Appeared in the Toronto Star on June 20, 2015 as More Canadian TV Channels May Be on the Chopping Block Rogers Media’s recent decision to slash 110 jobs and end all newscasts at OMNI, its multicultural channel, has sparked outrage among many ethnic communities, who have lamented the cancellation of […]

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Appeared in the Toronto Star on June 13, 2015 as How the Budget Bill Quietly Reshapes Privacy Law A budget implementation bill is an unlikely – and many would say inappropriate – place to make major changes to Canadian privacy law. Yet Bill C-59, the government’s 158-page bill that is […]

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Appeared in the Toronto Star on June 6, 2015 as Sorry Bell, Accessing U.S. Netflix Is Not Theft Bell Media president Mary Ann Turcke sparked an uproar last week when she told a telecom conference that Canadians who use virtual private networks (VPNs) to access the U.S. version of Netflix […]

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Appeared in the Toronto Star on May 30, 2015 as Good Reasons for Caution in Trans Pacific Trade Deal Canada’s business community has mobilized in recent weeks to call on the government to adopt a more aggressive, engaged approach with respect to the biggest trade negotiations on the planet – […]

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Appeared in the Toronto Star on May 23, 2015 as Your Government is Spying on You Online. Here’s What You Can Do About It Another week, another revelation originating from the seemingly unlimited trove of Edward Snowden documents. Last week, the CBC reported that Canada was among several countries whose […]

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