Vancouver shaken by 4.7 magnitude earthquake on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast

CBC News: The National on Youtube has the story.

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People across Metro Vancouver were shaken by a 4.7 magnitude earthquake that struck B.C.’s Sunshine Coast Friday, rattling homes and forcing people to evacuate office buildings until they got the all-clear.

Trump Blocks 16,000 Migrants Entering NYC… From Canada

Cash Jordan on Youtube has the video.

Canada's border with the US is has been crossed by over 20k people since the start of the asylum crisis.  However, with President Trump convincing Canada to implement stronger border security measures, the route to NY from America's northern neighbor is now off limits...

Could Canadian troops be sent to Ukraine as part of a possible ceasefire deal?

CTV News on Youtube has the story.

The Front Bench Panel discusses how seriously to take Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when he says he hasn't ruled out sending Canadian troops to Ukraine.

Canada stands strong with Ukraine

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined European leaders in Kyiv to mark the third anniversary of Russia's invasion into Ukraine.

Anger in Canada over Google labelling some Canadian provincial parks as state parks

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Canadians are reacting in anger after discovering Google has erroneously labelled a number of Canadian provincial parks as state parks. Kathy Le has more.

"There won’t be a bounceback": Trump tariff impact will be long-lasting, Bank of Canada warns

Global News on Youtube has the story.

Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem issued a stark warning during a speech to members of the Mississauga Board of Trade on Friday, saying that the hit to the Canadian economy from broad-based tariffs would be permanent.

“In the pandemic, we had a steep recession followed by a rapid recovery as the economy reopened,” Macklem said. “This time, if tariffs are long-lasting, there won’t be a bounceback.”

Macklem said the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs would “all but wipe out growth in the economy” for 2025 and 2026.

He said Canada could offset some of the impacts of tariffs by making structural changes, such as removing restrictions on interprovincial trade and “harmonizing or mutually recognizing provincial regulations.”

Canadian trucking company reverses plans to move headquarters to U.S.

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Montreal-based trucking company TFI International has announced it is reversing its decision to move headquarters to the United States after shareholders objected to the plan.

How tariff threats are already making Canada’s housing crisis worse

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A U.S.-Canada trade war would undoubtedly drive up the cost of building supplies, but as CBC’s Lauren Bird explains, even just the threat of tariffs is already stalling some construction projects as Canada tries to fight its way out of a housing crisis.

Controversial 51st state billboard stirs up strong reactions in Alberta

Global News on Youtube has the story.

A controversial billboard near Bowden, Alta. is stirring up strong reactions across the province. 

"Somebody paid the money, and they have the perfect right to do so, but you might as well flush it down the toilet," resident Cam Morrison told Global News. 

Placed along the QE2 highway, the sign calls for Alberta to become the 51st state of the United States. It's an idea championed by the Alberta-based group "America Fund," which emerged from the Wexit movement — a push for Canada's western provinces to secede.

While the group insists it has growing support, local residents and officials say the message does not reflect their community. 

"The community is not happy about it in any way, shape or form, and it does not reflect our preferences." Bowden’s mayor, Robb Stuart, reports a flood of angry calls, and many locals strongly oppose the idea.

Meghan Cobb has more reaction.

Can the USA auto industry survive without Canada?

CBC News on Youtube has the story.

President Donald Trump says he wants every car sold in the United States to be made domestically, a move which experts say would disrupt the entire North American auto sector for years. Andrew Chang explains how interdependent the Canadian and U.S. auto industries are, and the widespread impacts of severing a 70-year partnership.

Which Canadian industries will be most impacted by the Trump tariffs?

Global News on Youtube has the story.

President Donald Trump says U.S tariffs on Canada and Mexico are coming next week, and the imminent threat is causing increasing alarm about the futures of millions of Canadian jobs.

Economists warn that the sweeping 25 per cent tariffs would be the “most significant trade shock” for Canada since the 1930s, with job losses hitting multiple sectors.

But as Anne Gaviola reports, some industries are expected to take a bigger hit than others.

Trump says tariffs against Canada 'will go forward' next week

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CBC News’s Richard Madan breaks down the U.S. president's comments that sweeping tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico ‘will go forward’ when a month-long delay expires next week.

Trump says tariffs on Canada and Mexico are 'on time, on schedule'

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During a White House press conference, President Trump told reporters that his administration would move forward with planned tariffs on Canada and Mexico.

USA: Video shows planes nearly collide at Chicago airport

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A Southwest Airlines plane and a private jet experienced a close call at Chicago Midway International Airport in which the flight crew had to perform a go-around to prevent a potential incident. CNN’s Pete Muntean reports.

