TikTok’s algorithm aggressively pushes harmful content to teens, study finds
Global National A U.K. study has found that TikTok’s algorithm aggressively pushes self-harm and eating disorder content to teens at an alarmingly rapid pace. Jackson Proskow examines how the study was conducted, TikTok’s response to the research’s troubling findings, and how the app’s content compares to its more regulated parent company in China.
SIU investigating two-vehicle collision involving Niagara police officer in Brampton
TORONTO – The province’s police watchdog has been called to investigate a collision involving a Niagara police officer in Brampton Wednesday afternoon. Emergency crews were called to the area of Kennedy Road and Bovaird Drive just before 1 p.m. for a crash. The Special Investigations Unit said Niagara police were conducting an investigation when an
Female motorcyclist dies, man critically injured in DVP motorcycle collision
TORONTO – A woman is dead and another man is in critical condition in hospital after a two-motorcycle collision in the southbound lanes of the Don Valley Parkway late on Monday night. Emergency crews were called to the southbound DVP at Don Mills Road at 10:39 p.m. Monday night after two motorcycles collided. A woman
Mississauga crash sends man to hospital in critical condition
TORONTO — One person is in critical condition after a motorcycle crash in Mississauga Saturday evening. Peel police say a single-motorcycle collision occurred in a parking lot in the Tomken Road and Meyerside Drive area, south of Courtneypark Drive East, just before 6:30 p.m. A motorcycle rider suffered life-threatening injuries and was transported to a
Two people taken to hospital after motorcycle, police car collided in Etobicoke
TORONTO — The province’s police watchdog is investigating a collision between a motorcycle and a Toronto police vehicle in Etobicoke Thursday evening that sent two people to hospital. Police say it happened in the area of Sixth Street and Birmingham Street, north of Lake Shore Boulevard West, just before 8 p.m. Toronto paramedics say a
Collision in Mississauga sends motorcyclist to hospital
TORONTO — A 29-year-old man is in hospital after a two-vehicle crash in Mississauga Sunday afternoon. Peel police said a motorcycle and another vehicle collided at the intersection of Winston Churchill Boulevard and Tacc Drive, north of Eglinton Avenue West, just before 5 p.m. The motorcyclist was transported to a trauma centre in life-threatening condition
Thousands of tourists stranded near Machu Picchu amid unrest in Peru – National
A state of emergency in Peru has left thousands of foreign tourists stranded since Wednesday near the idyllic ancient city of Machu Picchu. The December arrest of the country’s former president Pedro Castillo spurred chaos in Peru and triggered ongoing political protests. As a result, rail lines, roads and airports have been closed, preventing tourists
IN PHOTOS: Snowfall blankets parts of Canada as storm moves east
Canadians who hadn’t yet cracked out their snow shovels were forced to on Friday as a snowstorm moved through eastern Canada. Images of white streets were captured in cities like Ottawa and Montreal due to a weather system passing over the region, the same one that dumped several centimetres of snow in Toronto and nearby
‘We need help’: Dozens of tourists stranded in remote mountain town in Cusco amid Peru protests
Dozens of tourists called for international assistance after saying they had become stranded in a remote mountain town in Cusco, Peru for over 24 hours as locals refuse passage to Bolivia amid widespread protests across the country. “We’ve been taken hostage in Peru, we need help,” a French woman said in the video taken on