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ID-authentication for adult-content viewers would simply smuggle restrictive telecommunications precedents from the U.S. into Canada, and push the whole industry underground

Arif Virani said new power could restrain behaviour of someone with a track record of hateful conduct

Justice Minister Arif Virani has defended a new power in the online harms bill to impose house arrest on someone who is feared to commit a hate crime in the future – even if they have not yet done so already.

Requirements in proposed legislation would mean tech firms will need to hire more employees or spend more on reviewing content

OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives would rather take a tough-on-crime approach to online safety issues affecting young people than support the Liberal government's plan to regulate them, says leader Pierre Poilievre.

The bill would change the Human Rights Act to make posting hate speech online a form of discrimination and empower people to file complaints to the commission about such posts

By Paul Vieira OTTAWA--Canada on Monday proposed new rules that would compel digital platforms to remove online content that features the sexual exploitation...

Pierre Trudeau famously said, "There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation." Now, more than half a century later, why does the otherwise freedom-obsessed Pierre Poilievre keep promising to insert it into our private lives?

Justice Minister Arif Virani says the Online Harms Act won’t give the federal government the power to determine what content is and isn’t allowed online — particularly when it comes to hateful content.

Now that Prime Minister Justin Trudeaus sweeping online harms legislation is before Parliament, allowing key stakeholders, major platforms, and Canadians with direct personal experience with abuse to dig in and see whats being proposed, reaction is streaming in. CTVNews.ca has rounded up reaction, and heres how Bill C-63 is going over.