iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Dec 21, 2020 5:45pm Photo: NASA
Today’s Evening Brief is brought to you by News Media Canada. It’s time to level the digital playing field. Google and Facebook are using their monopoly to threaten and undermine local news. Other countries are taking action. It’s time for Canada to stand up to the web giants – and step up for local news. Learn more.
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As more doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine make their way into arms across the country, another vaccine is in the homestretch of the approval process. Health Canada says it will “soon” be ready to announce if it can authorize the Moderna vaccines, having received final documents from the American biotech firm on the weekend.
iPolitics By Rachel Emmanuel. Published on Dec 21, 2020 5:08pm
In the latest spat in a drawn-out battle between big tech companies and Canada’s print and digital publishers over who should profit from Canadian news content, MPs have written to federal lawmakers, accusing Google Canada of spreading misinformation about them.
“It’s important for us to correct the facts,” News Media Canada CEO John Hind told iPolitics.
News Media Canada is the lobby group representing most of Canada’s print and digital publishers. It wants Ottawa to regulate what it considers big tech’s monopoly of advertising revenue and its ability to profit from Canadian content.