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Episode 268: Sara Grimes on the Moral Panic Behind Banning Kids from Social Media and AI Chatbots
11 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The question of children’s social media and AI chatbot ban has emerged as one of the most talked-about digital policy issues in recent memory. Premi...
Episode 267: Peter Nowak on Rogers, the Shaw Merger Aftermath, and the Limits of Canadian Telecom Policy
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The recent announcement that Rogers is offering buyouts to half of its workforce is just the tip of the iceberg in a series of developments involving ...
Episode 266: Justin Safayeni on the Ontario Government's Overnight Evisceration of Access to Information
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Just over a month ago, the Ford government tabled Bill 97, an omnibus bill with provisions fundamentally restructuring Ontario's access to information...
Ep. 265 - Jason Millar on Claude Mythos, Project Glasswing, and the Governance Crisis in Frontier AI
20 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In a year in which AI has truly dominated much of the news cycle, the story of Anthropic’s Mythos may be the biggest story of them all. A version of...
Episode 264: Jon Penney on Chilling Effects in the Digital Age
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“Chilling effects” is a term people hear all the time: in court rulings, in debates over content moderation, in dealing with online harms, or in n...
Episode 263: The Lawful Access Act Roundtable With David Fraser and Robert Diab
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Lawful access is back. The decades-long battle has entered a new phase with the introduction of Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act. This bill follows l...
Episode 262: Zack Shapiro on the Claude AI Native Law Firm
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What are the limits of using AI to help run a legal practice? There is much discussion about what an AI future might look like, but with the rapid dev...
Episode 261: Ian Goldberg on the Privacy Risks of Age Assurance Technologies
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Age verification, estimation or inference is seemingly all the rage right now. Vendors are promoting it as the solution to thorny challenges to limit ...
Episode 260: What the Government Didn’t Want You To Hear About Bill C-4 And Its Weak Political Party Privacy Rules
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Last spring, the government quietly inserted provisions that exempt political parties from the application of privacy protections in Bill C-4, an “a...
Episode 259: The Privacy and Surveillance Risks of AI Chatbot Reporting to Police
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past ten days, Canada has witnessed one of the fastest-moving technology policy debates in recent memory. What began as reporting about a tra...
Episode 258: Jaxson Khan With an Insider Perspective on AI Policy Development in Canada
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 258: Jaxson Khan With an Insider Perspective on AI Policy Development in Canada Earlier this month, the government qui...
Episode 257: Lisa Given on What Canada Can Learn From Australia’s Youth Social Media Ban
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Social media bans for younger users have begun to take hold in various countries, particularly in Europe. In Canada, Bill S-209 may ostensibly be abou...
Episode 256: Jennifer Quaid on Taking On Big Tech With the Competition Act's Private Right of Access
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Concerns about the dominance of big tech companies has been steadily mounting for years, leading to an increased emphasis on the role that competition...
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 255: Grappling with Grok - Heidi Tworek on the Limits of Canadian Law
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Law Bytes podcast is back, starting with an episode on the limits of Canadian law in addressing the concerns associated with Grok AI, the AI chatb...
Episode 254: Looking Back at the Year in Canadian Digital Law and Policy
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Canadian digital law and policy in 2025 was marked by the unpredictable with changes in leadership in Canada and the U.S. driving a shift in policy ap...
Episode 253: Guy Rub on the Unconvincing Case for a New Canadian Artists' Resale Right
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The creation of an Artists' Resale Right has been adopted in many countries to at best mixed reviews. They’re unsurprisingly widely supported by pot...
Episode 252: Len St-Aubin on the CRTC’s Plan To Modernize Canadian Content Rules
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The CRTC recently released its much anticipated decision on Canadian content rules, the first two decisions that could reshape broadcasting and film/T...
Episode 251: Jennifer Pybus on the Debate Over Canadian Digital Sovereignty
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Digital sovereignty is hot the digital policy phrase of the moment driving discussion on Canadian digital policy involving AI, digital infrastructure,...
Episode 250: Wikimedia’s Jan Gerlach on the Risks and Challenges with Digital Policy Reform
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I’m not quite sure how this happened, but somehow this is the 250th episode of the Law Bytes podcast. To mark this milestone, I’m joined by Jan Ge...
Episode 249: The Debate Over Canada’s AI Strategy - My Consultation Submission and Appearance at the Canadian Heritage Committee
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The government’s AI consultation concluded at the end of October with expectations that a strategy will emerge before the end of the year. I partici...
