Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook is looking to take its fight with Canada’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner over its users’ privacy consent to the country’s highest court.
In September, a Federal Court of Appeal judge found that Facebook violated Canada’s...
A Federal Court of Appeal judge has found that Facebook violated Canada’s private sector privacy law, known as PIPEDA, by failing to get “meaningful consent” from its...
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has made slashing CBC/Radio-Canada’s...
The federal government released the details of the implementation of the...
Those who stand to benefit from the Online...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google and the federal government have resolved their...
The government needs to set clear standards of transparency and accountability that all social media platforms should be required to meet, if it hopes to address concerns...
The long-awaited hearing on how the CRTC should...
Northern communities are being ill-served by Meta Platforms Inc.’s...
A Parliamentary committee is calling for checks of artificial intelligence...
The Online News Act standoff between the federal...
Battles over money and how to allocate it are at the forefront as the CRTC...
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...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Meta Platforms Inc.’s move to block news content on its platform is “unacceptable” while Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez said the company is being reckless by “trying to intimidate Canadians."
“Facebook is...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is not impressed by Meta...
Sir Nicholas Clegg’s reversal of an agreement to appear before the House...
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 for links, a Senate committee heard.
Tuesday, the Transport and Communications committee has begun its study of Bill C-18.
The associate assistant deputy minister...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says he is not worried that...
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...
Canada’s Online News Act could serve as a template for countries around...
Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, came out swinging against...
OTTAWA–Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, is so upset that...
The CRTC chair has said that social media...
With the NDP and the Bloc Québécois supporting the Liberals, the House of Commons has adopted Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, at third reading, despite a request by the...
Former CRTC vice-chair Peter Menzies has claimed...
Canada’s online harms panelists are looking at...
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 foreign social media while local independent outlets go begging.
“The government has poured...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has said the Government is not backing down from its legislative effort...
Representatives of Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms...
New legislation from the Government of Canada will...
For the second time in the span of a year, the...
Canada’s pending news media compensation legislation is based on key...
Members of Parliament from the Bloc Québécois...
OTTAWA -- Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodríguez called previous...
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is expanding its News Showcase program, announcing Wednesday that it has signed...
NDP MP Charlie Angus is calling on the incoming Liberal cabinet to “rethink their badly-flawed handling of the big tech file,” after whistleblower Frances Haugen released...
According to an advocacy group opposing restrictions on the internet,...
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...
Experts in the journalism industry are not in agreement on an upcoming bill aimed at providing more financial support for news publishers vis-a-vis web giants through...
A federal court judge has ruled on motions from both sides of a court...
A group representing news outlets in Canada has put out a call to Premier...
A Quebec judge has ruled that Facebook Inc. can bring forward evidence the company believes will assist it in challenging a proposed class-action lawsuit. Facebook has been accused by an...
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority...
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 Conservative party is “falsely accusing” the government of wanting...
The Conservatives “continue to oppose” Bill...
During a hearing on Facebook, Inc.’s relationship with the federal government Monday, multiple members...
As the House of Commons Heritage committee hearings on the government's proposed update to the Broadcasting Act carries on, BCE Inc. told the committee in a Monday meeting that while it supports the bill, it needs a carve-out of funding for local news broadcasters.
Even...
The federal government’s proposal to open up the 6 GHz spectrum band for WiFi use has received broad support in an Industry, Science and Economic Development Canada consultation. Every...
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...
In a Friends of Canadian Broadcasting panel on Thursday, MPs from the three major parties indicated support for additional regulations and enforcement to manage threats of...
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 canadienne-française and the Quebec English-language Production Council both told the committee that the Bill should be amended to specifically reference the communities, which consist of Anglophones in Quebec and Francophones in the rest of Canada. QEPC co-chair Kenneth Hirsch said the legislation reforming the broadcasting sector was “more desperately needed than anything...
On the second day of a preliminary hearing into a dispute between Facebook and the federal privacy watchdog Thursday, the social media giant presented arguments to a Federal Court judge that the court...
