Number of people affected by HRSDC’s student loan data breach could be larger than Ottawa’s claims

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Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News : Monday, February 11, 2013 7:01 PM

The cohort of people whose personal information the federal government lost is larger than Ottawa has said.

Human Resources and Skills Development Canada announced last month it lost a flash drive from an office in Gatineau, Que., containing the personal information of more than half a million student loan recipients. The department originally said the data breach only affected people who took out loans between 2000 and 2006. But as a team of lawyers moves forward on a $600-million class action suit, some of those involved say they applied for loans well outside that window.

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New Canadians love Quebec; they just can’t work there: Why immigrants are leaving La Belle Province

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Fahimeh Sinai and Peyman Rajabian as they prepare to leave their Montreal apartment. Christinne Muschi/Globe and Mail

Fahimeh Sinai and Peyman Rajabian as they prepare to leave their Montreal apartment. Christinne Muschi/Globe and Mail

ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY – Globe and Mail, Dec. 21, 2012

In the three years since Fahimeh Sinai and Peyman Rajabian left Iran for a new life in Montreal, they have accomplished a lot – earning graduate degrees, touring the Gaspé and obtaining provincially funded therapy for their toddler son. They applied for citizenship as soon as they were eligible.

But they applied from Calgary.

At the end of September, the couple crammed into their sedan with son and belongings to make the long drive west. They had neither jobs nor a place to live. But they were sure it was the right decision.

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Omar Khadr: Confessed jihadist, Hunger Games fan

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Janet Hamlin

ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY

October 2, 2012 – Globe and Mail

Curricula for convicted terrorists aren’t the stuff of everyday academia.

So when Omar Khadr’s U.S. legal team asked Arlette Zinck, an English professor at King’s University College in Edmonton, to design and deliver a lesson plan for the Guantanamo Bay detainee, she and her colleagues had their work cut out for them.

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Whisked from Guantanamo Bay to Millhaven Institution, Omar Khadr tries to learn the ropes

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Janet Hamlin

ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY AND COLIN FREEZE

October 1, 2012 – Globe and Mail

Eleven months after Canada pledged to bring him back from Guantanamo Bay, Omar Khadr’s fate is in the hands of prison officials as the convicted terrorist tries to learn the rules in a home he can’t remember.

The pre-dawn flight via American military aircraft on Saturday that brought the 26-year-old to Ontario from the U.S. naval base where he was imprisoned for nine years and 11 months came as a surprise to Mr. Khadr, his lawyers and his family, who learned of it from television news.

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Omar Khadr in Canadian prison after return from Guantanamo Bay

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Janet Hamlin

ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY

September 29, 2012 – Globe and Mail

For the first time in 10 years and three months, Omar Khadr’s fate rests outside the hands of politicians and military personnel.

Toronto-born Mr. Khadr left Guantanamo Bay’s detention centre in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday morning via U.S. military aircraft. He set foot on Canadian soil just over three hours later.

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Fire quenched, potash miners trapped underground emerge in Saskatchewan

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NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE – Rocanville, SK

ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY and PAV JORDAN – Toronto

September 25, 2012 – Globe and Mail

Darwyn Wirth was driving down a mine travelway a kilometre beneath the Saskatchewan prairie when he saw fire.

It was, he said, “a fairly large ball of flame.” Something had gone wrong deep inside the mine workings at Potash Corp’s Rocanville mine.

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‘Gas and dash’ death spurs bid to better protect gas station workers

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Photo by Tim Fraser

ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY, TIM APPLEBY, KIM MACKRAEL

Sept. 18, 2012 – Globe and Mail

As the pale SUV careered out of the gas station on Saturday night, Jayesh Prajapati went dashing after it.

The attendant ran out of the northwest Toronto station’s convenience store and almost into the path of the vehicle, trying to stop a driver making a run for it without paying for gas. From Ann Lapenna’s sixth-floor balcony, it looked like Mr. Prajapati grabbed the tailgate as the car sped up and screeched off.

But it was clear within moments that he couldn’t get loose. The speeding SUV dragged the man along the pavement for more than half a block. It took the bump from a pair of defunct streetcar tracks to knock him free.

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