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Updating Canadian law to address online hate and gender-based violence
Social media and online platforms are fueling a surge in hate speech, hate crimes, and technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV, in technical jargon) both in Canada…
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Canada’s fight over digital sovereignty is just getting started
U.S. President Donald Trump and former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro are both infamous for their unfiltered and disinformation-laden use of social media. This routine spreading…
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Canada should build public cloud infrastructure rather than relying on U.S. tech giants
During the 2025 election campaign, prime minister Mark Carney made a striking admission about Canada’s dependence on U.S. tech companies. The Canadian government was in…
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Why did Canada just cave to Trump by scrapping the Digital Services Tax?
A lot doesn’t sit right about the Carney government’s capitulation to U.S. president Trump on the stillborn Digital Services Tax (DST), which would have taxed…
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Canada has a disinformation problem—and the tools to fix it
Canadians are increasingly aware of the corrosive effects of disinformation on democratic institutions.
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What if Canada stopped upholding U.S. tech companies’ intellectual property?
The following article was originally published by Cory Doctorow on his blog. It is reprinted here with his permission and under the terms of its…
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Faster internet as slowly as possible: Ontario’s rural broadband plan
If you live in a city of any size, you might worry about whether you can afford fast Internet service. But you probably don’t worry…
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What’s going to happen next with Canada’s Online News Act?
The Online News Act came into effect in December 2023 and rang in the new year 2024 with some unfinished business.
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Was Canada’s Online News Act compromise a last-minute win or a failure?
Public support for any kind of novel legislation is always difficult to predict. In the case of the Online News Act, Bill C-18, the starting point…
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The Online News Act could have used a different model for bargaining
When the Canadian federal government introduced Bill C-18, the Online News Act, it was picking up where Australian legislation had left off. But first the governing…
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Online News Act: Canada’s Big Tech regulation was inspired by other countries
In November 2023, just before Bill C-18—the Online News Act—came into effect, federal Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge announced that she had struck a deal with Google…
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We’re in an AI hype cycle—can Canada make it a responsible one?
The federal government is rushing to regulate AI; it needs to go back to the drawing board
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