As Ontario moves towards full compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) in 2025, there is a looming deadline for websites and web content that impacts public sector organizations. By January 1, 2021, public sector organizations must ensur...
Last week, the government passed Bill 188, the Economic and Fiscal Outlook Act, which largely focuses on supporting Ontario’s health care system, economy, and people amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. The Bill, however, also includes amendments to the Freedom of Informatio...
The Board of Directors of Waterfront Toronto have voted to delay the deadline decision on the Sidewalk Labs’ smart city from March 31 st to May 20 th . Waterfront Toronto has said the delay was to allow the public to more time to provide feedback on the project. Sidewalks...
Minister of Health Christine Elliot has announced plans relating to the province’s “digital first” health-care transformation plan, which the government says will help end hallway health care by offering more choices. The five pillars of the Digital First for Health Strate...
Sidewalk Labs has released a proposed plan, the Digital Innovation Appendix (DIA), detailing how the smart technology would be implemented and how data would be collected and used in the Quayside Toronto project. The plan is based on the core principles that were agreed up...
Following a vote by its Board of Directors yesterday, Waterfront Toronto has come to an agreement (or Statement of Principles as it is sometimes referred to as) with Sidewalk Labs to continue with the smart city development project on the city’s eastern waterfront. Had no agr...
The Ontario government has released its third and final data strategy discussion paper, which focuses on how the government can manage and share data more effectively. This discussion paper, entitled “ Better, Smarter Government ” describes three areas where a Data First S...
Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) Brian Beamish in a letter written to the Chairman of the smart city Waterfront Toronto project expressed concern over a proposed ‘Urban Data Trust’. Sidewalk Labs’, a Google-affiliated company heading the development p...
As part of the government's ongoing consultations to update Ontario's Data Strategy, a second discussion paper has been released, which will be available for comment until October 9 th , 2019. This discussion paper focuses on economic benefits and explores where Ontario sh...
On August 15 th , Saskatoon’s city manager Jeff Jorgenson announced that the city had been the victim of a cyber-attack. Jorgenson said a fraudster impersonated a local construction company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and asked for a change in banking information. The ...