Safety & Security

 Ontario's Ministry of Transportation is studying the safety of the Zenn Motor a low speed electric vehicle, built by a Toronto company. According to a promotional video it costs about a penny a mile to operate the car. "The Zenn requires no gas and is as simple as plugging in a cellphone to recharge," says the video. But unlike in British Columbia and Quebec, the Toronto-based company's cars are still not street legal. The Ontario Transportation Ministry is examining whether the cars are safe to drive.For More.

Are Israeli methods, like behaviour-detection technologies, better suited to secure America's airports or those around the world? Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport, known for its strict security measures, relies heavily on techniques that detect suspicious behaviour among travellers.Find out! 

Australian authorities have asked the country's national airline to check every oxygen bottle in its fleet of Boeing 747s after investigators said an exploding cylinder might have ripped a hole in one of the jumbo jets while it was mid-flight. The mid-air explosion forced the Qantas flight to make an emergency landing in the Philippines last week. No one was hurt. More.