The Competition Bureau announced Thursday that it has secured a court order aimed at gathering crucial information to bolster its investigation into Alphabet...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google and the federal government have resolved their dispute over the Online News Act, with the tech giant agreeing to annually compensate news organizations $100 million and continue sharing Canadian news content on its platforms. Heritage minister...
Canadian Heritage announced its proposed regulations to implement the...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google will stop limiting consumer access to news links...
The committee studying the Online News Act...
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee’s clause-by-clause review of...
A survey commissioned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada found that most Canadians are unfamiliar with the provisions set out in Canada’s News Compensation Act, but when...
The government’s plan to force social media platforms to negotiate...
The Federal Court dismissed Alphabet Inc.’s Google patent infringement...
Conservative MP John Nater wants the Liberal government to withdraw its...
The implementation of age verification online is a...
The Federal Court of Canada dismissed a motion for summary judgment brought...
Canada’s pending news media compensation legislation is based on key...
A Supreme Court of British Columbia judge has...
A Quebec Superior Court judge has rejected an application by Alphabet...
Two new faces will be stepping into critic roles for the NDP in the Canadian Heritage and Innovation, Science and Industry files respectively, after the party announced its...
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is expanding its News Showcase program, announcing Wednesday that it has signed...
The Federal Court has ordered Alphabet Inc.'s Google to turn over a number...
The Competition Bureau has asked a Federal Court...
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is appealing a July court decision that determined...
A group representing news outlets in Canada has put out a call to Premier Justin Trudeau’s government to put in place legislation that would require Alphabet Inc.’s Google...
During a hearing on Facebook, Inc.’s relationship with the federal government Monday, multiple members...
The day after Facebook Inc. made good on its threat to block all news from...
In a case that could determine whether a "right to be forgotten" exists in...
An announcement Thursday from Alphabet Inc.'s Google that it would put...
In Wednesday’s throne speech kicking off Parliament’s return, the...
Given the precarious situation around the now-escalating COVID-19 pandemic, what will actually be...
Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien has urged Federal Court to find the...
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault Wednesday denounced what he called...
Federal Court has said that both the CBC/Radio-Canada and the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic at the University of Ottawa (CIPPIC) can intervene in a case that could help determine whether a Canadian “right to be forgotten” exists....
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that in developing the federal...
Colin McKay, head of public policy and government relations for Canada for...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google will no longer participate in the Sidewalk Labs...
As the Canada Revenue Agency considers how to administer $595-million worth...
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 unable to sell political advertisements on its platforms in a way that would comply with Bill C-76. The bill, which became law in December last year, requires online platforms to create a database of political and partisan ads sold during the course of the 2019 election. They have to set up the databases by June 30. “It was simply not feasible for us to implement the extensive changes...
A chief Federal Court clerk has rejected Alphabet Inc.’s request to expand to constitutional questions the scope of a legal reference that seeks to determine whether Canada’s private sector...
OTTAWA — If a court determines Google’s search engine falls under the country’s private sector privacy law, then that would effectively make the internet company a media regulator, counsel to...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner and the Attorney General of Canada (AGC) have filed appeals challenging Alphabet Inc.’s application to expand the scope of a deindexing case to include questions about whether forcing it to...
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...
The Federal Court has denied the CBC/Radio-Canada’s and the Media Coalition’s application to intervene in a case that will determine whether the privacy commissioner can order search engines to delist certain content -- at...
Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube makes up just over 35 per cent of worldwide mobile data traffic, making it the...
OTTAWA — A lawyer for CBC/Radio-Canada who is asking the Federal Court to...
Canada’s private radio broadcasters are fighting against a push to keep...
Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube says it plans to tamp down on the spread of misleading, fake or conspiratorial video content that gets recommended for its users to watch by limiting the promotion of alarming videos that still get around the rules for publishing. YouTube officials said the coming adjustments will affect less than one per cent of the content on its platform but will mean a “better experience” for its users. It will aim to limit promotion of content that “comes close to --...
The CEO of an independent specialty TV channel is raising concerns that a lack of regulation could let foreign-based digital companies operating in Canada de-monetize or discriminate against types of...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google already contributes to the Canadian creative...
Canadians appear to be generally in favour of the ‘right to be forgotten’, with most showing support for the idea and a majority saying they would support having it set out in Canadian law,...
Colin McKay, head of public policy and government relations for Alphabet...
OTTAWA — Canada’s federal privacy watchdog asked a Senate committee Tuesday to increase his office’s information sharing abilities with the CRTC and Competition Bureau when consumer protection and privacy issues intersect. Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien told...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) said it is gathering more information about whether the personal information of Canadians was implicated in a leak involving an Alphabet Inc. social network. “Google has contacted...
OTTAWA — Alphabet Inc.’s Google wants to see the Copyright Board of Canada tariff setting process...
OTTAWA — Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien says he plans to...
Facebook Inc. is facing another class action suit in Ontario over how it...
The European Parliament passed its copyright directive Wednesday, with some amendments to the...
A European Union committee has approved a controversial copyright directive that critics say could interfere with the sharing of online content. At issue are two articles under the directive. The...
Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube said Monday that its subscription platform YouTube Premium and its YouTube...
A new organization called the Centre for Digital Rights (CDR) that is...
