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The Government of Canada passed Bill C-18, The Online News Act, last month, which intends to regulate digital platforms that act as a middle ground in Canada’s news media to enhance fairness, calling for tech giants to pay for displaying Canadians news on their platforms and estimated to bring in $329 million to Canadian newsrooms

The Canadian Association of Journalists is backing a student newspaper’s complaint that new rules wrongly limit freedom of expression.

The Griffins’ Nest, an independent student newspaper based at Vancouvers Eric Hamber Secondary School, is calling on the Vancouver School Board (VSB) to amend some of its new policies.

Some parents were dismayed that schools didnt issue more explicit instructions about need for mask-wearing after travel outside Canada.

After facing publication pushback from school officials, young Vancouver journalists want a Student Press Freedom Act in BC.