Terry Pender

Aaron Shull, the managing director and general counsel at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, says there is nothing good ahead for Canada-India relations.

The electricity needed to power the data centres used by ChatGPT and other versions of generative artificial intelligence will increase greenhouse gas emissions and deepen the climate crisis, says veteran tech investor Randall Howard.

Grad students from other countries are hit hard by the housing affordability crisis, says a UW study.

Lorraine Belisle, 66, has sole custody of her 13-year-old grandson, and is looking for an affordable apartment. She was evicted from her two bedroom apartment of eight years a few months ago because the landlord said family was moving into the unit. Belisle and her grandson are now in a shelter, and she despairs of finding an affordable apartment in the midst of the housing affordability crisis.

Lorraine Belisle, 66, has sole custody of her 13-year-old grandson. They are living in a shelter and she worries about her ability to find an apartment in the midst of the housing affordability crisis.

After moving into a new location with 11,000-square-feet in the Communitech Tannery in downtown Kitchener, the company will soon need a bigger space.

The U.S. Department of Commerce removed Waterloo tech company Sandvine from its blacklist, meaning American corporations and government agencies can now legally do resume business with the company.

The U.S. Department of Commerce removed Waterloo tech company Sandvine from its blacklist, meaning American corporations and government agencies can now legally do resume business with the company.

A group at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) — International Students Overcoming War — has brought 43 students from nine countries ravaged by wars to WLU on full scholarships. Two are women from Afghanistan with two more expected in January and the student group continually works to keep the plight of women and girls in Afghanistan in the public eye.

Several international human rights groups and digital watch dogs called on Sandvine’s CEO to provide remedies for the harm caused by its technology in Russia, Egypt, Belarus and elsewhere. In an open letter to Sandvine’s CEO, the groups call for greater transparency at the company, starting with a list of the countries it has pulled out of and why. They also want a transparent process for providing one percent of profits to civil society groups, which the company promised to do. Sandvine had social and corporate responsibility policies going back to 2016, which did not prevent repeated abuses of its technology for surveillance and internet shutdowns, so the human rights groups want to know what will be different this time.