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YouTube launches Canadian site

TORONTO – The world’s most popular video-sharing site, the Google-owned YouTube, launched a Canadian site Tuesday, bringing to 15 the number of country-specific YouTube sites. YouTube.ca will feature material from Canadian users though seekers of worldwide video craziness can still go to the international site, the company said. What’s different, said Luis Garcia, YouTube’s international product manager, “is that this is just a Canadian lens into content, so if a user wants to get the Canada point of view into that global body of content, then they’re able to do that.” The biggest beneficiaries of a Canadian YouTube may be...