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BBC and YouTube get married - Social Media on trial in L.A. - MediaPolicy's glitches mediapolicy.ca/2026/02/14/b...

BBC and YouTube get married – Social Media on trial in L.A. – MediaPolicy’s glitches

AI illustration February 14, 2025 Today’s post is a mash-up (remember those?). MediaPolicy follows a number of themes and story lines in Canadian media. One of them is our public broadcaster, CBC R…

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February 14, 2026 at 3:14 PM

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Catching up on MediaPolicy - Europe indicts TikTok - Age verification bill S-209 clears Senate committee - Bezos and the WAPO layoffs - CPC frenzy over "the Canadian media summit" mediapolicy.ca/2026/02/08/c...

Catching up on MediaPolicy – Europe indicts TikTok – Age verification bill S-209 clears Senate committee – Bezos and the WAPO layoffs – CPC frenzy over “the Canadian media summit”

February 8, 2026 The European Commission has fired a shot across the bow of TikTok, and by implication other social media, by finding the social media giant culpable of addictive algorithm design a…

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February 8, 2026 at 1:23 PM

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Catching up on MediaPolicy - Miller is flexible on CanCon - WAPO sunk by Trump - CRTC is stil-l-l-l deliberating - ready for Digital Media@Crossroads 2026 mediapolicy.ca/2026/01/31/c...

Catching up on MediaPolicy – Miller is flexible on CanCon – WAPO sunk by Trump – CRTC is stil-l-l-l deliberating – ready for Digital Media@Crossroads 2026

AI illustration January 31, 2026 Last week Heritage Minister Marc Miller walked back the tough talk of his predecessor Steven Guilbeault: cultural issues are no longer “off the table” i…

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January 31, 2026 at 1:19 PM

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Catching up on MediaPolicy - CanCon and trade talks - ban on teenager social media accounts - TikTok prohibition repeal mediapolicy.ca/2026/01/27/c...

Catching up on MediaPolicy – CanCon and trade talks – ban on teenager social media accounts – TikTok prohibition repeal

January 27, 2026 Hola from the centre of the universe, Toronto, where the biggest snowfall since 1999 (50 cm) has everyone on the watch for the army to be deployed, shovels in hand. Here are a few …

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January 27, 2026 at 2:19 PM

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Why the Online Streaming Act is Crucial for Canada's Cultural Sovereignty mediapolicy.ca/2026/01/21/w...

Why the Online Streaming Act is Crucial for Canada’s Cultural Sovereignty

A Guest MediaPolicy column from Peter S. Grant January 21, 2026 If you intend to become a student of Canadian broadcasting, the first name you learn is that of Toronto lawyer Peter S. Grant, a son …

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January 21, 2026 at 2:31 PM

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Catching up on MediaPolicy - YouTube's fake AI Journalists - Go west, CBC - DM@X 2026 mediapolicy.ca/2026/01/19/c...

Catching up on MediaPolicy – YouTube’s fake AI Journalists – Go west, CBC – DM@X 2026

AI image by Perplexity January 19, 2026 You like to think you’ll never fall for a digital fishing scam. You like to think you’ll never fall for a deep fake news video. Ahem, I fell for a deep fake …

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January 19, 2026 at 3:53 PM

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Australia does Canadian style news aid - Californian news subsidy flounders - Hollywood merger fight continues mediapolicy.ca/2026/01/10/a...

Australia does Canadian style news aid – Californian news subsidy flounders – Hollywood merger fight continues

West Wing’s C.J. Cregg is doling out the cash in California January 10, 2026 Australia is close to cutting cheques to news outlets under its News Media Assistance Program (“News MAP&#82…

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January 10, 2026 at 3:16 PM

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Canada has to defend this vital part of its infrastructure from America. Here are three steps Mark Carney can take

Too much of our national interest is in the hands of U.S. big tech.

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January 5, 2026 at 1:11 PM

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2026 will be Canada’s cage match

“GSP! GSP! GSP!” December 31, 2025 You already knew it: Canada’s 2026 is going be a battle, a pivotal moment in our history. CUSMA talks begin this spring. They will be brutal. Even in the in…

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December 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM

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Canadians in a dangerous time.

December 28, 2025 I am ever grateful for my library card. After waiting just a few weeks for 100+ Torontonians to read this book before me, I got my turn with this new anthology of thirty Canadian …

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December 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM

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Catching up on MediaPolicy - Online harms bill is coming back - Canadians are alienated - Manitoba action on local media mediapolicy.ca/2025/12/23/c...

Catching up on MediaPolicy – Online harms bill is coming back – Canadians are alienated – Manitoba action on local media

AI image December 23, 2025 The Online Harms bill is coming back to the House of Commons. The Liberal Bill C-63 that died on the order table when the April 2025 federal election was called, was init…

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December 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM

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Catching up on MediaPolicy - CUSMA snooker - CRTC copyright ruling appealed - shareholder vote on Netflix v Paramount - the Oscars on YouTube mediapolicy.ca/2025/12/20/c...

