Even though the Online News Act has become law, it is still the subject of debate in Parliament. Thursday saw a back and forth between two Senators about the provisions of the legislation.
Conservative senator Leo Housakos, a fierce opponent of the bill when it was before...
The Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI) is urging the federal government to pick up the pace on AI regulation and ensure the rules will be clear and flexible.
In a report...
Colin McKay, head of Canada public policy and government relations at Alphabet Inc.’s Google, has left the company, announcing his departure in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday.
After working with...
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that WildBrain...
The Online News Act standoff between the federal...
Canadian Heritage announced its proposed regulations to implement the...
Meta Platforms Inc. has not experienced any notable drop in Facebook usage despite banning news content from Canadian users, independent surveys have found. The story was initially reported by Reuters news agency.
Meta instituted the ban earlier this month in response to...
The CRTC announced its action plan to implement the Online News Act which...
Stingray Group Inc. reported revenue and subscriber growth for the first quarter of the 2024 fiscal year...
Battles over money and how to allocate it are at the forefront as the CRTC...
by Heather Wright, publisher of The Independent of Petrolia and Central...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is adding itself to the list of industry players who are suspending advertising on Meta Platform Inc. after the tech giant announced it will block Canadian news content on Facebook and its other platforms...
In an ongoing tug-of-war at the CRTC, tech giants are arguing that a level...
Canadian Heritage is proposing regulations under the Online News Act that...
The federal government, Quebecor Inc., and Cogeco Inc., are pulling all their advertising investments...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has announced it will be removing Canadian news links from its websites.
The company made the announcement Thursday, saying that as a result of Bill C-18, the Online News Act, the change will take place when the law goes into effect.
“We...
Social media companies are asking the CRTC to be added to the list of...
The proposed financial threshold for exemption for online streaming...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Meta Platforms Inc.’s move to block news content on its platform is...
Spokespeople for Alphabet Inc.’s Google expressed further concerns they...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is not impressed by Meta Platforms Inc.’s plan to block news to Canadians over its objections to the Online News Act, Bill C-18, currently before the Senate.
"When a big tech company, no matter their size, no matter the amount...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) told the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications...
With Bill C-18, the Government's plan to have news...
The chair of the Senate's Transport and Communications committee Tuesday expressed annoyance that as the...
The government’s Online News Act will not regulate the media nor will it require internet users to pay...
Senior executives of Alphabet Inc.’s Google appeared before the House of...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says he is not worried that...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google will stop limiting consumer access to news links...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is rejecting a Senate amendment...
The House of Commons Heritage committee voted Tuesday to summon top executives from Alphabet Inc.'s Google to appear before the committee on Mar. 6, days after the Canadian Press reported that the tech giant had begun blocking some news content in response to the...
The House of Commons Heritage committee passed an amendment to the...
The committee studying the Online News Act...
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee’s clause-by-clause review of...
A survey commissioned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada found that most...
The question over the place of algorithms and discoverability in the Online Streaming Act is a question about who should set the course for Canadian culture, according to...
An Alberta Senator is claiming his privileges as a parliamentarian were...
The executive director of Digital First Canada...
As the House of Commons Heritage committee Tuesday...
The government’s plan to force social media platforms to negotiate...
Multinational streaming platforms continue to decry the influence of the CRTC in the Online Streaming Act, calling for two amendments, while representatives of the Canadian music industry say Bill...
Canadian broadcasting executives, from companies...
The idea that the CRTC is capable of handling the...
Friday the CRTC approved a report from the CRTC Interconnection Steering...
The Federal Court dismissed Alphabet Inc.’s Google patent infringement case against a developer and manufacturer of smart audio products.
In a decision released Monday,...
The Superior Court of Quebec has authorized a class-action lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.'s Google for...
The CRTC chair has said that social media...
With the NDP and the Bloc Québécois supporting...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked the opposition for...
Alphabet Inc.'s YouTube believes the provisions of Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, give too much power to the CRTC to regulate content, the company’s head of government affairs and public policy told MPs on Tuesday.
“Some believe we want to avoid all regulation,” YouTube's head of Canada government affairs and public policy Jeanette Patell told the House of...
A former senior general counsel at the Department...
Canada's competition laws have become too sensitive to price, particularly in mergers, and should instead...
Conservative MP John Nater wants the Liberal government to withdraw its...
