On July 29, the Toronto Star reported that the Toronto Hydro-Electric System (Toronto Hydro) announced that unauthorized third party had obtained customer information from their electronic billing system. Toronto Hydro President and Chief Executive Officer David O’Brien, indicated that approximately 179,000 customer accounts were illegally accessed and that the Toronto Police Services launched an investigation. […]
Further to Public Safety Canada Daily Infrastructure Report DIR09-144, on July 28, CTV News reported that the local state of emergency remained in effect for the upper Ottawa valley because of land erosion. Officials for the McNab/Braeside Township indicated that erosion continues to be a threat in many areas and that some road closures are still […]
Further to Public Safety Canada Daily Infrastructure Report DIR09-128, on July 27, the World Health Organization (WHO) indicated that 153 countries have officially reported 134,503 cases of H1N1 flu virus, including 816 deaths.
Source article – World Health Organization, 27 July 2009
On July 27, CTV News reported that a local state of emergency remained in effect in the Arnprior region of eastern Ontario, after weekend flooding damaged homes and forced some evacuations. Heavy rainfalls on July 25 and 26 caused major flooding that also damaged roads in the McNab/Braeside Township where some rural roads are still […]
On July 27, Minister of Public Safety Peter Van Loan announced on behalf of the federal government that federal officials will participate in a large scale security exercise known as National Level Exercise 09 (NLE 09), led by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from July 27 through July 31, 2009. Mr. Van Loan indicated […]
I have added an update for H1N1 to the member’s area. This is the same update that went out to the AbWARN mailing list but I thought I would also put it in the member’s area.
October 14 and 15 in Regina, Sask.
The training workshop has been organized to:
• Provide a key learning opportunity to assist in securing both SCADA/Control Systems and traditional IT infrastructure within the same organization;
• Identify current key areas of vulnerability within Control Systems and the traditional IT realm;
• Recognize similarities, common interdependent threat vectors and new […]
On July 17, President of the Treasury Board Vic Toews announced on behalf Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan that the federal government is sharing eligible expenditures with the Manitoba government through the Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements (DFAA) for damage caused by spring flooding in March, April and May 2009.
Source article - Public Safety Canada
Further to Public Safety Canada Daily Infrastructure Report DIR09-136, on July 17, Minister of Health Leona Aglukkaq and Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. David Butler-Jones announced that the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) will no longer be releasing numbers of individual confirmed cases of H1N1 flu virus three times weekly. Instead, PHAC’s FluWatch […]
Water ISAC subscribers are encouraged to join representatives from U.S. EPA and the California Water and Wastewater Response Network (CalWARN) on Tuesday, August 4 from 2:30 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time for an exciting webinar about mutual aid and assistance in the water sector. The webinar will include:
The history of the WARN program;
Examples of WARN […]