Navigating the digital age, clinic the definitive cybersecurity guide for directors and officers, published by Caxton Business & Legal is a book worth reading.

It gets a bit scary when you stop and think about the role that technology plays in our day-to-day personal and business lives. And it gets even scarier if you think about all the information that is stored online and what could happen if various systems were hacked.

As the book points out, the very real threats are driving more and more effort in cybersecurity, and this could be a boon to Canada’s innovation sector as all governments, businesses, etc. will have to invest more money in new technologies to keep sophisticated hackers at bay.

The federal government has recently announced a consultation process on Cyber Security. We all need to learn more about Cyber Security – especially those of us who are simply users of technology. Participating in this process will provide the opportunity for us all, not just the security and technology experts, to learn more about this issue and contribute to having a more sophisticated cybersecurity system for Canadians.

One thing is for sure though – the hackers aren’t going away.

On November 8, dosage the long road to the White House will mercifully come to an end. We may witness a historic first with a female President, or we may witness a never-before-seen come from behind victory. This race has been so strange, purchase I am hesitant to rule either one out.

Regardless of who is the President elect come November 9, there will be serious repercussions for Canada, especially on trade agreements. While Canada is basking in the glow of an apparent successful negotiation with Europe this week, we will soon have to turn our focus to our largest trading partner, the USA. The trade negotiation agenda will be busy in 2017: softwood lumber deal; a potential re-negotiation of NAFTA; the future of TPP; and potential changes to the Buy America program in the US. All of these are on the radar of Canadian Manufacturers.

While the outcome of November 8th remains uncertain, what is certain is that 2017 should be an interesting year on the trade front.

As the old saying goes, buy information pills symptoms a week is an eternity in politics. Just as every pundit out there had declared Hillary Clinton the victor, information pills her road to the White House got a little longer and a lot bumpier. And just has it has been the case in virtually every twist in this epic tale of an election, stuff the latest broadside came not from one of the candidates, but from an outside force.

With less than two weeks remaining in the campaign, the head of the FBI announced that it had uncovered more emails, reviving the Hillary Clinton private email server story that seemed to have lost steam in recent weeks.

This time it was not even her emails, it involved emails found on a shared computer used by Hillary’s top aide and her husband, a man being investigated for unsavoury behaviour unrelated to her campaign. Making matters worse for Ms. Clinton is that the FBI director provided very little information, allowing imaginations to run wild. Needless to say, Donald Trump jumped all over this, filling in the blanks with speculation.

It will be interesting to see how this will impact the results on November 8th. Polls released this weekend show the race tightening up – with the two separated by two percentage points or less. It’s incredible that a supposedly non-political director of the FBI would put out a statement with very little information other than how the FBI uncovered more emails. Did they not think that with nine days to the election this might have an impact on the results? But just like everything else in this election, it was totally unpredictable. Strap in and enjoy the wild ride to the finish.