Google ‘outplayed and outmanoeuvered Ottawa’ on Online News Act deal, ‘outsourced’ problem of how to divide funding, say observers

In the new deal between Google and the feds, ‘the contentious part’ will now be ‘who gets what and how much do people get,’ said media transformation expert Alfred Hermida.

On Nov 29, Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge announced the government had reached a deal with Google that would see it pay $100-million annually to the Canadian news industry, and avert the tech giant removing news links from its search results before a Dec. 19 cut-off. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Google ‘outplayed and outmanoeuvered Ottawa’ on Online News Act deal, ‘outsourced’ problem of how to divide funding, say observers

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

In the new deal between Google and the feds, ‘the contentious part’ will now be ‘who gets what and how much do people get,’ said media transformation expert Alfred Hermida.

Google ‘outplayed and outmanoeuvered Ottawa’ on Online News Act deal, ‘outsourced’ problem of how to divide funding, say observers

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

In the new deal between Google and the feds, ‘the contentious part’ will now be ‘who gets what and how much do people get,’ said media transformation expert Alfred Hermida.

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‘Unparalleled opportunity’: Public Policy Forum report urges Canada to take greater leadership on Paris Agreement, global carbon market

NewsBY MIKE LAPOINTE

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says he would like to see new methane regulations to ensure that the oil and gas sector reduces greenhouse gas emissions by at least 75 per cent by 2030, 'which are the most ambitious targets in the world.'

‘Unparalleled opportunity’: Public Policy Forum report urges Canada to take greater leadership on Paris Agreement, global carbon market

NewsBY MIKE LAPOINTE

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says he would like to see new methane regulations to ensure that the oil and gas sector reduces greenhouse gas

How can Ontario achieve net zero, with greater energy reliability and resilience? Roadmap to a clean energy future

Tenants describe ‘dramatic erosion’ of existing affordable housing, call on feds to take action

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

A House Human Resources Committee report called for a fund to help non-profits acquire affordable housing. The Nov. 21 fiscal update did not include such a fund, but advocates call for one to be created in the next federal budget.

A House Human Resources Committee report called for a fund to help non-profits acquire affordable housing. The Nov. 21 fiscal update did not include

‘Goodwill’ remains on both sides in pharmacare talks, despite political pressures facing Liberals and NDP, say observers

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

The NDP doesn’t want to cut talks short ‘just to meet the deadline,’ but remains firm on the issue of universal coverage, says former NDP staffer Mélanie Richer.

The NDP doesn’t want to cut talks short ‘just to meet the deadline,’ but remains firm on the issue of universal coverage, says former

Protesters vow continued ‘civil disobedience’ until feds issue call for permanent Israel-Hamas ceasefire

NewsBY STUART BENSON

While respectful of the right to demonstrate, a Liberal MP says their staff have been subjected to intimidating and foul language as well as instances of physical assault during a demonstration inside a constituency office.

While respectful of the right to demonstrate, a Liberal MP says their staff have been subjected to intimidating and foul language as well as

POLITICS THIS MORNING

Politics This Morning: MPs to debate fast-tracking jobs bill

Plus, Guilbeault faces the press from Dubai.

BY PETER MAZEREEUW

OPINION & COLUMNISTS

It’s time for feds to make amends for historical inadequacies of First Nation education

It is time to repair the damage caused to generations of First Nations students. This can be done, in part, by consulting with First Nations in determining how reparations can best be made.

BY SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM AND RON PHILLIPS

Opinion

Saskatchewan bill shows why the notwithstanding clause exists

BY DAVE SNOW

Opinion

Unseasoned Grits: the Liberals aren’t beating the charges of lacklustre governance

BY ERICA IFILL

Opinion

Polls as propaganda

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

Opinion

Message to Conservatives: take a deep breath before firing up the rage machine

BY TIM POWERS

NEWS

Partisan clashes cloud implementation of revised Ukraine trade bill as experts pan Tories’ carbon tax complaints

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

While the Conservative stance is a ‘betrayal of common sense,’ the Liberals have also blown things out of proportion with their rhetoric on the trade deal, say observers.

