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Members of the LGBTQ community, Indigenous people and racialized groups fear a proposed law tackling online harm could disproportionately curtail their online freedoms and even make them police targets, responses to a government consultation have warned.

Commentary Canada’s first efforts to create an Online Harms Act were described by Twitter as alarmingly similar to ...

Verses of love and loss for our endangered flora, fauna and ecosystems, compiled by Vancouver’s poet laureate.

Ever wondered how Tyee reporters get around when we write our stories?

Michelle Gamage and Sean Holman are nominated for the Canadian Association of Journalists Environmental and Climate Change Award.

They'll be helping train the next generation of ‘civil liberties’ reporters at a Toronto conference in May.

Posts about copyright term extension written by Leigh Beadon, Mike Masnick, and Glyn Moody

Last year, we wrote about the Canadian government's efforts to push a bill regulating social media content like broadcast television and, soon after, their work on new "Online Harms" legislation that (among many provisions) would require platforms to report certain content to law enforcement and national intelligence services. These efforts and the government's general approach…

ARTIFACT: A BC photographer shows us how to get bigger, better, ever-so-slightly unwieldy pictures.

Posts about c-11 written by Leigh Beadon and Mike Masnick