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Équité Association Unveils the Annual Top 10 Most Stolen Vehicles, with a New #1 Most Stolen Vehicle in Canada

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TORONTO, Nov. 19, 2024 /CNW/ – Équité Association, Canada’s national authority on insurance crime and fraud prevention, today unveiled their annual ‘Top 10 Most Stolen Vehicles in Canada‘ for 2023. After two consecutive years in the top spot, the Toyota Highlander has overtaken the Honda CR-V as the nation’s most stolen vehicle.  

No.

Make/Model

Most Often
Stolen
Model Year

# of
Vehicles
Insured

# of
Thefts

Theft Rate /
Frequency (%)

Type

1

Toyota Highlander

2021

123,532

3,414

2.76 %

SUV

2

Dodge Ram 1500 Series

2022

524,837

3,078

0.59 %

Truck

3

Lexus RX Series

2022

96,400

3,037

3.15 %

SUV

4

Honda CR-V

2021

487,962

2,988

0.61 %

SUV

5

Toyota RAV4

2021

507,451

2,690

0.53 %

SUV

6

Honda Civic

2019

697,143

1,654

0.24 %

Car

7

Jeep Wrangler

2021

141,379

1,641

1.16 %

SUV

8

Land Rover Range Rover
Series

2020

34,615

1,533

4.43 %

SUV

9

Chevrolet / GMC Suburban
/ Yukon / Tahoe Series

2023

62,877

1,488

2.37 %

SUV

10

Chevrolet / GMC Silverado
/ Sierra 1500 Series

2006

595,765

1,383

0.23 %

Truck

The Toyota Highlander is a popular model in Canada, which is globally serviceable and has a high resale value both domestically and internationally; noting criminals continually shift demand to maximize their profits from the illegal sale of vehicles. It also shares similarities with nearly all of the vehicles on the national list, where the vehicles are 2019 or newer models, and have vulnerabilities that come with keyless ignitions, particularly as these vehicles do not come equipped with anti-theft devices aligned to the ULC 338 Anti-theft Standards.

“In order to sustainably address the auto theft crisis in Canada, solutions must evolve from focusing on the recovery of stolen vehicles to preventing vehicles from being stolen in the first place, starting with updating Canada’s outdated Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations (i.e., ULC 338 Standards),” says Terri O’Brien, President and Chief Executive Officer of Équité Association. “Insurance crime, including auto theft, can have a devastating physical and financial impact for victims. On behalf of the property and casualty insurance industry, Équité works to combat insurance crime and keep Canadians safe.” 

Between 2021-2023 auto theft increased 48.2% in Ontario, 57.9% in Quebec, 34% in Atlantic Canada, and 5.5% in Alberta (Équité Association’s 2023 Auto Theft Trend Report). Public Safety Canada announced its National Action Plan on Combatting Auto Theft in May 2024, signifying a turning point in auto theft. While meaningful actions and investments from provincial and federal governments, and law enforcement agencies indicate a national decrease in auto theft in 2024, continued commitment and collaboration from all stakeholders is required to maintain this momentum.

“The most crucial step in fighting auto theft is stopping it before it starts,” says Bryan Gast, Vice President, Investigative Services of Équité Association. “One of the most common trends we’re seeing on the Top 10 Most Stolen Vehicles list includes newer vehicles with keyless ignitions. The provincial and federal governments have already committed hundreds of millions of dollars in investments to respond to the auto theft crisis with positive results through enforcement. However, there is much more to be done to combat auto theft; the crisis is far from over in Canada. A modernized vehicle security standard aligned to the ULC 338 Standards is needed to address current methods of theft across all manufacturers. In addition, fortifying the unauthorized access to vehicle electronic systems is imperative to stop the auto theft crisis from continuing in Canada.” 

By utilizing simple and effective technology that has already been developed and patented, and in use in other countries, vehicle manufacturers have the ability to mitigate vehicle theft and prioritize public safety. When it comes to Canadians protecting their vehicles from theft, the best offense is a good defense. Équité recommends using a layered approach, which consists of four categories: simple steps, anti-theft devices, vehicle immobilizers and tracking devices. Each layer provides protection and, in combination, diminishes the likelihood of vehicle theft. Find out more about the Layered Approach here.

For regional lists, visit Équité’s website: https://www.equiteassociation.com/top-10-most-stolen-vehicles

About Équité Association

As the national authority on insurance crime and fraud prevention, Équité Association is a not-for-profit, national organization, supporting Canadian property and casualty (P&C) insurers. Équité combats the insurance crime problem that takes advantage of vulnerable Canadians by deploying advanced analytics, intelligence best practices, and coordinated investigations. Delivering improved service and fraud analytics for vehicle, property, and cargo recovery to its members, Équité collaborates with law enforcement, partners and industry organizations to protect Canadians against exploitation.

