The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has cleared up uncertainty about whether it had approved the federal government launching its contact-tracing COVID-19 app Friday, issuing a statement saying it supports the use of the app. “The federal and Ontario regulators...
The Conservative Party has announced its shadow cabinet ahead of the Dec. 5 return of the House of Commons, with MP Michelle Rempel taking on the telecom file. She said in a statement Friday afternoon that she aims to use the role of industry and economic development...
With the Liberal Party’s victory in the federal election Monday, its...
Despite Conservative leader Andrew Scheer indicating throughout this...
The Conservative Party has now specified its plan to make web giants “pay...
Federal party leaders agreed Thursday evening in the last debate of the...
GATINEAU — Conservative leader Andrew Scheer refused to say whether he has any intent to tackle telecom affordability in the ongoing federal election campaign, following...
GATINEAU — Federal party leaders faced off in the only English-language debate to feature all six...
As politicians take aim at telecom affordability in this fall’s election...
During the first French-language debate of the federal election campaign,...
The Liberal Party platform, released Sunday, includes promises of new regulations for Canadian content on...
In this fall’s election campaign, the Liberal Party is setting the goal...
The Green Party election platform includes promises to ensure only...
The NDP’s promised telecom service price caps would apply to all wireless...
Two local Quebec radio groups representing around 60 stations in the province are asking the provincial...
Even before the federal election campaign officially kicked off, telecom price caps already emerged as a proposal that, if implemented, would reverse a decades-long policy trend in Canada and diverge from international norms. Even some of those who would welcome the idea...
The Conservative Party is promising new rules for electronic data collection and technologies like the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence if it wins in this fall’s federal election....
The NDP is already throwing cold water on reports that the Liberals are considering a price cap and mandated access for mobile virtual network operators as part of the incumbent party’s campaign plank. In a Tuesday evening...
Conservative and NDP MPs criticized the Liberal government Tuesday for what...
Artificial intelligence technology allowing videos to be seamlessly...
The connectivity strategy released by Rural Economic Development Minister Bernadette Jordan Thursday morning reiterated the Liberals’ commitment to the promises made in the federal budget, but offered no new information about how those funds will be spent. What the...
Ending several months of uncertainty and speculations, Twitter Inc. has declared that it will join Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine in not selling any political advertisements in Canada in the...
The New Democratic Party has unveiled Monday a plan to make telecommunications services more affordable,...
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have both signed on to a...
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer said last week he was in favour of a ban...
The Centre for Digital Rights has hired new lobbyists to help it research...
MONTREAL — The NDP’s platform for this year’s federal election will include requiring foreign...
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc.’s head of public policy in Canada said Friday the platform’s community guidelines, “in many respects,” go above what is currently prescribed in Canadian law, as the...
OTTAWA — In an at-times tense hearing of the House of Commons ethics committee, executives from the Canada office of Alphabet Inc.’s Google made the case that the company was technologically...
The tech giant Microsoft Corp. last week added “elections” to its lobbying files. The move comes as the government rolls out a new regime governing the selling of political ads on tech platforms ahead of this fall’s federal election, and tech companies decide whether they will comply or forgo election advertising altogether. In December, the passage of the Elections Modernization Act mandated that big tech companies would have to make it clear who was paying for political advertisements on their platforms by linking to a public registry. Elections Canada today released a new...
Twitter Inc. has added a timely subject matter to its lobby files: educating federal officials on social media use during elections. The social media company updated its files last week to include...
OTTAWA — It is now “very likely” that Canadians will face some form...
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is putting cell phone and internet affordability...
Nearly a hundred emails for members of parliament — among them eight...
Facebook Inc. will solicit the advice of an advisory group as part of its effort to ensure its ad registry captures key issues leading to the 2019 federal election. The group of five will include former NDP deputy leader Megan Leslie, former Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff Ray Novak, University of Manitoba’s Ry Moran, McGill University’s Antonia Maioni, and University of Victoria professor David Zussman, it said in a Monday press release. The company announced in the release details of its “Ad Library,” which intends to fulfill a legal requirement under elections...
Alphabet Inc.’s search giant Google plans to ban political advertising from its platforms during the next federal election campaign in Canada, following the introduction of tougher political advertising transparency rules by...
Despite heightened interest in the impact of social media on Canadian elections, Facebook Inc. said it has not heard of any Canadian institutions that have applied to view the social media giant’s...
OTTAWA -- Democratic institutions minister Karina Gould said the government...
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc.’s head of public policy in Canada said the...
A majority of Canadian internet users say the federal government should impose fines or other sanctions on social media companies that don’t remove fake news from their platforms, according to...
The federal government is organizing a working meeting next week in Ottawa...
OTTAWA — The Liberal government has set up a new alert protocol and...
As the new year begins, the months ahead promise a new spectrum auction, new CRTC announcements on...
OTTAWA — A House of Commons committee is unanimously calling for new rules for social media companies that require them to quickly remove fake accounts and illegal content or face fines, and to increase transparency over their algorithms and political advertising. The...
A Senate committee is concerned that the elections modernization bill introduced earlier this year and ahead of the 2019 federal election won’t do enough to “sufficiently...
The head of Elections Canada is urging the government to give the privacy...
Ottawa-based think tank the Public Policy Forum says it’s launching a new project to track, analyze and eventually find a way to counter "fake news." It’s digital democracy project will start by studying the effects of...
There’s a lack of consensus over who should help Canadians determine what...
A year away from the next federal election, a majority of Canadians are concerned about the effect of ‘fake news’ on the electoral process, according to a new report by...
OTTAWA — The consequences of bringing the country’s political parties...
To bolster Canada’s democratic defences before the next election,...
In the three years since the last Canadian federal election, emerging...