The motto of Facebook Inc. is, famously, "move fast and break things." ...
The federal government plans to begin imposing sales taxes on foreign digital services on July 1, 2021...
The Liberal government’s long-awaited update to the Broadcasting Act...
Facebook Inc. is asking a judge to throw out significant chunks of an...
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...
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 reaching as much as $1.06 billion, according to a report released by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB). The report, compiled by Communications Management Inc. and commissioned by the CAB, found private radio experienced a 63.5 per cent drop in advertising revenue between April and June, compared with the same period last year, while conventional private television experienced a...
Legislation modernizing Canada’s Broadcasting Act is “pretty much...
The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld the constitutionality of Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation, commonly known as CASL. In a decision released Friday, the court dismissed an appeal that sought to challenge the constitutionality of the anti-spam legislation. The appeal, brought by a company doing business as...
In order to make “progress” on the issue of access to encrypted...
Facebook Inc. must pay a $9 million penalty to the Competition Bureau after making "false or misleading claims" about the privacy of personal information on the main Facebook platform and its...
Facebook Inc.'s request that Federal Court throw out a report from the federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner may highlight the issue of procedural fairness within the OPC, and could be a preview of what the social media giant will want in any update to privacy law,...
As reports emerge of countries around the world using cellphone location...
The Office the Privacy Commissioner has filed a much-anticipated notice of application in Federal Court...
OTTAWA — On Monday Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault, with some help...
OTTAWA — Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien told reporters...
Facebook Inc. has registered to lobby the federal government on “proposed...
Twitter Inc. has registered to lobby the federal government on its internet advertising policy, following the social media company’s ban on political ads on its platform globally. The registration, effective November 1, seeks...
In a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic and foreign affairs teams, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and 14 other organizations have told the American government that they are concerned...
In a joint resolution, passed in Prince Edward Island last month and announced in Gatineau last week, federal, provincial and territorial information and privacy commissioners are calling on their respective governments to...
Federal party leaders agreed Thursday evening in the last debate of the election campaign on the need for big online companies to pay more in taxes, for the government to...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development will host a public consultation next month on its proposed “unified approach” to the taxation of the world’s biggest tech companies. A document released by the...
The Centre for Digital Rights, the non-profit founded by former BlackBerry Ltd. co-CEO Jim Balsillie, is asking the CRTC to agree that political parties engage in what is effectively commercial...
The Green Party election platform includes promises to ensure only...
Two local Quebec radio groups representing around 60 stations in the province are asking the provincial...
As major spectrum auctions considered important for 5G networks grow nearer, Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) wants to know more about how spectrum is used in Canada, and is looking at Victoria, B.C.-based Tutela Technologies to gather crowd-sourced information for it. In an advance contract award notice posted to the government’s procurement website Thursday, ISED’s Communications Research Centre said it wants to “increase the size and scope of its [radio frequency] spectrum monitoring capabilities … via crowdsourcing smart phone applications by buying this data...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s media division has appointed Jordan Banks as president, effective September 9, according to a Monday press release. Banks will replace Rick Brace, who was president since 2015 and will retire from Rogers at the end of this year. “Banks’s mandate will include overseeing the current $2 billion Rogers Media...
Artificial intelligence technology allowing videos to be seamlessly...
Since new regulations requiring the reporting of data and privacy breaches under Canadian privacy law came into effect last November, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner has seen a five-fold increase in reports of privacy...
The House industry committee is asking the Heritage committee to study...
A consortium of data stewards launched an informal network last week that looks to promote the anonymization of personal information in Canada in the wake of data privacy concerns sweeping the...
OTTAWA - Legislators on Tuesday gave some sense of what regulatory options...
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have both signed on to a...
Cogeco Inc. is lobbying the government to help Canadian radio news...
The Centre for Digital Rights has hired new lobbyists to help it research the privacy policies of the political parties, a spokesperson told The Wire Report.
The...
