Unpublished Newswire

OTTAWA — Criminals are harnessing artificial intelligence to defraud Canadian people and companies at “staggering” rates never seen before, warn top private sector security officials. “We’ve never seen such an increase in fraud as we’ve seen recently. It is not a linear curve, it is accelerating and accelerating. The threat actors, the people who don’t have any values in life and are willing to abuse the elderly, people in need, they are doing it faster, more convincingly and at scale,” warned André Boucher, chief technology officer at National Bank. Boucher was speaking on a panel...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is cracking down on grocery stores that promote imported food as Canadian. So far this year, the federal food regulator has issued two fines to Loblaw-owned grocery stores for this type of violation. The CFIA has also launched an investigation into labelling and advertising practices at grocer Sobeys’ head office.