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Bill C-11 creates a framework to regulate streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney+ and Spotify

A bill known as the Online Streaming Act that will update Canada’s laws around broadcasting for the first time in the internet age is one step away from becoming law and impacting popular streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney+ and Spotify. Here's what Bill C-11 sets out to do.

As pressure mounts on President Cyril Ramaphosa over his delay in appointing a new SABC board, ANC chief whip Pemmy Majodina has defended the process followed by parliament in selecting candidates for the board.

Statement made in an appeal ruling on a case won by the PN against the Broadcasting Authority

By not appointing the new SABC board, despite having recommended names forwarded to him late last year by parliament, President Cyril Ramaphosa is clearly failing to comply with his constitutional duty to do so.

Media watchdog Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) has approached the constitutional court on an urgent basis to compel President Cyril Ramaphosa to appoint a new SABC board.

To promote French, we do not need to reduce federal services to the English-speaking minority in Quebec

Nursing homes report, success of four-day working week, and analysis of Putin’s address.

Patrick Costello said accessing the national broadcaster’s archival footage is “deeply and perhaps deliberately prohibitive”.

Whose interests are served if the SABC cannot or does not report comprehensively and even-handedly in an election?