The number of banking records the Canadian government is sharing with U.S. tax authorities under a controversial information-sharing deal has increased sharply, CBC News has learned. The Canada Revenue Agency sent 900,000 financial records belonging to Canadian residents to the Internal Revenue Service in September — nearly a third more than it sent the previous year.…

The launch of Disney Plus, which boasts successful franchises such as Star Wars and animated classics such as The Lion King among the items on its menu starting Tuesday, is expected to be a disrupting force in the streaming industry. It’s also yet another channel Canadians will have to shell out for, to access Disney’s vast roster…

Rapid technological advances in data collection and analysis are transforming the way spy agencies work, potentially putting civil liberties at risk, an Israeli intelligence expert has warned the Canadian security community. The organizations responsible for keeping people safe must ensure privacy and basic rights are not compromised in the process or they risk losing public…

A report card on global climate action says Canada’s plan to meet its greenhouse-gas emissions targets is among the worst in the G20. Climate Transparency today is grading all the countries in the group of 20 with large economies on their climate performance and finds none of them has much to brag about. It says…

SpaceX has launched 60 mini satellites, the second batch of an orbiting network meant to provide global internet coverage. The Falcon rocket blasted off Monday from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The compact flat-panel satellites — just 260 kilograms each — will join 60 launched in May. Sixty previous Starlink satellites were launched on May 23. Here is…

Rare fossilized dragonflies, which flitted about the area we now know as Kamloops, have been given scientific names — a first for British Columbia. Bruce Archibald, a paleontologist with Simon Fraser University, along with dragonfly expert Robert Cannings with the Royal B.C. Museum, examined nine dragonfly fossils from a fossil site located 75 kilometres west of Kamloops.…