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Apr 2024
26m 24s

Ontario's looming school cellphone ban, ...

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The Ontario government plans to introduce tough new limits on the use of cellphones in schools - in an effort to bring student's focus back to the classroom. Also: A coroner's inquest in Whitehorse hears how the deaths of four Indigenous women at an emergency shelter could have been prevented. Plus: The restoration of the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris is almost complete. We'll tell you how people from around the world are fixing it up - using some ancient techniques.

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