Delta flight makes emergency landing after ‘haze’ reported in cabin

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A Delta Air Lines flight returned to Atlanta on Monday morning shortly after takeoff when the crew reported "possible smoke" in the aircraft, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, just two days after another Delta flight was diverted due to smoke on the plane. NBC News’ Emilie Ikeda reports.

Delta offers plane crash survivors $30,000 with 'no strings attached'

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Delta Air Lines says it is offering $30,000 to the passengers of Flight 4819 that crashed at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport as crews begin clearing the wreckage of the plane from the site.

Delta Airplane Crash: Camera 3

New Video Shows Moment Delta Air Lines Crash Lands at Toronto Airport - (TMZ)

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New video shows the moment a Delta Air Lines flight crash landed ... and the impact and explosion happened as soon as the plane was wheels down.

Delta Airplane Crash: Camera 2

Diario AS on Youtube has the video.

Newly released footage captures the exact moment Delta Connection Flight 4819 crashed while landing in Toronto. Out of the 80 people on board, 18 were injured, including two in critical but stable condition.

Delta Airplane Crash: Camera 1

National Post has the video.

This video posted to Facebook by John Nelson shows Delta Flight DL4819 after it crash landed and flipped over at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Feb. 17, 2024.

Officials give update on Delta plane crash in Toronto

ABC News has the story.

Injuries were reported when a plane crashed while landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday. It was wound up upside-down on the snow-covered ground.

Toronto: Delta airlines flight crashes, flips upside down at Toronto airport

CNN has the story.

A Delta Air Lines commuter plane arriving from Minneapolis has crashed at Canada’s Toronto Pearson Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, with images of the incident showing the aircraft flipped upside down.

All 80 people aboard Delta flight 4819 have been evacuated, the FAA said.

Paramedics told CNN affiliate CP24 up to eight people were injured in the crash, though the extent of the injuries is unclear.

More investigations will be done soon.

Raw chopper video of damage: Philadelphia plane crash aftermath

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Raw news helicopter video shows the damage left behind from the Philadelphia (USA) airplane crash, including a gaping hole in the concrete and charred cars.

6abc news: New view of destruction after Philadelphia plane crash

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Action News is getting a new view of the destruction after a deadly plane crash in Northeast Philadelphia.

Philadelphia Airplane Crash: Camera 6

FOX 4 Now has the story.

Vehicle dash cam video obtained by FOX News recorded the crash of a small Learjet into a neighborhood in Philadelphia on January 31.

Philadelphia Airplane Crash: Camera 5

FOX 11 Los Angeles has the story.

The small plane crash in Philadelphia caused an explosion near a local shopping center.

Philadelphia Airplane Crash: Camera 4

FOX 11 Los Angeles has the story.

A plane crashed in Philadelphia. reportedly killing six (or seven). Home security cameras caught both the sights and sounds as the plane came down.

Philadelphia Airplane Crash: Camera 3

Oneindia News on Youtube has the story.

A shocking video captured the moment a Learjet 55 crashed in Philadelphia, bursting into a massive fireball as it fell from the sky. The plane, a medical ambulance aircraft, crashed shortly after departing from Northeast Philadelphia Airport, killing all six people on board, including a pediatric patient, her mother, and medical crew. The horrifying footage shows the jet plummeting before erupting in flames, sending shockwaves through the local community. Authorities are investigating the cause of the crash, with early speculation pointing to a possible mechanical failure or a stall during takeoff. The incident has left the city in disbelief and mourning.

Philadelphia Airplane Crash: Camera 2

Philly plane crash: Ring camera captures moment of crash

FOX 11 Los Angeles has the story.

A small plane crash was reported in Philadelphia. Here is a doorbell video showing the incident.

Philadelphia Airplane Crash: Camera 1

Philly plane crash: Doorbell camera captures crash in Northeast Philadelphia

FOX 29 Philadelphia has the story.

Doorbell camera captured the moment a plane crashed in a Philadelphia neighborhood late Friday night. The FAA says at least two people were on board.

Hundreds of firefighters and first responders descended on Northeast Philadelphia after the plane crashed near the Roosevelt Mall.

Philadelphia news, weather, traffic and sports from FOX 29, serving Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Watch breaking news live or see the latest videos from programs like Good Day Philadelphia.

Washington plane crash: Investigators release cockpit recordings

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Investigators have released the final conversation between an American Airlines plane and air traffic control, shortly before a collision between the aircraft and a military chopper.

The transcript reveals the pilots received multiple automatic warnings that a helicopter was nearby.

Some 67 people died in the collision between the two craft on Wednesday above Washington.

