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The bill would change the Human Rights Act to make posting hate speech online a form of discrimination and empower people to file complaints to the commission about such posts
By Paul Vieira OTTAWA--Canada on Monday proposed new rules that would compel digital platforms to remove online content that features the sexual exploitation...
Pierre Trudeau famously said, "There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation." Now, more than half a century later, why does the otherwise freedom-obsessed Pierre Poilievre keep promising to insert it into our private lives?
Justice Minister Arif Virani says the Online Harms Act won’t give the federal government the power to determine what content is and isn’t allowed online — particularly when it comes to hateful content.
Now that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's sweeping online harms legislation is before Parliament, allowing key stakeholders, major platforms, and Canadians with direct personal experience with abuse to dig in and see what's being proposed, reaction is streaming in. CTVNews.ca has rounded up reaction, and here's how Bill C-63 is going over.