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The Globe and Mail Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file . This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Dado Ruvic/Reuters Facebook’s head of public policy for Canada says the company is prepared to negotiate licensing deals with Canadian news publishers, after making a similar pledge this week in Australia. Kevin Chan told The Globe and Mail that while the details and timing are still being worked out, the company is open to paying Canadian publishers for news that appears on its site. ....
First, they don’t get paid for their content by Facebook and Google; and Second, Facebook and Google take over 80 per cent of all Canadian digital advertising industry revenue. These massive American companies get virtually all of the revenue and don’t pay for content. Movie content doesn’t work that way in Canada. Music content doesn’t work that way. TV show content doesn’t work that way. So why is news content treated differently? We only have to look south of the border to see what happens when real news companies disappear, and social media platforms distribute divisive, fake news. We need to support healthy, independent, diverse news companies as the backbone of our democracy. ....
iPolitics By Rachel Emmanuel. Published on Dec 18, 2020 5:00pm The Senate building in downtown Ottawa (Jolson Lim/iPolitics) Here are three Senate bills likely to make headlines when the red chamber returns in 2021. S-203: An Act to Restrict Young Persons’ Online Access to Sexually Explicit Material Sen. Julie Miville-Dechêne’s bill would make it an offence to make sexually explicit material available to young people on the internet. The bill says the consumption of sexually explicit material by people under age 18 is associated with a range of serious harms, “including the development of pornography addiction, the reinforcement of gender stereotypes, and the development of attitudes favourable to harassment and violence including sexual harassment and sexual violence particularly against women.” ....
iPolitics By Rachel Emmanuel. Published on Dec 16, 2020 5:24pm The West Block of the Parliament buildings is pictured on June 24, 2019. (Andrew Meade/iPolitics) The Liberal minority government will have to wait until the new year to pass some of its priority legislation. Before the House of Commons rose last Friday for six weeks over Christmas, only four bills had received royal assent. They included two COVID-response bills, as well as appropriation bills on granting funds for public administration, appropriation bills being legislation that passes all stages at once. Here are five pieces of legislation the government hopes to pass early in 2021. ....