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2024
Government Court Filing on Bill C-11: “The Act Does Allow For the Regulation of User-Uploaded Programs on Social Media Services”original ↗
13 Jun 2024
Sour Grapes: Big Media Lobby Wants to Squash the New Collective Responsible For Administering Google’s $100 Million Online News Act Moneyoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2024
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 205: Len St-Aubin on What the CRTC’s Internet Streaming Ruling Means For Creators, Competition and Consumer Costsoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2024
6 Jun 2024
CRTC Bill C-11 Ruling “Makes Web Giants Pay” But it is Canadian Consumers That Will Get the Billoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2024
3 Jun 2024
Huge Win for Copyright User Rights in Canada: Federal Court Rules Digital Lock Rules Do Not Trump Fair Dealingoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2024
30 May 2024
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Why Bill S-210 Could Mandate CRTC-Backed Age Verification For Streaming Services Like Netflix, Crave and CBC Gemoriginal ↗
29 May 2024
The Behind-the-Scenes Bill C-18 Battle: How Newspapers, Big Broadcasters and the CBC Are Trying to Seize Control Over How Google Money is Allocated to Canadian Mediaoriginal ↗
28 May 2024
Why Months of Jewish Discrimination and the Normalization of Antisemitism on University Campuses Must Stoporiginal ↗
26 May 2024
Filibuster of Bill S-210 Confirmed: Conservative MPs Put Privacy and Free Speech Online At Risk Over Release of Reportoriginal ↗
24 May 2024
Bill S-210 Study Without Witnesses?: Why a Conservative Filibuster May Lead to New Internet Age Verification Requirements and Website Blocking Legislationoriginal ↗
16 May 2024
A Post I Never Thought I Would Need to Write: Jewish Students Have the Right to Feel Safe on Campusoriginal ↗
13 May 2024
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 203: Andrew Clement on Calls to Separate Privacy Reform and Artificial Intelligence Regulation in Bill C-27original ↗
13 May 2024
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 202: David Soberman on the Reality Behind Claims Canadian Wireless Prices Have Been Cut in Halforiginal ↗
6 May 2024
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 201: Robert Diab on the Billion Dollar Lawsuits Launched By Ontario School Boards Against Social Media Giantsoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2024
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 200: Colin Bennett on the EU’s Surprising Adequacy Finding on Canadian Privacy Laworiginal ↗
22 Apr 2024
The Yunusov Question: Michael Geist on intellectual property, digital policy, AI, and law studentsoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2024
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs: Online Harms Act – What’s Fact and What’s Fictionoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2024
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 199: Boris Bytensky on the Criminal Code Reforms in the Online Harms Actoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2024
Nuanced: Michael Geist on Problems with the Online Harms Act, TikTok Ban & Antisemitism in Canadaoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2024
AI Spending is Not an AI Strategy: Why the Government’s Artificial Intelligence Plan Avoids the Hard Governance Questionsoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2024
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 198: Richard Moon on the Return of the Section 13 Hate Speech Provision in the Online Harms Actoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2024
Tweets Are Not Enough: Why Combatting Relentless Antisemitism in Canada Requires Real Leadership and Actionoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2024
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 197: Divest, Ban or Regulate? – Anupam Chander on the Global Fight Over TikTokoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2024
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 196: Vibert Jack on the Supreme Court’s Landmark Bykovets Internet Privacy Rulingoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2024
Government Gaslighting Again?: Unpacking the Uncomfortable Reality of the Online Harms Actoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2024
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 195: Vivek Krishnamurthy on What You Need to Know About the Online Harms Actoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2024
8 Mar 2024
Taking Action Against Antisemitic Hate: When Content Moderation, Self-Regulation, and Legislation Failoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2024
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 194: CCH Turns 20 – Scott Jolliffe Goes Behind the Scenes of the Landmark Copyright Case That Ushered in Users’ Rightsoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2024
Why the Criminal Code and Human Rights Act Provisions Should Be Removed from the Online Harms Actoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2024
My First Take on the Online Harms Act: Worst of 2021 Plan Now Gone But Digital Safety Commission Regulatory Power a Huge Concernoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2024
uOttawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society: Governing Online Harms – A Conversation on Bill C-63original ↗
26 Feb 2024
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 193: The Online Harms Act is Nearly Here – A Backgrounder and Previeworiginal ↗
26 Feb 2024
Conservatives Double Down on Support for Mandated Internet Age Verification and Website Blocking: Why Can’t Canada Get Common Sense Digital Policy?original ↗
22 Feb 2024
More Free Money: Media Lobby Campaigning For Even More Government Funding, Grants and Tax Reformoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2024
Bid to End Crown Copyright is Back: MP Brian Masse’s Bill C-374 Would Remove Copyright from Government Worksoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2024
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 192: Kate Robertson on the Privacy, Expression and Affordability Risks in Bill C-26original ↗
12 Feb 2024
The House of Cards Crumbles: Why the Bell Media Layoffs and Government’s Failed Media Policy are Connectedoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2024
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 191: Luca Bertuzzi on the Making of the EU Artificial Intelligence Actoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2024
Bill S-210 is Just the Beginning: How a Canadian Digital Lobby Group is Promoting a Standard to “Foster Widespread Adoption of Age Verification Technologies in Canada”original ↗
