Some Canadian cities, including Cornwall Ontario, already have Internet exchange zones (submitted photo/Blake Edwards)

By Alison Sandstrom

Secure transactions

P.A. seeks safe Internet sales zone

Sep 10, 2019 | 2:00 PM

The common Internet sale can be dangerous and in a bid to make the process safer, P.A. city council is looking into creating a designated Internet exchange zone.

“It will help people trade goods on the Internet without bringing people into their home,” Councillor Blake Edwards told paNOW.

Such sites already exist in several municipalities across Canada, sometimes near a police station. The design is simple with a few parking spaces in well-lit area with a sign.

“It doesn’t come with a large cost. It’ll be a sign, [and an area] maybe eight-feet by eight-feet or something like that,” Edwards said.

While presenting the idea to council, Edwards referenced an August incident where a P.A. elderly man was stabbed in the neck after it was claimed he met a woman downtown to buy hockey cards. On Tuesday morning in Regina, a man allegedly pulled a gun on a potential buyer after he refused to purchase his garden tractor.

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The city will ask the police if and where it can create the Internet exchange zone.

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