Thanks for that rundown of the options. This is what I see when I search for ITV. It looks like it's a television or radio channel there? Probably works a lot like National Public Radio with it's website - the stories on the page are often the transcriptions of the story you can listen to. It also offers an upgrade - is that ad free or something else?

One that has promoted itself over here via YouTube is Sky News. Where do they land in accuracy and leanings?

I grew up near the US/Canada border and used to watch Canadian channels all of the time, but am out of the habit. It looks like the news blockage doesn't go both ways, I can see and read CBC. (Before we lost gnu I was in the habit of copying whole articles and pasting them into messages so he could read them, after that law last year started blocking US news content.)