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Aug 6, 2026
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Canada’s Big Tech shakedown failed. Now Carney retreats in the face of American pressure
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Canada’s Big Tech shakedown failed. Now Carney retreats in the face of American pressure
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6 AUGUST 2026
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Poignantly, it was three years ago this month that the Liberal government’s plan to plunder the coffers of Big Tech in order to line the pockets of the nation’s news, film, and TV industries began to unravel.
It was in August of 2023, not long after passage of the Online News Act, that Meta began to ban links to news stories on Facebook and Instagram. That was because the premise of the legislation was that Meta and Google should be paying publishers for …
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