Conservative MP Martin Shields castigated the government for advertising on...
A Canadian cultural policy that adopts a...
The implementation of age verification online is a...
New legislation from the Government of Canada will...
The Federal Court of Canada dismissed a motion for summary judgment brought...
For the second time in the span of a year, the Liberal government has introduced a new bill to update Canada’s broadcasting act but “what it doesn't bring is new ideas,”...
Canada’s pending news media compensation legislation is based on key...
A Supreme Court of British Columbia judge has...
The Canadian government should broaden its consultation over its online harms bill, a Wednesday Canadian...
A Quebec Superior Court judge has rejected an application by Alphabet...
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is expanding its News Showcase program, announcing Wednesday that it has signed agreements with three new Canadian news platforms -- Les Coops de l’Information, Le Devoir and Torstar.
The three news publishers join the eight announced in June...
The Federal Court has ordered Alphabet Inc.'s Google to turn over a number...
The Competition Bureau has asked a Federal Court...
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is appealing a July court decision that determined...
Canada wants to hear from stakeholders on how to modernize the Copyright Act to better include protections for new innovations and investments as new technologies develop. Friday, Heritage Canada...
A court decision that Canada’s federal private...
An initiative explored this past month in a Senate...
In order to encourage more diverse content online, Heritage Minister Steven...
Following a similar announcement from Facebook Inc. and promises from Heritage Minister Stephen Guilbeault to introduce legislation requiring compensation for news organizations’ content appearing on online platforms, Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced Thursday it has signed agreements with several Canadian news...
A group representing news outlets in Canada has put out a call to Premier Justin Trudeau’s government to put in place legislation that would require Alphabet Inc.’s Google...
The federal government is making more spectrum available to increase competition, rural connectivity and the effective deployment of Wi-Fi and 5G technologies. On Wednesday, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry...
The majority of the broadcasting experts invited before the House of...
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee is moving forward with a charter...
The Conservative party is “falsely accusing” the government of wanting...
The Conservatives “continue to oppose” Bill C-10, the revision of the Broadcasting Act, saying in a Monday statement that “Liberals are targeting ordinary Canadians,”...
The day after Facebook Inc. made good on its threat to block all news from...
The Bloc Québécois is pushing the federal government to take “urgent” action to support local media by imposing new taxes on web giants such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. In the House of Commons...
The government’s draft legislation to reform Canada’s Broadcasting Act must be amended to explicitly include official language minority communities, stakeholders told the House of Commons heritage committee Monday, during its first hearing into Bill C-10. Representatives of the Fédération culturelle...
When the federal government’s proposed new privacy legislation, Bill...
In a case that could determine whether a "right to be forgotten" exists in...
The Liberal government’s long-awaited update to the Broadcasting Act...
An announcement Thursday from Alphabet Inc.'s Google that it would put...
Independent producers will be able to access a $50 million insurance...
Given the precarious situation around the now-escalating COVID-19 pandemic, what will actually be included in Wednesday’s speech from the throne, and in the government’s priorities in the following weeks, is more uncertain than ever. With a day to go, even the details of...
Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien has urged Federal Court to find the...
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault Wednesday denounced what he called...
Canadian traditional media sources are in "crisis" as COVID-19 has exacerbated existing downward trends in advertising revenues, with shortfalls for local private broadcasters in the next two years...
The election of Erin O'Toole as federal opposition leader late Sunday night makes "the threat of CBC...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has cleared up uncertainty about whether it had approved the federal government launching its contact-tracing COVID-19 app Friday, issuing a statement saying it supports the use of the app.
“The federal and Ontario regulators...
Federal Court has said that both the CBC/Radio-Canada and the...
An open letter to online video teleconferencing (VTC) platforms signed by...
Telus Corp. has hired Jacob Glick to be its vice-president of public policy. Glick was most recently the general counsel for North, a wearable technology eyewear company based in Kitchener-Waterloo. That company was acquired by...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that in developing the federal...
Legislation modernizing Canada’s Broadcasting Act is “pretty much...
The outdated state of Canadian privacy laws may harm efforts to launch a...
Colin McKay, head of public policy and government relations for Canada for...
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains says the...
As reports emerge of countries around the world using cellphone location data to help map out the spread of COVID-19, experts say there are a number of ways in which provinces or the federal government could do the same.
There is nothing standing in the way of telecoms or...