The Deadly Truth About The Mid-Air Over The Potomac

The Deadly Truth About The Mid-Air Over The Potomac!

Pilot Debrief on Youtube has the story.

American Airlines Flight 5342 and a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter collided over the Potomac River in a very tragic and deadly mid-air disaster. There's a lot of rumors and misinformation out there and my hope is this provides some clarity about what happened. My thoughts and prayers are with the victim's families.

Trump Plans to Hit Canada and Mexico With 25% Tariffs

Bloomberg Television on Youtube has the story.

President Donald Trump said he would follow through on his threat to impose 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico on Feb. 1, citing the flow of fentanyl and large trade deficits as among the reasons for his decision. Kaley Leinz reports on "Bloomberg The Close."

Bank of Canada drops key interest rate to 3% but warns of tariff uncertainty

Global News has the story.

The Bank of Canada delivered a sixth consecutive interest rate cut on Wednesday but slowed the pace of its easing cycle.

 

The central bank also warned that Canada’s economy would be “tested” if the United States delivers on a threat to impose blanket tariffs on Canadian goods, and said there was more “uncertainty” in its outlook because of the looming trade dispute.

 

The Bank of Canada cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points, bringing the policy rate down to 3.0 per cent. The move was widely expected by markets and most economists.

 

Global's Mackenzie Gray reports.

Is this really how DeepSeek plays chess? Some say it does not make illegal chess moves

GothamChess on Youtube has the story.

Chess is indeed a strategy game played on a board with 64 squares. Players take turns moving their pieces to capture their opponent's king.

How to play:

1. Set up the board with the pieces. White moves first, then Black, and so on. 

2. Move a piece to a vacant square or capture an opponent's piece. 

3. Repeat until the opponent's king is checkmated or the game ends in a draw.

Piece movement:

King: Moves one square in any direction. The king can be put in check, but it can't be captured. 

Queen: Moves any number of squares in any direction. 

Rook: Moves any number of squares horizontally or vertically. Rooks can also castle with the king. 

Bishop: Moves any number of squares diagonally. Bishops can only move on squares of the same color they started on. 

Knight: Moves in an "L" shape, jumping over other pieces if needed. 

Pawn: Moves one square up the board, or two squares on its first move.

Capturing pieces:

When an attacking piece takes an opponent's piece, the captured piece is removed from the game. The move is recorded using algebraic notation. For example, "Rxf5" means the rook captured the opponent's piece on the f5 square.

Winning:

The goal of chess is to checkmate the opponent's king, which means threatening to capture it in a way that can't be escaped. 

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a type of AI that creates new content like text, images, audio, and video. It uses machine learning to analyze large amounts of data and generate new content based on a user's input.

Castling is indeed a move in chess. It consists of moving the king two squares toward a rook on the same rank and then moving the rook to the square that the king passed over.

Can chess pieces be brought back to life after being killed?

Yes, in chess, a captured piece can be reborn as a different piece through a process called promotion. A pawn can also be promoted when it reaches the other side of the board.

In chess, en passant (French: [ɑ̃ pasɑ̃], lit. "in passing") describes the capture by a pawn of an enemy pawn on the same rank and an adjacent file that has just made an initial two-square advance. This is a special case in the rules of chess.

An AI might make illegal moves in chess because it lacks a deep understanding of the chess rules, particularly when dealing with complex situations, and might rely on pattern matching without fully considering the logical constraints of the game, leading to moves that violate basic chess principles or simply aren't allowed by the rules; this is especially true for language-based AI models that aren't specifically designed for chess gameplay.

A so-called illegal move in the game of chess happens whenever a player violates the official rules, approved and governed by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). For example, a move that breaks these rules would be placing or leaving your king in check. This is a big no-no because kings don't like being in check.

Has anyone beaten the "best AI" in chess?

The Ponomariov vs Fritz game on 21 November 2005 is the last known win by a human against a top-performing computer under normal chess tournament conditions.

If during a game it is found that an illegal move has been completed, the position immediately before the irregularity shall be reinstated. If the position immediately before the irregularity cannot be determined, the game shall continue from the last identifiable position prior to the irregularity.

It is illegal to make a move that places or leaves one's king in check. The possible ways to get out of check are: Move the king to a square where it is not in check. Capture the checking piece.

"Competing in the AI market" - is this a kind of "economic chess move" itself? While billion-dollar companies are busy throwing money at problems, DeepSeek seems to be playing so-called 4D chess, one smart move at a time. So, the next time someone tells you that you need a mountain of cash to compete in AI, just point them to DeepSeek. DeepSeek seems to require less expenses.

