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...
Canadians need to be educated about the dangers posed by foreign actors utilizing social media to harvest data, a House of Commons committee was told Monday. The standing...
Meta Platforms Inc. has not experienced any notable drop in Facebook usage despite banning news content...
The federal government is spending $5.5 million to create the Canadian Digital Media Research Network...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is not impressed by Meta...
The federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner has filed notice that it intends to appeal last month's...
The battle over the government’s Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11, continued in the Senate’s Question Period Tuesday. Senator Leo Housakos, the chair of the Transport and Communications committee, claimed that the CBC is going to move to an all-digital format. “How...
The federal government Wednesday announced that the department of Canadian...
The ministers most responsible for telecom and broadcasting policy in Canada are pledging to follow...
Senators voted to add a clause in Bill C-11, the...
The House of Commons Heritage committee passed an amendment to the...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and members of his department were the final witnesses as the...
Canadian broadcasting executives, from companies...
The ministers of Canadian Heritage and Intergovernmental Affairs,...
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...
Touting it as a "historic day" at an afternoon press conference, Innovation...
Former CRTC vice-chair Peter Menzies has claimed...
The CRTC is generally supportive of Bill C-11, the revised broadcasting...
Extremist groups are able to propagate their message and raise funds...
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...
Members of Parliament from the Bloc Québécois...
Internet and criminal justice experts sounded the alarm on a proposed...
OTTAWA -- Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodríguez called previous...
The government placed legislation to change the Broadcasting Act on the...
The Court of Appeal for British Columbia upheld a...
OTTAWA – Veteran Liberal MP Hedy Fry was elected chair of the House of Commons committee on Canadian...
Canadian Heritage minister Pablo Rodriguez says revisions to the...
According to an advocacy group opposing restrictions on the internet, although the Conservative government has a better approach when it comes to the question on what to do...
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC)...
Canadian Heritage is seeking input on how best to compensate the news...
Senators are looking beyond the free speech issues raised by critics of the revised Broadcasting Act and...
Canada has laws that would hold companies...
A debate which Canadian Heritage Committee chair Scott Simms has jokingly said was “so exciting we could sell the rights to Netflix” has finally come to an end. The committee completed its clause-by-clause review of Bill C-10 Friday afternoon, days after the House...
The Liberals and the Bloc Québécois cooperated to pass a motion in the...
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 federal government’s Canadian Heritage Committee is holding firm on plans to subject social media to broadcasting regulations after it voted down a proposed amendment from the Conservative Party...
CRTC chair Ian Scott said he believes the commission’s pick of a...
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee is moving forward with a charter...
After saying it would address concerns around...
The Conservative party is “falsely accusing” the government of wanting...
Canada should establish a centralized expert regulator for...
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 House of Commons Heritage committee has moved...
Panelists reflecting Wednesday on Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s...
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 violence stemming from social media platforms. At the event, focused on protecting democracy in Canada, NDP MP Charlie Angus said that companies like Facebook Inc. have been cut too much slack, considering that numerous instances of political violence have stemmed from its platform in some capacity. “We asked...
The federal government introduced sweeping private-sector privacy law...
Facebook Inc. is asking a judge to throw out significant chunks of an...
Given the precarious situation around the now-escalating COVID-19 pandemic, what will actually be...
OTTAWA — Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien told reporters...
At a Vancouver press conference Tuesday, the federal and British Columbia...
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...
The Green Party election platform includes promises to ensure only...
Artificial intelligence technology allowing videos to be seamlessly manipulated for political purposes could potentially meet a national public interest threshold designated...
Ending several months of uncertainty and speculations, Twitter Inc. has declared that it will join Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine in not selling any political advertisements in Canada in the...
OTTAWA - Legislators on Tuesday gave some sense of what regulatory options...
OTTAWA — For the Canadian government to be more effective at legislating on issues including social media and internet of things (IoT) technology, it needs to communicate with technology specialists...
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have both signed on to a...
If the Office of the Privacy Commissioner takes Facebook Inc. to Federal Court over the social media and data giant’s refusal to implement the office’s recommendations, the case will be the first of its kind — testing the limits of Canada’s privacy legislation,...
OTTAWA — The Office of the Privacy Commissioner said Thursday it is...
The tech giant Microsoft Corp. last week added “elections” to its lobbying files. The move comes as the government rolls out a new regime governing the selling of political ads on tech platforms ahead of this fall’s...