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 248: Mark Surman on Why Canada's AI Strategy Should Prioritize Public AI Models
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI Minister Evan Solomon’s AI public consultation – framed as a 30 day sprint – wrapped up last week with expectations that the government will ...
Episode 247: My Senate Appearance on the Bill That Could Lead to Canada-Wide Blocking of X, Reddit and ChatGPT
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bill S-209, the legislative effort to establish age verification requirements for sites and services that are said to facilitate access to pornography...
Episode 246: Mohamed Zohiri on the Rise and Emerging Regulation of Stablecoins
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stablecoins have increasingly begun to enter the mainstream with previously reticent policy makers, regulators, and financial institutions now shiftin...
Episode 245: Kate Robertson on Bill C-2’s Cross-Border Data Sharing Privacy Risks
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bill C-2, the government’s proposed lawful access legislation, has been the subject of several prior episodes covering warrantless disclosure of inf...
Episode 244: Kris Klein on the Long Road to a Right to be Forgotten Under Canadian Privacy Law
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The “right to be forgotten” – perhaps better characterized as a right to de-index - has been a hotly debated privacy issue for well over a dec...
Episode 243: What Are Canada’s Digital Policy Plans as Parliament Returns from the Summer Break?
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The return of the Law Bytes podcast series this week coincides with the return of Parliament from its summer break. Digital policy may not be at the v...
Episode 242: Sukesh Kamra on Law Firm Adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Innovative Technologies
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The pressure to adopt new legal technologies, notably including AI, continues to increase as lawyers, law firms and their clients look for new effici...
Episode 241: Scott Benzie on How Government Policy Eroded Big Tech Support for Canadian Culture
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
TikTok’s decision to pull support for multiple Canadian cultural organizations and events in light of the federal government’s decision to ban the...
Episode 240: Dean Beeby on Why Canada’s Language Laws May Stop Government From Posting Access to Information Records Online
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Canada’s outdated and discouragingly ineffective access to information system has languished for years to the frustration of many transparency advoc...
Episode 239: The Rise and Fall of Canada’s Digital Services Tax
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two days after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to suspend all trade negotiations with Canada unless it rescinded the digital services tax, Cana...
Episode 238: David Fraser on Why Bill C-2's Lawful Access Powers May Put Canadians' Digital Security At Risk
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Bill C-2 lawful access focus has thus far primarily centred on the creation of a new warrantless information demand power and the expansion of pro...
Episode 237: A Conversation with Jason Woywada of BCFIPA on Political Party Privacy and Bill C-4
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The government’s unexpected privacy reform agenda includes both lawful access in Bill C-2 and the evisceration of political party privacy in Bill C-...
Episode 236: Robert Diab on the Return of Lawful Access
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lawful access is back. Bill C-2, the government’s border bill, includes a new information demand power that would result in warrantless disclosure o...
Episode 235: Teresa Scassa on the Alberta Clearview AI Ruling That Could Have a Big Impact on Privacy and Generative AI
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The privacy concerns with Clearview AI sparked investigations and court cases around the world. The issues date back many years, but recently an Alber...
Episode 234: “Solutions Aren’t Going to be Found Through Nostalgia”: Mark Musselman on the CRTC Hearings on Canadian Content Rules
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The CRTC recently wrapped up a two-week hearing on the Online Streaming Act that featured most of the usual suspects, though notably not the large str...
Episode 233: Abdi Aidid on AI, the Law and the Future of Legal Practice
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The discussion on the intersection between AI and the law, especially with respect to legal services continues to grow. From lawyers that mistakenly r...
Episode 232: What Will Canadian Digital Policy Look Like Under the New Liberal Carney Government?
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Digital policy did not play a major role in the recent federal election, but the new Mark Carney Liberal government is quickly going to face a wide ra...
Episode 231: Sara Bannerman on How Canadian Political Parties Maximize Voter Data Collection and Minimize Privacy Safeguards
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the 2025 federal election passes the midway point, it is increasingly apparent that the federal political parties are not only battling for votes, ...
Episode 230: Aengus Bridgman on the 2025 Federal Election, Social Media Platforms, and Misinformation
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The 2025 federal election is now in its second week and the battle for attention and ultimately votes is taking place both online and offline. The eno...
Episode 229: My Digital Access Day Keynote - Assessing the Canadian Digital Policy Record
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With a federal election just called and the campaign now underway, the focus will turn - at least in very small part - to party policies. It is certai...