Learn more about Équité Association at https://www.equiteassociation.com/.

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Kaleidescape Named to Fast Company’s Fourth Annual List of the Next Big Things in Tech

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List Recognizes Groundbreaking Advancements Redefining the Way We Work and Live

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Kaleidescape, maker of the ultimate movie platform, today announced that it has been named to Fast Company’s fourth annual Next Big Things in Tech list, honoring emerging technology that has a profound impact for industries—from education and sustainability to robotics and artificial intelligence.

This year, 138 technologies developed by established companies, startups, or research teams are featured for their potential to revolutionize the lives of consumers, businesses, and society overall. While not all technologies are available in the market yet, each is reaching key milestones to have a proven impact in the next five years.

Kaleidescape, maker of the ultimate movie platform for residential and marine markets, has been changing the landscape of home theater entertainment experiences for over two decades. As the only digital provider of movies with lossless audio and full reference video, Kaleidescape provides customers with access to thousands of movies, TV series, and concerts for purchase or rent. Recently, Kaleidescape introduced Strato V, the next-generation movie player providing stunning 4K Dolby Vision playback with lossless audio. Strato V works on its own or grouped with Terra Prime movie servers to enable scalability. Kaleidescape is also expanding into commercial cinema, as an alternative content delivery platform, bringing library releases back to the big screen.

“Kaleidescape continues to innovate by bringing to market products that evolve the cinema experience at home and beyond,” said Tayloe Stansbury, chairman & CEO of Kaleidescape. “Kaleidescape’s platform allows consumers to experience a vast array of content in the highest quality, as the director intended, enabling a movie theater-like experience in the home.”

“The Next Big Things in Tech provides a fascinating glimpse at near- and long-term technological breakthroughs across a variety of sectors,” says Brendan Vaughan, editor-in-chief of Fast Company. “Spanning everything from semiconductors to agricultural gene editing, the companies featured in this year’s list are tackling some of the world’s most pressing and vexing problems.”

Click here to see the final list.

About Fast Company
Fast Company is the only media brand fully dedicated to the vital intersection of business, innovation, and design, engaging the most influential leaders, companies, and thinkers on the future of business. The editor-in-chief is Brendan Vaughan. Headquartered in New York City, Fast Company is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with our sister publication, Inc., and can be found online at fastcompany.com.

About Kaleidescape (www.Kaleidescape.com)  
Kaleidescape is the ultimate movie platform. Kaleidescape has been designing, manufacturing, and selling state-of-the-art movie players and servers for over 20 years. Kaleidescape digitally delivers movies with lossless audio and reference video. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Kaleidescape builds its products in the USA. 

CONTACT:
Josh Gershman 
josh.gershman@kaleidescape.com 

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Payroc Expands Gateway Solution with Hosted Fields, Apple Pay & Google Pay

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Empower your clients with Payroc’s unified payment solutions—offering modern, secure options like Apple Pay and Google Pay alongside Hosted Fields to deliver seamless online checkouts, elevate customer satisfaction, and give you a competitive edge in today’s market.

TINLEY PARK, Ill. , Nov. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Payroc, a leading payments platform, releases Apple Pay and Google Pay Acceptance, in addition to previously released Hosted Fields. This provides ISVs, sales partners, and their merchants with a fully unified, secure, and streamlined online payment experience.

“Hosted fields and digital wallets build upon our platform to help partners provide merchants with a secure, streamlined, and customer-centric payment experience.”

Payroc’s Hosted Fields enable merchants to accept payments directly on their branded websites or applications without redirecting customers to an external page. By embedding payment fields into the checkout process, merchants can maintain a consistent and seamless customer experience. Additionally, partners can help merchants minimize compliance scope, as Payroc handles PCI requirements and tokenization entirely. With this fully integrated solution, partners can provide merchants with secure, modern payment options that meet customer expectations.

Additionally, the Payroc Gateway has expanded support for Apple Pay and Google Pay to both Hosted Fields and Hosted Payment Pages on the TSYS platform to go along with existing availability on First Data. Along with accepting digital wallet payments in person, merchants can now offer customers a faster, friction-free and more secure online checkout. With this feature, customers can skip manual card entry and complete payments with their saved digital wallet information, on both a mobile device and desktop. Apple Pay and Google Pay require minimal integration for partners using Hosted Fields, while Hosted Payment Pages automatically support these payment options with no additional setup needed.

