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Online streaming giants YouTube and TikTok are asking Canadian senators to take a sober second look at an online streaming bill that they say would cause significant harm to Canadian digital creators.

Peyton Verhoeven and her equally business-minded sister Ella noticed a few years ago that brands had no idea how to talk to Generation Z, so they built a consultancy to help them tap into the vibe of young consumers seeking authenticity.

An outspoken critic of the Liberal government's online streaming bill received funding from two of the biggest digital platforms in the world.

Mental-health professionals are volunteering their services to provide trauma support for Ukrainian Canadians and newcomers fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

I love fashion, but this overconsumption has to stop for the sake of our planet and for the sake of thousands of species, writes Ashley Stefureak.

This was the second straight campaign where Jagmeet Singh rated as the most popular leader in Canada, only to wind up leading his party to a fourth-place finish, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The teenage son of Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida is a budding musician who is collaborating and creating content he stores as a non-fungible token (NFT), a blockchain application that documents ownership and could enable more direct-to-fan interaction.

“Any regulation needs to reflect the inherent complexity of the issue and the scale at which online platforms operate,” argues Google Canada.

When the Quebec government announced it was imposing an 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew to limit the spread of COVID-19, Ita Skoblinski posted a tongue-in-cheek message to her local community Facebook group, offering to let people borrow her dog for late-night walks.

“These restaurants that are reaching out to me, they have websites, they have Instagram, but very few of them have TikTok,” Coleman says. TikTok is still a new enough social media platform that businesses haven’t yet fully embraced it, she says, but influencers have.

A battle with China would be devastating for India, and potentially the whole world given that these are both nuclear-armed powers. But even if full-scale war is avoided, the conflict could have grim consequences for the rest of the planet.

The potential sale of social-media platform TikTok to Microsoft is leaving Canada with a sense of deja vu.