Rick Smith

• Plans for Taser-equipped drone halted as 9 on ethics board resign

  Nine out of 12 members of Axon's ethics board resigned on Monday after the Taser producer announced plans to develop weaponized drones to combat school shootings.

  Tech

  Jun 6, 2022
  
• Taser-equipped drones in the works to stop school shootings — despite ethics concerns

  Axon, the maker of Taser brand stun guns, announced a new project to equip drones with Tasers, drawing immediate rebuke from the company's own ethics board.

  Tech

  Jun 3, 2022
  
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• Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital covers crumbling facade with fences to keep bricks from falling

  An east-end hospital needs a gigantic metal Band-Aid.

  Health

  Aug 30, 2018
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• School board to pay $100,000 to student over ‘drunk goggles’ injury

  A Utah school district agreed to pay $100,000 to the family of a teenage girl who was injured while wearing goggles to simulate drunkenness in a 2014 health class experiment.

  Apr 5, 2017