Catching up on MediaPolicy – CUSMA snooker – CRTC copyright ruling appealed – shareholder vote on Netflix v Paramount – the Oscars on YouTube

AI image December 20, 2025 This week the US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told US Congress what American stakeholders want from CUSMA trade talks with Mexico and Canada in 2026. Greer’s repor…

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December 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM

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Catching up on MediaPolicy - Québec's Netflix-Spotify bill is in play - social media ban for teens - hostile bid for Warner Bros and CNN - OpenAI's Disney video app mediapolicy.ca/2025/12/13/c...

Catching up on MediaPolicy – Québec’s Netflix-Spotify bill is in play – social media ban for teens – hostile bid for Warner Bros and CNN – OpenAI’s Disney video app

AI generated image from OpenAI December 13, 2025 This week the Québec National Assembly unanimously passed Bill 109, its version of the federal Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act. MediaPolicy has …

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December 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM

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Catching up on MediaPolicy - Netflix is Rex - Miller is minister - CRTC vets Meta’s news ban mediapolicy.ca/2025/12/07/c...

Catching up on MediaPolicy – Netflix is Rex – Miller is minister – CRTC vets Meta’s news ban

AI image December 7, 2025 This week’s blockbuster news is that Netflix edged out Paramount to buy Warner Brothers for $82 USD billion. The deal immediately depleted the supply of adjectives at the …

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December 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM

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Catching Up on MediaPolicy - Ranting about CanCon - Danish news subsidies - Meta lobbies Feds on age verification - the NFB's gripping sailing documentary mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/29/c...

November 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM

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Catching Up on MediaPolicy - Ranting about CanCon - Danish news subsidies - Meta lobbies Feds on age verification - the NFB's gripping sailing documentary mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/29/c...

Catching Up on MediaPolicy – Ranting about CanCon – Danish news subsidies – Meta lobbies Feds on age verification – the NFB’s gripping sailing documentary

November 29, 2025 I’ve fallen behind on catching you up on media policy news because I felt compelled to write a series of three posts commenting on the CRTC’s ruling on Canadian content. The last …

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November 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM

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The CRTC’s ruling on television copyright: for a branch-plant CanCon economy mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/27/t...

The CRTC’s ruling on television copyright: for a branch-plant CanCon economy

November 27, 2025 In October 2022 Netflix was appearing at the Senate committee reviewing the proposed Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, when the Conservative senator Fabian Manning pitched…

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November 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM

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What did the CRTC just do to CanCon? mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/22/w...

What did the CRTC just do to CanCon?

November 22, 2025 Earlier this week the CRTC released a major ruling on Canadian content. MediaPolicy provided a quick bottom line reaction but you could do just as well with any of the many media …

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November 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM

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CRTC shakes up CanCon rules mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/18/c...

CRTC shakes up CanCon rules

November 18, 2025 The CRTC has released the first of a hugely consequential two-part ruling on video streaming and television. The famous “10 point” headcount of key Canadian creative t…

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November 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM

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Catching Up on MediaPolicy - The BBC lies the truth - Australia dips its toes into C-11 waters - Cohere fails to stop AI lawsuit mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/15/c...

Catching Up on MediaPolicy – The BBC lies the truth – Australia dips its toes into C-11 waters – Cohere fails to stop AI lawsuit

November 15, 2025 “I lie the truth,” American film director Oliver Stone once said of his controversial 1991 epic “JFK,” packed as it was with apocrypha and might-have-been speculation. So did the …

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November 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM

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Catching Up on MediaPolicy - the new season of Stursberg's CBC - the federal budget - Le Devoir's Meta work around - Australia will regulate Netflix mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/08/c...

Catching Up on MediaPolicy – the new season of Stursberg’s CBC – the federal budget – Le Devoir’s Meta work around – Australia will regulate Netflix

Image by OpenAI Are you not entertained? Richard Stursberg wants CBC audiences to say yes November 8, 2025 This week MediaPolicy posted a guest column from Richard Stursberg, the former Vice Presid…

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November 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM

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Are you not entertained? Richard Stursberg’s five year plan for the CBC

“We will measure our success not just in terms of audiences, but also the debates and controversies it engenders “

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Are you not entertained? Richard Stursberg’s five year plan for the CBC

November 6, 2025 In October CBC President Marie-Philippe Bouchard unveiled her eagerly anticipated five year plan for the public broadcaster. MediaPolicy commented on her map here and here. Months …

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November 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM

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Letter to the Editor: there’s an alternative to S-209 choice of age verification mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/02/l...

Letter to the Editor: there’s an alternative to S-209 choice of age verification

November 2, 2025 In response to the October 30, 2025 post from MediaPolicy.ca, I have some ideas on how Canada could proceed with accomplishing the objectives behind S-209, “An Act to restric…

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November 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM

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Catching Up on MediaPolicy - Will YouTube take it all? - the CRTC's intriguing question for music streamers - leading news avoiders to water mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/01/c...