Shocking Chinese AI advancement called DeepSeek is sending USA stocks plunging

CNN has the story.

USA stocks dropped sharply after a surprise advancement from a Chinese artificial intelligence company, DeepSeek, threatened the aura of invincibility surrounding America’s technology industry.

Official Company Site: https://www.deepseek.com

DeepSeek, unravel the mystery of AGI with curiosity. Answer the essential question with long-termism.

DeepSeek (Chinese: 深度求索; pinyin: Shēndù Qiúsuǒ) is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that develops open-source large language models (LLMs). Based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, it is owned and funded by Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, whose co-founder, Liang Wenfeng, established the company in 2023 and serves as its CEO.

The DeepSeek-R1 model provides responses comparable to other contemporary Large language models, such as OpenAI's GPT-4o and o1. It is really trained at a significantly (so it claims to be) lower cost—stated at US$6 million compared to $100 million for OpenAI's GPT-4 in 2023— and requires a tenth of the computing power of a comparable LLM. So-called DeepSeek's A.I. models were developed amid USA sanctions on India and China for Nvidia chips, which were intended to restrict the ability of the two countries to develop so-called advanced A.I. systems.

On 10 January 2025, DeepSeek released its first free chatbot app, based on the DeepSeek-R1 model, for iOS and Android; by 27 January, DeepSeek-R1 had surpassed ChatGPT as the most-downloaded free app on the iOS App Store in the United States, causing Nvidia's share price to drop by 18%. DeepSeek's success against larger and more established rivals has been described as "upending AI", constituting "the first shot at what is emerging as a global AI space race", and successfully ushering in "a new era of A.I. brinkmanship".

DeepSeek makes its generative artificial intelligence algorithms, models, and training details open-source, allowing its code to be freely available for use, modification, viewing, and designing documents for building purposes. However, the API version of DeepSeek-R1, hosted in China, has been reported to censor politically sensitive topics, including the Tiananmen Square massacre, Uyghur persecution, and Taiwan's status. The company reportedly vigorously recruits young A.I. researchers from top Chinese universities, and hires from outside the computer science field to diversify its models' knowledge and abilities.

What is Open Source?

Open source is a model for creating and sharing software that allows anyone to use, modify, and distribute it. The source code for open source software is freely available, so developers can contribute new features and fixes.

How it works:

Source code: The code that programmers use to control how a program works. 

License: A license that grants users the right to use, modify, and distribute the software. 

Collaboration: Open source software is developed through collaboration between developers from a community.

Some Benefits of "Open Source" could be:

Constant improvement: Programmers with different skills can contribute to the software, leading to constant improvement.

Faster updates: Programmers can fix and upgrade the software without needing permission from the creator. 

Innovation: Open source encourages collaboration and innovation, especially in areas like big data, blockchain, and cloud computing.

Here are some interesting examples of open source software:

Python: Developed under an open source license, so it's free to use and distribute, even for commercial use

OpenStack: An open source cloud computing platform 

ownCloud and Nextcloud: Open source cloud computing applications

What Can "AI" really Do? It deploys algorithms and computer systems to learn, reason, and solve problems using large datasets. AI spans technologies like machine learning, natural language processing, and image generation, revolutionizing healthcare, finance, transportation, and creative domains.

What is the most impressive thing AI can do? The most impressive task that AI can accomplish seems to be so-called "Computer Vision" - a branch of Deep Learning which helps machines see and perceive the way humans do.

The following is a quote from https://venturebeat.com/ai/smarter-than-humans-in-5-years-the-breakneck-pace-of-ai/

“By 2029, computers will have human-level intelligence,” Kurzweil said in an interview several years ago. He further predicted that by 2045, AI will have achieved the “Singularity,” the point when “we will multiply our effective intelligence a billion-fold by merging with the intelligence we have created.”

USA: Passenger jet collides with helicopter near Washington

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Investigators say the rescue mission remains the key priority after a passenger jet collided with a military helicopter in Washington (USA), but hopes of finding survivors in the freezing Potomac River are fading fast.

Into Canada from USA: 5 arrests after illegal border crossing caught on camera

See the video on Youtube: 5 arrests after illegal border crossing into Canada from U.S. caught on camera

CTV News has the story.

Five Romanian nationals was arrested by RCMP after an illegal border crossing into Canada was caught on camera in B.C. Andrew Johnson reports.

Here's the Bank of Canada's worst-case scenario for Trump's tariffs

CBC News has the story.

The Bank of Canada's latest decision to lower its key rate to three per cent comes during a looming tariff war with the United States. Andrew Chang breaks down the central bank's projection for how a ‘severe scenario’ could look if Trump imposes 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports.