Tuesday June 10, 2014 – 1pm
Posted Jun 10, 2014 01:17:46 PM.
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1:00- Peter Cheney, Globe Drive Columnist for the Globe and Mail
Speed traps – for safety or just a cash grab? With some of the lowest speed limits in the developed world, Canada offers ideal conditions for police speed traps. In Ontario, for example, more than 750,000 drivers are convicted of speeding each year, generating millions in fines. The speed trap is the vehicular equivalent of fishing in a barrel – police find spots where the limit is lower than expected, hide out with a radar gun, and rake in the ticket revenue.
1:30- Paula Todd, Journalist and Professor at Seneca College
Todd, the author of Finding Karla and a professor of broadcast journalism at Seneca College in Toronto, on her new book, Extreme Mean: Trolls, Bullies and Predators Online. In it, she examines new research and reports on the Internet’s dark corners of stalking, sexual extortion and revenge porn, and what it means to our online future.
Plus, an exclusive excerpt from Extreme Mean: Trolls, Bullies and Predators Online on the attacks that drove Amanda Todd to take her own life on Oct. 10, 2012 and the abuse that her mom, Carol Todd, still receives.
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