Photo from iStock Canadian news media could ironically owe millions to Google and Meta instead of the other way around under the Online News Act regulations proposed by Ottawa late…
Image from Pixabay Non-scholars tend to be impressed by studies that are seemingly scientific but on closer inspection simply don’t hold water. They are often offered by our news media…
Photo by Robert Scoble/Flickr Most journalists are so overwhelmed nowadays by the daily grind in short-handed newsrooms—a phenomenon Dean Starkman dubbed “the hamster wheel”—that they don’t have much time for…
Photo by Dima Solomin/Unsplash With Meta already blocking news in Canada, hope is slipping away that Google might still be brought onside with the Online News Act, which one critic…
Photo by Sue Thompson/Flickr As the staredown continues between the Trudeau government and digital giants Meta and Google, the awful reality seems to be finally sinking in that the Online…
After Shaw acquired Freedom Mobile in 2016, the company targeted Rogers, Bell and Telus, including in this 2019 ad campaign depicting the big three as ‘monolithic wireless.’ Photo courtesy Freedom…
Before a sudden about-face over the weekend, Canada’s media seemed to be imploding. Photo from 123RF. What a difference a week makes on the Canadian media rollercoaster. The last time…
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodríguez. Photo from Twitter. The schoolyard spat between Ottawa and Big Tech went to another level this week after Facebook’s parent company Meta announced it would take…
The National Post’s building in downtown Toronto. Photo by Michael Wilson/CBC. Postmedia Network may be trying to pull another fast one in a desperate attempt to stay afloat, but if…
Photo by A Great Capture/Flickr The suits at Bell Canada have once again demonstrated that they have no concept of the social responsibility they owe Canadians for being allowed to…
Google and Facebook are stealing money, but they’re not taking it from newspapers—they have been stealing from their own customers. Photo from Flickr. Are Google and Facebook stealing? It seems…
The future of newspapers in Canada is in jeopardy if the government doesn’t quickly pass Bill C-18, publishing company executives told Senate hearings into the Online News Act this week.…
Research shows that more than 60 percent of Canadians believe journalists are purposely trying to mislead them, with government not far behind at 58 percent. Photo by Thomas Hawk/Flickr. Special…
The ruling Liberals are seemingly doing all they can to bring the Internet under their thumb. Photo from Flickr. Canada remarkably blipped up slightly in this year’s press freedom rankings…
Federal estimates put the digital platforms potentially on the hook for more than $300 million a year in payments if Bill C-18, the Online News Act, passes. Photo from Shutterstock.…
A Rogers store offering services from Rogers Wireless. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. The recent government approval of the Shaw purchase by Rogers Communications confirms a seeming iron rule in this…
The Toronto Star sign after being stripped from the 1 Yonge Street building. Photo by Fareen Karim/BlogTO. Canadian media have traditionally been highly lucrative businesses. Some of the country’s richest…
Photo from Unsplash Another breadcrumb has landed which suggests that Canadians may be on a path to digital authoritarianism, or even totalitarianism, if some politicians in Ottawa get their way.…
Google’s headquarters for European operations in Dublin, Ireland. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Google is so successful that it may be about to become a victim of its own popularity, and…
Illustration by The Project Twins Eager viewers tuned in online Monday morning to watch as Google Canada head Sabrina Geremia was called before the Parliamentary committee that passed Bill C-18,…
