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SASKATCHEWAN – The Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit is investigating the highest number of reports of child sexual abuse material it has ever received. These files include investigating crimes involving the abuse and/or exploitation of infants, children and teens on the Internet. During the 2021-2022 year*, the unit had 853 new files come in. […]

REGINA – The Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit has charged a Regina man with child exploitation offences. In August, 2024, the Sask ICE Unit commenced an online investigation relating to online luring. On Sept. 12, 2024, the Saskatchewan ICE Unit conducted a search warrant at a home in Regina. Electronic devices were examined on […]

Microsoft is experiencing technical difficulties with some of its services. The tech giant says in a post on X that it is currently investigating “access issues and degraded performance” within its Microsoft 365 services and features. Its website says the impacts of the issues were being felt globally, including by users in Canada, who reported a spike in […]

Users of Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger platforms are experiencing login issues in what appears to be a widespread outage. Internet traffic observer Down Detector is reporting vast outages on several Meta platforms Tuesday. The problems are being reported across the world, suggesting that the outage could be global.  London-based internet monitoring firm Netblocks […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Remember what you searched for in 2023? Well, Wikipedia has the receipts. English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit behind the free, publicly edited online encyclopedia. And the most popular article was about ChatGPT (yes, the AI chatbot that’s seemingly […]

Vandalism has been having a big impact on Sask Tel Services in Saskatoon. Over the last three days, three Sask Tel sites have been damaged, reducing or shutting off service for hundreds of customers. A Sask Tel site on Arlington Avenue was damaged Wednesday, another on Whiteswan Drive yesterday, and today, Sask Tel equipment has […]

People living in Manitou Beach are without Sask Tel internet, cell phone, and landline service this hour. Its effecting homes and businesses. The Community of Watrous to the south also is without land lines. Sask Tel apologizes for the outage, and they have teams working on the problem. There is no estimate on when service […]

  SaskTel has announced the first phase of its 100 million dollar rural fibre initiative is over 95 percent complete. The first phase allows the communities of Balgonie, Biggar, Langham, and Pilot Butte can now connect to Infinet service, with extremely fast internet speeds. Phase two includes Kindersley, Meadow Lake and Rosetown, and construction has […]

Monday has become a day where those who are addicted to their Facebook and Instagram accounts were not able to access them. A worldwide outage hit Facebook along with its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms around 9:40 Saskatchewan time Monday morning with service not being restored until around 3:30 The company did not say what might […]

SaskTel is taking more steps to improve rural internet service. SaskTel has announced a new initiative to partner with internet providers to bring advanced broadband service to underserved farms, rural areas and Indigenous communities. The president of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities, Ray Orb, welcomes the new SaskTel program. He says rural internet service […]