While four Ontario school boards recently announced a $4.5-billion lawsuit against the social media giants behind Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok, Brock University experts are calling for additional actions to address the influence popular online platforms have on teens.
Children with additional needs wait an average of 11 months longer in care than their peers and voluntary adoption agencies (VAAs) are urgently looking for people who can offer them a permanent and loving home. Local adoption charity and voluntary adoption agency, Adoption Matters, is among 21 VAAs from all over the UK who have together created a guide for people considering adoption containing helpful information and advice from parents who have already adopted children with additional needs....
VOLUNTARY adoption agencies across the UK have joined forces to find more adoptive parents for children with additional needs.
Charges have finally been dropped against Atmore News journalist Don Fletcher and publisher Sherry Digmon, who were unlawfully arrested for reporting on an investigation of a school board's handling of COVID funds. Escambia County Sheriff's Office Almost six months ago, the arrests of Alabama reporter Don Fletcher and newspaper publisher Sherry Digmon made national headlines. Last week, charges that Fletcher and Digmon broke the law by reporting on a grand jury subpoena...
THE RECENT RULING by Judge Nelson Chinneh in the case of Jessica Lloyd versus Lucas Richards has once again thrown the spotlight on Liberia’s justice system. The accusations made by Jessica Lloyd’s family, alleging that Judge Chinneh received a bribe to render Lucas Richards not guilty of attempted murder, are deeply troubling and demand urgent []
PUTRAJAYA: Addressing the issue of plastic pollution requires integrated approaches involving the government, the business community and the general p
Across the United States, we celebrated an early “Earth Day” win when the federal government announced last week a requirement for municipal water systems to remove six synthetic toxic chemicals from the tap water of hundreds of millions of people.
On Earth Day, many try to raise awareness of the need to protect the earth
'Instituting change is difficult and changing behaviour even more so,' writes Terry Neefs.
If I am not exaggerating, not a month goes by in our country without our news outlets and social media being inundated with stories about “negligent” healthcare workers or seemingly preventable unfortunate outcomes. Countless people have asked this burning question; can this be remedied? And if so, how do we do this? In this political […]
Durge is the Clone Wars villain that needs to make an appearance in a live-action Star Wars series or film.
The Arizona Cardinals concluded the 2023 season firmly committed to quarterback Kyler Murray. They committed to helping him by adding wide receiver Marvin Harrison.