"We have two Conservative MPs in Barrie that have been silent on their leader's appearance on the same stage as a neo-Nazi sympathizer.  This is unacceptable and it is dangerous. They are playing footsies with white supremacists...," Barrie city councillor Keenan Aylwin wrote in a Facebook post.

Lawmakers from 12 countries grilled Facebook officials in Ottawa after top executives Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg ignored a subpoena to come before a committee of 12 countries on Tuesday.

Justin Trudeau likened the current digital landscape to the "Wild West" and said that the livestreamed murder of 51 citizens in two mosques in New Zealand on March 15 was the "final straw."

“We are working with like-minded nations and clearly this will put pressure on other countries – like the US – to acknowledge that this is a real issue and that we need to address it in a meaningful way.” - Navdeep Bains after Canada signed the Christchurch Call to reduce the use of the internet to incite terrorism, violence and hatred.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau touched down in Paris on Wednesday to sign a call to action that aims to clamp down on online extremism in the aftermath of the livestreamed shootings that killed 51 people in New Zealand in March. His first stop was at Notre Dame Cathedral, where he offered Canadian lumber and steel to help with the cathedral's reconstruction.

Global tech giants have pledged to clamp down on terrorist and extremist content on their platforms, again, in the aftermath of a livestreamed shooting that killed 51 worshippers praying in two New Zealand mosques in March.

Facebook is rolling out a new “one strike” rule for its live video service following the New Zealand mosque killings, banning users for a period of time after their first violation of company policy.

As social media companies struggle to purge extremist content from their platforms, a new National Observer investigation reveals how purveyors of hate speech and disinformation are gaming the system to evade social media bans and keep their content online.

The mood was dark; the recent inauguration of a certain president cast a long shadow over all of us. I was thinking about what National Observer’s lead story would be. For the life of me, I can’t remember what the choices were. And it doesn’t matter. Because just around dinner time, the first news alert came across my computer. There had been a shooting at a mosque in Québec City.