Twitter Inc. has added a timely subject matter to its lobby files: educating federal officials on social media use during elections. The social media company updated its files last week to include...
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...
Despite heightened interest in the impact of social media on Canadian elections, Facebook Inc. said it has not heard of any Canadian institutions that have applied to view the social media giant’s...
OTTAWA -- Democratic institutions minister Karina Gould said the government...
A majority of Canadian internet users say the federal government should impose fines or other sanctions on social media companies that don’t remove fake news from their platforms, according to...
Canada’s private radio broadcasters are fighting against a push to keep...
OTTAWA — The Liberal government has set up a new alert protocol and created a crack-team of top bureaucrats that can warn political parties and the public during an election...
While online misinformation needs to be taken seriously, that doesn’t...
Wireless operators will have to begin offering message relay services (MRS) by June 2019, the CRTC said Friday. Message relay serves customers with a hearing or speech disability by allowing them...
OTTAWA — A House of Commons committee is unanimously calling for new rules for social media companies...
OTTAWA — Efforts to stanch online misinformation campaigns will not eliminate the very real situation that may see Canadians fall victim to attempts to influence their political opinions, the...
Ontario’s auditor general is raising concerns about a legal "loophole" that allows for partisan government advertising, after the province’s digital ad spending jumped for a third year in a row. Ad buys on social media platforms peaked at $5.95 million this year,...
Ottawa-based think tank the Public Policy Forum says it’s launching a new project to track, analyze and eventually find a way to counter "fake news." It’s digital democracy project will start by studying the effects of...
OTTAWA — Canada’s elections commissioner said...
OTTAWA — The head of the Conservative Party’s 2019 national election...
The federal government paid a $2,000 settlement to a Barrie, Ontario photographer, according to the 2018 public accounts, because bureaucrats shared a copyrighted image on a government Facebook page....
The French government will work with Facebook Inc. on a new initiative to...
Facebook Inc.’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has declined a joint-request by...
A year away from the next federal election, a majority of Canadians are...
Colin McKay, head of public policy and government relations for Alphabet...
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 us regarding the incident and we will be following up to gather more information about this incident, including whether it affected any Canadian users,” OPC spokesman Corey Larocque confirmed in an email to The Wire Report. On Monday, a Wall Street Journal report revealed that the search engine behemoth had a software bug that possibly gave third-party developers access to the private data of up to 500,000 Google+ accounts via 438 applications. It’s unclear if Canadians were implicated in the leak. On the same day the Journal report was published, Google said in a blog post the bug gave third-party apps...
Facebook Inc. will introduce a pilot project aimed at securing election campaigns for the United States midterm elections this fall. The company said in a blog post that past elections have shown that candidates, politicians...
Facebook Inc. is adding verification of photos and videos to its fact-checking of content on its social...
In a blog post on Wednesday, Facebook Inc. announced the global launch of...
In the three years since the last Canadian federal election, emerging...
According to a recent report from the CBC/Radio-Canada Media Technology Monitor (MTM) project, 72 per cent of English-speaking Canadians have used a social networking service in the past month, with just over half of those using more than three. These findings are included in a report published on Wednesday, and it also found that anglophone social network users self-report that they use the internet 28.6 hours in a typical week, compared to the 25.6 hours of the average English speaking Canadian internet user. Users of Reddit Inc.’s platform reported spending significantly more time...
Twitter Inc. wants to make sure the government understands how online...
Thousands of Canadians have signed separate petitions created by Democracy Watch, with one calling for a strengthening of the elections law body that could compel media sites to remove false ads....
According to the latest data from CBC/Radio-Canada’s Media Technology Monitoring (MTM) project, 35 per cent of English-speaking internet users in Canada continue to own four types of electronic...
TORONTO — An amber alert that resulted in three emergency texts sent to...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is partnering with Twitter Inc. to bring...
OTTAWA — The heads of West Coast-based software developer AggregateIQ...
Advertisers on Facebook Inc. should expect changes — like less reliance on third-party data and better consent tools — to the platform after the privacy breach revelations this spring, says...
OTTAWA — Testimony from Facebook Inc. representatives at the House ethics...
Facebook Inc.’s attempt to reach out to members of the Parliamentary committee looking into its ongoing data leak scandal before its appearance at the House ethics committee...