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The RCMP has admitted to using spyware and other questionable methods to hack into phones and other electronic devices. 

A Senate bill that would have allowed Canadian Border Service (CBSA) agents to examine the contents of traveller’s smartphones, laptops and other devices under the threshold of “reasonable general concern” has been voted down by the national security and defence committee.

Various experts are speaking out against mandatory masks for children five years old and under despite many Canadian jurisdictions recommending or requiring them for young kids. 

True North broke several stories throughout the year and garnered national attention for our journalism on key issues. Here is a list of True North’s top 10 news stories of 2021. 

“It is creepily totalitarian, something you might expect out of China or Russia,” said Denton. 

The Vancouver-based internet freedom advocacy group Open Media is slamming the Liberal government for hiding the results of a consultation on its proposed plan to regulate online content from the public. 

An expert panel joins True North's Lindsay Shepherd to discuss the legal and ethical implications of vaccine mandates at Canadian post-secondary institutions, as well as how these mandates affect the on-campus experience for students and faculty.

Researchers at McGill University's Media Ecosystem Observatory have found that Canadian media outlets’ coverage of the protests trailing beleaguered Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau far exceeded their reporting of the Afghanistan crisis. 

David Fisman, an epidemiology professor at U of T, said in a tweet that the Conservatives were promoting Nazism because a tweet the party sent about Canada’s Recovery Plan had the words secure the future for your children and contained 14 words. 

Lawsuits are underway at a handful of postsecondary institutions in the province