In tonight’s top story: Canada’s biggest province, Ontario, is cracking down on cell phones in class and making changes to the rules when it comes to vaping. The province says it’s plan includes some of the strongest measures in this country to “protect the “mental and physical health” of children and to curb distraction at school, but some advocates say the plan itself is a distraction from more pressing issues. Kayla McLean reports.
It has been a tense weekend at number of American campuses with pro-Palestinian protests. Some schools have closed their doors or shut down certain areas. Protesters are digging in their heels and telling authorities that they won’t leave. And now the movement has come to Canada, with Montreal students also refusing to take down tents at McGill University, claiming they’ll stay until the school meets their divestment demands. Abigail Bimman reports.
In other news, homeownership is viewed by many in Canada as a milestone and a major step on the path toward setting oneself up financially for retirement. But breaking into the housing market remains elusive for many Canadians. In recent polling done exclusively for Global News, around 72 per cent of non-owners said they’ve “given up” on ever being able to own a home. Meanwhile, 80 per cent said homeownership is now a privilege reserved for the rich. Anne Gaviola has more on whether renters can set themselves up for financial success in the long run.
Plus, new rules in Alberta could change how much control municipal officials have over their own governance. As Heather Yourex-West reports, the changes would give the province the power to repeal bylaws and even remove elected officials.
And, the United Nations Security Council is expressing deep concern for the crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region. An opposition military group is closing in on the region’s main city and thousands are at risk if the conflict with the Sudanese army escalates. Nearly 7 million people are uprooted from their communities, the biggest internal displacement crisis in the world. Nearly 5 million children under the age of five and new or expecting mothers face malnutrition. Redmond Shannon reports on a crisis that the world simply cannot ignore.
Also, a new documentary series, produced by James Cameron, is taking a deep dive into a special resident of British Columbia: the giant Pacific octopus. As Kylie Stanton reports, a Vancouver Island resident — known as the octopus whisperer — was tapped to help make it happen.
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When in the heck did they start letting phones in class
Alphabet community LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE
Yea that's school is corrupt. ?
Agree nothing on phones
Cell phones are supposed to be used for a better learning for the student, not to distract them! And now the USA won't be supporting Israel if attacks Rafah but is sending $26 billion to do so!!
Ontario bringing order to schools ahhhh don’t believe it they’re too busy being brainwashed by the woke agenda .
So when will hs
Stop sux dix
Good luck
Cell phones in school make cheating even easier. Requires zero brain power to cheat when having a cell phone. Need to suspend them in order to get the message. Also vaping requires you to be 18 or 19 years old and thus should be enforceable by the law by fines and suspension or kicked out all together.
Cell phones, pads, and computers are needed tools for learning. Restrict device entertainment network usage based on grades. More jobs daily require device usage and multitasking. We must look into what the future of work will look like for students today. I imagine work in the future will require the use of pads and communicators.
May Love Peace Prevail in The World….
Keep up the good work Alberta!
Control, control, control, god forbid a student records what really going on in these schools.
I feel so bad for the teachers that have to attempt to enforce this
leave French for France…
Kids are waking up to the indoctrination. We can't have them fact checking the lies in class. Phones are a connection to the truth.
Bias Anti-Alberta Reporting again. Not a shock.
They only want to ban phones so kids can't record the messed up stuff going on in public schools
I agree with the idea of cellphone bans, social media and vaping/smoking on school property. But come on be realistic, good luck on teachers enforcing this. They've tried this before and it didn't work. When I was in school, they tried to ban youtube on school computers? We found ways around it, just like kids will find ways around these bans now.
They will bring 2 phones lol
This is gonna fail so badly. Cellphones and beepers were originally banned by schools. Didn't work. Smoking has always been "banned" by schools yet every high school has a smokers hangout. What are they gonna do physically remove the vape or cellphone from the kids hand? The kid will just say "nah" and walk away.
"Regular use of e-cigarettes also continues to be widespread in Canada, with 17 per cent of students having used an e-cigarette in the past month, down slightly from 20 per cent in 2018-19, but is again higher in grades 10 to 12 with over 24 per cent being monthly users."
24% of grade 10-12 students vape. They are gonna suspend that many people? 1 in 4 parents are gonna get a phone call? Enjoy that waste of resources schools.
You know what results in worse educational outcomes? Overly harsh punitive measures against teenagers. Smoking and vaping are already banned in schools, this does nothing but create students who don't want to be in class.
Democracy/freedom is good if not abused !!!!???
Sounds like Danielle Smith needs to do her job and let municipalities do their job.
Our youth are on a terrible path IMO. No longer do parents have control over their kids but to make it worse they haven't educated them properly or prepared them for a life that is definitely looking to be much tougher than mine. Sheltering their kids from the reality of our world is certainly not going well. Pay attention to how often student chose to just holler towards our government as though there is some type of fix in the works to solve all their troubles.