Canada - breaking news (June 4, 2023)

Facebook to block news for some users in Canada


Social media platform’s parent company Meta seeks to deter law forcing online groups to pay publishers and broadcasters for ...

Canada’s largest solar farm, GDP growth and an immigrant jobs boom: Business and investing news for June 4


Canada’s largest solar farm, GDP growth and an immigrant jobs boom: Business and investing news for June 4 Subscribe to ...

Meta to test blocking news on Facebook, Instagram in Canada over Bill C-18


The company says it wants to work out the kinks before permanently blocking news on its platforms when the Liberal government ...

Bank of Canada may have to raise rates again this summer given recent momentum: Economists


Momentum in the Canadian economy is spurring speculation that a rate hike is on the way, but economists don’t expect the Bank ...

Why you might not see news on Facebook or Instagram in Canada


Meta is going to start limiting news posts on Facebook and Instagram in Canada because it just does not want to pay up. On ...

Meta to test limiting some news access on Facebook, Instagram in Canada


Meta Platforms Inc on Thursday said it will begin tests on its social media websites Facebook and Instagram that will limit ...

Meta test will limit news posts for Facebook and Instagram users in Canada


Facebook has announced that it will begin tests on Facebook and Instagram that "limit some users and publishers from viewing ...

Canada's slowing home building is bad news for buyers and Trudeau


Canada's residential construction activity has slowed in recent months due to a tight labor market and higher borrowing costs ...

Changes to News Availability on Our Platforms in Canada


We are committed to complying with the Online News Act (Bill C-18) responsibly and randomised product tests will help us ...

Meta tests limiting news in Canada in response to proposed law


Meta Platforms (META) is responding to proposed Canadian legislation by testing the limiting of access to news on its apps in ...

After Google, Meta to test blocking news content on Facebook, Instagram in Canada


Meta, along with other companies like Google, have been against Canada's proposed "Online News Act". Under this act, which ...

Meta tests blocking news content on Instagram, Facebook for some Canadians


Meta is preparing to block news for some Canadians on Facebook and Instagram in a temporary test that is expected to last ...

Air Canada delays continue amid ‘rollover effects’ from technical issue


Air Canada is facing another 'technical issue' resulting in some flights being cancelled or delayed. Here's what to know ...

Meta will test blocking news for some Canadians ahead of new law


Meta will test blocking news content for some users in Canada in response to the country’s Online News Act, the company has ...

Rain forecast on Canada's Atlantic Coast promises relief after week of wildfires


Rain and a rainy forecast for the weekend have fire officials hopeful they can get the largest wildfire ever recorded in ...

Cheese rolling winner from Canada returns home


Canadian Delaney Irving, 19, won the women's race, despite rolling across the finish line out cold. Ms Irving said she ...

F1 Spanish Grand Prix 2023 LIVE! Race result, updates and latest news as Max Verstappen wins in Barcelona


Max Verstappen recorded a dominant victory at the Spanish Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton and George Russell finished second and ...

Every Canadian cigarette will soon carry a health warning


Canada will soon print warning labels directly on cigarettes in a world-first, the country's health agency announced. New ...

Canada wildfires spread to new areas, prompting more evacuations


About 10,000 people have been ordered to leave a city in Quebec, amid hundreds of fires burning across the country.

Canada's wildfires force evacuations in Quebec as Halifax residents return to destroyed homes


Some 10,000 residents in coastal Quebec were forced to evacuate homes as wildfires engulfed more Canadian provinces, in what ...

Facebook may not let you read this story in Canada


Facebook and Google are trying to circumvent a potential new Canadian law that would force them to pay news organizations for ...

Punjab: Woman, parents booked for taking Rs 20 lakh from fiancé’s family for going to Canada; then marrying someone else


Police registered an FIR against the woman identified as Amandeep Kaur of Doraha, and parents, father Harbhajan Singh and ...

David Wotherspoon: Canada World Cup midfielder among St Johnstone departures


David Wotherspoon is to leave St Johnstone while fellow long-serving midfielder Murray Davidson is retiring. Canada ...

Good News! Canada offers reprieve to international students tricked by admission fraud


Over 700 Indian students have received deportation orders after their college admission letters were uncovered as bogus.

Australia news live: Pearson accuses Dutton of duplicity over claims voice ‘will re-racialise our nation’


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‘Business would be over’: Canada’s news publishers say ban by Google and Facebook would devastate them


News publishers say that if big tech platforms pull Canadian news content from their pages, the move could end smaller news businesses or result in millions of dollars in lost revenue.

Meta starts blocking news content for up to 5% of Canadian Facebook, Instagram users


Meta has begun to block some Canadian users of Facebook and Instagram from accessing or posting news content until the end of ...

Pastor drove to US from Canada to sexually assault 15-year-old he met online, feds say


A Canadian pastor drove to the United States during the summer of 2013 and sexually assaulted a teenage girl in a hotel, ...

Spirit Airlines and Air Canada grapple with technical issues causing flight delays


Spirit Airlines and Air Canada are facing technical difficulties that have resulted in flight delays. The airline recommended ...

Air Canada Inaugurates International Flights from Montreal to Toulouse and Copenhagen


With the arrival of two flights in Europe today, Air Canada has inaugurated two strategic non-stop routes from its Montreal ...

Thousands ordered to flee advancing wildfires in Canada


Canada is facing a catastrophic spring wildfire season with massive and powerful blazes out of control in all corners of the ...

Binance Notified Of OSC's Investigation 2 Days Before Announcing Decision To Shut Down Canada Operation


CZ recently said that for Binance to comply with all the regulatory requirements set by the OSC, it needs to build new, ...