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Dong Guangping, a Chinese dissident who made a perilous boat escape from China to South Korea and has since resettled in Canada, spoke to the BBC about his dangerous journey and his determination to live freely.

Meta Platforms announced it will invest more than 13 billion Canadian dollars ($9.1 billion) to build its first artificial intelligence data center in Canada, its largest AI infrastructure project outside the United States. The facility will be located in Alberta and is expected to create thousands of jobs.

A shooting in Montreal left a police officer, a civilian, and the suspect dead — the first time in 24 years a Montreal officer was killed in the line of duty, the city's police chief said.