Facebook has become the latest technology company to dig into Montreal's burgeoning artificial intelligence sector, announcing the opening of a research lab in the city on Friday, September 2017.
In the past month, Roxanne messaged more than two dozen Ontario women on Facebook to warn them that their photos had surfaced on the image-sharing site Anon-IB.
Security and justice officials from the Five Eyes countries plan to explore "more timely and detailed" information sharing to detect terrorists and extremist fighters.
A group representing print and digital media publishers is calling on the federal government to set up a $350 million fund to support journalism in Canada.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stopped the presses on Thursday, June 15, 2017, on the idea of imposing a five per cent tax on broadband Internet services.
Google Canada and Facebook Canada told a Commons committee studying the country's media industry that they don't like the idea of a punitive tax on advertisers.
Trudeau launched the application process for the council on Twitter, then spent an hour taking questions on the social media site about how the council will work.
Google, Facebook and Twitter reap the benefits of top advertising dollars in Canada, even though they generally do not produce any journalism and largely avoid having to pay Canadian taxes.