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When RCMP Supt. Jean-Guy Isaya first started as a police officer 20 years ago, school outreach involved drug safety programs. Now the Mountie says there’s a growing need to talk to kids about violent extremism. “We believe that young people and minors pose the same threat as adults,” said Isaya, …

Shannon Church of Kenilworth, Ont., was looking for cast iron planters and turned to Facebook Marketplace in hopes of getting a deal.   She regularly visits the online buying and selling site, and on Dec. 1, she contacted a person who said they lived in Kitchener, and whose advertised price she liked. “We agreed on …

Two recent online trends are sweeping social media — and dividing people across gender lines, some say. Women are taking on the roles of men, calling it Women in Male Fields, jokingly sharing negative comments they’ve received in ways that flip the script.  “He lost his temper so I asked him, ‘Is it …

Alphabet’s Google must sell its Chrome browser, share data and search results with rivals and take other measures — including possibly selling Android — to end its monopoly on online search, prosecutors argued to a judge on Wednesday. The measures presented by the Department of Justice are part of a landmark case …

उत्तर प्रदेश के महाराजगंज जिले में एक दलित लड़की से बलात्कार कर अश्लील वीडियो सोशल मीडिया पर वायरल करने के जुर्म में एक अपराधी को आजीवन कारावास की सजा सुनाई गई है. विशेष न्यायाधीश (एससी-एसटी एक्ट) संजय मिश्रा ने सोमवार को 34 वर्षीय जालंधर राय को दोषी ठहराते हुए 15 …

One of the worst things that can happen to a person, according to Ruby, a 16-year-old from Toronto, is to find a nude picture of yourself on the internet.  And that’s exactly what happened to her, through no fault of her own.  “Suddenly I was in that worst-case scenario,” she …

WARNING: The story contains details of a man burning to death. Muhammad Ahmad Al-Dalu was sleeping in a tent by himself outside of Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip early Monday when he heard the sound of an airstrike right next to him. He stepped out of his tent …

Some charities in Nova Scotia are expressing concern about changes to an online platform that runs raffles, with one animal rescuer calling it a “kick in the stomach.” Angela Welburn, the owner of Integrity’s Haven Equine Rescue Centre, uses online raffles as a way to support her organization. The Chester …

The parliamentary budget officer estimates that staffing up the new regulators in the Liberals’ Online Harms Act will cost around $200 million over five years. The federal government wants to establish a Digital Safety Commission to regulate social-media companies and force them to limit harmful content online. If the government …

Google and the Canadian government have struck a framework for a deal over the Online News Act, a senior government source and multiple reports suggest. The official spoke to Global News on background as they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly. Other media outlets reported an agreement reached by …