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iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Dec 21, 2020 5:45pm Photo: NASA Today’s Evening Brief is brought to you by News Media Canada. It’s time to level the digital playing field. Google and Facebook are using their monopoly to threaten and undermine local news. Other countries are taking action. It’s time for Canada to stand up to the web giants – and step up for local news. Learn more. Good evening to you. As more doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine make their way into arms across the country, another vaccine is in the homestretch of the approval process. Health C...

iPolitics By Rachel Emmanuel. Published on Dec 21, 2020 5:08pm In the latest spat in a drawn-out battle between big tech companies and Canada’s print and digital publishers over who should profit from Canadian news content, MPs have written to federal lawmakers, accusing Google Canada of spreading misinformation about them. “It’s important for us to correct the facts,” News Media Canada CEO John Hind told iPolitics.   News Media Canada is the lobby group representing most of Canada’s print and digital publishers. It wants Ottawa to regulate what it considers big tech’s monop...

Winnipeg Free Press PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES Pablo Listingart and his company, ComIT, trains underemployed people in the basics of coding and entry-level IT positions – for free. A succinct report this week from RBC called Navigating 2021 sketches out the likely issues the Canadian economy will face post-pandemic. A succinct report this week from RBC called Navigating 2021 sketches out the likely issues the Canadian economy will face post-pandemic. A central theme is decentralization driven by technology and the opportunities and challenges that will create. "The shoc...