A recent story in Canadaland “Trudeau’s $10 million top-up fund” is written as an exposé of federal funding of journalism and states that...

An under-investigated policy issue is how much money might be delivered by a Media Bargaining Code requiring Google and Facebook to share...

CRTC Commissioner Ian Scott, looking for a little help on the file. November 29, 2021 The dust has settled after a week-long CRTC hearing...

November 15, 2021 Pablo Rodriguez returns to the Heritage portfolio. On October 27th the Toronto Star caved to Google by signing a...

November 24, 2021 Rogers is going to screw us on sports content, spokespersons for cable distributor Telus warned CRTC Chair Ian Scott on...

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen probably doesn’t know anything about Canada’s soon to be Online Harms Bill. But her timing is dead...

Somebody had to say the emperor had no clothes. In the end it was Frances Haugen, a 37-year old career data scientist from Iowa who...

How the Platforms Should Pay for Journalism If the next federal government makes Google and Facebook contribute to Canadian journalism,...

Google and Facebook don’t want to pay for news. They are fighting on every front to defend their digital empires from legislatures and...

“Web Giants hoard mountain of cash” isn’t news. The Platforms Google and Facebook do make a lot of money: in 2020 Google raked in $USD...