Nine months after reaching a population of 40 million, Canada has cracked a new threshold. As of Wednesday morning, it’s estimated 41 million people now call the country home, according to Statistics Canada’s live population tracker. The speed at which Canada’s population is growing was also reflected in new data …
Read More »Nova Scotia rent supplement threshold change means people need to pay more to get help – Halifax
A quiet change to a federal-provincial housing supplement means Nova Scotians will have to pay more of their income on housing in order to qualify for government help. Previously, people who spent 30 per cent or more of their pre-tax income on rent or housing costs could qualify for the Canada-Nova …
Read More »B.C. will decriminalize up to 2.5 grams of hard drugs. Drug users say that threshold won’t decriminalize them
British Columbia is set to become the first province to decriminalize possession of small amounts of illicit drugs — but drug users, advocates, and the province’s chief coroner warn the threshold of 2.5 grams set by the federal government ignores the hard realities of how people buy and use drugs in …
Read More »YouTube to lower the eligibility threshold for Community posts from October 12
YouTube is lowering the eligibility threshold for its Community posts feature to channels with over 500 subscribers from October 12. “Today, millions of creators use Community posts to build deeper connections with their audience in-between uploads through different content types like polls, images, GIFs and more,” YouTube said on its …
Read More »IT rules: Government sets 50 lakh users threshold to define ‘significant social media intermediary’
The Government has fixed fifty lakh registered users as the threshold for defining ‘significant social media intermediary’, which will have to adhere to additional obligations and compliance under the new IT rules that seek to crack down on misuse of social media platforms. The new rules, announced earlier this week, …
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