31 Jan 2024
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 190: Debating Bill S-210 – Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne Defends Her Internet Age Verification Billoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2024
Canadian Copyright in the Age of Generative AI: My Submission to the Government’s Copyright Consultationoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2024
Site Blocking and Age Verification for Twitter, Instagram, Snap and Twitch?: Age Verification Lobby Confirms it Wants Bill S-210 to Cover All Social Media Sitesoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2024
2023
26 Dec 2023
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 189: The Year in Canadian Digital Law and Policy and What Lies Ahead in 2024original ↗
18 Dec 2023
Bill C-18 is Dead, Long Live Bill C-18: Government Rewrites Online News Act With Final Regulationsoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2023
The Most Dangerous Canadian Internet Bill You’ve Never Heard Of Is a Step Closer to Becoming Laworiginal ↗
14 Dec 2023
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 188: Consumers, Competition or Corporate Cash Grab? – My Bill C-11 Appearance at the CRTCoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2023
My CRTC Appearance on Bill C-11: Why Isn’t the Commission Concerned with Competition, Consumer Choice, and Affordability?original ↗
6 Dec 2023
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 187: Jeff Elgie on What the Bill C-18 Deal With Google Means for the Future of the Canadian News Sectororiginal ↗
4 Dec 2023
30 Nov 2023
Salvaging Bill C-18: Government Upends Legislation To Bring Google Onside the Online News Actoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2023
29 Nov 2023
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 186: Andy Kaplan-Myrth on the CRTC’s Last Ditch Attempt to Fix Canada’s Internet Competition Problemoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2023
25 Nov 2023
Canadian Government Quietly Backs Down on its Implementation Plans for a Digital Services Taxoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2023
Bill C-18 Bailout: Government Announces Plans to Pay For 35% of Journalist Costs for News Outlets as It More Than Doubles Tax Credit Per Employeeoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2023
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 185: Bill C-11 at the CRTC – A Preview of the Upcoming Online Streaming Act Hearingoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2023
Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge’s Tries to Re-Write Bill C-11 History: There Is No Quick Implementation and the Government is to Blameoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2023
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 184: Philip Palmer on the Constitutional Doubts About the Government’s Internet Lawsoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2023
Pablo Rodriguez Failed For Weeks to Say Anything About Funding for an Anti-Semite and Then Lied About What He Knew. He Should Resign.original ↗
10 Nov 2023
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 183: Andres Guadamuz on the Battle Over Copyright and Generative AIoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2023
“A Lack of Commitment to Transparency and a Failure of Leadership”: Melanie Joly and Global Affairs Ignore Information Commissioner Ruling in My Request for Decades-Old Copyright Recordsoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2023
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 182: Inside the Hearings on Privacy and AI Reform – My Industry Committee Appearance on Bill C-27original ↗
30 Oct 2023
24 Oct 2023
The Broadcasters’ Online News Act Submission: Demanding An Even Bigger Piece of the Bill C-18 Pie for Bell, Rogers and the CBCoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2023
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 180: Victoria Owen Sets the Record Straight on the State of Canadian Copyright Law and Content Licensing By Libraries and Educational Institutionsoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2023
Regulations Alone Can’t Fix Bill C-18: Why News Media Canada’s “Surrender” May Not Be Enough to Stop Google From Blocking News Links in Canadaoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2023
6 Oct 2023
Canada Plans to Regulate Search and Social Media Use of Artificial Intelligence for Content Moderation and Discoverabilityoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2023
5 Oct 2023
Limiting Public Participation: Why No One Should Be Surprised at the CRTC’s Internet Services Registration Requirement Rulingoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2023
What the CRTC’s New Registration Requirements Mean for Regulating Everything from Online News Services to Podcast Providersoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2023
2 Oct 2023
The Documents Don’t Lie, Even If It Appears Pablo Rodriguez Does: ATIP Reveals His Office Was Informed Within Minutes of CMAC/Marouf Termination Noticeoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2023
The Need for Truthful Accountability: What ATIP Records Tell Us About Pablo Rodriguez and Canadian Heritage Funding an Anti-Semiteoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2023
Why Industry Minister Champagne Broke the Bill C-27 Hearings on Privacy and AI Regulation in Only 12 Minutesoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2023
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 178: Bianca Wylie on Canada’s Failing AI Regulatory Processoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2023
six pixels of seperation: Michael Geist On Meta Blocking News Links And The Future Of Mediaoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2023
22 Sept 2023
20 Sept 2023
20 Sept 2023
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 177: Chris Dinn on Bill C-18’s Harm to Torontoverse and Investment in Innovative Media in Canadaoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2023
Why the Government’s Draft Bill C-18 Regulations Don’t Work: The 4% Link Tax is Not a Cap. It’s a Floor.original ↗
14 Sept 2023
Federal Court Approves Consent Order Requiring Minister Steven Guilbeault to Unblock Ezra Levant on Twitteroriginal ↗
12 Sept 2023
Countering Copyright Misinformation: Canadian Libraries Speak Out Against Ongoing Campaign to Undermine User Rightsoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2023
Why the Government’s Bill C-18 Draft Regulations Are Stacked Against Small, Independent, and Digital-First Media Outletsoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2023