Partisan clashes cloud implementation of revised Ukraine trade bill as experts pan Tories’ carbon tax complaints

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

While the Conservative stance is a ‘betrayal of common sense,’ the Liberals have also blown things out of proportion with their rhetoric on the trade deal, say observers.

‘Penny wise, pound foolish’: interparliamentary group chairs decry decision to reject funding boost

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Newest India assassination claims validate expansion of public inquiry beyond China, says Thomas Juneau

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Global Affairs missed target of having nearly half of Canadians back diplomatic efforts: department report

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

National aerospace strategy needed to ‘tie it all together’ as industry rebounds from pandemic losses, say sector experts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

HILL LIFE & PEOPLE

Parliamentary Calendar

Tory Leader Poilievre to give C.D. Howe’s inaugural Hugh and Laura MacKinnon luncheon address on Dec. 1

Podcast

Foreign interference at Canadian universities

News

Top 100 Lobbyists in 2023: green tech and economy boosting set for top advocacy priorities in 2023, say lobbyists

feature

Fraser voted best minister in Question Period and best public speaker in The Hill Times’ Politically Savvy Survey 2023

Podcast

The farm fuel carbon tax carveout, with Senator David Wells

All Politics Poll: Best & Worst of 2023 — Vote now!

Inside Ottawa Directory – Ministers’ Offices Fall 2023

Inside Ottawa and Inside Ontario package

Power and Influence 2023

HILL LIFE & PEOPLE

A tour of Tourism Minister Martinez Ferrada’s team

FeatureBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Senior staff to the minister include director of policy Sandenga Yeba and director of parliamentary affairs Béatrice Lavallée.

A tour of Tourism Minister Martinez Ferrada’s team

FeatureBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Senior staff to the minister include director of policy Sandenga Yeba and director of parliamentary affairs Béatrice Lavallée.

Party Central goes to VIA Rail VIP meet and greet

FeatureBY STUART BENSON

POLITICS

The trend to online anonymity is not healthy for democracy

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Missing the point of Freeland’s what-have-we-got-to-lose mini-budget

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

Liberals 10 points behind in the 34 ridings that helped bring them to power in 2015 and have kept Conservatives out ever since, according to a new poll

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Updated: Lagging in the polls, PM Trudeau brings on marketing and branding specialist Valiquette as new executive director of PMO communications

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Lagging in the polls, PM Trudeau brings on marketing and branding specialist Valiquette as new executive director of PMO communications

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Max Valiquette will work alongside PMO director of communications Vanessa Hage-Moussa, and Ann-Clara Vaillancourt, who has been promoted to the position of media relations director, according to a government source.

Lagging in the polls, PM Trudeau brings on marketing and branding specialist Valiquette as new executive director of PMO communications

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Max Valiquette will work alongside PMO director of communications Vanessa Hage-Moussa, and Ann-Clara Vaillancourt, who has been promoted to the position of media relations director, according to a government source.

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OPINION & COLUMNISTS

Opinion

COP28 and climate science

BY GWYNNE DYER

Opinion

Our government is failing Canadians regarding their end-of-life rights

BY NORMA GREENAWAY, SHERRY MORAN

Opinion

Tackling the health system’s carbon footprint: when part of the problem becomes part of the solution

BY KATHLEEN ROSS

A burning platform for a national fire administration

OpinionBY KEN MCMULLEN AND TINA SARYEDDINE

Creating a Canadian Fire Administration could be one of the most consequential policy tools in the history of fire and emergency management in Canada. Fire chiefs are willing to help make this happen. We hope policy leaders will take our advice seriously.

How do we create cities where everyone can thrive?

OpinionBY AMY JUSCHKA, TESICCA TRUONG, AND SHAUNA SHORTT

Are schoolyard tactics really the best MPs can do?

OpinionBY EDITORIAL

Are schoolyard tactics really the best MPs can do?