“At Payroc, our priority is empowering partners and their clients with solutions that create real value,” said Walter Greaney, Vice President of Product Management. “Hosted fields and digital wallets build upon our platform to help partners provide merchants with a secure, streamlined, and customer-centric payment experience.”

Payroc’s new features are designed to offer its partner network high-value, adaptable payment tools that address the evolving needs of today’s market.

For more information on Payroc’s Hosted Fields, and Apple Pay & Google Pay integration, please visit http://www.payroc.com.

About Payroc:
Payroc WorldAccess, LLC is a high-growth merchant acquirer, processor, and payment integrations powerhouse that offers best-in-class sales enablement and payment processing technology on a global scale, delivering proprietary, innovative, and full-service merchant acquiring solutions together with key card brand network payment sponsorship registrations. Payroc (through its subsidiaries) is a registered Visa third-party processor, a Visa independent sales organization, a Mastercard third-party service provider, a Mastercard member service provider, a payment facilitator, an encryption support organization for Fifth Third Bank, National Association (“Fifth Third”), and, in Canada is registered with Peoples Trust Company, among many others.

Media Contact

Yosselin Nunez, Payroc, 1 (888) 477-4500, yosselin.nunez@payroc.com, https://payroc.com/

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Spacelift Announces Expanded Ansible Support to Tame Operational and Observability Challenges of Ansible Playbook Execution and Unite Ansible and IaC Automation Workflows

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Platform and DevOps teams with large-scale, complex environments no longer have to struggle with Ansible playbook execution and observability challenges. They can also unite formerly separate workflows for provisioning and configuration management of infrastructure resources, thanks to enhancements to the Spacelift orchestration platform.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Ansible is an essential part of infrastructure automation, but managing large-scale playbook execution in complex environments is still challenging. It’s often managed separately from Infrastructure as Code (IaC) provisioning automation, leading to inefficient workflows that slow developer velocity and lack the necessary visibility and control for security and compliance. Today’s updates from Spacelift aim to solve these problems.

These Spacelift updates have transformed this experience, elevating our Ansible operations, giving us real visibility into all of our resources, and a single workflow for our infrastructure automation.

The Spacelift platform now automates the execution of Ansible playbooks, delivers inventory visibility and control over Ansible-managed resources, and links provisioning workflows (Terraform and OpenTofu, etc..) seamlessly with configuration management (Ansible).

New Spacelift Platform Enhancements include:

Playbook Automation: Manage the execution of Ansible playbooks from one central location.Inventory Observability: View all Ansible-managed hosts and related playbooks, with clear visual indicators showing the success or failure of recent runs.Playbook Run Insights: Audit Ansible playbook run results with detailed insights to pinpoint problems and simplify troubleshooting.Integrated IaC & Ansible Workflows: Easily define workflows that combine any flavor of IaC (Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation…) and Ansible to streamline infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.Developer Self-Service: Integrate Ansible playbooks into infrastructure self-service for developers.

“Ansible and IaC have lived in isolated silos, leading to cumbersome infrastructure management workflows and slowing developer velocity,” said Pawel Hytry, co-founder and CEO of Spacelift. “By layering the infrastructure orchestration benefits of Spacelift on top of Ansible, we’re making it easy for platform teams to not only control what is happening with Ansible, but also create a seamless workflow that combines the provisioning power of Terraform, OpenTofu and CloudFormation with the configuration management benefits of Ansible.”

“Ansible is our go-to automation for managing resources after they’ve been provisioned, but it comes with its own set of challenges,” said Jakub Krzemiński, head of DevOps at Synerise. “These Spacelift updates have transformed this experience, elevating our Ansible operations, giving us real visibility into all of our resources, and a single workflow for our infrastructure automation.”

The expanded Ansible support is available immediately to provide greater control and visibility over Ansible playbooks, orchestrate Terraform and Ansible pipelines into a single integrated workflow, and help platform and DevOps teams provide infrastructure self-service to developers.

*About Spacelift*
Spacelift is an infrastructure orchestration platform that manages the entire infrastructure lifecycle — provisioning, configuration and governance. Spacelift integrates with existing infrastructure tooling (e.g. Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Ansible) to provide a single integrated workflow to deliver secure, cost-effective and resilient infrastructure, fast.

By automating deployment and configuration, providing developer self-service, golden paths with guardrails, and an OPA policy engine, Spacelift empowers businesses to accelerate developer velocity while maintaining control and governance over their infrastructure.

Sign up for a demo or a free trial at Spacelift.io.

Media Contact

Cristin Connelly, Spacelift, 4049316752, cristin@cathey.co, www.spacelift.io

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