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The Canadian news industry is in a dire spot. the industry continues to see layoffs at companies big and small, and the impact of Bill C-18.

Meta is now dropping news here and Google is sure to follow pending one last Hail Mary by Canada’s news media organizations, which last week asked the Competition Bureau to commence an inquiry into Meta’s blocking of news content. Should the Competition Bureau accede to our news media’s ridiculous complaint, little doubt will remain that it lives nowhere other than in their pocket.

The "Online News Act", which was approved by the Canadian parliament and received a royal assent on June 22.

In hooking themselves up to government subsidies and now government-ordered subsidies, the chains have apparently been willing to sell out press freedom in Canada to federal bureaucrats. But the chains overplayed their hand by failing to consider the possibility that Meta and Google might not sit still for such extortion and would simply walk away instead.

Meta’s plans to block news content for Canadian users of Facebook and Instagram will start rolling out Tuesday, ending weeks of speculation over when the company would officially retaliate against

Meta’s plans to block news content for Canadian users of Facebook and Instagram will start rolling out Tuesday, ending weeks of speculation over when the company would officially retaliate against

Meta’s plans to block news content for Canadian users of Facebook and Instagram will start rolling out Tuesday, ending weeks of speculation over when the company would officially retaliate against

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A report from the trenches on the Online News Act and what a backlash ban on Canadian news could mean.