Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Ford government announced it is introducing new limits on cellphone use in schools and banning vaping devices in a move to reduce distractions in classrooms and improve the health of children. During an announcement Sunday morning, Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce said the province is implementing … Read more
U.S. auto safety regulators said Friday they have opened an investigation into whether Tesla’s recall of more than 2 million vehicles announced in December to install new Autopilot safeguards is adequate. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it was opening an investigation after the agency identified concerns due to crash events after vehicles … Read more
When Sarah Hoban was five months pregnant with her youngest child, she placed her name on several wait lists for daycare. Now, her daughter is nearly 18 months old and the family is still waiting. In fact, they’re on 10 different wait lists. Sarah Hoban says her youngest daughter is currently on 10 day care … Read more
The Ford government is telling the province’s largest school board it has to work out a solution to its financial hole, as trustees threaten wide-ranging cuts to key services will be necessary without help. As it plans its annual financial plan, the Toronto District School Board has said it is facing a deficit of roughly … Read more
The Simcoe County District School Board is joining forces with four other school boards in suing the companies behind major social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok. The Simcoe County District School confirmed it is the latest board to join the lawsuit started in March by the Toronto District School Board, Peel District School … Read more
Global News and 680 CJOB spoke with four Manitobans on Manitoba’s provincial budget day: what their priorities are, what they are happy to see, and what they think is missing. Meet Gorete, Craig, Sarah Jane, and Josh. Gorete Tavares is a single mother of three children. She rents her home, and says her rent has … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Friday, urged the tech industry and tech adopters to focus their energies on competing with artificial intelligence (AI) and challenging it instead of seeing it as a magic tool that makes people lazy and uses it only for basic jobs like letter writing. Modi said in an exclusive interaction with … Read more
Four Ontario school boards are taking some of the world’s biggest and most popular social media giants to court, seeking damages worth $4.5 billion. The Toronto District School Board, the Peel District School Board, the Toronto Catholic District School Board, and the Ottawa Carleton District School Board on Wednesday filed a claim in the Ontario … Read more
Ontario will prioritize its newly reduced number of international undergraduate student study permits to post-secondary institutions that offer in-demand programs such as in the skilled trades, child care and health care, the province said Wednesday. The federal government announced earlier this year it would slash the number of international student permits it would hand out, with Ontario seeing … Read more
Megan Saunders, 34, thought she was doing everything right to secure child care early on, but now she is finding herself in an impossible situation because of her daughter’s school zone. “I can put her in school, but I’d…lose my job because there is no before-and-after-school care available at the school,” she says. “I have … Read more