NRCan’s Green Jobs—Science and Technology Internship Program (Under the Government of Canada’s Youth Employment Strategy)

Led by Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), the Youth Employment Strategy (YES) is a Government of Canada program that was set up to help young people aged 15 to 30 gain the skills and meaningful job experience required to make a successful transition to the workplace.

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Canada announces new initiatives to eliminate landmines

The initiatives announced today, through Global Affairs Canada’s Peace and Stabilization Operations Program and through the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives, total nearly $12 million and will support mine action in areas of the world that are most affected by landmines and other explosive remnants of war.

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Project Grant announcement for MP Paul Lefebvre on behalf of the Minister of Health

This project will involve a partnership in First Nation’s communities in North Ontario and Saskatchewan with the goal of identifying the needs of Indigenous people living with age-related health conditions and how best to address their health issues.

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Vidme's YouTube-meets-Reddit video service is no more

Video service Vidme is shutting down after almost four years, citing competition from online juggernauts Google and Facebook. The self-professed YouTube-meets-Reddit-style platform boasted 25 million users as recently as last December, which is a bli...

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Venezuela will start its own digital currency to beat sanctions

The authoritarian streak of Venezuela's recent leaders has cost the country dearly. Mismanagement and sanctions have crippled its infrastructure, its money is increasingly worthless and the public is fuming. President Maduro thinks he has a solutio...

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Australia investigates Facebook and Google over media impact

Internet giants may be trying to make nice with publishers, but that's not completely reassuring to Australian regulators. The country's Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is investigating Facebook, Google and other "digital platform provide...

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Samsung envisions phones that read your palm

There's a good possibility that you've forgotten a password and had to get hints or recover it. But the process for that isn't very trustworthy. Intruders can guess security questions, for one thing. Samsung might soon have a subtler way of helping y...

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CVS buys health insurer Aetna to counter Amazon

Amazon is considering diving into the pharmacy business, and that's making incumbents nervous... so nervous, in fact, that it just sparked one of the larger acquisitions in recent memory. CVS Health is acquiring the insurance giant Aetna for the equ...

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Mattress maker Casper faces lawsuit for tracking web visitors

Unless you're using strict privacy controls in your browser, you generally expect that online stores will track at least a bit of your activity, if just to send you targeted ads when you browse the web. However, a proposed class action lawsuit is cl...

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Google's Allo messaging may link to your email account

Google has been going out of its way to keep Allo relevant, but there's been one glaring issue: you need a phone number to sign up. How's it going to compete with iMessage or Facebook Messenger if there needs to be a phone involved at some point? Y...

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The first text message was sent 25 years ago

Be prepared to feel ancient -- the first text message is 25 years old. Engineer Neil Papworth sent the first SMS on December 3rd, 1992, when he wrote "merry Christmas" on a computer and sent it to the cellphone of Vodafone director Richard Jarvis. It...

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The best Chromecast speaker

By Brent Butterworth This post was done in partnership with Wirecutter, reviews for the real world. When readers choose to buy Wirecutter's independently chosen editorial picks, it may earn affiliate commissions that support its work. Read the full...

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'Ingress' revamp will take cues from 'Pokémon Go'

With all the buzz around Pokémon Go and an upcoming Harry Potter game, it's easy to forget about Niantic's original augmented reality title, Ingress. It's looking old in the tooth, and not just because of its 2012-era visuals -- it's using agi...

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