My impossible journey to find student housing in Toronto
Moving to Canada from overseas introduced me to fraudulent landlords, sky-high prices and an apartment hunt for the ages
Attention web giants: ‘Recess is over’
A small group of nations, led by Canada, have been quietly preparing to take on the tech giants. Inside their battle to rein in the most powerful companies on Earth.
Twitter and Facebook have gifted America a Trojan Horse
Andrew MacDougall: Social media has painted us into an awful corner where truth never catches up to the lie and emotion only ever ratchets up
The ‘excessively violent’ election ad, paid for by the Manning Centre
Facebook pulled an anti-Trudeau ad from a third-party group funded by the Manning Centre. The organization has backed a number of other intense ads.
Why the Liberals are outspending everyone on Facebook
In week 1, the Liberals spent as much as $148,947. The Tories, meanwhile, are not as sold on Facebook and are turning to the phones, documents suggest.
Ghosts of cyberspace: What happens to your digital life when you die
Your digital footprint is larger than you think. And failing to have a plan for it could result in legal fees, headaches and heartaches for your survivors when you die.
Canadians deserve answers from Mark Zuckerberg
Our editorial: Facebook’s senior leadership testified in front of U.S. Congress last year. Neither Zuckerberg nor COO Sheryl Sandberg cared enough to offer Canadians the same courtesy.
The day that Facebook disrespected Canada
The social media giant was finally called to answer to legislators for its conduct. Mark Zuckerberg couldn’t be bothered to show up.
Exposing Facebook’s ‘deeply troubling’ behaviour
Canada’s privacy commissioner plans to take Facebook to court to enforce privacy laws, saying the company’s ‘privacy framework was empty’
Should we break up the tech giants?
Timothy Wu says Facebook’s huge corporate scale may well make it a threat to democracy
Facebook’s breakup with a Canadian bank
Documents from a British parliamentary investigation show questions about access to user data caused RBC to end online transactions via Facebook
Read the interview about Facebook the CBC refuses to publish
The public broadcaster decided not to publish an interview about Facebook with technology columnist Jesse Hirsh online, saying it didn’t meet its journalistic standards