Protests in Toronto, other Canadian cities, challenge aspects of Carney’s agenda

Earlier this year, staff at Nova Scotia Power submitted a proposal to upgrade their cybersecurity. The privately owned company, which supplies most of the province’s electricity, had gone three years since an internal threat assessment flagged key vulnerabilities, specifically the power plants and substations that fed the grid. If approved, the work would have wrapped by year’s end. They never got the chance. Just three weeks after the proposal was submitted, hackers struck. But not to sabotage infrastructure. Instead, they made off with the personal data of at least 280,000 customers:...