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Episode 6: “A Dangerous Game to Play:” A Former CRTC Vice-Chair Speaks Out on the Commission Plan to Regulate and Tax the Internet
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For the better part of two decades, Canadian cultural groups have been pressing Canada’s telecom and broadcast regulator, the CRTC, to regulate and ...
Episode 3: The Least They Can Get Away With
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this month, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains took his most significant policy step to date to put his stamp...
Episode 98: Kim Nayyer on the Supreme Court of Canada's Landmark Access Copyright v. York University Copyright Ruling
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court of Canada recently brought a lengthy legal battle between Access Copyright and York University to an end, issuing a unanimous verdic...
Episode 84: Dwayne Winseck and Ben Klass on Canada's Wireless Woes
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last week was a busy one in the wireless world in Canada. Just as people were debating the proposed Rogers – Shaw merger, the CRTC released its long...
Episode 85: Céline Castets-Renard on Europe's Plan to Regulate Artificial Intelligence
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, the European Commission launched what promises to be a global, multi-year debate on the regulation of artificial intelligence. Several year...
Episode 86: CCLA's Cara Zwibel on the Free Speech Risks of Bill C-10 and the Guilbeault Internet Plan
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The public debate on Bill C-10 recently took a dramatic turn after the government unexpectedly removed legal safeguards designed to ensure the CRTC wo...
Episode 87: What You Need to Know About Bill C-10
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This past week Bill C-10, Internet free speech, and the government’s digital policy agenda went mainstream as a lead topic in government, the media,...
Episode 88: Ellen 'T Hoen on Waiving Patents to Support Global Access to COVID Vaccines
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The global struggle for access to COVID-19 vaccines took a dramatic turn recently as the Biden Administration in the United States unexpectedly revers...
Episode 90: Fenwick McKelvey on Bill C-10, Discoverability and the Missing Representation of a New Generation of Canadian Creators
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Weeks into a high profile debate over Bill C-10, the issue of discoverability of Canadian content has emerged as a policy tug of war between supporter...
Episode 91: "This is No Way to Regulate" - Former CRTC Chair Konrad von Finckenstein Speaks Out on the CRTC and Bill C-10
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Communications issues have been in the political spotlight in recent weeks with the controversial CRTC decision to reverse a pricing decision on whole...
Episode 92: A Conversation with Senator Paula Simons on Copyright, the Internet and the Future of Media in Canada
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this year, Senator Claude Carignan introduced Bill S-225, a bill that purports to address concerns about the viability of the Canadian media s...
Episode 93: Lex Gill on the RCMP, Clearview AI and Canada's History of Surveillance
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this month, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada released a scathing report on the RCMP’s use of facial recognition technology, particularly i...
Episode 94: Former CRTC Vice Chair Peter Menzies Reflects on the Battle over Bill C-10
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Liberal government strategy to push through Bill C-10 bore fruit last week as the controversial Broadcasting Act reform bill, received House of Co...
Episode 95: Mark Phillips on the Federal Court of Canada's Right to be Forgotten Ruling
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Several years ago, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada filed a reference with the federal court in a case that was billed as settling the “right to...
Episode 96: More Harm Than Good - My Appearance Before the Senate Transport Committee on a Copyright Bill to Support Media Organizations
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bill S-225, Senator Claude Carignan’s copyright bill, would create a new compensation scheme for media organizations by establishing a new collectiv...
Episode 97: John Lawford on Why the CRTC Should Take Action on Inadequate Low-Cost Wireless Plans
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The CRTC’s wireless decision earlier this year dubbed the “MVN-no” decision given its very limited opening to mobile virtual network operators i...
Episode 103: Privacy Reform Comes to Canada - Chantal Bernier on the Passage of Quebec's Bill 64
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Privacy reform in Canada has lagged at the federal level with the efforts to update PIPEDA seemingly going nowhere, but multiple provinces have moved ...
Episode 102: Colleen Flood on the Legal, Ethical and Policy Implications of Vaccine Passports
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vaccine passports or certificates launched in Ontario last week, a development welcomed by some and strongly opposed by others. The launch raises a my...
Episode 101: OpenMedia's Laura Tribe on Digital Policy and the 2021 Canadian Election
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is election day in Canada following a late summer campaign in which the focus was largely anything but digital issues: COVID, climate change, Afgha...
Episode 100: David Vaver With a Masterclass on Copyright and User Rights
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The role of the public and the public interest has factored prominently into many of the Law Bytes podcast conversations. For the 100th episode, Osgoo...
Episode 99: "They Just Seemed Not to Listen to Any of Us" - Cynthia Khoo on the Canadian Government's Online Harms Consultation
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Late last month – just weeks prior the national election call – Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault released plans for online harms legis...