Feds should use upcoming budget to defend, not defund, the CBC
Alongside sustainable funding, we need legislation to guard against a quiet, uncontested end to the CBC with the mere stroke of Prime Minister Poilievre’s pen or a reversal of budgetary priorities.
Link blocking ‘always on the radar,’ but Google’s committee response a ‘threat to legislators’: Bittle
Liberal MP Chris Bittle calls Meta and Google’s intimidation tactics over Bill C-18 a ‘threat to Canadian Parliament’ that needs to be condemned by legislators of all parties.
‘It’s a human issue’: pushing back on misogynist online hate a collective effort, says GG Simon
Women’s freedom of expression and safety are increasingly at risk the longer it takes the federal Liberals to fulfill a 2021 election promise to table legislation addressing cyberviolence, say advocates.
Bill C-11 affects the future of Canada’s domestic film and TV sector
The future of Canada’s domestic film and television sector depends on our collective ability to retain and control a meaningful share of the IP we create and produce.
Amid TikTok ban, Canadians left ‘to their own devices’ as feds dither on updating privacy rules: Geist
The Liberals’ latest attempt at modernizing the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, Bill C-27, has only made it to its second reading nine months after being introduced.
Experts welcome Rouleau’s call to combat misinformation, say ‘whole-of-society approach’ needed
The current information landscape is a feedback loop where ‘you come for the ideology, and you stay despite the science-free lunacy,’ says health misinformation expert Timothy Caulfield.
Google’s willingness to block Canadians’ access to news underscores need for Bill C-18
Given the importance of legitimate, professional newsrooms to Canada’s democracy, these foreign web giants should not be able to choose the winners and losers in our local media landscape.
Sport ministers team up to tackle ‘huge gap’ in safe sport against tight timeline, ‘frustrations’ of federalism
Provincial ministers told The Hill Times they want federal cash to help offset costs of joining Sport Integrity Commissioner Office as deadline to sign up or create their own sport oversight bodies looms.
Time to pay the piper
Google leadership told a parliamentary committee that the government’s attempt to monetize internet news content for local support would not work. They said the same thing in Australia and, according to the government there, the move has provided almost $200-million in payments to news providers since the bill passed in 2021.
Some advocates fear Liberals will go too far ‘out on a limb’ with online harms law, while others warn against ‘light-touch approach’
The consultation process amounts to ‘policy laundering,’ says internet law expert Michael Geist, in reaction to a ‘What We Heard’ report recently released by Canadian Heritage.
