The province has recommended that a fire-safety equipment retailor in Port Coquitlam be fined for failing to comply with environmental inspectors. On Nov. 27, Dragon Ventures Ltd., was cited for the fine after not producing documentation related to provincially mandated recycling regulations. The company was flagged with two non-compliance warnings following a series of office […]
Read MoreATIKOKAN — The Rainy River District School Board needs to review its campus-safety policies and investigate an Atikokan school’s response to last week’s report of a student with a weapon, a local parent says. The school board says it is looking into how school administration responded last week and how to better respond to reports […]
Read MoreMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s communications minister introduced a world-first law into Parliament on Thursday that would ban children under 16 from social media, saying online safety was one of parents’ toughest challenges. Michelle Rowland said TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram were among the platforms that would face fines of up to 50 […]
Read MoreTwenty-eight months after a Freedom of Information request was submitted to the City of St. Catharines, officials have yet to release crucial reports detailing the presence of chemicals on the former GM site along Ontario Street that the previous mayor pushed to get developed behind the scenes. These reports, Phase I and II Environmental Site […]
Read MoreThe last time Congress passed a law to protect children on the internet was in 1998 — before Facebook, before the iPhone and long before today’s oldest teenagers were born. Now, a bill aiming to protect kids from the harms of social media, gaming sites and other online platforms appears to have enough bipartisan support […]
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