Ontario to tighten regulations on cell phone use in schools: source

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Education Minister Stephen Lecce speaks with members of the Queens Park press gallery on Oct. 31, 2022, after tabling legislation meant to halt a strike by CUPE-represented education workers.

The Ontario government is poised to crack down on cell phone use in schools with an announcement coming Sunday, a government source confirmed to CBC Toronto.Education Minister Stephen Lecce is poised to crack down on cell phone use and vaping in schools Sunday, a government source told CBC Toronto. The Ontario government is poised to crack down on cell phone use in schools with an announcement coming Sunday, a government source confirmed to CBC Toronto.

The province will also be tightening its policies around vaping in schools, the source said. Stephen Lecce, the province's education minister, will share more details on the "comprehensive" policy changes Sunday morning, according to the source."It will have teeth," the source said. "It's something the minister has been focused on for a long time.

some of the largest social media companies to over their products, alleging the way they're designed has negatively rewired the way children think, behave and learn and disrupted the way schools operate. The public district school boards of Toronto, Peel and Ottawa-Carleton, along with Toronto's Catholic counterpart, are looking for about $4.5 billion in total damages from Meta Platforms Inc., Snap Inc. and ByteDance Ltd., which operate the platforms Facebook and Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok respectively, according to separate but similar statements of claim filed in March.

 

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