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Maybe ChatGPT it? Ottawa unsure how to regulate AI chatbots following Tumbler Ridge report

| 02/26/2026 3:26 pm EST

Maybe ChatGPT it? Ottawa unsure how to regulate AI chatbots following Tumbler Ridge reportAfter meeting with OpenAI to discuss the company’s failure to alert law enforcement of troubling behaviour on ChatGPT from Jesse Van Rootselaar, the shooter who killed eight...

Online dangers keep claiming the lives of Canadian children. Five years on, advocates are still waiting for Ottawa to act

| 02/26/2026 11:34 am EST

Online dangers keep claiming the lives of Canadian children. Five years on, advocates are still waiting for Ottawa to actHow many kids in Canada need to die before the federal government treats online harms as a crisis? That’s the question child protection advocate Sara Austin asks herself...

Ottawa set to revive online harms legislation in 2026: government source

| 12/22/2025 4:44 pm EST

Ottawa set to revive online harms legislation in 2026: government sourceJustice Minister Sean Fraser had previously suggested the government...

Four cyber bills dead on the order paper as Parliament prorogued

| 01/10/2025 11:28 am EST

Parliament HillWhen Governor General Mary Simon prorogued Parliament on Jan. 6 following...

MPs grill Rogers CEO on price increases during industry committee meeting

telecom | 12/03/2024 1:44 pm EST

MPs grill Rogers CEO on price increases during industry committee meetingRogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri was met with scrutiny during his virtual appearance in front of the House industry committee, facing questions about the...

Telesat deal good for Canada, Champagne tells INDU committee

Internet and Governance | 10/04/2024 12:59 pm EDT

Telesat deal good for Canada, Champagne tells INDU committeeCanadians are getting a good deal with loans to Telesat Corp. because they...

Tories shake-up membership of House of Commons committees

Internet and Governance | 09/18/2024 4:41 pm EDT

Parliament HillMembership on several House of Commons committees has changed, it was...

Online harms and more in focus as Parliament returns

Internet and Governance | 09/16/2024 7:00 am EDT

Parliament HillWith Parliament returning today, there are a handful of bills affecting the online world still before...

Conservatives to introduce new online safety bill

Internet and Governance | 09/12/2024 6:35 pm EDT

The Conservative party is proposing its own online harms bill.The Conservative party is taking a swing at the issue of online safety, with plans to propose a new piece...

Technology changes to be studied by all-party caucus in Parliament

Internet and Governance | 06/16/2023 5:05 pm EDT

Wireless Code, home Internet, helping with data overage fees: ResearchThe rapid pace of change in the technology sector has led a group of Parliamentarians to form an emerging technology caucus where members of all parties can learn about the brave new world. The...

Tories denounce Bill C-11 while Bloc defends it

Media | 05/06/2022 4:08 pm EDT

Big telecoms fight calls for an ‘ISP tax’, pitch new OTT rulesDebate continued in the House of Commons Thursday on the Online Streaming Act, known as Bill C-11....

Back to Parliament: your (pandemic) preview

Media | 09/22/2020 12:43 pm EDT

TrudeuCabinetRetreat2020Given the precarious situation around the now-escalating COVID-19 pandemic, what will actually be...

Conservatives name new innovation, heritage critics

Media | 09/08/2020 4:36 pm EDT

Conservatives name new innovation, heritage criticsNew Conservative leader Erin O’Toole shuffled his shadow cabinet Tuesday, with new faces appointed to...

Monsef tight-lipped on rural broadband funding announcement

telecom | 06/05/2020 5:01 pm EDT

Monsef tight-lipped on rural broadband funding announcementRural Economic Development Minister Maryam Monsef says “precise timelines” for announcing steps to speed up rural broadband funding are still being worked out, five weeks after saying she would “soon” announce them in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

COVID-19 accelerating rural/urban connectivity divide: CIRA

telecom | 05/08/2020 5:49 pm EDT

Rural home internet speeds during the first full month where Canadians shifted to working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic were almost 12 times slower than the median speed for urban Canadians,...

Conservatives call for universal rural broadband by 2021

telecom | 05/06/2020 6:45 pm EDT

BTLR reaction mixed, no clarity on gov't implementationUnder a rural broadband policy platform put out for public consultation by...

Conservatives and NDP united for enforcement of wholesale rates

telecom | 05/05/2020 5:27 pm EDT

Conservatives and NDP united for enforcement of wholesale ratesOpposition parties that normally hold differing views on any given issue...

Gov’t in ‘early stages’ of using cellphone data for COVID-19 tracking: Bains

telecom | 04/20/2020 3:40 pm EDT

60% of Connect to Innovate applicants still haven’t heard backThe federal government is looking at what other jurisdictions are doing...

Wholesale appeal is on shaky legal footing, TekSavvy argues

telecom | 04/16/2020 5:39 pm EDT

The ongoing appeal by incumbent telecoms of the CRTC's wholesale internet rates decision from August should be dismissed because the appeal argues that the regulator made errors in fact, rather than errors in law and jurisdiction, according to a Tuesday filing from TekSavvy Solutions Inc.  According to the argument made by TekSavvy, the Telecommunications Act only allows for appeals of CRTC decisions on grounds of questions of law or jurisdiction. Those bringing the appeal -- BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., Cogeco Inc., Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron, Shaw Communications Inc., and Bragg...

TekSavvy also calls for lower, emergency wholesale rates

telecom | 04/14/2020 6:42 pm EDT

TekSavvy releases quarterly transparency reportTekSavvy Solutions Inc. is joining a call made last week by Conservative...

Rempel Garner calls on Bains, CRTC to enforce wholesale rates

telecom | 04/09/2020 5:15 pm EDT

Liberal government’s ‘free ride’ on industry file to end: Rempel GarnerConservative industry critic Michelle Rempel Garner has called on...

Rempel Garner calls for transparency on any cellphone tracking 

telecom | 03/25/2020 4:44 pm EDT

BTLR reaction mixed, no clarity on gov't implementationConservative industry critic Michelle Rempel Garner said Wednesday that if...

Confusion over Guilbeault remarks on BTLR online news recs

Media | 02/03/2020 1:27 pm EST

Confusion over Guilbeault remarks on BTLR online news recsOTTAWA — On Monday Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault, with some help...