Afternoon front page: Liberals introduce bill banning social media for children; Doug Ford’s risky trip to Washington; and more

Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture Marc Miller speaks during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, June 4, 2026. Photo by HYUNGCHEOL PARK/Postmedia

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It’s Wednesday, June 10. Here are the top stories we’re following today.

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Feds introduce legislation to restrict social media for minors and create new digital safety commission

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Deciding which social media platforms would be covered by the ban would be left up to the federal cabinet, while the government plans to leave it up to platforms to implement age verification methods.

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford holds a morning news conference in Toronto on Thursday June 4, 2026. Photo by Peter Power/Postmedia

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Can Doug Ford win over America? Or will he do more harm than good?

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Ontario’s premier is not known for playing nice with Donald Trump. So was Ford’s visit to Washington this week to promote trade between Canada and the U.S. downright risky, or was it a sign that Canada has pivoted on its approach to Washington?

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Lianne Wing-Martins decided to look into freezing her eggs at 29 after hearing about it for years through social media and advertising. Photo by Peter J. Thompson/National Post

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Egg freezing is a booming business in Canada. Here’s how women are being oversold

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This is the first installment of a five-part series by the Investigative Journalism Bureau that looks into the Wild West of the egg-freezing industry, its aggressive marketing, the high cost and the chances of an eventual successful pregnancy.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at Holy Blossom Temple synagogue in Toronto on Monday June 1, 2026. Photo by Ernest Doroszuk/Postmedia

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Harry LaForme: I stood on my ancestral land and said what Carney would not

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“Anti-Zionism is a libel-driven hate movement that incites violence and the targeting, exclusion, and marginalization of Jews in the diaspora and has as its ultimate goal wiping Israel off the face of Mother Earth and the death of all beings within it,” LaForme said.

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Farmers, citizen groups and others take part in an anti-high speed rail rally on Parliament Hill, June 10, 2026. Photo by Blair Gable/Postmedia

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Citizen groups, farmers and MPs protest Alto high-speed rail project on Parliament Hill

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“We saw what happened in Mirabel last time. They stole the lands of rural people and farmers for an airport that nobody uses. And Canadian taxpayers got the bill. Well, they’re doing it all over again. We won’t let them do it,” Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre told the crowd of nearly a thousand.

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This handbag made from lab-grown ‘T-Rex leather’ could fetch upwards of $800,000 at auction. Photo by VML

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Jurassic purse: Handbag made from ‘T-Rex leather’ on auction could fetch $800K

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Its makers say the bag is made with soft tissue discovered in the bones of a 68-million-year-old T-Rex specimen in 2005, “using advanced computational biology and AI modelling.” However, some scientists doubt that soft tissue could still exist from a creature that old.

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