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A court granted a former member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), retired officer William Majcher, bail on Wednesday after being charged with breaking Canada’s Security of Information Act through deals to aid communist China in persecuting people abroad.

Another humongous plume of smoke from Canadian wildfires hit numerous American cities on the East Coast Monday as the fires continue burning.

Mass migration is spiking inflation in Canada because migrants increase rents and housing prices, say Canadian economists.

Smoke from the massive wildfires in Canada is drifting across the border into the United States, setting off air quality alerts for about 70 million people in a dozen states, including cities like Chicago, Detroit, and New York.

Canadian forestry officials predicted on Thursday that the ongoing, out-of-control wildfires burning across the country and polluting large swathes of America will continue through August, breaking records for the amount of territory burned.

Canadian and European business has for decades kept the communist Cuban government afloat. Leaders in both regions are reconsidering their ties to the island, however, as the Castro regime becomes increasingly visible as an ally in the world’s most harrowing conflicts.

A teenage hiker who went missing at Golden Ears Park in Canada on Tuesday is safe after being missing for more than two days.

Following a similar decision by Facebook (now known as Meta), Google announced plans to block all news links in Canada following the passage of Bill C-18, the Online News Act, a corporate welfare package for the legacy media industry that would force tech companies to pay big media companies for linking to their content.

A former University of Waterloo student was charged after stabbing a gender studies professor and two students during a lecture.

Canadian officials are investigating voice recordings and data from the perished Titan’s mothership, according to reports on Saturday.

The Canadian equivalent of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a bill forcing tech companies to pay off and collude with big media companies, has passed in Canada. As a result, Facebook (now known as Meta) says news content will no longer be available on its main platform and Instagram in the country — and Google is considering a similar approach on its platforms.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada said Saturday that it’s conducting an investigation into the loss of the Titanic sub.

The hunt for further evidence of the Titan will continue, but it seems doubtful the mortal remains of those onboard will be recovered. 

The U.S. Coast Guard has confirmed that the debris found of the Titanic tourist submersible Titan “is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel.” All five passengers on the Titan are presumed to have died.

‘Banging’ detected by rescuers in the hunt for the missing Titan submarine appears to have been just “background ocean noise”, says Admiral.

Just hours of presumed oxygen endurance remain, but more aircraft and ships are joining the last-minute hunt to save those onboard.

Three U.S. Air Force planes delivered critical equipment to a Newfoundland, Canada, airport in a “last chance” effort to rescue five passengers aboard the missing Titan submarine.

Sonar buoys have detected “underwater noises”, prompting a shift in the search area, but the time left to save lives is nearly up.

High school students in Ottawa, Canada, reportedly staged a walkout to protest of gender ideology curriculum being implemented by their school district.

David Johnston, the special investigator hand-picked by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to investigate Chinese meddling in Canadian politics, announced his resignation on Friday.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a surprise visit to Kyiv on Saturday despite political scandals and raging wildfires at home.

China’s state-run Global Times propaganda outlet shared stories on Thursday of Chinese “netizens” on regime-controlled social media mocking New York City for being engulfed in a wildfire smog plume flying in from Canada, declaring the wildfires a “losing-face” moment for America.

Fans slammed singer Shawn Mendes for using a photo of New York City covered in smoke from the wildfires in Canada to promote his new single.

The mayor of Montreal, Valérie Plante, told reporters on Wednesday that her city had offered the provincial government of Quebec to send firefighters to help control the over 100 wildfires spreading in the region and engulfing the American Northeast and Midwest in smoke – but Quebec refused them.

The poor air quality in places like New York due to the ongoing Canadian wildfires has forced the cancelation of top Broadway musicals like Hamilton and the Hollywood writers strike.

Canada looks set to face another record-shattering year of euthanasia deaths in 2023 after a reported 35 percent rise to some 13,500 state-sponsored suicides in 2022, an analysis of official data shows.

There will be no respite from the thick, hazardous wildfire smoke that’s disrupting daily life for millions of people across the U.S. East Coast and Midwest anytime soon, a specialist meteorologist forecast Thursday.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires is pouring into the U.S. East Coast and Midwest and covering the capitals of both nations in an unhealthy haze.

New York is urging residents dealing with low air quality due to wildfire smoke to take steps to reduce pollution in their own lives.

Just like in the U.S., inflation and labor markets have tested the central bank’s resolve to stay on the sidelines.

A nurse in Canada reportedly recorded what she claimed were ‘witches’ eating a dead animal near her house and was frightened by the sight.

The Chinese Communist government on Sunday claimed the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) appropriately handled a “provocative transit” by American and Canadian warships through the Strait of Taiwan on Saturday.

A “radioactive cloud” is drifting towards Europe, Russia said, but Canadian military intelligence state they debunked the claim.

Efforts by Trudeau to push his LGBT agenda at the G7 reportedly left Italian PM Giorgia Meloni looking “visibly” irate.

Canada’s National Post and Canadian Press reported on Friday that a Montreal charity suspected of potentially hosting an illegal Chinese police station received up to $200,000 in Canadian taxpayer funding.

Canada is preparing for a fresh round of elections next month by empowering a task force to prioritize fighting foreign interference and ordering its spy service to promptly disclose threats to any candidates — moves Ottawa deems necessary as evidence mounts of expansive Chinese government operations to influence Canadian politics.