Canada’s Greedy and Needy Mainstream Media Cannibalize Themselves

 The Trudeau government Online News Act (Bill C-18) is a direct assault on journalism in Canada. The Liberal government’s Online News Act (C-18 legislation) took effect on June 22, 2023. It requires Meta and Google to negotiate with Canadian news organizations for posting or linking to their journalism. Meta is

Trudeau Government ignoring legal experts and suppressing free speech

 Legal experts tell Parliament, Bill C-10 is attack on Canadians’ right to free expression  Philip Palmer, a former senior general counsel at the Department of Justice, recently appeared before the Parliamentary Justice Committee and told them that Bill C-10 is unconstitutional. In his submission, Palmer questioned whether Parliament has the legislative

Renewed call for telecommunications watchdog in wake of Rogers-Shaw deal

 The massive deal between communications giants Rogers and Shaw has thrown even more light on Canada’s cornered telecommunications market. High prices from lack of competition gouge customers nation-wide in their hunt for affordable television, phone, and internet service. According to Democracy Watch, simply making stronger rules won’t stop it. Instead,

Huawei Canada operates at a higher wavelength, calls on competitors to do the same

 Canada’s dismal state of rural broadband service means life beyond a 75 km radius of any major city is excluded from the digital economy and its services. This is an embarrassing state of affairs for a G7 country, in North America no less, and the one in which Alexander Graham

It’s time to rethink the CBC

 The CBC license is up for renewal and the debate is (again) on. Is it fair to keep public funding for this broadcaster? Or, more bluntly, do we need the CBC? Before dealing with the CBC, we should ask another question: do we need the CRTC? Considering the globalization and

Huawei in Canada and the internet of things

 Photo courtesy of Shutterstock Big inventions disrupt the age in which they appear, but in simpler times that disruption was slow in coming. In the 1920s only one in every three homes had a telephone, and most were attached to a ‘party line’ shared with other families. Most rural regions

???????Canadian Fake News Awards: Coming April Fool’s Day

 By Greg Vezina, president of the Democracy Channel® Inc. and leader of Ontario’s None Of The Above Party There will be Fake News Awards in multiple categories for private and public broadcasters, print and online media, cable, satellite and other distributors. Also for new media platforms including news aggregators.  Research

Silencing a Voice: The Closing Of Sun News

 Image: huffpost.com By Michael Coren It’s been a few weeks now since the Friday the 13th that I will never forget. That was the day – 5 a.m. to be precise – that Sun News closed down. I hosted a nightly show called The Arena on the network for almost

Group Launches National Letter-writing Campaign to Push Political Parties to Change Bill C-23 to Make Federal Elections Fair

 Democracy Watch recently called on the federal Conservatives to make the so-called “Fair Elections Act” (Bill C-23) actually fair, and detailed the 10 really unfair measures in the much-delayed bill which was supposed to be introduced in Parliament in September 2012, and the 10 missing measures that must be added