Unpublished Newswire

OTTAWA — Heritage Minister Marc Miller says he expects the timeline for when the government will impose a ban on social media for children under 16 to be “rapid” once its bill introducing an online safety regime becomes law. His comments come amid concerns from at least one industry group that months, if not years, could pass before companies seeking an exemption under the proposed rule could have a path to secure one, removing the incentive to improve safety. Miller, who this week tabled Bill C-34, otherwise known as “Safe Social Media Act,” said he sees the proposed ban as a “...

In a video posted on social media recently, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau tells her followers she wants to share something “quite personal.” “One day you’re speaking on a stage. The next you’re sitting alone on a bench by the water. Both are sacred,” the 51-year-old wrote in the caption of the video shared on Facebook . After finishing her breakfast by the water at Toronto’s Harbourfront, she says her life goes from “yesterday giving a speech in Toronto in front of 700 people,” and having people wait in line for her to sign her book, to “then this morning here I am, and you know, nobody’s...