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How do we define Canadian content? Debates will shape how creatives make a living

What should count as Canadian content (CanCon) in the era of streaming and generative AI (GenAI)?

The Conversation

Should global media giants shape our cultural and media policy? Lessons from satellite radio

Debates about regulating Canadian content for streaming media platforms are ongoing, and key issues include revising the definition of Canadian content for audio and visual cultural productions and whether big streaming companies would be mandated to follow new Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) policies.

The Conversation

Canada’s audiovisual industry should better reflect the country’s diversity

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has recently undertaken a consultation on defining Canadian programming in the film and television industry.

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Canada is duking it out with SpaceX, insisting Starlink doesn't need millions in subsidies: 'We should not be giving one cent of public money to an unaccountable imperialist like Elon Musk'

There has been an apparent Canada-wide rebuke of the world's richest man since joining Donald Trump's administration.

Fortune

When it comes to Canada's Online News Act, Google wins even when it's losing

Google is getting off easy this time.

Android Central

CRTC to Require Online Streaming Services to Contribute to Canada's Broadcasting System

The Canadian regulator’s implementation of the Online Streaming Act could rise $200 million a year in new funding

TV Tech

Canada proposes rules to implement contentious Online News Act

The law requires social media companies to pay Canadian media outlets for news content shared on their platforms.

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Is CanCon Obsolete?

When it comes to what qualifies as “Canadian,” nobody seems happy. It’s time to rethink the nationalistic vanity project

The Walrus

Online Streaming Act: As we revisit Netflix support for Canadian content, it's about more than money

Now that the Online Streaming Act has received royal assent, the legislation will require streaming services, like Netflix and Spotify, to promote Canadian content on their platforms.

The Conversation

How the Online Streaming Act will support Canadian content

After two-and-a-half years of debate in Canada’s Parliament, two proposed versions of the bill (C-10 and C-11) and careful scrutiny by the Senate, the Online Streaming Act is close to becoming law.

The Conversation

The Online News Act could give Google and Meta too much influence over Canadian news organizations

Bill C-18, the Online News Act, could give Google and Meta greater influence over Canadian news media in the form of new agreements between online platforms and news organizations.

The Conversation

Junos 2023 reminds us how Canadian content regulations and funding supports music across the country

As we celebrate another year of Canadian music at the Juno Awards, let’s consider the broader music ecosystem that facilitates a vibrant component of our multifaceted culture and identity.

The Conversation

Gambling ads and the NHL: should Gretzky and McDavid do better?

In the first edition of our monthly NHL column, we look at concerns around gambling endorsements in ice hockey

The Guardian - US

Canada Threatens Free Speech in the Guise of Nationalistic Obsessions

Demands by lawmakers and government officials for locally produced content may lead to online censorship.

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Canada: Rogers faces anger, questions after hours-long outage

Canadian industry minister to meet with telecom leaders after hours-long Rogers service disruption affected millions.

The Independent UK

Internet outage leaves millions of Canadians without access to internet, ATM machines and 911 lines

By Saturday morning, Rogers Communications said the ‘vast majority’ of services had come back online, while still providing no answer as to what the cause was for the disruption

Reason

Brickbat: Say You're Sorry

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has ordered Radio-Canada (CRTC) to apologize and review its broadcast practices after a segment in which commentators discussed a petition to fire a Concordia University professor who quoted from Quebec separatist Pierre Vallières' 1971 book White Niggers of America: The Precocious Autobiography of a…

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The Superficial Diversity of Canadian TV

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Russian embassy in Canada weaponizes social media to fuel support for Ukraine invasion

In order to curb the spread of disinformation by official Russian news sources, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) recently made a symbolic move by banning Russia’s state-run RT news channel in Canada.

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