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Google announced Wednesday it will remove links to Canadian news sites from its search results and other products for users in Canada, following a similar decision by Facebook’s parent company Meta last week, after the country passed a new law requiring internet companies to pay news publishers for their content.

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Seyfarth Synopsis: In what New York City has billed as the “first-of-its-kind minimum pay rate for app-based restaurant delivery workers,” gig economy delivery workers will be entitled to almost 20 dollars per hour by April of 2025. The pay rate will increase yearly. Effective July 12, 2023, the new Rule will also require enhanced recordkeeping obligations and will provide flexibility for app-based restaurants as to the pay period.

Pay for app-based workers has recently become a popular issue. Former President Obama’s new Netflix documentary series, “Working, What We Do All Day,” profiles an app-based delivery worker in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,

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Just days after three New Jersey public school systems simultaneously enacted policies requiring educators to notify parents of changes in their children’s gender identity, the state is pursuing legal action.

New Jersey State Attorney General Matthew Platkin announced the complaints against the Middletown Township, Marlboro Township and Manalapan-Englishtown Regional boards of education, all in Monmouth County.

In a series of complaints filed in a New Jersey Superior Court, the state alleges policies requiring staff to notify parents when students express a desire to change names, pronouns or bathroom and/or locker accommodations “target transgender, gender non-conforming, and gender non

NEW YORK, June 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of The Walt Disney Company (“Disney” or the “Company”) DIS. Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at [email protected] or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.

The investigation concerns whether Disney and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.

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On September 21, 2021, Disney gave a virtual presentation at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference. During the presentation, Chief Executive Officer Robert Chapek acknowledged that Disney+

The justice building on Queen Street in downtown Fredericton is slated to become the new University of New Brunswick faculty of law.

A combined $62 million will be put toward making the project a reality, with $24.9 million from the federal government, $20.7 million from the province and $16.6 million from the University of New Brunswick.

Announcing the project Wednesday, Dominic LeBlanc, the federal minister of intergovernmental affairs, infrastructure and communities, said the money will pay for upgrades to the building’s ventilation and communication systems, accessibility features and lighting.

It will also address flooding, he said. To avoid being closed

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The lawyer representing a woman who alleges she was sexually harassed by a former Northwest Territories premier says her client would likely have to end her lawsuit if a judge determines the trial should be moved to Quebec.

Kathryn Marshall, with the Toronto-based law firm Levitt Sheikh, argued in Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court today that the case should be heard in that province, because that is where the alleged misconduct took place.

She says her client, Cherry Smiley, would have to bear the cost and emotional strife of starting over with a search for a

Google has announced plans to remove Canadian news articles from its search engine and other products in Canada when a law requires major online platforms to pay news publishers take effect in the country.

In a statement on Thursday, Google said Canada’s Bill C-18 – the so-called Online News Act, which was passed last week – “remains unworkable”.

“We have now informed the Government that when the law takes effect, we will unfortunately have to remove links to Canadian news from our Search, News and Discover products in Canada,” the company said.

“We’re disappointed it has come to this. We