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Totally get it. There is a way... CBS News launched a set-top app that is free. I just can't figure out where it is....

This?
https://www.amazon.com/CBS-Interactive-News-Fire-TV/dp/B01MDKA8EH

CBS News has an app (free) on most streaming boxes (Apple TV, Roku, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV) that carries most of the CBS News content you are looking for (plus stuff like 60 Minutes Overtime, but not the full 60 Minutes itself), including to Canadians:

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/cbs-news-live-breaking-news/id334256223#?platform=appleTV

https://channelstore.roku.com/en-ca/details/27536/cbs-news

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.treemolabs.apps.cbsnews&hl=en_CA

https://www.amazon.ca/CBS-Interactive-News-Fire-TV/dp/B01MDKA8EH

Most of the major American networks news departments (ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS) plus US news channels like Fox News, MSNBC and CNN put most of their clips up on YouTube in an extremely timely fashion. NBC and PBS put their nightly news brodcasts online, as does the CBC with The National. Live events like rallies, speeches and other incidents often get covered live by many outlets, including Reuters, Global News, the New York Times and the Associated Press. You also get live feeds of channels like Bloomberg, Al Jazeera English and Sky News.

The CBC Gem App and website (https://gem.cbc.ca), after supplying an email address, gives you access to 14 CBC stations across Canada for local news and CBC content for free, and offers CBC News Network for $4.99 monthly:

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/cbc-gem/id422191503#?platform=appleTV

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cbc.android.cbctv&hl=en_CA

https://www.amazon.ca/CBC-Gem/dp/B07P9VDPCC

You should also look into getting an over-the-air TV antenna, for local news. A lot of American TV network programming ends up on Canadian OTA networks anyway, primarily CTV/CTV2, City TV and Global... You don't necessarily have to reach the US networks (or pay for tricks like VPN or DNS services) to get the US shows you are looking for.

60 Minutes (and 48 Hours, Dateline NBC, ABC Nightline and 20/20) is carried over-the-air across most of southern and eastern Ontario on CHCH TV, a local Hamilton/Niagara station whose signal is repeated across the province:

https://www.chch.com/schedule/

If you live in the same Ontario region, the otherwise-religious over-the-air TV channel YES TV carries Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune:

https://www.yestv.com/tune-in

You may also live close enough to the Canada-US border across the country that you can receive US TV channels over-the-air to get Jeopardy!

(Jeopardy! also recently put their Tournament of Champions Finals on YouTube)

Use a site like rabbitears.info to help you detemine how well you might be able to get stations over-the-air:

https://www.rabbitears.info/searchmap.php

These are largely free services and one-time purchases and outlays (particularly if you supplement the OTA antenna with a device like TabloTV), to the point where a separate $200 yearly ($16.66 monthly, same as Netflix Premium, and cheaper than $19.99 monthly Crave TV + HBO) TSN Direct subscription doesn't look so expensive. Adding a Sportsnet NOW+ subscription adds a TON of NHL content, and between Sportsnet NOW+ and TSN Direct you get every NBA marquee game (including pretty much all the games on TNT and ESPN) and more (particularly games involving Canadian players), all Toronto Raptors games, multiple NHL games every night, the NBA and NHL All-Star Games, NHL Outdoor Classic games and NBA Christmas Day, both entire NBA and NHL Playoffs, and NBA Finals (the Stanley Cup Finals is available on CBC and Sportsnet). This is before even considering packages like NHL Live, NBA League Pass and hacking stuff like paid DNS and VPN services. Many Americans would KILL to be able to subscribe to just the major sports networks in their country standalone, and you can do that in Canada.