"Bone smashing is amazing," the square-jawed social media influencer Braden Peters, known online as Clavicular, boasts in a November 2025 livestream appearance.Ìý
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told senators last week that medical assistance in dying is the leading cause of death in Canada. Canada's national statistics agency does not record MAID as a cause of death under World Health Orga…
Claims that Prime Minister Mark Carney said he would invoke the Emergencies Act to quash Alberta independence appeared online last week. It was said Carney made the comments while addressing steelworkers at a March 29 event in Hamilton, Ont. …
Multiple social media posts claim that federal legislation amending the Criminal Code to address hate-motivated crimes has made it a crime to quote the Bible. Experts say that under the bill, which hasn't been passed into law yet, sharing pas…
Justin Bieber's stripped-back performance at the Coachella music festival on Saturday saw the ºÃÉ«tv star focus on his recent albums, while he gave a nod to past hits by singing along to short clips on YouTube. Some social media posts claim…
Multiple Facebook pages are claiming to share updates on the condition of a British Columbia school shooting survivor, including that she was talking or had died. The posts are false, and come from Facebook "clickbait" pages that seek to dive…
A short video shared to social media last week offered a glimpse into the "final days" of a woman at the end of her life. Some claimed the video was an advertisement for medical assistance in dying from the ºÃÉ«tv government or an "assisted…
Multiple social media posts paid tribute to the two pilots who died in a collision between an Air Canada plane and a firefighting truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport this week. But in some of the posts, photos purporting to show one of the …
It's an enduring stereotype that ºÃÉ«tvs are unfailingly nice, quick to apologize even when they have done nothing wrong.
As the U.S.-Israel war on Iran escalates, a flood of fake and misleading content is muddying the waters online. People are turning to social media for news of the war, but experts in artificial intelligence say bad actors, unchecked tech comp…
VANCOUVER - Ottawa this week published details of an agreement recognizing the Musqueam First Nation's Aboriginal title within much of Vancouver. The news prompted claims on social media that Canada had ceded Vancouver properties to the Musqu…
Social media posts last month claimed Toyota had decided to move an auto manufacturing plant from Huntsville, Ala., to Ontario. The company says the claim is false. The claim originated from online accounts that appear to generate their conte…
Mexican special forces killed a notorious cartel leader on Sunday, sparking a wave of retaliatory violence that saw cars set ablaze by cartel members and roads blocked in 20 Mexican states.
A video of someone approaching a woman on a Quebec City street and asking if she is "Ghislaine" went viral after viewers noticed the woman's similarity to Ghislaine Maxwell. The Instagram account that posted the video last week says it used a…
Prime Minister Mark Carney has made a series of claims recently about how much the federal government's support for tariff-stricken industries has protected jobs in Canada.