Episode 228: Kumanan Wilson on Why Canadian Health Data Requires Stronger Privacy Protection in the Trump Era
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The craziness of the Trump administration relationship with Canada was on full display this past week as seemingly every day involved some form of pol...
Episode 227: Tara Henley on How to Save the CBC
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Debates over the role and future of the CBC are seemingly about as old as the CBC itself. Those debates have become increasingly fractious in recent y...
Episode 226: Richard Gold on Why Canada Should Target U.S. Patents To Help Counter Tariff Trade Pressure
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The trade battle between Canada and the U.S. took a brief break last week as hours before the Trump tariffs were scheduled to take effect, President T...
Episode 225: How Canada Can Leverage Digital Policy to Retaliate Against Trump’s Tariffs
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Canada now finds itself in economic war with the United States as President Donald Trump has levied a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods (10% for energy...
Episode 224: Why Prorogation and Donald Trump Spell the End of an Era in Canadian Digital Policy
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A lot has happened over the past six weeks since the last Law Bytes episode that provided a year-end review. TikTok briefly went offline in the U.S., ...
Episode 223: The Year in Canadian Digital Law and Policy
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Canadian digital law and policy in 2024 featured the long-delayed online harms bill, controversial implementation of streaming and online news legisla...
Episode 222: Robert Diab on Canadian Media’s Copyright Lawsuit Against OpenAI
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Canada’s largest media companies came together recently to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, the owners of ChatGPT. I wrote ab...
Episode 221: Inside My Canadian Heritage Committee Appearance on Freedom of Expression
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage has for the past month been conducting a study on protecting freedom of expression. The counters of the st...
Episode 220: Marina Pavlović on the CRTC’s Plans to Address Consumer Frustration Over Wireless Contracts
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Consumer frustration with just about everything associated with Canadian communications services is well known. The list of concerns is long: high pri...
Episode 219: Scott Benzie on What the Corporate TikTok Ban Means For Canadian Digital Creators
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The recent announcement of a Canadian government decision to ban the corporate offices of TikTok but leave the app untouched has left many puzzled sin...
Episode 218: Emily Laidlaw and Taylor Owen on Saving the Online Harms Act
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Online Harms Act or Bill C-63 was introduced last February after years of false starts, public consultations, and debates. Months later, the bill ...
Episode 217: David Fraser on the Privacy Implications of the Federal Court of Appeal’s Facebook Ruling
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It has been many years since the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal captured headlines. The services at the heart of the case no longer ...
Episode 216: Game Changer or More of the Same?: Patrick Leblond on the New Global E-Commerce Agreement
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For over 25 years, the World Trade Organization, an intergovernmental organization based in Geneva, Switzerland that regulates and facilitates interna...
Episode 215: Jan Grabowski on Wikipedia’s Antisemitism Problem
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast drops on Monday, October 7th, the one-year anniversary of the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. I’ve largely kept the issue...
Episode 214: Erin Millar on Trust in Media and the Implementation of the Online News Act
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Questions about trust in the media have escalated in Canada in recent months as with each error or questionable tweet, there is seemingly an inevitabl...
Episode 213: Elaine Craig on Mainstreaming Porn and Why Bill S-210 May Make Matters Worse
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bill S-210, the controversial age verification bill which purports to limit access to pornography for those under 18, could be headed for a final vote...
Episode 212: Matt Hatfield on the State of Canadian Digital Policy as Politicians Return from the Summer Recess
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Parliament resumes after a summer break today. While digital policies receded into the background over the past few months, the political intrigue of ...
Episode 211: Carlos Affonso Souza on the Unprecedented Brazilian Court Order Blocking Twitter/X and VPN Use to Access the Service
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Law Bytes podcast is back with a deep dive into a high profile case coming out of Brazil, where Twitter or X has been under a blocking order this ...
Episode 210: Meredith Lilly on the Trade Risks Behind Canada’s Digital Services Tax and Mandated Streaming Payments
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The battle over a digital services tax has been the subject of Law Bytes podcast episodes for several years as the Canadian government signalled its i...
Episode 209: Peter Menzies on Why the Canadian News Sector is Broken and How to Fix It
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It isn’t news that the Canadian news sector is broken: the Online News Act has caused more harm the good, the dependence on government funding and r...
Episode 208: Will Page on Why the CRTC’s Bill C-11 Ruling is Discriminatory and May Ultimately Hurt the Canadian Music Market
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The recent CRTC Bill C-11 decision mandating that streaming services pay 5 percent of their revenues has left seemingly everyone unhappy and sparked m...
