Signal, DuckDuckGo among firms weighing Canada exit over lawful access bill -

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Signal, DuckDuckGo among firms weighing Canada exit over lawful access bill -...

Signal is among the most prominent platforms to make such a threat while speaking out against Bill C-22, while VPN providers have also threatened to leave or curtail services.

How screwed is Canada in this regard? There is a lot of grassroots pressure against this bill; most people who have an…

Online harms bill to include social media ban for children under 16: source -

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Online harms bill to include social media ban for children under 16: source -...

The proposed social media ban for youth under 16 would mirror action first taken in Australia, where the measure took effect last December.

Great… how screwed is Canada is this regard? Already PhD Michael Geist (foremost Canadian privacy expert) and the Canadian Privacy Commissioner are calling it…

Israel Has Physically Divided Gaza With Over 25 Kilometers of Earthen Barriers

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https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-israel-earth-berms-military-bases-ceasefire

“This is the danger of reading the ceasefire as an event rather than as a phase: it allows the slow violence of fortification, encroachment, and engineered uninhabitability to proceed under the cover of a word that promises its end,” Abdaljawad…

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Iran's top negotiator says Tehran will not compromise in talks with US

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https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/irans-top-negotiator-says-tehran-will-not-compromise-talks-with-us-2026-05-23/

Iran’s top negotiator, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, told Pakistani army chief Asim Munir during talks in ​Tehran on Saturday that the U.S. was not an honest ‌party in negotiations to end their war and…

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‘Canada is handing people over to ICE’: refugees rejected at border face US detention

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/23/canadians-refugees-rejected-face-ice-detention

As Canada tightens asylum rules, refugees reuniting with family say they are being turned over to ICE and jailed for months after failed border claims

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Record number of Americans are leaving the country and renouncing their citizenship for good, report says

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/americans-leaving-citizenship-emigration-trump-b2975395.html

In the aggregate, as many as 295,000 more people may have left the U.S. than immigrated there in 2025, according to one study

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