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Schools ban phones, but do the policies work?
Axios· 3 days agoCities, states and school districts are passing sweeping bans on cellphones in schools, aiming to get kids to pay attention during class and socialize...
Texas on alert as Beryl churns closer; landfall as hurricane likely
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 2 days agoHeavy rain and flash flooding are some of the greatest threats, forecasters warned. About 5 to 10...
More women and minorities – Westminster newbies breaking records
BBC News· 1 hour agoWestminster will have an air of “freshers’ week” in the coming days, as hundreds of new faces...
Grateful French village remembers the Waterloo Region men who freed them from the Nazis
Waterloo Region Record· 4 hours agoEighty years ago, on July 8, 1944, the Highland Light Infantry advanced across an open field under...
The career rise of Bob Iger — and how the Disney CEO spends his fortune
Business Insider via Yahoo Canada News· 5 days ago"I was a lower middle class...In 1974, Iger joined ABC, working in New York City. He wrote in his...
Americans shrug off searing heat to celebrate Fourth of July with parades, cookouts and fireworks
Toronto Star· 4 days agoAcross the West, meanwhile, residents were dealing with stifling heat as the National Weather...
Merrett Stierheim, county manager who shaped modern Miami-Dade’s government, dies at 90
Miami Herald via Yahoo Canada News· 13 hours agoStierheim oversaw Dade’s greatest streak of public works projects in the modern era, including...
Hurricane Beryl strengthens back into a Category 3 storm as it nears Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula
CityNews· 4 days agoThe U.S. National Hurricane Center said Beryl, which was the earliest Category 5 hurricane in the ...
An Afghani woman who traversed three continents for an education graduates from high school
AOL· 3 days agoZahra Shahnoory was 16 years old when the principal announced over her high school’s loudspeaker that the Taliban had entered Kabul, Afghanistan. Everybody ...
A ‘living hell’: More disturbing allegations made as QMJHL hazing lawsuit filed | Globalnews.ca
Global B.C.· 4 days agoFive more players have detailed degrading, humiliating and abusive trauma they say they suffered as...