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Addictive features targeting teens must be key focus in planned under-16 social media ban, experts say
2+ hour, 7+ min ago (931+ words) Social-media platforms that want exemption from the ban need to address algorithms that push content tailored to teens" individual preferences and other features designed to keep them hooked, experts say. Hollie Adams/Reuters Addictive features of social media, including infinite…...
Forget about core memories. Embrace the chaotic summer family vacation
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (725+ words) When I picture the perfect family summer vacation, there is a singular backdrop: a cottage on a lake. I've insisted on renting one nearly every summer of my adult life because cottages epitomize everything I think a getaway at this…...
In Hong Kong schools, attendance isn't an issue. The pressure is
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (862+ words) On April 20, former kindergarten administrator Fatima Rumjahn was sentenced to 25 months in prison for taking bribes from parents to get their children into a top Hong Kong school, in a scandal that has already seen more than a dozen people…...
Daycare is expensive but leaving the workforce may cost you more
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (831+ words) A play room at the Imagination Tree daycare in Calgary. Todd Korol/The Globe and Mail When Ottawa unveiled a national child care program in 2022 that promised to deliver $10-a-day fees, it was trumpeted as a paradigm shift for working…...
Odyssey Math Tuition Releases Complimentary Singapore Parent's Guide to FSBB, PSLE AL Grading, and the SEC Exam - and Expands Online Math Tuition with Standalone E-Learning Courses
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (382+ words) Odyssey Math Tuition, a math tuition centre in Eunos, Singapore, has released a complimentary parent's guide to FSBB, PSLE AL grading, and the SEC examination, and expanded its online math tuition through standalone e-learning courses for Secondary 1 to JC levels....
No summer job? Here's how your kids can stay productive
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (413+ words) Recently, on a beautiful spring morning, the doorbell of our Toronto home rang. Standing on the porch were two young men. They asked me if my garbage bins needed cleaning. It had never occurred to me that a garbage bin…...
Ontario universities urged to co-ordinate AI approach
1+ week, 4+ day ago (759+ words) Vivek Goel, president of the University of Waterloo and member of the Council of Ontario Universities. 'We're all trying to grapple with what the right principles should be,' Dr. Goel says. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail A task force…...
Teacher absences are on the rise in Ontario, raising concerns about violence, burnout and gaps in learning
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1627+ words) Ontario teachers are taking more sick days, as complaints mount about classroom violence, stress and lack of supports Last year, when she ran to the school bathroom crying uncontrollably after months of things in her classroom only getting worse, a…...
Harriet Alida Lye on narcissism, mother-daughter bonds and growing up
1+ week, 6+ day ago (826+ words) Harriet Alida Lye's new novel, Mother Clown, begins with tragedy. Catherine, one of the two central characters, wakes up one morning to find her husband has died in his sleep. Her daughter, Elise, carries the grief to Paris, where she's…...
Toronto book bank gives away its two-millionth free book
2+ week, 6+ hour ago (809+ words) Supervisor Akhansha Fernando reads to children as parent Ranjith Rajan watches on, at the Sherbourne Street location of the Children's Book Bank in Toronto on Saturday. Laura Proctor/The Globe and Mail Akhansha Fernando wrestled for the attention of Rene…...