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YouTube is taking another step to curb hateful and violent speech on its site. The video streaming company said it will now take down videos that lob insults at people based on race, gender expression, sexual orientation or other "protected attributes. Source

VANCOUVER -- A new survey says Canadian public opinion is solidly against allowing Huawei as a supplier for the new generation of ultra-fast wireless networks that are being built by the country's telecommunications companies. An Angus Reid online poll published Wednesday says 69 per cent of respondents were against the federal government allowing the Chinese telecom equipment maker from being involved in Canada's fifth-generation wireless networks. Source

The Edmonton Police Service will test a novel technology that processes DNA samples in a couple of hours instead of the days or weeks often required by conventional laboratories. The Forensic Services Branch will take part in a 90-day pilot project with ANDE Corporation, the Colorado-based DNA-testing company said in a news release Wednesday. Source

Archeologists have unearthed the remains of a town from an influential but little-known ancient civilization in East Africa that sheds light on the origins of Christianity in Ethiopia. The buried settlement, which contains one of the oldest churches in sub-Saharan Africa, was inhabited for some 1,400 years before vanishing into the dusty highlands of northern Ethiopia around AD 650. Source

Even though an electronic device is visible in the car of a new driver, that doesn't mean they're using it, according to a recent ruling in the Supreme Court of B.C. And that ruling is expected to provide more clarity on murky distracted driving regulations. Source

An environmental think-tank doesn't believe the federal government will be able to turn down New Brunswick's approach to a fuel carbon tax because it mimics what's already been approved on P.E.I. New Brunswick is offering a decrease in provincial gas taxes to soften the impact of the federal carbon tax at the pumps. Source

An environmental think-tank doesn't believe the federal government will be able to turn down New Brunswick's approach to a fuel carbon tax because it mimics what's already been approved on P.E.I. New Brunswick is offering a decrease in provincial gas taxes to soften the impact of the federal carbon tax at the pumps. Source

Dozens of wolves were killed by hunters under a new incentive program last year. But a biologist with the territorial government says it's too soon to say if the program is helping caribou. The territorial government launched the Enhanced North Slave Wolf Harvest Incentive Program last winter. Source

Google says the topic that was searched the most by Canadians in 2019 was the Toronto Raptors. The team that won the 2019 NBA championship dominates Google's lists of top trending searches in 2019, top trending Canadian news topics in 2019 and top trending Canadian moments of the decade. Source

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is urging the federal government to approve an oilsands mine which would be the largest Canada has ever seen — but a northern Alberta First Nation says the main obstacle facing the project is Kenney's own government. Source