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Ian Profiri is JURIST’s Chief Correspondent for Canada. He files this dispatch from Calgary. Bill C-18, “An Act respecting online communications platforms that make news content available to persons in Canada” (Online News Act), passed introductory first reading in the Canadian House of Commons last Tuesday amid early controversy. The stated purpose of the Act [...]