Canada orders TikTok to shut down
Too much Chinese influence manages to anger the Canadians
Canada has instructed TikTok to wind up its business (get it?) within the country, citing potential national security risks posed by the platform and its parent company, ByteDance.
Canada bans Tick-Tock
Joins US and EU
Canada has joined the US and EU banning the social notworking site TikTok from government-issued mobile devices.
Canada bans Huawei from its 5G projects
We must obey the US
Canada is planning to ban Huawei from working on Canada's fifth-generation networks to appease its US neighbours.
Canadians might make big content pay newspapers
Got to prop up the mass media
The Canadian government introduced legislation Tuesday to force digital giants to compensate news publishers for the use of their content.
Canada bans combustion engine sales by 2035
Get back to dog sleds
Canada wants to ban sales of combustion engine cars by 2030 and will presumably be looking at alternative tech, such as dog sleds.
Public Health Agency of Canada spied on citizens
Claimed it was to save them from Covid
The Public Health Agency of Canada (or PHAC) accessed location data from 33 million mobile devices to monitor people's movement during lockdown.
Canada will ban the sale of fuel-burning cars
Still keeping tourists out of the country
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government took time off from messing up his economy by keeping foreigners out of the country to do something good for polar bears.
Canada begins 5G auction
Delayed by pandemic
Canada is to start the auction of the mobile telecommunications bandwidth necessary for 5G rollout, one that was delayed more than a year by the pandemic.
Trudeau wants Canada to have the West's most regulated internet
Want’s China’s crown
The man who has locked his entire country away from the world for a year citing coronavirus now wants to have an internet that rivals China.
Clearview AI in trouble with the Canadians
Should not have collected photos
American technology firm Clearview AI violated Canadian privacy laws by collecting photos of Canadians without their knowledge or consent, an investigation by four of Canada's privacy commissioners has found.