An online safety bill in Canada: time to get on with it already

Canadian youth are at greater risk online than their peers in much of the democratic world because our federal government won’t table a long-promised bill.

Lack of regulatory oversight of online platforms has exacerbated divisions in our society, and created a media ecosystem flooded with unreliable content that makes users more prone to radicalization, writes Phaedra de Saint-Rome. Unsplash photograph by Adrian Swancar

Opinion

BY PHAEDRA DE SAINT-ROME

October 25, 2023

The year is 2020. You are washing your groceries, making sourdough starter, attempting choreography on this burgeoning platform called TikTok. All the stores within a 30-kilometre radius have run out of toilet paper. The Canadian government announces it will be introducing l...

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