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After asking the federal telecommunications regulator to waive local news and Canadian programming requirements for its television stations, BCE Inc.

A pair of Conservative MPs will try to compel a CBC executive and a journalism standards director to appear before a House of Commons committee to defend the company's language guide — which discourages the use of the words "terrorism" and "terrorists" when describing attacks and their perpetrators.

Foreign streaming companies like Netflix and Disney+ could be subjected to broadcasting policy objectives from the CRTC.

The CRTC could look at imposing the objectives, such as reflecting Canadian attitudes and diversity, on streaming companies.

The CRTC could look at imposing the objectives, such as reflecting Canadian attitudes and diversity, on streaming companies.

The media have been a political football this year - and now some politicians are complaining the media are against them in this election. But hundreds of millions of dollars of public money is spent on media each year - so what do the political parties plan for the media if they're in power?

Press freedom is increasingly under assault worldwide by governments that are finding the Internet much easier to control than the press ever was. While dictators everywhere suppress dissent by throttling the chokepoint of Internet access, Canada unfortunately leads the so-called “free” world in regulating online communication.

The NGOs warn the bill seeks to empower the minister to interfere in ways that undermines the SABC’s independence

New regulations will usher in an era of online censorship

At issue was an update from the CRTC with details of what types of online platforms and what kinds of online content could potentially be regulated under Ottawa’s online streaming law.