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iPolitics By Rachel Emmanuel. Published on Apr 30, 2021 5:32pm The West Block of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa (Jolson Lim/iPolitics) The government must seek a new Charter statement for its legislation updating the Broadcasting Act, after it was amended last week to include the regulation of social-media content, say Conservative MPs. The MPs were speaking Friday at the House of Commons’ Canadian Heritage committee, one week after the government removed its exc...

crittermom I remember cringing when my miniature burro had her baby. It appeared to be almost half her size(!), with a full large set of teeth & those sharp hooves. Ouch? I about lost it when I witnessed her do a full extension kick to keep the father away less than 24 hours following the birth (I added a photo of it with my story during a fundraiser here a few years back). Critters are tough! Calves, horses, llamas, etc. Same thing. I hadn’t heard that about jackals before. Wow. Makes me ha...

Author of the article: Brian Lilley Publishing date: Apr 29, 2021  •  7 hours ago  •  3 minute read  •  It’s been described as a “full-blown assault” on free expression in Canada by a former commissioner with the CRTC. Frankly, I think that’s putting it mildly. Bill C-10, the legislation put forward by the Trudeau Liberals to police the internet, puts most relevant online content under government supervision and regulation. Photo by iStock /GETTY IMAGES Article content...

Fri, Apr 30th 2021 12:11pm — Leigh Beadon Its Canadas turn in the carousel of attempts at terrible internet regulation around the world. The ruling Liberal party, which professor and internet law researcher Michael Geist has called the most anti-internet government in Canadian history for its wide variety of planned new internet laws, has been working for months on a bill to amend the Broadcasting Act and greatly broaden its scope, giving the CRTC (Canadas counterpart to the FCC) authority o...

Justin Trudeau Wants to Control What You Say Online Ted Falk, Author Freedom of thought, belief, opinion, and expression is a fundamental right, guaranteed by our Charter. In recent years we have seen an increase in activity by those who want to smother that freedom. The “woke” movement, with its obsession with political correctness and corresponding “cancel culture”, has reared its ugly head on our university campuses, in the media, and the business world. Now they have their sights se...

Your free speech is at risk with Ottawas push to regulate online content, experts warn The federal government is facing an uproar over controversial changes to a bill that would bring videos and other content posted to social media sites like YouTube under the purview of the countrys broadcasting regulator. So what is it proposing? Social Sharing

iPolitics By Rachel Emmanuel. Published on Apr 29, 2021 4:55pm Conservative Leader Erin OToole in Ottawa in February 2018 (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics) The Liberal government’s effort to regulate social-media content amounts to censorship of political speech it doesn’t like, charged Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole on Thursday.  O’Toole made the comment during question period, after the government amended C-10 in its final stages of committee review to include social media a...

Article content After more than 25 years of Canadian governments pursuing a hands-off approach to the online world, the government of Justin Trudeau is now pushing Bill C-10, a law that would see Canadians subjected to the most regulated internet in the free world. Although pitched as a way to expand Canadian content provisions to the online sphere, the powers of Bill C-10 have expanded considerably in committee, including a provision introduced last week that could conceivably allow the federa...

The London-born poet and activist makes a case for transporting yourself to another realm. Michelle Cyca is a writer, editor and book enthusiast living on unceded territories of the Musqueam Band, and the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She’s written for the Vancouver Sun, Chatelaine, SAD Mag and more. Twitter @michellecyca. SHARES When it comes to reading fiction, author and anti-oppression consultant Cicely Belle Blain turns to YA. ‘My brain has not re...

Canadas telecommunications regulator has ordered the dominant operators to take steps to increase competition in a market that has some of the worlds highest billing rates, although the measure fell short of what some analysts had expected. The move comes more than a year after Prime Minister Justin Trudeaus Liberal government asked the telecoms companies to cut bills by 25% or face consequences after high mobile bills became a hot button issue in the 2019 elections. The Canadian Radio-televi...