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News from Canada’s critical digital business revolution!
Paul Wells: Are you the owner of a small business with no access to Google or a smartphone? At last, there’s a big new government program ready to help.
The real consequences of Steven Guilbeault’s battle with the web giants
Michael Geist: Below the surface of the Liberal government’s effort to crack down on big tech lies an even bigger threat—the implications for free speech in Canada
The pandemic has exposed Canada’s internet problem
As the crisis drags on, many of us live with web connections too weak for work and study at home
How 25 Canadian websites looked in the Internet’s early days
From big companies to government to media, here were some of the earliest stops on Canada’s information superhighway
The spectre of bad internet laws in Europe should be a warning shot for Canadians
Opinion: The European Union could soon adopt a slew of restrictive copyright regulations—while Canada, often informed by Europe’s policies, considers its own reforms
How the internet may be turning us all into radicals
Online algorithms that have learned how to push our emotional buttons are polarizing society—and the emerging science on the implications is troubling
Trust in digital technology will be the internet’s next frontier
Opinion: If today’s technology giants don’t do anything to address the public’s unease, they might start looking for more trustworthy systems
Older Canadians are flocking to the web. Are they liking what they find?
New survey research shows Canadians think the internet interrupts their lives. But that’s not stopping them from going online.
Trump’s Twitter blunder: How do you say ‘covfefe’?
U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted out an incomplete sentence with the word ‘covfefe’ Tuesday night and the Internet is loving it. We asked people how they would pronounce the mysterious word.