OpinionBY EDITORIAL

Negotiations in Israel-Hamas conflict must focus on the future: letter writer

Opinion

Federal government can do more to help aviation industry get to 2050 target

OpinionBY KIMBERLEY VAN VLIET

EDITORIAL CARTOON BY DE ADDER

de Adder’s Take: 11-29-2023

de Adder’s Take: 11-27-2023

de Adder’s Take: 11-22-2023

Environment & Climate Change

Environment lobbying leads in October in advance of feds’ anticipated oil and gas cap

Draft regulations for the Liberal government's long-awaited oil and gas cap are "coming very soon," according to a spokesperson in the Environment Minister's office.

BY JESSE CNOCKAERT

World leaders should adjust their global CO2 emissions strategy

Taking an alternative look at how to deal with the energy transition would be a better strategy than crying that the sky is falling while you hope to hold it up with your finger.

BY DOROTHY DOBBIE

Will the real climate leaders please stand up?

Beyond COP28, the question is, what story will parties tell on fighting climate change when the next election comes? Will they be able to say they reigned in oil and gas emissions? Or will it be the same story about carbon pricing, more unkept promises and missed targets?

BY KEITH BROOKS AND ALY HYDER ALI

Senators caught in the middle as government and opposition dig in their heels on carbon tax exemption for farmers

Conservative MP Ben Lobb’s private member’s bill made it through the House last March with support from all opposition MPs. Any amendments in the Senate would send it back, and Conservatives say the Liberals will bury it.

BY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Big costs sink flagship nuclear project and will sink future small modular reactor projects, too

Adverse economics killed the flagship NuScale SMR project. There is no reason to believe the costs of SMR designs proposed in Canada will be any lower. Are government officials hearing the alarm bells?

BY M.V. RAMANA AND SUSAN O’DONNELL

FOREIGN POLICY

Continuing the momentum in strengthening international education in Canada

OpinionBY METI BASIRI

Advancing Canada-Japan co-operation for a free and open Indo-Pacific

OpinionBY KANJI YAMANOUCHI

Spavor’s lawsuit raises questions that should have already been examined

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Implementing Canada’s Indo-Pacific economic strategy

OpinionBY DAVID ABONYI, GEORGE ABONYI

Israel-Hamas is more complex than good versus evil

OpinionBY BHAGWANT SANDHU

The immorality of apartheid, fascism, or Stalinism was defeated not because the ruling classes or managers of power saw the error of their ways. It was defeated because everyday people turned against those managers.

Israel-Hamas is more complex than good versus evil

OpinionBY BHAGWANT SANDHU

The immorality of apartheid, fascism, or Stalinism was defeated not because the ruling classes or managers of power saw the error of their ways. It was defeated because everyday people turned against those managers.

BOOKS, BIG IDEAS, Q&As

Ibbitson gives Diefenbaker his proper place in history without downgrading Pearson’s legacy

OpinionBY ARTHUR MILNES

In his just-released volume, The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson, and the Making of Modern Canada, John Ibbitson gives the 13th prime minister a fair shake after the positive aspects of Diefenbaker’s legacy were dismissed by many historians.

Ibbitson gives Diefenbaker his proper place in history without downgrading Pearson’s legacy

OpinionBY ARTHUR MILNES

In his just-released volume, The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson, and the Making of Modern Canada, John Ibbitson gives the 13th prime minister a fair shake after the positive aspects of Diefenbaker’s legacy were dismissed by many historians.

MacGregor’s success is more than ‘luck’

FeatureBY KATE MALLOY

What shape does hope take in a world we can see is rushing to destroy itself?

OpinionBY JIM CRESKEY

Yep, you read it right: author Chris Turner dishes up climate optimism

FeatureBY CHRIS TURNER

To learn about the future of inflation, look to lessons from the past

FeatureBY STEPHEN POLOZ

Reducing aviation’s CO2 emissions challenging but not impossible

OpinionBY DAVID ZINGG

To facilitate the transition to green aviation, government support for industry needs to focus on aircraft and engine manufacturers.

Canadian researchers need to work on important precompetitive technologies that have the potential to reduce the climate impact of aviation, even if the technologies are eventually commercialized outside of Canada, writes David Zingg. Unsplash photograph by Luka Slapnicar

Reducing aviation’s CO2 emissions challenging but not impossible

OpinionBY DAVID ZINGG

To facilitate the transition to green aviation, government support for industry needs to focus on aircraft and engine manufacturers.

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