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UPDATED: Competition Bureau expands probe into Google’s advertising practices in Canada

Internet and Governance | 02/29/2024 4:22 pm EST

The Competition Bureau announced Thursday that it has secured a court order aimed at gathering crucial information to bolster its investigation into Alphabet...

Google and federal government reach deal over Online News Act

Internet and Governance | 11/29/2023 7:51 pm EST

Alphabet Inc.’s Google and the federal government have resolved their dispute over the Online News Act, with the tech giant agreeing to annually compensate news organizations $100 million and continue sharing Canadian news content on its platforms.  Heritage minister...

Canadian Heritage proposes Online News Act regulations, Meta’s not interested

Internet and Governance | 09/01/2023 5:59 pm EDT

Canadian Heritage announced its proposed regulations to implement the...

Google promises to restore access to news at lively committee meeting

Internet and Governance | 03/10/2023 5:11 pm EST

Alphabet Inc.’s Google will stop limiting consumer access to news links...

Tories slow down C-18 clause-by-clause consideration with amendments

Media | 11/22/2022 3:23 pm EST

The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee’s clause-by-clause review of...

Google amplifies its messaging around C-18 through commissioned poll 

Internet and Governance | 10/14/2022 5:18 pm EDT

A survey commissioned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada found that most Canadians are unfamiliar with the provisions set out in Canada’s News Compensation Act, but when...

Heritage committee opens hearings on news compensation legislation

Internet and Governance | 09/23/2022 5:56 pm EDT

The government’s plan to force social media platforms to negotiate...

Google loses patent infringement case against smart-speaker company 

telecom | 08/16/2022 5:03 pm EDT

The Federal Court dismissed Alphabet Inc.’s Google patent infringement...

Tories put forward motion to kill Bill C-18, send “subject matter” to committee

Media | 05/13/2022 5:12 pm EDT

Conservative MP John Nater wants the Liberal government to withdraw its...

Google wins patent infringement decision in Federal Court

Media | 03/07/2022 2:34 pm EST

The Federal Court of Canada dismissed a motion for summary judgment brought...

Google says Canada pursuing unique approach to news compensation

Media | 02/23/2022 5:55 pm EST

Canada’s pending news media compensation legislation is based on key...

Quebec court moves ahead with proposed class-action against Google

Media | 11/02/2021 5:30 pm EDT

A Quebec Superior Court judge has rejected an application by Alphabet...

NDP’s McPherson moves to deputy Heritage critic, Masse remains with Innovation, gets deputy

Media | 10/29/2021 2:47 pm EDT

Two new faces will be stepping into critic roles for the NDP in the Canadian Heritage and Innovation, Science and Industry files respectively, after the party announced its...

Google expands News Showcase program 

Media | 10/27/2021 12:37 pm EDT

Alphabet Inc.'s Google is expanding its News Showcase program, announcing Wednesday that it has signed...

Court orders Google to turn over documents to Competition Bureau

Media | 10/22/2021 6:06 pm EDT

The Federal Court has ordered Alphabet Inc.'s Google to turn over a number...

Google seeks to appeal court decision on PIPEDA application 

Media | 09/29/2021 4:47 pm EDT

Alphabet Inc.'s Google is appealing a July court decision that determined...

News advocacy group calls for action on content compensation legislation

Media | 06/09/2021 5:33 pm EDT

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...

Heritage committee wants Zuckerberg’s answers

Media | 03/29/2021 7:53 pm EDT

During a hearing on Facebook, Inc.’s relationship with the federal government Monday, multiple members...

Facebook’s Australian news blockade won’t deter us: Guilbeault

Media | 02/18/2021 4:50 pm EST

The day after Facebook Inc. made good on its threat to block all news from...

Journalistic exemption under PIPEDA should apply to Google: CBC

Media | 11/26/2020 6:16 pm EST

In a case that could determine whether a "right to be forgotten" exists in...

Google $1B news initiative won’t stop new legislation, gov’t says

Media | 10/01/2020 7:34 pm EDT

An announcement Thursday from Alphabet Inc.'s Google that it would put...

Throne speech reiterates rural broadband, web giant promises

Media | 09/23/2020 2:54 pm EDT

In Wednesday’s throne speech kicking off Parliament’s return, the...

