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Article content The Liberal government’s controversial new amendment to its broadcasting bill that would open up user-generated content on social media platforms to government regulation could find support among some opposition parties. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said Tuesday he was open to supporting the bill with the new amendment, which critics have said amounts to an attack on free expression rights. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or NDP open ...

Article content Once hailed as a bastion of free speech, the internet is increasingly falling under the grip of state censors worldwide. China is purging dissent. India is silencing its critics. And Canada’s Liberals recently made changes to a bill that will allow authorities to control the content that people post to sites like YouTube. Watch out: Justin Trudeau is coming for your cat videos, and putting your free expression at risk. Following Chinese director Chloé Zhao’s Oscar w...

Lobby Wrap: Pro-psilocybin group enlists By Charlie Pinkerton. Published on Mar 1, 2021 11:43am The West Block of the Parliament buildings (Jolson Lim/iPolitics) Last week, Therapsil, a non-profit that seeks to promote access to psilocybin therapy, saw a board of directors’ member join the Lobby Registry. It’s looking to promote patient-centred psilocybin research in Canada, and help patients and doctors access psilocybin through special regulations. Kitchener-based cybersecurit...

Christopher Reynolds The Pornhub website is shown on a computer screen in Toronto on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS February 28, 2021 - 4:00 AM OTTAWA - Serena Fleites was in seventh grade when a sexually explicit video of her was uploaded to Pornhub. The fallout from that fateful post — made without her knowledge after a boyfriend demanded she send him naked images — would send her into a years-long spiral of depression, drug use and self-har...

Article content Canada and Australia will coordinate their respective efforts to force Big Tech to compensate news outlets for content and take action on online hate speech, the Prime Minister’s Office said Tuesday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison Monday about the issue, though access to information documents show efforts between the two countries to cooperate on policies toward digital platforms go back to at least 2019. We apologize, but thi...

Article content Canada and Australia will coordinate their respective efforts to force Big Tech to compensate news outlets for content and take action on online hate speech, the Prime Minister’s Office said Tuesday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison Monday about the issue, though access to information documents show efforts between the two countries to cooperate on policies toward digital platforms go back to at least 2019. We apologize, but thi...

  WINNIPEG -- The Canadian Centre for Child Protection is calling for regulatory changes that will better monitor the posting and sharing of child sexual abuse materials in the digital sphere. "We have an epidemic online and we have an epidemic because we have failed to put any guardrails in and around what is happening in the online world," said Signy Arnason, associate executive director for the Manitoba-based Canadian Centre for Child Protection.  "We regulate all other spaces, everyth...

Facebook friend Biden to meet Trudeau as Canada considers new social media rules Facebook friend Biden to meet Trudeau as Canada considers new social media rules By targeting Facebook and Google with new regulations, Ottawa is hitting two of the presidents key campaign contributors By Charlie Smith Prime Ministers Office For years, Canadian critics of Big Tech have been accusing the Justin Trudeau government of being too lenient on Silicon Valley giants like Google and Facebook. But la...

iPolitics By Kady OMalley. Published on Feb 21, 2021 4:00pm Then-U.S. vice president Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a meeting of first ministers in Ottawa in December 2016. (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics) U.S. President Joe Biden in December, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has secured his first face-to-face meeting with the new resident of the White House. But, unlike his instantly historic state visit to Washington at the invitation of then-president Barack Obama, he...