OTTAWA — Two sides of the data-use debate squared off at the House ethics committee Thursday, with the Canadian head of public policy at Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Colin McKay, justifying his company’s treatment of data while ex-tech CEO Jim Balsillie spoke about the...
OTTAWA — The chairman of the Senate transport and communications...
A British Columbia court said it will not set aside or change a provincial court decision to force...
A British Columbia court will not delay hearing a challenge brought by...
Ian Morrison, the co-founder of Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, is handing over the reins of the...
As part of its government-ordered proceeding on future content distribution models, the CRTC is asking a number of companies — including Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Netflix Inc. — for information about their digital media broadcasting revenues, subscribers and viewing in Canada. Several years ago, during its Let’s Talk TV proceeding, those two companies refused to provide such info to the regulator, triggering conflict with the commission that saw then-chairman Jean-Pierre Blais briefly walk out of a hearing and threaten to revoke the digital-media exemption order under which Netflix...
Canadians have the right to ask search engines to remove links to results...
In a blog post on Wednesday, Alphabet Inc.’s ‘moonshot factory’ X announced the details of its...
In a release on Wednesday, BCE Inc. said it launched its residential mesh WiFi product. Dubbed Whole...
In a release on Wednesday, digital media company BroadbandTV Corp. (BBTV) announced the launch of a...
Alphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs kicked off the new year by registering to...
Canadian programmatic digital ad spending will account for two-thirds of display advertising by 2018, says a recent report from market research company eMarketer Inc. released on Tuesday. Programmatic ads are purchased and...
OTTAWA — Canada’s highest court should prepare for consequences wrought on Canadian media in other...
While the total amount of advertising money flowing to Canadian media has...
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) last week announced the release of hundreds of Canadian television and feature films to the Encore+ channel on Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube. Partnering with Google Canada, BCE Inc., Deluxe Entertainment Services Group’s Deluxe Toronto, Telefilm...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google does not have to comply with an order from...
Alphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs have won a City of Toronto request for proposals to create a development...
Sabrina Geremia is the new country director for Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada. She has been in the...
Telus Corp. was far and away the busiest industry stakeholder when it came to...
Algorithms used by Alphabet Inc.’s Google have been linking stories regarding individuals whose identities are under court-ordered publication bans in searches involving their names, the Ottawa Citizen has found. The Citizen said in a report Thursday that in six high-profile cases, “searching the name of a young offender or victim online pointed to media coverage of their court cases, even though their names do not appear anywhere in the news articles themselves.” It added that...
The Copyright Board has ruled that the making available right under the...
The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, launched in June by Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp., Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube, held its first meeting in San Francisco,...
Without an Edward Snowden-like scandal, exposing inappropriate government access of citizens’ personal...
In a company first, Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube will begin specifically highlighting Canadian content on...
Canada’s big three wireless providers are now cooperating on a...
The managing director of Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada, Sam Sebastian, has left the company and will...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is challenging the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) to order...
More than six dozen civil society organizations and individuals have come out to reiterate support for stronger data encryption in a letter addressed to a quintet of the world’s intelligence...
Representatives from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance have issued a statement lauding the creation of a coalition by some of the world’s biggest tech companies aimed at tackling terrorist content online. On Monday, Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp., Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc. announced the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism to share research, knowledge and technological solutions, such as content detection and classification techniques using machine learning. “This initiative represents an opportunity to significantly reduce the availability of this content across...
OTTAWA — In a landmark ruling, Canada’s top court dismissed an appeal...
Some of the world’s largest technology and social media companies are forming a coalition to counter terrorism. The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism is being formed with the help of Facebook Inc., Microsoft...
The European Union has fined Alphabet Inc.’s Google 2.4 billion euros — about $3.6 billion in Canadian dollars — for giving itself an “illegal advantage” in its...
Last month’s deluge of Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) members on Parliament Hill for the...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada lobbied Leslie Church, its former communications head and now chief of staff to Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly, on several occasions this year, meetings that are being criticized by Opposition MPs. The issue came up for the second day in...
OTTAWA — After a year of study and hearing from 131 witnesses, some of...
OTTAWA — Before any right to be forgotten rules are instituted in Canada, there needs to be a fulsome public discussion, Colin McKay, head of public policy and government relations at Alphabet...
The parliamentary secretary to the innovation minister was a popular target for lobbyists last month, as...
MONTREAL — Digital advertising will continue to evolve into new forms we can’t yet predict, Richard Gingras, vice-president of Alphabet Inc.’s Google News,...
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly will travel to California later this month to meet with representatives from Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc., her office has confirmed....
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with the CEO of Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube Thursday, and used the opportunity to express “his appreciation for Google and YouTube’s continued investment in Canada and...
The fallout from Alphabet Inc.’s placing of advertisements next to unfavourable content is in line with an ongoing trend of some advertisers shifting money from digital back to traditional...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has launched a research facility in Toronto dedicated to the development of artificial intelligence (AI). The Vector Institute will focus on “expanding the applications of AI by performing...
A Quebec union representing communications sector employees said it is disappointed with both the federal and provincial budgets, saying that in “both cases, no action has been taken to counter tax avoidance and unfair competition” by foreign digital companies like Netflix Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. In a French press release Thursday, the Conseil provincial du secteur des communications (CPSC) — a branch of the Canadian Union of...