IT/Cyber professional to host online safety presentation for school parents
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on March 17, 2026.
newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com Medicine Hat’s three local school divisions have collaborated to welcome a social networking safety expert of more than 30 years to speak to parents about online safety in today’s digital world. Paul Davis, who has presented to more than one million students in person and more than 100,000 online from Grades 4-12 across Canada and the U.S., will be in Medicine Hat in April to speak to parents about a variety of topics, technologies and trends. During the free presentation Davis will cover cyberbullying, smartphone use, AI and education, intimate images, online privacy, online gaming, social media safety, online grooming and privacy. All presentations Davis hosts are targeted so each audience member will leave with knowledge and empowerment. The content of the presentation is intended for adult audiences and is open to all parents. No registration is required to attend the free presentation on April 22 at 6 p.m. in the Eresman Theatre at Medicine Hat College. The event is also held in partnership with the Beej Project and the Digital Wellness Coalition. 8-7
There is only the false sense of security online. There will be no safety online until our useless governments regulate the deviant tech bros, or better yet, follow the Europeans and switch away from all oligarch tech to open source. Many EU nations are quickly dumping insecure Windows, Android and Apple OS for Linux, dumping neonazi social media X for federated social media like Mastodon. Europe is also giving serious financial penalties to deviant tech platforms that break their regulations.
Canada has utterly failed to regulate the online deviants, so all Canadians are sitting ducks and our children are suffering daily attacks from really bad men because of it. Our democracy is also under daily attacks online.
There’s a good reason why Canadian youth are now being charged with terrorism offenses: the unhinged failure of our governments to regulate and eliminate the bad actors.
“Between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2024, 25 suspects were accused of 83 terrorism-related charges, “representing a 488% increase,” the RCMP wrote. Three minors and six young adults were among those charged, and another eight youths faced terrorism peace bonds, signalling a “rise in youth radicalization.” Online platforms were “contributing to substantial youth engagement with violent extremist ideologies and an increase in the number of youth subjects of interest,” the document said.