation is 'defeated' and the Fed has cut rates, yet prices remain too high for many - World News

Cathy Farrow @cathyfarrow.bsky.social · 2d

Trump says inflation is 'defeated' and the Fed has cut rates, yet prices remain too high for many - World News www.castanet.net/news/World/5...

When you see the words..”Trump says”…

Inflation has risen in three of the last four months and is slightly higher than it was a year ago, when it helped sink then-Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign. Yet you wouldn't know ...