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...

Google not shielded by journalistic protections, OPC tells court

Media | 09/11/2020 1:57 pm EDT

Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien has urged Federal Court to find the...

Guilbeault doubles down on web giant legislation plans

Media | 09/03/2020 5:06 pm EDT

Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault Wednesday denounced what he called...

CIPPIC and CBC can intervene in de-indexing case, court rules

Media | 07/27/2020 5:16 pm EDT

Federal Court has said that both the CBC/Radio-Canada and the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic at the University of Ottawa (CIPPIC) can intervene in a case that could help determine whether a Canadian “right to be forgotten” exists....

Privacy commissioner hasn’t approved new gov’t contact tracing app

telecom | 06/18/2020 3:48 pm EDT

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that in developing the federal...

Google exec outlines privacy measures in new contact-tracing API

telecom | 05/22/2020 2:54 pm EDT

Colin McKay, head of public policy and government relations for Canada for...

Google’s Sidewalk Labs pulls out of Toronto smart city project

telecom | 05/07/2020 3:43 pm EDT

Alphabet Inc.’s Google will no longer participate in the Sidewalk Labs...

Quebec news funding will help with Google, Facebook dominance: Le Devoir

Media | 10/15/2019 5:56 pm EDT

As the Canada Revenue Agency considers how to administer $595-million worth...

Ethics committee grills Google over political ads decision

Media | 05/10/2019 2:31 pm EDT

OTTAWA — In an at-times tense hearing of the House of Commons ethics committee, executives from the Canada office of Alphabet Inc.’s Google made the case that the company was technologically unable to sell political advertisements on its platforms in a way that would comply with Bill C-76. The bill, which became law in December last year, requires online platforms to create a database of political and partisan ads sold during the course of the 2019 election. They have to set up the databases by June 30. “It was simply not feasible for us to implement the extensive changes...

Court rejects Google motion to expand scope of deindexing case

Media | 04/17/2019 6:31 pm EDT

A chief Federal Court clerk has rejected Alphabet Inc.’s request to expand to constitutional questions the scope of a legal reference that seeks to determine whether Canada’s private sector...

Google would be regulating media under PIPEDA: counsel

Media | 03/21/2019 6:28 pm EDT

OTTAWA — If a court determines Google’s search engine falls under the country’s private sector privacy law, then that would effectively make the internet company a media regulator, counsel to...

OPC, AGC oppose Google expanding deindexing reference

Media | 03/14/2019 4:49 pm EDT

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner and the Attorney General of Canada (AGC) have filed appeals challenging Alphabet Inc.’s application to expand the scope of a deindexing case to include questions about whether forcing it to...

Google won’t run political ads in 2019 election

Media | 03/05/2019 4:01 pm EST

Alphabet Inc.’s search giant Google plans to ban political advertising from its platforms during the next federal election campaign in Canada, following the introduction of tougher political advertising transparency rules by...

Media parties dismissed in deindexing case, for now

Media | 03/04/2019 4:14 pm EST

The Federal Court has denied the CBC/Radio-Canada’s and the Media Coalition’s application to intervene in a case that will determine whether the privacy commissioner can order search engines to delist certain content -- at...

YouTube top source of mobile traffic: Sandvine

Media | 02/18/2019 10:12 am EST

Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube makes up just over 35 per cent of worldwide mobile data traffic, making it the...

OPC’s deindexing position ‘indirect attack’ on CBC, lawyer says

Media | 02/11/2019 6:33 pm EST

OTTAWA — A lawyer for CBC/Radio-Canada who is asking the Federal Court to...

Don’t exclude online services from Broadcasting Act: Private radio

Media | 02/04/2019 12:00 pm EST

Canada’s private radio broadcasters are fighting against a push to keep...

YouTube limiting promotion of conspiracy videos and ‘borderline content’

Media | 01/28/2019 4:47 pm EST

Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube says it plans to tamp down on the spread of misleading, fake or conspiratorial video content that gets recommended for its users to watch by limiting the promotion of alarming videos that still get around the rules for publishing. YouTube officials said the coming adjustments will affect less than one per cent of the content on its platform but will mean a “better experience” for its users. It will aim to limit promotion of content that “comes close to --...

