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Winnipeg Free Press By: Editorial | Posted: 7:00 PM CST Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020
There are few companies that have become as intertwined in people’s lives as Facebook and Google.
There are few companies that have become as intertwined in people’s lives as Facebook and Google.
Facebook boasted more than 2.7 billion active monthly users during the second quarter of 2020, a number that has more than doubled since the social-media platform surpassed the one-billion user mark in 2012. The company’s growth is due in part to acquisitions of two other social-media firms: in 2012 it spent US$1 billion for Instagram and two years later it pressed the pay button for WhatsApp for US$19 billion.
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Year Ahead 2021
Burying Sir John A. Macdonald
The first prime minister will no longer be put on a pedestal as the debate turns to what to put up in his place
December 18, 2020 The head of a statue of Sir John A. MacDonald in Montreal, in August 2020 (Graham Hughes/CP)
Mi’kmaq historian Daniel Paul believes that Sir John A. Macdonald’s days in the sun are numbered.
Paul, 81, is the author of
We Were Not the Savages, a landmark 1993 book that for the first time told the history of Atlantic Canada from the Mi’kmaq perspective.
In the 1980s, Paul brought to light scalp proclamations issued by Nova Scotia governor Edward Cornwallis in the 1750s, offering a bounty for Indigenous heads. Thanks largely to Paul’s work, in 2018, Halifax took down Cornwallis’s statue and renamed a street and a park. This year, the Canadian Coast Guard took his name off a ship. Cornwallis has been cancelled.
December 17, 2020
The Broadcasting Act blunder series has featured several posts raising concerns that Bill C-10 is likely to increase costs for consumers and decrease choice as some services block the Canadian market altogether. Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault has regularly cited the situation in Europe as evidence that the concerns are unfounded. For example, he told the House of Commons that “European Union has adopted new rules on streamers resulting in increased investment, jobs, choice of content and ability to assert one’s own cultural sovereignty” and told the media that the European Union has had a requirement since 2018 that 30% of Internet streaming services content must be European content without resulting in higher fees.