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In what’s being called “northern humour at its best,” the hashtag #NunavutTVShows uses dryness and wit to highlight some serious issues for the northern territory, while also painting a picture of the community and culture of life in Nunavut. The social media campaign — which involves tweeting a typical TV show with its name re-imagined […]

Facebook has banned an advert for arty platformer Gris for being too sexually suggestive. Publisher Devolver Digital noted the rejection on Twitter last night, and scoffed at Facebook’s dubious logic. Cover your eyes, if you wish to avoid this illicit nudity: Facebook rejected a GRIS launch trailer ad for this ?sexually suggestive? scene so this […]

An MP from the nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) is in hospital with serious injuries after he was attacked in the streets and severely beaten. Frank Magnitz was set upon by three men and beaten with a piece of timber in the northern German city of Bremen on Monday night. Police have so far […]

Facebook and Instagram allow prominent neo-Nazis and white supremacists to profit off their platforms, letting them sell merchandise such as children’s T-shirts with slogans saying “White baby ― the future of our race.” Last month, Facebook removed White Rex, a Russian-owned neo-Nazi clothing company, from its platform after HuffPost reported on the company. But at least three other brands […]

We’re stoked for June. Not because it signals the beginning of summer (summer, what’s that?) but because Netflix Canada’s June 2018 offerings are legit stacked. If you’re a “Star Wars” fan — and we suspect many of you are — then you’re about to be excited because “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” is coming to […]

A British man has been arrested in the UAE reportedly for wearing a Qatari football shirt during the ongoing feud between the wealthy Gulf states.  Ali Issa Ahmad, a 26-year-old from Wolverhampton, travelled to the UAE in January and attended an Asian Cup match between Qatar and Iraq.  Mr Ahmad attended the matched wearing a […]

Newlyweds Prince Harry and Meghan thanked everyone who took part in the celebrations of their wedding on Saturday, as their Kensington Palace residence published three official wedding photographs. “The Duke and Duchess of Sussex would like to thank everyone who took part in the celebrations of their wedding on Saturday,” the palace said in a […]

Rockville, MD (Reuters) – Instagram on Monday said co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have resigned as chief executive officer and chief technical officer of the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook Inc, giving scant explanation for the move. The departures at Facebook’s fastest-growing revenue generator come just months after the exit of Jan Koum, co-founder […]

In what can only be described as a horrifying day for Toronto, after a van hit and killed 10 people and injured 16 others in one of the city’s busiest areas, residents and fans of the city looked to each other for support. Canadian celebrities, sports teams, and politicians across the country have been sending […]

LONDON (Reuters) — Silicon Valley technology giants such as Facebook and Google have grown so dominant they may need to be broken up, unless challengers or changes in taste reduce their clout, the inventor of the World Wide Web told Reuters. The digital revolution has spawned a handful of U.S.-based technology companies since the 1990s […]