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Immigrants Don’t Need ‘Canadian Experience,’ Actually
It’s no secret that many Canadian employers routinely discriminate against immigrants for the crime of lacking “Canadian experience.” Advocates and non-profit organizations have long bemoaned this unfair practice. For decades, immigrants have found crafty ways to sidestep this hurdle, acquiring that precious first Canadian work experience through volunteering, internships, entrepreneurship or entry-level jobs supplied by friends, family and other immigrants.
Why is Canadian Art Still So White?
Amin Alsaden has always had “a very complicated” relationship with institutions. Growing up in Iraq under Saddam Hussein’s rule, he lived near some of the country’s most elite culture venues—but because he came from a family that was critical of the regime, he rarely set foot in them. Still, he remembers being awestruck by the “bizarre” contemporary art he glimpsed through the windows, or on the rare occasion he could enter for free.
Our Changed World
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OUR CHANGED WORLD: Newcomers bring renewal, fresh thinking — a boon to Canadian society
In 2019, Canada welcomed about 870 new permanent residents every day. But when we closed our borders in March 2020, immigration ground to a screeching halt.
OUR CHANGED WORLD: Newcomers bring renewal, fresh thinking — a boon to Canadian society
In 2019, Canada welcomed about 870 new permanent residents every day. But when we closed our borders in March 2020, immigration ground to a screeching halt.
OUR CHANGED WORLD: Newcomers bring renewal, fresh thinking — a boon to Canadian society
In 2019, Canada welcomed about 870 new permanent residents every day. But when we closed our borders in March 2020, immigration ground to a screeching halt.
OUR CHANGED WORLD: Newcomers bring renewal, fresh thinking — a boon to Canadian society
In 2019, Canada welcomed about 870 new permanent residents every day. But when we closed our borders in March 2020, immigration ground to a screeching halt.
OUR CHANGED WORLD: Newcomers bring renewal, fresh thinking - a boon to Canadian society
Canada's leading thinkers reflect on how COVID-19 has changed our community, Canada and the world, and forever altered the future. In 2019, Canada welcomed about 870 new permanent residents every day. But when we closed our borders in March 2020, immigration ground to a screeching halt. Thousands of families were unable to reunite. Refugees were prevented from reaching safety. Hundreds of thousands of people who had waited years to make a new life in Canada found their hopes stymied.
Opinion | OUR CHANGED WORLD: Newcomers bring renewal, fresh thinking — a boon to Canadian society
In 2019, Canada welcomed about 870 new permanent residents every day. But when we closed our borders in March 2020, immigration ground to a screeching halt.
OUR CHANGED WORLD: Newcomers bring renewal, fresh thinking - a boon to Canadian society
Opinion 'We must rehumanize our preconceptions about who immigrants are and what they can contribute,' says Bernhard Flamborough Review Thursday, February 24, 2022 Canada's leading thinkers reflect on how COVID-19 has changed our community, Canada and the world, and forever altered the future. In 2019, Canada welcomed about 870 new permanent residents every day. But when we closed our borders in March 2020, immigration ground to a screeching halt. Thousands of families were unable to reunite.
OUR CHANGED WORLD: Newcomers bring renewal, fresh thinking - a boon to Canadian society
Opinion 'We must rehumanize our preconceptions about who immigrants are and what they can contribute,' says Bernhard Flamborough Review Thursday, February 24, 2022 Canada's leading thinkers reflect on how COVID-19 has changed our community, Canada and the world, and forever altered the future. In 2019, Canada welcomed about 870 new permanent residents every day. But when we closed our borders in March 2020, immigration ground to a screeching halt. Thousands of families were unable to reunite.
OUR CHANGED WORLD: Newcomers bring renewal, fresh thinking - a boon to Canadian society
Opinion 'We must rehumanize our preconceptions about who immigrants are and what they can contribute,' says Bernhard Flamborough Review Thursday, February 24, 2022 Canada's leading thinkers reflect on how COVID-19 has changed our community, Canada and the world, and forever altered the future. In 2019, Canada welcomed about 870 new permanent residents every day. But when we closed our borders in March 2020, immigration ground to a screeching halt. Thousands of families were unable to reunite.
Opinion | Canadian soccer proves the power of citizenship
Our immigrant-rich men’s soccer team proves that when people feel an equal part of Canada, they will give their heart and soul to make it great. By Daniel BernhardContributor Mon., Feb. 7, 2022timer3 min. read It was a tale of two screens last Sunday.
Opinion | Social media giants continue to harm democracy and it’s evident during this election Original
By Daniel BernhardContributor Wed., Sept. 8, 2021timer3 min. read The trolls accosting Justin Trudeau at campaign stops across Canada are hardly the first to bring the worst of Facebook to real life. “Death to Trudeau” memes have been dominant on Facebook for years. The guy who packed his truck full of guns and drove through the gates of Rideau Hall in search of the “traitor” Trudeau was neck deep in conspiracy theories on Facebook.