Episode 207: The State of Digital Law and Policy in Canada as Parliament Breaks for the Summer
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Parliament adjourned for the summer last week, meaning both the House of Commons and Senate are largely on hold until mid-September. The Law Bytes pod...
Episode 206: James Plotkin and David Fewer on Canada’s Landmark Copyright Ruling on Fair Dealing and Digital Locks
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The question of copyright and digital locks – technically referred to as anti-circumvention legislation – dates back more than 25 years with creat...
Episode 205: Len St-Aubin on What the CRTC’s Internet Streaming Ruling Means For Creators, Competition and Consumer Costs
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, the CRTC released its much-anticipated Bill C-11 ruling on the initial mandated contributions from Internet streaming services. While the g...
Episode 204: What Could Have Been for the Bill S-210 Hearings
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bill S-210, the mandated age verification bill for pornography sites that in reality targets everything from Google Search to Netflix, was expected to...
Episode 203: Andrew Clement on Calls to Separate Privacy Reform and Artificial Intelligence Regulation in Bill C-27
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bill C-27, Canada’s proposed privacy reform and AI regulation bill, continues to slowly work its way through the committee process at the House of C...
Episode 202: David Soberman on the Reality Behind Claims Canadian Wireless Prices Have Been Cut in Half
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently claimed that “we’ve cut the cost of cell phone plans in half since 2019 - in part by increasing competition...
Episode 201: Robert Diab on the Billion Dollar Lawsuits Launched By Ontario School Boards Against Social Media Giants
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Concerns about the impact of social media on youth have been brewing for a long time, but in recent months a new battleground has emerged: the courts,...
Episode 200: Colin Bennett on the EU’s Surprising Adequacy Finding on Canadian Privacy Law
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A little over five years ago, I launched the Law Bytes podcast with an episode featuring Elizabeth Denham, then the UK’s Information and Privacy Com...
Episode 199: Boris Bytensky on the Criminal Code Reforms in the Online Harms Act
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Online Harms Act – otherwise known as Bill C-63 – is really at least three bills in one. The Law Bytes podcast tackled the Internet platform ...
Episode 198: Richard Moon on the Return of the Section 13 Hate Speech Provision in the Online Harms Act
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The public debate surrounding Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, has focused primarily on Human Rights Act and Criminal Code reforms. The Human Rights A...
Episode 197: Divest, Ban or Regulate?: Anupam Chander on the Global Fight Over TikTok
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
New legislation making its way through the U.S. Congress has placed a TikTok ban back on the public agenda. The bill – which would lead to either ...
Episode 196: Vibert Jack on the Supreme Court's Landmark Bykovets Internet Privacy Ruling
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The federal government has struggled to update Canadian privacy laws over the past decade, leaving the Supreme Court as perhaps the leading source of ...
Episode 195: Vivek Krishnamurthy on What You Need to Know About the Online Harms Act
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Online Harms Act is the culmination of years of public debate over whether – or how – the government should establish a regulatory framework f...
Episode 194: CCH Turns 20 - Scott Jolliffe Goes Behind the Scenes of the Landmark Copyright Case That Ushered in Users' Rights
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty years ago today the Supreme Court of Canada released CCH Canadian v. Law Society of Upper Canada, a decision that stands as perhaps the most co...
Episode 193: The Online Harms Act is Nearly Here - A Backgrounder and Preview
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The government plans to introduce the Online Harms Act later today, bringing forward long-delayed legislation that will include new responsibilities a...
Episode 192: Kate Robertson on the Privacy, Expression and Affordability Risks in Bill C-26
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bill C-26, alternately described as a cyber-security, critical infrastructure or telecom bill, remains largely below the radar screen despite its seri...
Episode 191: Luca Bertuzzi on the Making of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
European countries reached agreement late last week on a landmark legislative package to regulate artificial intelligence. AI regulation has emerged...
Episode 190: Debating Bill S-210 - Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne Defends Her Internet Age Verification Bill
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve described Bill S-210, the Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act, as the most dangerous Internet bill you’ve never heard o...
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 189: The Year in Canadian Digital Law and Policy and What Lies Ahead in 2024
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Canadian digital law and policy in 2023 was marked by so many legislative battles that you needed a scorecard to keep track: Bill C-11 on online strea...