Preventing LGBTQ content discrimination raised in BTLR consults

Media | 01/21/2019 4:15 pm EST

The CEO of an independent specialty TV channel is raising concerns that a lack of regulation could let foreign-based digital companies operating in Canada de-monetize or discriminate against types of...

Platforms could pull out of Canadian market if regulated: Google

Media | 01/16/2019 2:17 pm EST

Alphabet Inc.’s Google already contributes to the Canadian creative...

Most Canadians support ‘right to be forgotten’: poll

telecom | 01/07/2019 3:01 pm EST

Canadians appear to be generally in favour of the ‘right to be forgotten’, with most showing support for the idea and a majority saying they would support having it set out in Canadian law,...

Google Canada on the defense over Google+, Sidewalk Labs

Media | 10/23/2018 5:57 pm EDT

Colin McKay, head of public policy and government relations for Alphabet...

OPC asks for more flexibility on info sharing with CRTC

telecom | 10/16/2018 4:38 pm EDT

OTTAWA — Canada’s federal privacy watchdog asked a Senate committee Tuesday to increase his office’s information sharing abilities with the CRTC and Competition Bureau when consumer protection and privacy issues intersect. Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien told...

OPC inquiring about Google+ leak

Media | 10/10/2018 2:34 pm EDT

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) said it is gathering more information about whether the personal information of Canadians was implicated in a leak involving an Alphabet Inc. social network. “Google has contacted...

Google Canada asks MPs for Copyright Board reform

Media | 10/04/2018 3:29 pm EDT

OTTAWA — Alphabet Inc.’s Google wants to see the Copyright Board of Canada tariff setting process...

OPC to seek court reference on search engine delisting

telecom | 09/27/2018 5:39 pm EDT

OTTAWA — Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien says he plans to...

Class action filed against Facebook over Android metadata collection

Media | 09/17/2018 12:35 pm EDT

Facebook Inc. is facing another class action suit in Ontario over how it...

EU copyright directive passes

Media | 09/12/2018 2:24 pm EDT

The European Parliament passed its copyright directive Wednesday, with some amendments to the...

EU committee approves internet filtering copyright directive

Media | 06/20/2018 4:43 pm EDT

A European Union committee has approved a controversial copyright directive that critics say could interfere with the sharing of online content. At issue are two articles under the directive. The...

YouTube Premium, YouTube Music available in Canada

Media | 06/18/2018 1:55 pm EDT

Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube said Monday that its subscription platform YouTube Premium and its YouTube...

Balsillie-led Centre for Digital Rights registers to lobby

Media | 05/25/2018 12:33 pm EDT

A new organization called the Centre for Digital Rights (CDR) that is...

MPs hear about ‘surveillance capitalism,’ Google data use

Media | 05/11/2018 11:32 am EDT

OTTAWA — Two sides of the data-use debate squared off at the House ethics committee Thursday, with the Canadian head of public policy at Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Colin McKay, justifying his company’s treatment of data while ex-tech CEO Jim Balsillie spoke about the...

Senate committee to look into issue of tax on foreign ads

Media | 04/24/2018 5:58 pm EDT

OTTAWA — The chairman of the Senate transport and communications...

B.C. court dismisses Google case in Equustek

Media | 04/18/2018 12:33 pm EDT

A British Columbia court said it will not set aside or change a provincial court decision to force...

Equustek case back in B.C. court over internet jurisdiction

Media | 03/12/2018 4:35 pm EDT

A British Columbia court will not delay hearing a challenge brought by...

Ian Morrison steps down from watchdog Friends

Media | 02/12/2018 1:27 pm EST

Ian Morrison, the co-founder of Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, is handing over the reins of the...

CRTC asks digital giants for info, promises confidentiality

Media | 02/05/2018 2:02 pm EST

As part of its government-ordered proceeding on future content distribution models, the CRTC is asking a number of companies — including Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Netflix Inc. — for information about their digital media broadcasting revenues, subscribers and viewing in Canada. Several years ago, during its Let’s Talk TV proceeding, those two companies refused to provide such info to the regulator, triggering conflict with the commission that saw then-chairman Jean-Pierre Blais briefly walk out of a hearing and threaten to revoke the digital-media exemption order under which Netflix...

