It’s hard to see how the government's online news mess can be cleaned up
For those of you wondering if the government has managed to salvage at least something from the Bill C-18 debacle by satisfying Google, don’t hold your breath.
For those of you wondering if the government has managed to salvage at least something from the Bill C-18 debacle by satisfying Google, don’t hold your breath.
Over the past six weeks the news industry had a chance to prove how much the public values it. It has instead revealed the unsettling truth that most of it is nowhere near as fetching, nor as necessary, as the image it self-servingly sees when it looks in the mirror.
This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses the implications of the newly-released regulations for the government’s online news law. We also talk about the Liberal government’s plummeting poll numbers and what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can do to pull out of this free-fall.
It is governments and not the judiciary that can rightfully commit itself to a policy as onerous as a “right to shelter”. It is the City that must assess whether to slash other social programs, request federal funding, raise taxes, or decide the policy is simply no longer viable.
UR Regina and Egale Canada have threatened to sue Saskatchewan’s government over its policy of requirement that parents be informed and their consent obtained for their child’s pronoun or gender identity changes.
This episode of In Conversation with David Frum features the causes and consequences of a possible Chinese economic crisis and what it would mean for Canada and the global economy more broadly. They also cover renewed calls to criminalize so-called “Indian residential schools denialism”.
Even the gravest of past wrongs cannot justify circumventing fundamental democratic principles today. It’s imperative that the principle of popular rule remains intact even when we look at ways to address injustices or achieve other worthy goals.
Meta has comfortably passed the first test of ensuring that, in a crisis, it can still provide vital information without linking to news. This proves that the government’s assumptions about their online news legislation were and remain dead wrong.
The state has an important role to play in protecting minors. If government were to limit access to porn to adults, they would no doubt find a receptive public, making it a political slam dunk.
The Liberal government’s latest gun control bill, C-21, made sweeping changes to Canada’s laws that left many dutifully law-abiding gun owners in Canada feeling betrayed given our country’s already stringent rules around firearm ownership.
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