Canada says $200M in annual fees will support local news and other content.

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    5 months ago

    Canada is not very big population wise. I’m kind of surprised they have a presents in Canada

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      5 months ago

      40 million. Majority of Canada is pretty inhospitable for a good portion of the year

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        5 months ago

        Population density is 4.2/km2

        Not to mention 40 million isn’t that big. If companies left Canada people would just use the US version of services.

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          Very low average density but the vast majority of the population is close to the US border. The vast majority of the land in the country is completely empty