Lawyers representing some of BC’s most vulnerable people say they’re chronically underpaid, leading to high turnover and positions they struggle to fill.
Legal Aid BC and a union representing 28
Google said Thursday it will remove Canadian news content from its search, news and discover products after a new law meant to compensate media outlets comes into force.
The move to pull news from the world’s most popular search engine could have a devastating impact on Canadian media outlets, which often depend on third parties like Google to get content into the hands of readers.
The decision comes after the government’s contentious C-18 legislation passed Parliament last week. The bill has been criticized by tech giants like Meta and Google who say it’s unfair to impose what amounts to a
Meta will block access to news articles for all Facebook and Instagram users in Canada after the country passed a new law, the Online News Act, which would force internet companies to pay news publishers for their content.
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After months of protest from Meta, Canada followed the lead of
[An] instruction is not the same thing as a disciplinary measure, and firmness does not equate to harshness.
Deputy President Alan Colman
Trainor v Council for Christian Education in Schools and others [2023] FWC 1272 (30 May 2023)
People managers are constantly dealing with ever evolving deadlines, targets and expectations. An area of constant concern is people and especially when it comes to courageous or difficult conversations. If an employee is performing poorly, engaging with misconduct or just doing inappropriate behavior, the line between what is reasonable management action versus workplace bullying can seem to be blurred. A recent case
MIAMI – Construction workers say they are losing their jobs because employers fear Florida’s new immigration law.
“All the construction work stopped, at least where I worked in Miami,” said Pedro Marcos. For the last five years he has worked in construction; however, he now works temporarily at nurseries in Homestead.
The Guatemalan native said, “Since I have a family, I have to work on whatever is necessary… landscaping, nurseries, painting.”
CBS News Miami’s Ivan Taylor asked Marcos when he worked
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Amidst a global recognition around the unregulated sale of sodium nitrite online for the purpose of suicide, Peel Region is reporting a 10 per cent increase in calls “involving either attempted suicide or suicide” in 2023 compared to the same period in 2022.
The police response to those calls in some jurisdictions, sources allege, has been intense.
The uptick
Children ages 12 and under aren’t required by law to wear a life-jacket when they’re in a boat in Ontario. But that could change thanks to a new bill.
Carleton MPP Goldie Ghamari has introduced a private member’s bill, called Joshua’s Law, that would make it mandatory for children ages 12 and under to wear a life-jacket or personal flotation device while on a boat in Ontario waters.
Bill 93 takes its name from Joshua Steinberg, who was 11 when he died in a boating accident in 2018. He was not wearing his life jacket at the time.
Since then,
