Canada's Tipline

The fight against online exploitation of children is getting a big boost from the Canadian government and private sector, the Calgary Sun reports. The government pledged to fund cybertip.ca, a program of Child Find Manitoba, $700,000 a year for five years, and Bell Canada has contributed that amount to the tipline to expand its Web site for nationwide coverage by the fall. "Cybertip.ca receives tips regarding Internet incidents of child pornography, luring, child sex-tourism, or child prostitution and forward that information to the appropriate law enforcement agency," according to the Sun. The tipline appears to be modeled after the US's CyberTipline, run by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in Alexandria, Virginia.