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How Seniors Can Stay Safe Online With Simple Everyday Steps
For retirees managing banking, health portals, shopping and family messages online, safety can feel like a moving target. Six everyday moves — plus a few repeatable habits — block most of the scams that target seniors.
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Which Law Targets Trafficking in Persons? Sections 279.01 to 279.04 of the Criminal Code
Canada’s trafficking offences are gender-neutral, carry mandatory minimum sentences, and turn on a single test — exploitation. Here is what each…
The Risks Your Child Faces Online — and the Conversations That Help
Luring, sextortion and the sharing of intimate images are Criminal Code offences with a specific tipline behind them. The most effective protection…
How to Spot a Grow Operation — and What to Do About It
Since legalization, growing four plants at home is lawful in most provinces. A commercial grow in a rented house is not — and it leaves tell-tale…
Adults and Youth Are Not Under the Same Drinking-and-Driving Rules
The Criminal Code applies to every driver from age 12 up — but a new or young driver is judged against a zero-alcohol standard long before the…
Impaired Driving in Canada: What the Numbers and the Law Actually Say
Tens of thousands of impaired-driving incidents are reported by police every year. Here is how the offence is defined, how it is measured at the…
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