In a new ruling out of the US, Google is found to have an illegal monopoly on search. Michael Geist joins to compare the American antitrust approach to Big Tech to Canadian taxation efforts.
August 8, 2024
Short Cuts
#997 If I Had $100,000,000 (From Google)
June 13, 2024
Short Cuts
#947 Rising Hate and Sweet Google Money
Islamophobia and antisemitism are on the rise in Canada - but if there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that teenagers becoming radicalized and making homemade bombs is not okay.
December 21, 2023
Short Cuts
#899 Google, Interrupted
Google and Meta respond to Bill C-18 by threatening to block Canadian news.
July 6, 2023
Sen. Paula Simons “unhopeful” about plan to make Google and Facebook pay for news
Government should've focused on "insane corporate concentration," she says, rather than the notion the platforms are "stealing" content
March 27, 2023
By CANADALAND
The Backbench
#59 A Ruckus at Roxham Road
Host Mattea Roach is joined by Emilie Nicolas, Stuart Thomson and Les Perreaux to talk about the latest at Roxham Road, the irregular border crossing where thousands of asylum seekers flock to Canada. What’s bringing them here and what’s happening once they arrive?
March 7, 2023
COMMONS
Monopoly #14 – Where the Sidewalk Ends
The story behind what happened when Google, one of the world’s great tech monopolies, wanted to make a “smart city" in Toronto
February 15, 2023
Hitting the Far Right Where It Hurts
How internet advertising funds bad information, and how activists are working to cut that off
April 25, 2022
By Cherise Seucharan
CANADALAND
#361 Will Government Media Rules Strangle Canadaland?
In Australia, the news disappeared from Facebook. And Jesse got very worried about the future.
February 28, 2021
Short Cuts
#285 Facebook Fangoria
Beware of the FANG! And how to cover Chinese infiltration — or anti-Chinese infiltration?