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Catching Up on MediaPolicy - Ranting about CanCon - Danish news subsidies - Meta lobbies Feds on age verification - the NFB's gripping sailing documentary mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/29/c...
November 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - Ranting about CanCon - Danish news subsidies - Meta lobbies Feds on age verification - the NFB's gripping sailing documentary mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/29/c...
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - Ranting about CanCon - Danish news subsidies - Meta lobbies Feds on age verification - the NFB's gripping sailing documentary mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/29/c...
Catching Up on MediaPolicy – Ranting about CanCon – Danish news subsidies – Meta lobbies Feds on age verification – the NFB’s gripping sailing documentary
November 29, 2025 I’ve fallen behind on catching you up on media policy news because I felt compelled to write a series of three posts commenting on the CRTC’s ruling on Canadian content. The last …
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November 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - Ranting about CanCon - Danish news subsidies - Meta lobbies Feds on age verification - the NFB's gripping sailing documentary mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/29/c...
The CRTC’s ruling on television copyright: for a branch-plant CanCon economy mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/27/t...
The CRTC’s ruling on television copyright: for a branch-plant CanCon economy
November 27, 2025 In October 2022 Netflix was appearing at the Senate committee reviewing the proposed Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, when the Conservative senator Fabian Manning pitched…
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November 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The CRTC’s ruling on television copyright: for a branch-plant CanCon economy mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/27/t...
What did the CRTC just do to CanCon? mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/22/w...
What did the CRTC just do to CanCon?
November 22, 2025 Earlier this week the CRTC released a major ruling on Canadian content. MediaPolicy provided a quick bottom line reaction but you could do just as well with any of the many media …
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November 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
What did the CRTC just do to CanCon? mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/22/w...
CRTC shakes up CanCon rules mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/18/c...
CRTC shakes up CanCon rules
November 18, 2025 The CRTC has released the first of a hugely consequential two-part ruling on video streaming and television. The famous “10 point” headcount of key Canadian creative t…
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November 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
CRTC shakes up CanCon rules mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/18/c...
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - The BBC lies the truth - Australia dips its toes into C-11 waters - Cohere fails to stop AI lawsuit mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/15/c...
Catching Up on MediaPolicy – The BBC lies the truth – Australia dips its toes into C-11 waters – Cohere fails to stop AI lawsuit
November 15, 2025 “I lie the truth,” American film director Oliver Stone once said of his controversial 1991 epic “JFK,” packed as it was with apocrypha and might-have-been speculation. So did the …
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November 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - The BBC lies the truth - Australia dips its toes into C-11 waters - Cohere fails to stop AI lawsuit mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/15/c...
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - the new season of Stursberg's CBC - the federal budget - Le Devoir's Meta work around - Australia will regulate Netflix mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/08/c...
Catching Up on MediaPolicy – the new season of Stursberg’s CBC – the federal budget – Le Devoir’s Meta work around – Australia will regulate Netflix
Image by OpenAI Are you not entertained? Richard Stursberg wants CBC audiences to say yes November 8, 2025 This week MediaPolicy posted a guest column from Richard Stursberg, the former Vice Presid…
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November 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - the new season of Stursberg's CBC - the federal budget - Le Devoir's Meta work around - Australia will regulate Netflix mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/08/c...
Are you not entertained? Richard Stursberg’s five year plan for the CBC
“We will measure our success not just in terms of audiences, but also the debates and controversies it engenders “
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“We will measure our success not just in terms of audiences, but also the debates and controversies it engenders “
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Are you not entertained? Richard Stursberg’s five year plan for the CBC
November 6, 2025 In October CBC President Marie-Philippe Bouchard unveiled her eagerly anticipated five year plan for the public broadcaster. MediaPolicy commented on her map here and here. Months …
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November 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Are you not entertained? Richard Stursberg’s five year plan for the CBC
“We will measure our success not just in terms of audiences, but also the debates and controversies it engenders “
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“We will measure our success not just in terms of audiences, but also the debates and controversies it engenders “
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Letter to the Editor: there’s an alternative to S-209 choice of age verification mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/02/l...
Letter to the Editor: there’s an alternative to S-209 choice of age verification
November 2, 2025 In response to the October 30, 2025 post from MediaPolicy.ca, I have some ideas on how Canada could proceed with accomplishing the objectives behind S-209, “An Act to restric…
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November 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Letter to the Editor: there’s an alternative to S-209 choice of age verification mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/02/l...
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - Will YouTube take it all? - the CRTC's intriguing question for music streamers - leading news avoiders to water mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/01/c...
