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Netflix’s support of Indigenous screen organizations is great news — or is it?

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InEditorialWritten by

Charnel Anderson

Netflix’s new partnerships with Indigenous screen organizations are to be applauded, but actually producing and showing Indigenous films to its Canadian subscribers would be more beneficial than supporting more training and skills development.

Netflix’s support of Indigenous screen organizations is great news — or is it?

Unfriend Facebook ad campaign launched

InPress ReleasesonJuly 2^nd, 2019

Watchdog group launches national print ad campaign to highlight internet advertising tax loophole

Unfriend Facebook ad campaign launched

Ottawa’s puck ragging saves Netflix almost $1 million per day

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InPress ReleasesonJune 26^th, 2019

Ottawa’s puck ragging saves Netflix almost $1 million per day

News Release: No More Federal Funding to Sidewalk Labs

InPress ReleasesonJune 24^th, 2019

Undated photo from Sidewalk Labs handout showing the eastern waterfront of Toronto.

Google needed the perfect pushover. Clearly that’s Canada.

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InEditorialWritten by

Daniel Bernhard

onJune 24^th, 2019

Google’s Sidewalk Labs’ proposal to develop a “smart city” on Toronto’s waterfront is more than a local issue about data protection: it represents Big Tech’s ambitious plan to monetize the public sphere, and we should all be worried.

Google needed the perfect pushover. Clearly that’s Canada.

Facebook hasn’t thanked Canada, but it should

InPress ReleasesonMay 27^th, 2019

FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting and The Yes Men are behind the satirical video which purports to show a Facebook executive thanking Canada for subsidies and special treatment.

Journalism crisis: Government inaction leaves votes on the table

InEditorialWritten by

Daniel Bernhard

onMay 14^th, 2019

A recent Nanos Research poll found that Canadians want platform monopolies like Facebook to be regulated and held accountable for their content. And yet nobody in Ottawa is pledging to do anything about it — even with an election coming up.

Journalism crisis: Government inaction leaves votes on the table

A New Accountability Model for Public Media

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InEditorialWritten by

Glenn O’Farrell

onApril 16^th, 2019

Glenn O’Farrell looks at the impact of public service media and their role in the transformation of society.

A New Accountability Model for Public Media

Physical Space, Digital Capture

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onApril 2^nd, 2019

Nabeel Ahmed examines how Big Tech is working to take over the physical world.

Physical Space, Digital Capture

What is the Future of Public Service Media?

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InEditorialWritten by

onMarch 27^th, 2019

Jesse Hirsh argues the need to broaden how we think of public service media and examines how it is linked to democracy.

What is the Future of Public Service Media?

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