OPC says search engine de-indexing right exists in Canada

telecom | 01/26/2018 5:08 pm EST

Canadians have the right to ask search engines to remove links to results...

Alphabet takes aim at cybercrime

telecom | 01/25/2018 4:16 pm EST

In a blog post on Wednesday, Alphabet Inc.’s ‘moonshot factory’ X announced the details of its...

Bell intros product for improved home internet

telecom | 01/24/2018 4:58 pm EST

In a release on Wednesday, BCE Inc. said it launched its residential mesh WiFi product. Dubbed Whole...

BroadbandTV opens mobile game-making division

Media | 01/10/2018 5:10 pm EST

In a release on Wednesday, digital media company BroadbandTV Corp. (BBTV) announced the launch of a...

Sidewalk Labs, civil liberties group register to lobby

Media | 01/08/2018 4:14 pm EST

Alphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs kicked off the new year by registering to...

Automated advertising set to grow in Canada: report

Media | 12/19/2017 3:22 pm EST

Canadian programmatic digital ad spending will account for two-thirds of display advertising by 2018, says a recent report from market research company eMarketer Inc. released on Tuesday. Programmatic ads are purchased and...

SCC wrestles with scope of harm in online libel case

Media | 11/30/2017 2:00 pm EST

OTTAWA — Canada’s highest court should prepare for consequences wrought on Canadian media in other...

Tech giants increasing grip on advertising in Canada: report

Media | 11/21/2017 3:57 pm EST

While the total amount of advertising money flowing to Canadian media has...

Canadian classics released on YouTube

Media | 11/13/2017 1:14 pm EST

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) last week announced the release of hundreds of Canadian television and feature films to the Encore+ channel on Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube. Partnering with Google Canada, BCE Inc., Deluxe Entertainment Services Group’s Deluxe Toronto, Telefilm...

Google doesn’t have to comply with SCC order: U.S. court

telecom | 11/03/2017 4:56 pm EDT

Alphabet Inc.’s Google does not have to comply with an order from...

Google building smart community in Toronto

telecom | 10/18/2017 8:46 pm EDT

Alphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs have won a City of Toronto request for proposals to create a development...

Sabrina Geremia named permanent Google Canada head

Media | 10/11/2017 5:32 pm EDT

Sabrina Geremia is the new country director for Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada. She has been in the...

Telus leads in end-of-summer lobbying activity

Media | 09/25/2017 5:31 pm EDT

Telus Corp. was far and away the busiest industry stakeholder when it came to...

Google linking names under publication bans with articles: report

Media | 09/21/2017 5:54 pm EDT

Algorithms used by Alphabet Inc.’s Google have been linking stories regarding individuals whose identities are under court-ordered publication bans in searches involving their names, the Ottawa Citizen has found. The Citizen said in a report Thursday that in six high-profile cases, “searching the name of a young offender or victim online pointed to media coverage of their court cases, even though their names do not appear anywhere in the news articles themselves.” It added that...

Making available right established for downloads, but no rates set

Media | 08/29/2017 6:26 pm EDT

The Copyright Board has ruled that the making available right under the...

Canadian reps at tech companies’ anti-terror initiative

Media | 08/01/2017 5:17 pm EDT

The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, launched in June by Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp., Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube, held its first meeting in San Francisco,...

Transparency reporting in Canada: still opaque?

telecom | 07/31/2017 4:15 pm EDT

Without an Edward Snowden-like scandal, exposing inappropriate government access of citizens’ personal...

YouTube introducing new CanCon channel

Media | 07/31/2017 1:18 pm EDT

In a company first, Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube will begin specifically highlighting Canadian content on...

Non-profit gives tech leg up to telecoms, smaller businesses

telecom | 07/28/2017 4:09 pm EDT

Canada’s big three wireless providers are now cooperating on a...

Sam Sebastian leaves Google Canada, joins Pelmorex

Media | 07/25/2017 5:27 pm EDT

The managing director of Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada, Sam Sebastian, has left the company and will...