Episode 188: Consumers, Competition or Corporate Cash Grab? - My Bill C-11 Appearance at the CRTC
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The CRTC just concluded a three week hearing on Bill C-11 with its primary focus on the prospect of mandating interim payments by Internet streaming s...
Episode 187: Jeff Elgie on What the Bill C-18 Deal with Google Means for the Future of the Canadian News Sector
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Canadian government tried to salvage the Online News Act last week as its struck a deal with Google that will bring in $100 million to support the...
Episode 186: Andy Kaplan-Myrth on the CRTC’s Last Ditch Attempt to Fix Canada’s Internet Competition Problem
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For many years, Canadians have lamented the state of competition for Internet broadband services, pointing to concerns regarding price and lack of cho...
Episode 185: Bill C-11 at the CRTC - A Preview of the Upcoming Online Streaming Act Hearing
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The much-anticipated Bill C-11 hearing opens this week at the CRTC. For the next three weeks, the Commission will hear from a wide range of stakeholde...
Episode 184: Philip Palmer on the Constitutional Doubts About the Government’s Internet Laws
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is the Canadian government’s Internet legislation constitutional? That question arose during the hearings on Bills C-11 and C-18, but has taken on a...
Episode 183: Andres Guadamuz on the Battle Over Copyright and Generative AI
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Generative AI raises a host of interesting legal issues, but perhaps none will be more contentious than the intersection between copyright and service...
Episode 182: Inside the Hearings on Privacy and AI Reform - My Industry Committee Appearance on Bill C-27
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After months of delays, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry and Technology has finally begun to conduct hearings on Bill C-27, which w...
Episode 181: Is this Podcast About to be Regulated by the CRTC?
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Several weeks ago, the CRTC released the first set of what is likely to become at least a dozen decisions involving the Online Streaming Act, formerly...
Episode 180: Victoria Owen Sets the Record Straight on Canadian Copyright Law and Content Licensing By Libraries and Educational Institutions
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Since the Canadian copyright law reforms in 2012, education and libraries have increased spending on licensing and a non-partisan House of Commons stu...
Episode 179: Peter Menzies on Why the CRTC Feels Broken Right Now
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, the CRTC issued the first two of what are likely to be at least a dozen decisions involving the Online Streaming Act. Those decisions are a...
Episode 178: Bianca Wylie on Canada’s Failing AI Regulatory Process
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a dizzying stretch since the launch of Chat GPT, with artificial intelligence regulation and policy bursting forward as top concern in Can...
Episode 177: Chris Dinn on Bill C-18’s Harm to Torontoverse and Investment in Innovative Media in Canada
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Law Bytes podcast is back after a brief break, and with it, talk about the Online News Act or Bill C-18. All news – both Canadian and foreign –...
Episode 176: A Mid-Summer Update on Bills C-11, C-18, the Government’s Cabinet Shuffle, and the Brewing Battle over Digital Taxes
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Coming off a week in which the government engineered a major cabinet overhaul that saw Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez replaced by Pascale St-Onge, ...
Episode 175: Amy Salyzyn on the Benefits and Risks of AI to the Legal Profession
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ChatGPT has taken the world by storm in recent months with the potential of generative AI – both positive and negative – top of mind in just about...
Episode 174: Chris Waddell on the Missing Context for Bill C-18 and the Challenges Faced by Canadian Media
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Online News Act has continued to create a political firestorm this summer with a legislative battle that leaves the future of some Canadian news o...
Episode 173: Tom Cardoso on Access to Information and the Globe and Mail’s Secret Canada Initiative
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Canada’s Access to Information system is now widely viewed as a failure, marked by extensive delays and processes that can be difficult to navigate....
Episode 172: Marc Edge on Bill C-18 and the Postmedia Effect
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bill C-18 passed the House and Senate and received royal assent last week, leading Meta to confirm that it will be blocking news sharing on its Facebo...
Episode 171: What Just Happened?: A Half-Year Report on Canadian Digital Policy
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With Parliament set to break this week for the summer, this week’s Law Bytes podcast provides a half-year report on what happened over the past six ...
Episode 170: The Bill C-18 End Game - What the Senate Heard About the Online News Act
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bill C-18, the Online News Act, heads to clause-by-clause review this week at the Senate Transport and Communications Committee. The committee’s stu...
Episode 169: Alissa Centivany and Anthony Rosborough on Repairing Canada’s Right to Repair
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The right to repair would seem like a political no-brainer: a policy designed to extend the life of devices and equipment and the ability to innovate ...