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Canada Post Is Moving 485,000 More Homes to Community Mailboxes, and Ottawa Is Bringing Back Federal Privacy Rules This Week.
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Canada Post Is Moving 485,000 More Homes to Community Mailboxes
Canada Post is preparing to move another 485,000 addresses from door delivery to community mailboxes in 2027. Add the 136,000 already marked for late 2026 or early 2027, and the paper-mail era keeps getting politely shoved toward the curb.
The list includes 37 communities, including Halifax, Fredericton, Laval, Longueuil, Ottawa, Mississauga, Calgary, Edmonton, Victoria, Kelowna, and a lot of Greater Vancouver. Canada Post says nearly three-quarters of Canadian addresses already use some kind of secure central delivery, and the full conversion plan is four million addresses over about five years.
For Canadians who have taken up residence overseas, this is one of those dull domestic changes that becomes less dull when your CRA mail, bank letters, voting paperwork, or family house still runs through a Canadian address. Doorstep mail is becoming the premium vinyl edition of public service.
Read more: Canada Post / Global News
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Ottawa Is Bringing Back Federal Privacy Rules This Week
Ottawa plans a bring a new privacy bill to the table this week. It is not the flashiest lane in politics, which is probably why your inbox has more World Cup takes than privacy chatter for the moment
The bill would revive a file that died when the previous Parliament ended. The last version tried to rewrite private-sector privacy rules and create new rules for artificial intelligence, but the new text has not yet been finalized. It’s something to keep an eye on, because Canadian privacy law can follow you when your data, bank, telco, airline, health app, or employer still has a Canadian footprint.
We will be watching to see whether Ottawa keeps the AI piece tied to privacy, splits it off, or trims it to get something passed before MPs scatter again
Read more: Global News / CTV News