Tag Archives: children

A member of a Summerside, P.E.I., church is speaking out against a social media post he calls “homophobic,” and looking for a new faith community. In the post, the Summerside Community Church directed its followers to a June 17 webinar offering “practical advice for parents and grandparents to protect children from …

A former GTA daycare worker who pleaded guilty to slapping, kneeing and dragging five children has been given no jail time.  Magdelene Vasanthkumar, now 52, worked at BrightPath Maple on Maple Avenue — one of two locations owned by BrightPath Early Learning Centre and Child Care in Milton, Ont.  Security video from the daycare …

Edward Lake, the father of three children killed by a drunk driver in a Greater Toronto Area collision almost seven years ago, has died. The mother of Lake’s children, Jennifer Neville-Lake, posted on her social media pages about his passing. “My children’s father, Edward Lake, has joined our kids so they can play together, …

The Canada Border Services Agency is backtracking on its commitment to keep track of all children who are separated from at least one parent who is being detained for immigration purposes. The initial promise was made after Radio-Canada/CBC reported on a story of a father who was separated from his …

Children across the globe and Canada who used online educational technology during the pandemic had their personal data secretly harvested and sent to advertising companies, according to a new report published by Human Rights Watch. According to the report, these online educational products had the capacity to monitor children and collect data on “who …

Gender identity—a person’s internal sense of being a boy, girl, neither, or both—begins to develop in early childhood around age 2-4 years and may evolve over time, with a more developed sense of gender identity usually emerging in adolescence. Gender identity is different from sexual orientation, which is defined as …

New Delhi : In view of the rising COVID cases in the country and the emergence of highly transmissible Omicron, The Health Ministry in the revised guidelines informed that the beneficiaries between the ages of 15-18 years now have the option of getting vaccinated with Covaxin only. The vaccination would …

New Delhi: Covid Task Force chief V.K. Paul on Sunday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government will take a final decision on vaccinating the children and adolescents against coronavirus on the basis of overall scientific rationale as well as the supply situation of vaccines available for those below 18 years. …

Washington: Besides the surging cases of infections from the Delta variant, the US is also seeing a rise in cases of a respiratory virus known as respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, a highly contagious, flu-like illness, that is typically more likely to affect children and older adults, according to media …

An expert panel of India’s Central Drug Authority on Tuesday recommended granting permission to Serum Institute of India (SII) for conducting phase 2/3 trials of Covovax on children aged 2 to 17 years with certain conditions, official sources said. The trials would cover 920 children, 460 each in the age-group …