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Howard Law
Howard Law writes the blog MediaPolicy.ca and has also been published in PolicyOptions.ca; and Cartt.ca. He was a staff union representative for the Southern Ontario Newsmedia Guild beginning in 1997 and then the Media Director at Unifor from 2013 to his retirement in 2021. He has a law degree and a graduate degree in history from the University of Toronto. His book California v. Canada: the Online Streaming Act will be published in 2024 by Lorimer.
What’s going to happen next with Canada’s Online News Act?
The Online News Act came into effect in December 2023 and rang in the new year 2024 with some unfinished business.
Was Canada’s Online News Act compromise a last-minute win or a failure?
Public support for any kind of novel legislation is always difficult to predict. In the case of the Online News Act, Bill C-18, the starting point…
The Online News Act could have used a different model for bargaining
When the Canadian federal government introduced Bill C-18, the Online News Act, it was picking up where Australian legislation had left off. But first the governing…
Online News Act: Canada’s Big Tech regulation was inspired by other countries
In November 2023, just before Bill C-18—the Online News Act—came into effect, federal Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge announced that she had struck a deal with Google…
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