Catching Up on MediaPolicy – Will YouTube take it all? – the CRTC’s intriguing question for music streamers – leading news avoiders to water
Graphic from the Hollywood Reporter November 1, 2025 It’s not exactly breaking news, but YouTube is taking over television. Or to put it more vividly, YouTube is threatening to storm the Alamo of t…
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November 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - Will YouTube take it all? - the CRTC's intriguing question for music streamers - leading news avoiders to water mediapolicy.ca/2025/11/01/c...
Canada’s age verification bill S-209 faces its first Parliamentary test mediapolicy.ca/2025/10/30/c...
Canada’s age verification bill S-209 faces its first Parliamentary test
October 30, 2025 The Senate’s justice committee will soon be voting on Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne’s Bill S-209, an age verification bill for pornography that was launched in the upper house and …
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October 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Canada’s age verification bill S-209 faces its first Parliamentary test mediapolicy.ca/2025/10/30/c...
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - Canadians don't want culture thrown under the bus - the CBC's trust factor - Wikipedia or Wokepedia mediapolicy.ca/2025/10/25/c...
Catching Up on MediaPolicy – Canadians don’t want culture thrown under the bus – the CBC’s trust factor – Wikipedia or Wokepedia
(Some classic Canadian humour to start your weekend) October 25, 2025 MediaPolicy previously made the observation that while Culture and Identity Minister Steven Guilbeault rejects any further trad…
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October 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - Canadians don't want culture thrown under the bus - the CBC's trust factor - Wikipedia or Wokepedia mediapolicy.ca/2025/10/25/c...
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - CBC President unveils a new vision - Anti-porn bill is back in the Senate - did C-18 give Google a get-out-of-jail card on content scraping? mediapolicy.ca/2025/10/18/c...
Catching Up on MediaPolicy – CBC President unveils a new vision – Anti-porn bill is back in the Senate – did C-18 give Google a get-out-of-jail card on content scraping?
October 18, 2025 Last fall, when the CBC seemed destined to fall at the hands of an incoming Conservative government, MediaPolicy published a number of posts on “what is to be done” if the CBC rece…
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October 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - CBC President unveils a new vision - Anti-porn bill is back in the Senate - did C-18 give Google a get-out-of-jail card on content scraping? mediapolicy.ca/2025/10/18/c...
Child safety law S-209 is back in Parliament, porn sites want Californian-style age verification mediapolicy.ca/2025/10/16/c...
Child safety law S-209 is back in Parliament, porn sites want Californian-style age verification
Image by Open AI October 16, 2025 Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne’s age verification bill for pornography is back in the Parliamentary pipeline. The Senate’s legal and constitutional affairs co…
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October 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Child safety law S-209 is back in Parliament, porn sites want Californian-style age verification mediapolicy.ca/2025/10/16/c...
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - Spotify's coy ignorance - Guilbeault's agenda - Paramount, HBO and Crave mediapolicy.ca/2025/10/10/_...
Catching Up on MediaPolicy – Spotify’s coy ignorance – Guilbeault’s agenda – Paramount, HBO and Crave
October 11, 2025 I am guessing the five commissioners running the CRTC’s public hearing on radio broadcasting and audio streaming read Simon Gionet’s column in Le Devoir, published on the las…
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October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - Spotify's coy ignorance - Guilbeault's agenda - Paramount, HBO and Crave mediapolicy.ca/2025/10/10/_...
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - The AI Death Star - the Ellison media empire mediapolicy.ca/2025/10/05/c...
Catching Up on MediaPolicy – The AI Death Star – the Ellison media empire
AI Image October 5, 2025 There is a good analysis piece by Gretel Kahn that reviews the distribution of the $100 million Bill C-18 Google payments to Canadian news outlets and the Meta ban on Canad…
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October 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - The AI Death Star - the Ellison media empire mediapolicy.ca/2025/10/05/c...
Catching up on MediaPolicy - Dhanraj tells his CBC story - Kimmel is back, really back - Unifor launches CheckFactHere - Western Standard cashs a federal cheque mediapolicy.ca/2025/09/27/c...
Catching up on MediaPolicy – Dhanraj tells his CBC story – Kimmel is back, really back – Unifor launches CheckFactHere – Western Standard cashs a federal cheque
September 27, 2025 Last week Culture and Identity Minister Steven Guilbeault showed up at the House of Commons’ heritage committee for his root canal. The Conservatives were on him immediately abou…
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September 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Catching up on MediaPolicy - Dhanraj tells his CBC story - Kimmel is back, really back - Unifor launches CheckFactHere - Western Standard cashs a federal cheque mediapolicy.ca/2025/09/27/c...
