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Cynthia Zhu (10) 2024-03-08 Cynthia Zhu (10) 2024-03-08

Google Reaches a Deal for Canadian Online News Act

In June 2023, Bill C-18 — known as the Online News Act — was passed, requiring large companies to compensate media organizations if they wanted to continue showing news content on their platforms. In Nov. 2023, Google reached a deal with the Canadian government, agreeing to continue allowing Canadian news content on its platform and to pay $100 million per year to news publishers.

Max Von Dehn (10) 2021-12-18 Max Von Dehn (10) 2021-12-18

ANALYSIS: What Happened to Local Independent News? Canada’s News Landscape

Never has it been more necessary for a diversity of news media sources, given the state of affairs in the last five years. Yet despite this, news monopolies are becoming ever more present.