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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 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.

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.

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.

Canada’s National Post on Tuesday published the results of a poll that show nearly a third of Canadians believe assisted suicide should be offered to homeless people who are weary of their lives.

In a ‘nobody saw that coming’ moment, Toronto’s ‘anti-capitalist’ cafe announced it would be shutting down just over a year after opening.

Pakistanis living in North America held rallies on Tuesday to protest the arrest of former prime minister and current candidate Imran Khan in Islamabad, with an especially large demonstration held in Toronto.

Canada expelled Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei on Monday after an intelligence report accused him of targeting Michael Chong, a Conservative Party member of parliament, for retaliation after Chong spoke out against China’s genocide of the Uyghur Muslims. China quickly expelled a Canadian diplomat in retaliation.

U.S. President Joe Biden is nowhere to be seen as leaders from across the world gather for the Coronation of King Charles III.

A 51-year-old man was arrested in Vancouver on Thursday, the day after he parked a trailer downtown and began selling cocaine, crack, methamphetamines, and heroin with all the nonchalance of a food truck vendor slinging hot dogs.

An intelligence agency report says one of them plotted to intimidate the Hong Kong relatives of a Canadian lawmaker.

A Canadian judge on Tuesday found Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski guilty of “mischief” for urging truckers to continue a 2022 protest that blocked the main border crossing in Alberta for two weeks.

A Canadian man has reportedly been arrested by police after allegedly selling poison to suicidal individuals online.

A man from Dildo, Newfoundland, took a photo Thursday of an iceberg that has caused people to blush and laugh.

Florida Panthers will be restricting ticket sales exclusively to residents of the U.S. in the playoff series against the Toronto Maple Leafs. 

Canadian folk singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot died in Toronto on Monday at the age of 84 after a long and storied career.

The BBC reported “chaos” at Port Sudan, even hours after midnight on Sunday, as thousands of foreigners and Sudanese frantically tried to get out of the country before vicious warfare between rival junta factions resumed in earnest.