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Introduced in June, the Digital Safety Act aims to reduce online harms, particularly for children, and impose a duty of responsibility on social media platforms. However, observers say it’s a blank cheque for the federal government to regulate.

While Bill C-34 would create a new Digital Safety Commission to oversee much of the regulation of online spaces, its intention to ban youth under 16 from using social media platforms unless the sites can demonstrate a child-safe environment has drawn most of the attention. This ban would extend to AI chatbots, which are under scrutiny following their alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge shooting in British Columbia earlier this year. 

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The Villages Plan aims to rezone 17 specific single-family neighborhoods across Vancouver to allow four-to-six-storey mixed-use buildings. The policy attempts to create European-style, walkable hubs with local shops on ground floors and housing above, but has sparked fierce debate.

“I think part of the motivation for so many people to want to speak on this is the idea that this might be the last public hearing of it’s kind with the way that things are changing in British Columbia and with the Vancouver charter and with the way city counsel’s basically going to just get to approve these things without the public hearings…”

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A woman in Canada could lose her license, among other punishments, after she was caught sleeping behind the wheel of her Tesla while on a highway.

Over the years, there have been plenty of promises of fully automated cars. Sci-fi movies and comic books made everyone believe that, at some point, you’d be able to tell your car where to go and it would do it without you needing ot be behind the wheel.

As it stands, there are a few players in the semi-automated car market, but they still come with a wheel and require human intervention where necessary. That’s why police still require drivers to be alert at all times.

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At the Law Society of British Columbia’s annual general meeting Wednesday, lawyers across the province narrowly rejected a proposal to have the legal regulator certify a list of digital tools, including those involving AI, that lawyers can use without fear that doing so will accidentally lead to a breach of their professional obligations.

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