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My latest Globe and Mail op-ed notes that TikTok has long presented a thorny challenge for Western governments. The security ...
When the intersection of law and technology presents seemingly intractable new challenges, policy makers often bet on ...
The government’s bad run of digital policy choices that led to blocked news links on Facebook and Instagram, ongoing ...
Two days after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to suspend all trade negotiations with Canada unless it rescinded the ...
My Globe and Mail op-ed opens by noting that after years of dismissing the warnings of likely retaliation, the Canadian government caved to U.S. pressure earlier this week as it cancelled the digital ...
U.S. President Donald Trump announced yesterday that he was suspending trade negotiations with Canada due to the imminent implementation of the digital services tax (DST). The result could be ...
The government yesterday introduced the Strong Border Act (Bill C-2), legislation that was promoted as establishing new border measure provisions presumably designed to address U.S. concerns regarding ...
The government is releasing its draft regulations for Bill C-18 today and the chances that both Google and Meta will stop linking to news in Canada just increased significantly. In fact, with the ...
The Federal Court has issued a landmark decision (Blacklock’s Reports v. Attorney General of Canada) on copyright’s anti-circumvention rules which concludes that digital locks should not trump fair ...
My series on Bill C-11's foundational faults has covered jurisdictional over-reach, the implications of treating all audio-visual content as a "program" subject to CRTC regulation, as well as the ...