NP View: Mark Carney’s online surveillance state
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Belleville Police Service, community mark 190 years of service – Kingston
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Bagpipes and ceremonial formality set the tone as the Belleville Police Service, staff, and community members marked the service’s 190th anniversary. “This has been a long time in the making to have this event,” said deputy Chief Sheri Meeks “But it’s also a 190 years of a…
Does Mark Carney want to parent your kids for you?
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals introduced a new version of their online harms bill last week that will attempt to regulate the social media use of people under 16 years of age. It will also force Canadians to send sensitive personal information to sketchy websites in order to view adult content or even to connect…
Did Mark Carney plant a tree in a pot? How social media got it wrong
Shuv Majumdar, a Conservative MP for the riding of Calgary Heritage, remarked on social media: “So after he’s done this ‘major project,’ someone will have to go back and dig up the tree, remove the plastic pot, then do it right the next time. That tracks.”
Jesse Kline: Mark Carney wants to raise your kids
Like the turn of the century’s indoor smoking bans, prohibitions against youth social media use seem almost inevitable, with many countries, including Canada, looking to follow the example set by Australia last year. But in many ways, having boomer and gen X politicians regulating the online behaviour of a generation that’s grown up in the…