How the CBC should get its mind right: David Cayley's new book mediapolicy.ca/2025/09/24/h...
How the CBC should get its mind right: David Cayley’s new book
Author and CBC Ideas producer David Cayley September 24, 2025 David Cayley, The CBC: How Canada’s Public Broadcaster Lost Its Voice (And How to Get It Back Again), published by Sutherland Hou…
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September 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
How the CBC should get its mind right: David Cayley's new book mediapolicy.ca/2025/09/24/h...
Catching up on MediaPolicy - CRTC begins hearings on music streaming - MAGA media mayhem - RadioCanada's Jewish problem mediapolicy.ca/2025/09/20/c...
Catching up on MediaPolicy – CRTC begins hearings on music streaming – MAGA media mayhem – RadioCanada’s Jewish problem
September 20, 2025 The CRTC is shaping the regulatory path for streaming services in Canada in three big files: audio content, video content and media distribution. The public hearings for video an…
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September 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Catching up on MediaPolicy - CRTC begins hearings on music streaming - MAGA media mayhem - RadioCanada's Jewish problem mediapolicy.ca/2025/09/20/c...
Saying the quiet part out loud: Radio-Canada's anti-Semitic report from Washington mediapolicy.ca/2025/09/18/s...
Saying the quiet part out loud: Radio-Canada’s anti-Semitic report from Washington
September 18, 2025 On Monday, Radio-Canada’s Washington correspondent Élisa Serret, appearing on the network’s afternoon news show “Sur Le Terrain,” was asked by the host how it was that the US gov…
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September 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Saying the quiet part out loud: Radio-Canada's anti-Semitic report from Washington mediapolicy.ca/2025/09/18/s...
Catching up on MediaPolicy - Dhanraj files CBC accusations - are US cable networks marching right ? - TIFF'S Degrassi documentary will screen after all mediapolicy.ca/2025/09/13/c...
Catching up on MediaPolicy – Dhanraj files CBC accusations – are US cable networks marching right ? – TIFF’S Degrassi documentary will screen after all
AI Image courtesy of OpenAI The Travis Dhanraj story that MediaPolicy followed this summer took another step forward with the former news host filing a formal complaint against the CBC at the feder…
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September 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Catching up on MediaPolicy - Dhanraj files CBC accusations - are US cable networks marching right ? - TIFF'S Degrassi documentary will screen after all mediapolicy.ca/2025/09/13/c...
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - I love France - Google's houdini escape - elbows up on digital sovereignty - you're dead to me mediapolicy.ca/2025/09/06/c...
Catching Up on MediaPolicy – I love France – Google’s houdini escape – elbows up on digital sovereignty – you’re dead to me
Polling graphic from The Argument September 6, 2025 French journalist unions have won a share of the licensing fees negotiated by publishers with AI companies whom are paying for the news content t…
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September 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - I love France - Google's houdini escape - elbows up on digital sovereignty - you're dead to me mediapolicy.ca/2025/09/06/c...
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - European digital regulation in the crosshairs - performative press freedoms - ominous TV earnings mediapolicy.ca/2025/08/31/c...
Catching Up on MediaPolicy – European digital regulation in the crosshairs – performative press freedoms – ominous TV earnings
August 31, 2025 If you track news reports about President Donald Trump’s tariffs, you may recall that he struck a one-sided framework agreement with the European Union on July 28th. The headline wa…
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August 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Catching Up on MediaPolicy - European digital regulation in the crosshairs - performative press freedoms - ominous TV earnings mediapolicy.ca/2025/08/31/c...
Google news cash: are we rewarding news or opinion? mediapolicy.ca/2025/08/23/g...
Google news cash: are we rewarding news or opinion?
August 23, 2025 This year’s final payment from the $100 million pot of Google news licensing cash is about to land in publisher and broadcaster bank accounts. The ka-ching is the responsibility of …
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August 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Google news cash: are we rewarding news or opinion? mediapolicy.ca/2025/08/23/g...
The State of the Union: what the White House thinks of Canadian Media mediapolicy.ca/2025/08/20/t...
The State of the Union: what the White House thinks of Canadian Media
August 20, 2025 The Canadian Press reported last week that the US State Department has an opinion on Canada’s respect for the independence of the press and freedom of expression…
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August 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The State of the Union: what the White House thinks of Canadian Media mediapolicy.ca/2025/08/20/t...