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The Online Harms Act, tabled Monday by the Liberal government, proposes changes to the Criminal Code and new regulatory bodies to protect children and adults from abuse online. Carol Todd, the mother of Amanda Todd, a B.C. teen who died by suicide after being sexually extorted, says if this legislation had been in place when her daughter was alive, 'it could have saved her life.'

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Advocates for victims of sexual offences say it's difficult to lay charges in voyeurism cases and are calling for more to be done to address the problem.

5 of the proposed changes aimed at better protecting Canadians — particularly youth — online

An accident in Lviv Oblast involving a vehicle evacuating fallen Ukrainian soldiers tragically resulted in three fatalities and three injuries, local police reported on Facebook on Feb. 27.

The Canadian government has introduced legislation proposing new regulatory bodies and heavier sentences to combat online abuse, with major implications for free speech.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government has tabled its long-awaited legislation to better protect Canadians, and particularly youth, against online harms. Here are five things Bill C-63 proposes to do.

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Government accused of failing in its international obligation to prioritise investigation of alleged international crimes

The Liberal government plans to create a new digital safety regulator to compel social-media platforms to take action against online harms and remove damaging content — including child sex-abuse material and intimate images shared without consent — under penalty of millions of dollars in fines.