Good morning. The Canadian government seems poised for another showdown with big tech. We'll unpack that below. A new visual investigation reveals collaboration between white nationalist groups in Canada and the U.S. Plus, how young is too young to run a half marathon?
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(Al-hadji Kudra Maliro/The Associated Press)
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New Ebola outbreak confirmed in remote Congo province
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Africa CDC, the continent's top public health body, on Friday confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in Congo's remote Ituri province, with 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths recorded so far.
What's happening: The deaths and suspected cases have been recorded mainly in the Mongwalu and Rwampara health zones, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement.
The latest outbreak comes around five months after Congo's last Ebola outbreak was declared over after 43 deaths.
Why it matters: The Ebola virus is highly contagious and can be contracted through bodily fluids such as vomit, blood or semen. The disease it causes is rare, but severe and often fatal. An Ebola outbreak from 2018 to 2020 in eastern Congo killed more than 1,000 people. An earlier outbreak that swept across West Africa from 2014 to 2016 also killed more than 11,000 people.
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(Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press)
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This Canadian security bill is attracting U.S. attention
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Part 2 of the Liberal government's Bill C-22 would require telecom, internet and social media companies to let police and CSIS access data more easily with a warrant.
What's happening: Criticism of the bill — which one Canadian expert says "creates essentially a surveillance map" — has gone international. The chair of the U.S. House judiciary committee argues it risks forcing American companies to choose between "compromising the security of their entire user base … or risking exclusion from the Canadian market."
Why it matters: Signal, an encrypted messaging service, has already said it would pull out of Canada rather than comply. Meta has also warned that the bill would turn the social media giant into a government surveillance tool.
The public safety minister says these concerns are based on a misinterpretation of "some of the safeguards" in the legislation, suggesting tech companies are "using this as an opportunity to double down" — a nod to the fact that this is not the first time Canadian legislation aimed at tech and social media has caused a stir.
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How young is too young for endurance exercise?
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That is, once more, the question after a 15-year-old died near the finish line of a half marathon in the Netherlands last weekend.
What's happening: As the popularity of endurance races grows, so does attention on the youngest participants. The Dutch teen had a "health issue," police told local media, but they didn't share cause of death. She was one year shy of the race's minimum age, though experts say age restrictions are an imperfect measurement of risk — maturity, health conditions and physiology play a role.
Why it matters: Kids have immature bones and their ligaments and muscles grow at different rates. Stress them too much and you risk orthopedic problems. And yet, Dr. Mark Tremblay at CHEO children's hospital warns against fixating on the worst-case scenarios.
"I get scared by these catastrophic events where we focus only on risk and not the hundreds of thousands of people whose lives have been improved and their longevity extended because they ran."
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