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Meeting at York Civic Centre to kick off Toronto Talks series
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The city has announced the dates for a series of public consultations for future transit funding, the first of which will be held in the former city of York. Feeling Congested? Toronto Talks Transportation is intended to give residents a chance to speak on the city’s transportation system and learn about future plans. The consultations will feature a pair of sessions - one starting at 4 p.m. and the other at 6:30 p.m. The first meeting is Mon. Feb. 4 at the York Civic Centre. Other meetings in other parts of the city are scheduled. The consultations are intended to coincide with another series of region-wide Big Conversations planned by Metrolinx regarding its investment strategy to fund the provincial Big Move Transportation plan, which it will present to the premier in June. For more information, visit www.feelingcongested.ca
IN THE CITY
St. Nicholas students get Internet reality check HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Online reputations, cyberbullying and Facebook privacy settings were just some of the topics discussed at York’s St. Nicholas of Bari Catholic School yesterday as a part of Toronto Catholic District School Board’s Data Privacy Day. Information security professionals
from Scotiabank’s Safe and Secure Online Program (ISC)2 provided students in grades six to eight with a seminar about the different dangers of the Internet, cyberbullying and how to protect themselves online. “There is a trend, every year we do this, kids are online more and more. It’s their world,” said Rob Knoblauch, the director of technical security services at Scotiabank.
When students were asked how many of them have Facebook accounts, an overwhelming show of hands, about 95 per cent, shot up in the air. Children as young as 10 years old are sharing pictures, posting videos and chatting online with one another and possibly even strangers. “These kids are very tech savvy, especially the older kids,” said Adam
‘We’ve had kids who are desensitized to the anonymity of being online.’ – Adam Evans Evans, senior manager of security operations centre at Scotiabank. But students often have a
false sense of security about the Internet. “They wouldn’t go talk to a stranger outside of their school on the street, but they’d talk to a stranger online,” Evans said. “We’ve had kids who are desensitized to the anonymity of being online.” St. Nicholas is one of five Catholic schools in Toronto to take part in the >>>PRESENTATION, page 5
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