Related Research Articles
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It stands on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of southern Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR). As of 2016, Ottawa had a city population of 934,243, making it the fourth-largest city, and a metropolitan population of 1,476,008 and the fifth-largest CMA in Canada. In June 2019, the City of Ottawa estimated it had surpassed a population of one million.
Stephen Joseph Harper is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. Harper won three mandates during his nearly decade-long tenure, and is the first and only prime minister to come from the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada, serving as the party's first leader from 2004 to 2015. As of 2021, he is the most recent Conservative prime minister of Canada.
The Green Party of Canada is a federal political party in Canada, founded in 1983 with a focus on green politics. The party has been led by Annamie Paul since 3 October 2020. The party's parliamentary leader is Elizabeth May, who previously served as party leader from 2006 to 2019.
Various anti-spam techniques are used to prevent email spam.
The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act of 2003 is a law passed in 2003 establishing the United States' first national standards for the sending of commercial e-mail. The law requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to enforce its provisions. Introduced by Republican Conrad Burns, the act passed both the House and Senate during the 108th United States Congress and was signed into law by President George W. Bush in December of 2003.
Justin Pierre James Trudeau is a Canadian politician who is the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada since November 2015 and the leader of the Liberal Party since 2013. Trudeau is the second-youngest prime minister in Canadian history after Joe Clark; he is also the first to be the child or other relative of a previous holder of the post, as the eldest son of Pierre Trudeau.
Email spam, also referred to as junk email or simply spam, is unsolicited messages sent in bulk by email (spamming).
The Nova Scotia Liberal Party is a centrist provincial political party in Nova Scotia, Canada and the provincial section of the Liberal Party of Canada. The party currently forms the Official Opposition in Nova Scotia, under the leadership of Iain Rankin. The party was in power most recently from the 2013 election until the 2021 election.
Sanford 'Spamford' Wallace is an internet spammer. He initially started sending junk faxes before coming to notoriety in 1997, promoting himself as the original "Spam King". Wallace's prolific spamming has resulted in encounters with the United States government, anti-spam activists, and large corporations such as Facebook and MySpace.
Jean-Serge Brisson is a Canadian political activist, tax reform advocate, politician, and author. He is a former leader of the Libertarian Party of Canada and gained national notoriety in the 1990s for his opposition to businesses being forced to collect the provincial sales tax (PST) without being remunerated.
The Spamhaus Project is an international organisation, based in both Andorra and Geneva, founded in 1998 by Steve Linford to track email spammers and spam-related activity. The name spamhaus, a pseudo-German expression, was coined by Linford to refer to an Internet service provider, or other firm, which spams or knowingly provides service to spammers.
Pierre Marcel Poilievre is a Canadian politician who served as Minister for Democratic Reform from 2013 to 2015 and Minister of Employment and Social Development in 2015. He is currently a member of Parliament (MP), representing the suburban Ottawa riding of Carleton and serves as the Opposition critic for jobs and industry, having served as the critic for finance and the National Capital Commission from 2017 to 2021.
Michael David Chong is a Canadian politician. A Conservative, he has represented the riding of Wellington—Halton Hills in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004. He served in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper as Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister of Sport, as well as the President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada from February 6, 2006, to November 27, 2006. On September 8, 2020, Chong was appointed the Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Wayne Mansfield, of Perth, Western Australia, was the head of direct marketing business T3 Direct Marketing, operating under a series of two-dollar companies, and in 2005 became the first Australian to be prosecuted for email spamming.
Laureen Ann Harper is a Canadian graphic designer. She is married to Canada's 22nd prime minister, Stephen Harper.
The Ottawa municipal election was contested on October 25, 2010 to elect the mayor of Ottawa, Ottawa City Council and the Ottawa-Carleton Public and Catholic School Boards. The election was held on the same date as elections in every other municipality in Ontario.
Randy Hillier is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is currently an independent MPP, but was elected as a Progressive Conservative MPP for Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston during the 2018 Ontario general election, having previously represented Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington from 2007 to 2018.
Kaspersky Internet Security is an internet security suite developed by Kaspersky Lab compatible with Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. KIS offers protection from malware, as well as email spam, phishing and hacking attempts, and data leaks. Kaspersky Lab Diagnostics results are distributed to relevant developers through the MIT License.
Sathiyasangaree "Gary" Anandasangaree is a Tamil Canadian lawyer, human rights activist and politician. He was elected to represent the riding of Scarborough—Rouge Park in the House of Commons in the 2015 federal election.
References
- ↑ Heun, Christopher (16 July 2006). "The State Of Spam". InformationWeek . UBM LLC. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
- ↑ Hammond, Michael (5 September 2006). "Anti-spam measures still on track, Ottawa says". The Globe and Mail . Ottawa: The Canadian Press . Retrieved 19 October 2013.
- ↑ Fekete, Jason (12 January 2005). "Ottawa prepares to launch anti-spam centre". National Post . Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  | This biographical article about a Canadian activist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |