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Premier David Eby says new account control measures for young Instagram users introduced Tuesday by social media giant Meta are the “minimum” expected of tech companies to keep kids safe online.The parent company of Instagram says users in Canada and elsewhere under 18 will have their accounts set to private by default starting Tuesday, restricting who can send messages, among other parental controls and settings.Speaking at an unrelated event Tuesday, Eby says the province began talks with social media companies after threatening legislation that would put big tech companies on the hook...
September 17, 2024 - 19:41 | | The Globe and Mail
Support staff at Saskatoon Public Schools are calling for urgent action and more funding to keep members safe in the wake of a brutal attack at Evan Hardy Collegiate earlier this month.
September 17, 2024 - 19:40 | Carla Shynkaruk | CTV News - Canada
British Columbia politicians are celebrating connecting more people with family doctors, but it comes as emergency room physicians at Surrey Memorial Hospital say conditions there continue to crumble.A letter sent to the president of Fraser Health authority Dr. Victoria Lee, and published online, warns that deteriorating conditions in the department are “unequivocally leading to substandard care” and creating an “increasingly toxic work environment.”
September 17, 2024 - 19:23 | Ashley Joannou | The Globe and Mail
British Columbia’s forests watchdog says a complaint about “excessive” logging has led to a call for the province to improve how it manages watersheds.The Forest Practices Board says it looked at harvesting in the Kettle River watershed in southeastern B.C. between 2016 and 2021, finding 58 per cent of 169 large cut blocks were located in “sub-watersheds” later determined to be “at risk.”A statement from the board says it found five of seven forest companies did not conduct watershed assessments during that period, nor did they have to.
September 17, 2024 - 19:12 | | The Globe and Mail
Canada’s Candu nuclear reactors have been running for more than half a century. Ontario, home to all but one of the active reactors, gets about 60 per cent of its electrical power from nuclear, which has the benefit of producing next to no greenhouse gases.To help meet climate targets while fulfilling the province’s electricity needs, the provincial government has announced plans to spend billions refurbishing an aging nuclear plant at Pickering, east of Toronto. It is part of a worldwide trend. After stagnating for years over worries about cost and safety that followed accidents in...
September 17, 2024 - 19:08 | Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail
We replay a conversation with a parent of a student of Maplewood Secondary School and how the delayed opening of the school is affecting her and her child. BREAKING NEWS: We get an update on when they hope to finally open the school. Also, CTV's Matt Skube drops by for his daily visit. Did you know he's entered in a cookie baking contest?
September 17, 2024 - 18:49 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
