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OPINION: What should communications policy look like under a Carney government?

| 05/07/2025 11:12 am EDT

OPINION: What should communications policy look like under a Carney government?With the federal campaign over, effort is shifting from predicting the election’s outcome to what a Liberal government under Mark Carney might actually do. Communications...

OPINION: Will Canada keep a raft of terrible digital trade policies just to stick it to Trump?

| 05/02/2025 4:13 pm EDT

OPINION: Will Canada keep a raft of terrible digital trade policies just to stick it to Trump?By: Matt Malone & Drew May Upswells of nationalism can stir dangerous currents. Canada saw this happen in 1995, when an estimated 100,000 people from outside Quebec...

Parties differ on plans for CBC, digital policy in federal election platforms

| 04/23/2025 1:41 pm EDT

Parties differ on plans for CBC, digital policy in federal election platformsMultiple federal parties have released their 2025 election platforms ahead...

Google to cover administrative costs of Online News Act regulation, CRTC decides

| 02/26/2025 5:21 pm EST

Google to cover administrative costs of Online News Act regulation, CRTC decidesGoogle will have to foot the bill for the costs the CRTC incurs through...

Facebook looks to take privacy fight to Supreme Court of Canada

Internet and Governance | 11/15/2024 7:25 pm EST

Federal Court of Appeal rules against Facebook in data collection, privacy dispute.Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook is looking to take its fight with...

CRTC says decision on Google’s Online News Act exemption expected this fall

Internet and Governance | 10/15/2024 11:19 am EDT

CRTC says decision on Google’s Online News Act exemption expected this fallBy Sophall Duch Canadian media outlets won’t likely see money from Google’s multimillion-dollar media fund this year as this country's broadcasting regulator misses a...

Federal Court of Appeal rules against Facebook in data collection, privacy dispute

Internet and Governance | 09/11/2024 4:38 pm EDT

Federal Court of Appeal rules against Facebook in data collection, privacy dispute.A Federal Court of Appeal judge has found that Facebook violated Canada’s...

CBC CEO Catherine Tait not worried for broadcaster’s longevity

Internet and Governance | 08/06/2024 4:25 pm EDT

The Wire Report’s most popular stories of 2024Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has made slashing CBC/Radio-Canada’s...

Meta considers blocking Facebook news in Australia

Internet and Governance | 07/04/2024 2:02 pm EDT

Facebook to penalize false news disseminatorsMeta Platforms, Inc. is threatening to apply the same rules on news content in Australia as it uses in...

Social media companies sued by school boards in Ontario

Internet and Governance | 03/28/2024 5:12 pm EDT

TikTok's logo on an iPhone.Four Ontario school boards have launched a lawsuit against three social...

Election overhaul must include AI advertising, politicos say

Internet and Governance | 12/18/2023 2:45 pm EST

UN sets up advisory body to investigate AI globallyCanada must revise its election rules and the use of artificial...

Social media companies must be compelled to address safety concerns, research chair tells ethics committee

Internet and Governance | 11/28/2023 6:07 pm EST

Social media companies must be compelled to address safety concerns, research chair tells ethics committeeThe 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...