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A Kelowna man is asking B.C. Supreme Court to certify a class action against Pattison Food Group Ltd. over the More Rewards data breach that hit Save-On-Foods and other Western Canada grocery loyalty members earlier this month. Clint Docken filed the proposed lawsuit on October 27, according to the Kelowna Daily Courier. The claim names...

Clocks will not fall back overnight in British Columbia, and a lot of iPhones may still try to guess the old rules. The province moved to year-round Pacific time after the March 8 spring forward, so Sunday, November 1, is the first fall change that simply does not happen. Alberta, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories and...

An iPhone Duo put through nearly nonstop machine folding for a week has passed 139,000 cycles, and CNET says the crease looks much the same as it did when the test began. The outlet is using its Fold-a-Phone rig to compress years of opening and closing into days, then pausing long enough to show how...

Apple has circulated an internal memo to Apple Stores and Apple Authorized Service Providers with guidance on diagnosing and addressing iPhone Duo inner display cracks, according to MacRumors on Friday. Technicians who hear from a customer about the issue are told to inspect the device and repair or replace it under Apple's usual procedures, the...

Spotify is aiming to launch an AI-powered remix and cover tool for paying subscribers in the first quarter of 2027, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the plans. The move builds on other AI listening features Canadians already use on the service, including Prompted Playlist. The streaming company is considering an...

Air Canada's mobile app was named Best Airline App at the 2026 World Aviation Festival in Lisbon on October 22, the airline explained in an email to iPhone in Canada on Friday. The win in the Battle of the Airline Apps comes months after features such as Bag Buddy started putting more of the trip...

A former Freedom Mobile customer shared a limited-time winback offer on Reddit on Thursday, asking whether Black Friday would beat a $30 plan with 200GB of Canada-U.S.-Mexico data. Winback deals are targeted at people who left the carrier, so this is not a public offer for new customers. The screenshot shows 200GB that works coast...

Rogers-owned Chatr has added a new $40 monthly plan with 50GB of data on Friday, expanding the top of its prepaid Talk, Text & Data lineup. The new tier includes a 10GB Auto-pay bonus on top of the 50GB base allotment, along with unlimited Canada-wide talk, unlimited Canada, US and international text, and voicemail. That...

An abandoned Popcorn Time updater left millions of Windows and Mac computers open to remote takeovers, according to researchers who found machines still calling dead update servers years after users installed the old torrent client. That pattern mirrors earlier cases where malware hid inside pirated Mac apps long after anyone meant to keep using them....

Scammers posing as banks and telecom carriers are getting better at sounding real, and Toronto police say artificial intelligence is helping them do it. Impersonation now accounts for about one in six of the roughly 17,000 fraud reports the service has taken so far this year, a problem that sits alongside carrier tools meant to...

Law professor Michael Geist says a new UK regulator report shows what age checks for keeping teens under 16 off social media would take, and it makes Canada's Bill C-34 plan look rushed. In a post explaining on Friday, Michael Geist argues Ottawa wants its under-16 ban running before the Digital Safety Commission even exists....

What kind of world are we living in when a Mac Studio in Canada can cost about as much as a new car? Austen Allred posted a maxed-out Mac Studio with M5 Ultra on Thursday that listed for US$29,799, with a 36-core CPU, 80-core GPU, 512GB of unified memory and 16TB of storage, and simply...