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It’s not often that the prime minister of Canada gets his lunch handed to him by a small-town journalist, but that’s exactly what happened last week in Sault Ste. Marie, where Justin Trudeau sat down for an interview with Village Media Editor-in-Chief Michael Friscolanti. During the interview, Friscolanti asked Trudeau if passing the Online News Act was the right move.

Canada, which is overwhelmingly dependent on the United States for trade revenues and the defense of its sovereignty, seems determined to provoke a North American trade imbroglio.

Laith Marouf, who has collected $500,000 in federal contracts, urged creation of “Zionist-Hunter squads” targeting Canadian politicians

Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs says calls to remove tweets that violate X’s hateful conduct policies have been ignored

Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge has issued the final policy direction to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for the regulation of Bill C-11, after it initiated a public proceeding in June. The legislation, which forces streaming services like Netflix, Disney Plus, and YouTube to pay to support Canadian media content, faced years of pushback,

Mr. Rodriguez testified he first learned about tweets by Marouf from news report, but an e-mail chain he was told about them

The Heritage Department posted documents about directions it plans to issue to the CRTC, saying that podcasts, like posts by individual social-media creators, should not be regulated

Two recent bills miss the point entirely. The government shouldnt ask the antiquated CRTC to referee an environment it doesn’t understand.

Press freedom is increasingly under assault worldwide by governments that are finding the Internet much easier to control than the press ever was. While dictators everywhere suppress dissent by throttling the chokepoint of Internet access, Canada unfortunately leads the so-called “free” world in regulating online communication.

The government of Canada has come through with more information on amendments to its proposed privacy and artificial intelligence legislation, although the…