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Women’s issues take centre stage at Up For Debate event
– macleans.ca
If there’s a division between women’s issues and the issues of Canadians in general, it’s a wide and murky river that floods beyond its banks. Is climate change a women’s issue? What about first-past-the-post democracy? Housing? Childcare?
So topics of all types were raised in interviews with four of the five party leaders: the NDP’s Thomas Mulcair, the Liberals’ Justin Trudeau, the Greens’ Elizabeth May, and the Bloc Québécois’ Gilles Duceppe. Hosted by a coalition of women’s groups called Up for Debate, the interviews over so-called “women’s issues” began airing last night and will continue being broadcasted throughout the week. Although the initial plan was to host a live debate, Mulcair retracted his RSVP to the event after Harper refused to partake, which led Up For Debate to scrap the debate format in favour of these solo interviews recorded in advance of an evening of panel discussions with experts and journalists…
Apple security breach could impact Canadian iOS users
– moneysense.ca
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TORONTO – Apple announced a rare security breach over the weekend that means some Canadians may have unwittingly infected their iPhones and iPads with malware that could expose their iCloud passwords and other personal data.
Apple Inc. has removed some applications from its app store after developers in China were tricked into using software tools that added malicious code to their work.
Apple hasn’t provided details about which companies’ apps were affected.
But Tencent Ltd. said its popular WeChat app was hit; the company released a new version after spotting the offending code. Chinese news reports said others affected included banks, an airline and a popular music service.
Many of the affected apps were only available on the App Store in China, yet some that were reportedly infected by the malware — including WeChat, business card rolodex CamCard and file extractor WinZip — are available in Canada…
Texas man who possessed 7 per cent of all bitcoins pleads guilty in NY to securities fraud
– canadianbusiness.com
NEW YORK, N.Y. – A man involved in what federal authorities have described as the first bitcoin securities fraud case pleaded guilty on Monday.
Trendon Shavers, of McKinney, Texas, pleaded guilty in New York to a count of securities fraud on his 33rd birthday. He told U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn that he made false statements to investors.
“I know what I did was wrong, and I’m very sorry,” he said.
The government said the false statements he told included promising investors as much as a 1 per cent daily gain if they entrusted him with their bitcoins, digital currency created and exchanged independent of banks or governments.
Prosecutors said Shavers, who founded and operated Bitcoin Savings and Trust, once possessed 7 per cent of all bitcoins in public circulation as he carried out the ruse in 2011 and 2012. The bitcoins amounted to $807,380 based on the average price of bitcoins during the scheme.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Ferrara said Shavers invested only some of the bitcoins he obtained…
Trendon Shavers, of McKinney, Texas, pleaded guilty in New York to a count of securities fraud on his 33rd birthday. He told U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn that he made false statements to investors.
“I know what I did was wrong, and I’m very sorry,” he said.
The government said the false statements he told included promising investors as much as a 1 per cent daily gain if they entrusted him with their bitcoins, digital currency created and exchanged independent of banks or governments.
Prosecutors said Shavers, who founded and operated Bitcoin Savings and Trust, once possessed 7 per cent of all bitcoins in public circulation as he carried out the ruse in 2011 and 2012. The bitcoins amounted to $807,380 based on the average price of bitcoins during the scheme.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Ferrara said Shavers invested only some of the bitcoins he obtained…
