Unpublished Newswire

Last Wednesday, the Mark Carney government tabled the Safe Social Media Act, Bill C-34, legislation that would make online services responsible for addressing harmful content on their platforms. The headline is a restriction on social media accounts for children under sixteen. Canada did not invent that idea. Australia did, and Australia has now been running the experiment for six months. The early results are worth examining before anyone declares this bill a solution or a failure. First, what the bill does. It applies to social media services, including livestreaming and user-uploaded...

A 12-year-old boy is charged with attempted murder after a stolen vehicle struck a Toronto police officer early Monday, police said. The boy faces charges including theft of a motor vehicle, dangerous operation, failing to stop for police, assaulting a peace officer and leaving the scene of an accident, Toronto police said. He cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Officers responded to a report of a vehicle theft near Donlands Avenue and O’Connor Drive shortly after 1 a.m., the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said. Two cruisers tried to box the vehicle on the Leaside...