Google turns to U.S. courts over Equustek decision

Media | 07/25/2017 12:58 pm EDT

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is challenging the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) to order...

Civil society groups take aim at Five Eyes on encryption

Media | 06/30/2017 3:51 pm EDT

More than six dozen civil society organizations and individuals have come out to reiterate support for stronger data encryption in a letter addressed to a quintet of the world’s intelligence...

Five Eyes watching online terror content

Media | 06/28/2017 1:26 pm EDT

Representatives from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance have issued a statement lauding the creation of a coalition by some of the world’s biggest tech companies aimed at tackling terrorist content online. On Monday, Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp., Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc. announced the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism to share research, knowledge and technological solutions, such as content detection and classification techniques using machine learning. “This initiative represents an opportunity to significantly reduce the availability of this content across...

Supreme Court’s Google search ban could have global implications

Media | 06/28/2017 10:07 am EDT

OTTAWA — In a landmark ruling, Canada’s top court dismissed an appeal...

Tech giants coordinating to tackle terror content

Media | 06/27/2017 6:05 pm EDT

Some of the world’s largest technology and social media companies are forming a coalition to counter terrorism. The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism is being formed with the help of Facebook Inc., Microsoft...

EU fines Google 2.4B euros

Media | 06/27/2017 5:31 pm EDT

The European Union has fined Alphabet Inc.’s Google 2.4 billion euros — about $3.6 billion in Canadian dollars — for giving itself an “illegal advantage” in its...

CCSA leads lobbying after Hill visit

Media | 06/26/2017 2:55 pm EDT

Last month’s deluge of Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) members on Parliament Hill for the...

Opposition MPs say conflict of interest in Heritage office

Media | 06/15/2017 5:26 pm EDT

Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada lobbied Leslie Church, its former communications head and now chief of staff to Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly, on several occasions this year, meetings that are being criticized by Opposition MPs. The issue came up for the second day in...

‘Level playing field’ for foreign digital news services: committee

Media | 06/15/2017 4:52 pm EDT

OTTAWA — After a year of study and hearing from 131 witnesses, some of...

Public conversation needed on right to be forgotten: Google Canada

Media | 06/02/2017 12:53 pm EDT

OTTAWA — Before any right to be forgotten rules are instituted in Canada, there needs to be a fulsome public discussion, Colin McKay, head of public policy and government relations at Alphabet...

ISED PS Lametti hot property for April lobbying

Media | 05/23/2017 3:30 pm EDT

The parliamentary secretary to the innovation minister was a popular target for lobbyists last month, as...

Digital ads only in their infancy, Google’s Gingras says

Media | 04/13/2017 9:01 pm EDT

MONTREAL — Digital advertising will continue to evolve into new forms we can’t yet predict, Richard Gingras, vice-president of Alphabet Inc.’s Google News,...

Joly to discuss promoting CanCon with Google, Facebook

Media | 04/11/2017 8:41 pm EDT

Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly will travel to California later this month to meet with representatives from Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc., her office has confirmed....

Trudeau meets with YouTube head

Media | 04/07/2017 4:29 pm EDT

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with the CEO of Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube Thursday, and used the opportunity to express “his appreciation for Google and YouTube’s continued investment in Canada and...

Ad pulls from YouTube show money shift to TV: Corus CEO

Media | 04/06/2017 8:05 pm EDT

The fallout from Alphabet Inc.’s placing of advertisements next to unfavourable content is in line with an ongoing trend of some advertisers shifting money from digital back to traditional...

Google launches AI research institute in Toronto

Media | 03/30/2017 4:30 pm EDT

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has launched a research facility in Toronto dedicated to the development of artificial intelligence (AI). The Vector Institute will focus on “expanding the applications of AI by performing...

Quebec union ‘disappointed’ budgets didn’t address taxation imbalance

Media | 03/29/2017 8:58 pm EDT

A Quebec union representing communications sector employees said it is disappointed with both the federal and provincial budgets, saying that in “both cases, no action has been taken to counter tax avoidance and unfair competition” by foreign digital companies like Netflix Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. In a French press release Thursday, the Conseil provincial du secteur des communications (CPSC) — a branch of the Canadian Union of...