Opinion | Social media giants continue to harm democracy and it’s evident during this election
By Daniel BernhardContributor Wed., Sept. 8, 2021timer3 min. read The trolls accosting Justin Trudeau at campaign stops across Canada are hardly the first to bring the worst of Facebook to real life. “Death to Trudeau” memes have been dominant on Facebook for years. The guy who packed his truck full of guns and drove through the gates of Rideau Hall in search of the “traitor” Trudeau was neck deep in conspiracy theories on Facebook.
Opinion | Don’t be fooled by Facebook’s latest ruse to pay Canadian publishers
By Jerry DiasContributors Daniel Bernhard Fri., May 28, 2021timer3 min. read updateArticle was updated 10 mins ago If Facebook’s latest plan to pay 14 Canadian media outlets for their content was a good-faith effort to support Canadian journalism, it would not have sworn participating outlets to secrecy, just to kick the tires on their offer. Facebook is hiding these deals behind nondisclosure agreements because its real intention is not to pay for news, but to avoid paying for it.
Opinion | Don’t be fooled by Facebook’s latest ruse to pay Canadian publishers
By Jerry DiasContributors Daniel Bernhard Fri., May 28, 2021timer3 min. read If Facebook’s latest plan to pay 14 Canadian media outlets for their content was a good-faith effort to support Canadian journalism, it would not have sworn participating outlets to secrecy, just to kick the tires on their offer. Facebook is hiding these deals behind nondisclosure agreements because its real intention is not to pay for news, but to avoid paying for it.
Opinion | Don’t be fooled by Facebook’s latest ruse to pay Canadian publishers
By Jerry DiasContributors Daniel Bernhard Fri., May 28, 2021timer3 min. read updateArticle was updated 11 hrs ago If Facebook’s latest plan to pay 14 Canadian media outlets for their content was a good-faith effort to support Canadian journalism, it would not have sworn participating outlets to secrecy, just to kick the tires on their offer. Facebook is hiding these deals behind nondisclosure agreements because its real intention is not to pay for news, but to avoid paying for it.
Opinion | Free speech is not at risk by supporting changes to the Broadcasting Act
By Daniel BernhardContributor Mon., May 10, 2021timer3 min. read updateArticle was updated 1 min ago Over the past few weeks, a small but vocal cadre of free market fundamentalists has turned the debate over Bill C-10, which would update the Broadcasting Act for the first time since 1991, into a royal rumble over free expression, conjuring up a bogeyman bureaucrat hell-bent on censoring your social media. The hysteria is unfounded.
Opinion | Facebook doesn’t need to ‘do better’ after Capitol riots — it needs to do time
By Daniel BernhardContributor Thu., Jan. 14, 2021timer3 min. read If I let you organize an armed assault on Parliament in my basement, I’d go to jail. So why does Canada let Facebook off the hook for providing the core organizing and recruiting infrastructure for the Capitol Hill riots and many other violent far-right terrorism plots? Perhaps RCMP commissioner Brenda Lucki or public safety minister Bill Blair have an answer, because I don’t.
Opinion | Should Facebook be broken up?
By Daniel BernhardContributors Tracy C. Miller Sat., Dec. 19, 2020timer6 min. read There are so many reasons to break up Facebook that the reasons themselves should be broken up into multiple op-eds. We could talk about how Facebook acquired WhatsApp for US $19 billion without ever monetizing it, just to swallow a menacing competitor. Or how the acquisition was approved based on promises Facebook shamelessly broke.
Opinion | Illegal videos on Pornhub are more than just a scandal — it’s time to call the cops Original
By Daniel BernhardContributor Thu., Dec. 10, 2020timer3 min. read The New York Timespublished a stomach-churning report last week about Pornhub. The Montreal company is the undisputed global leader in online pornography, but it also has a habit of disseminating criminal videos, including of children as young as 14 being sexually assaulted.
Flipping the Line: Actually, Canadians, C-10 is necessary and good
The Line welcomes angry rebuttals and responses to our work. The best will be featured in our ongoing series, Flipping the Line. Today, Daniel Bernhard replies to recent criticism, here and elsewhere, of Bill C-10.
Broadcasting Act amendments not enough to protect our cultural sovereignty Original
By Daniel BernhardContributor Mon., Nov. 16, 2020timer3 min. read Under the cover of U.S. Election Day, Minister of Canadian Heritage Steven Guilbeault unveiled long-heralded amendments to the Broadcasting Act as part of his pledge to require companies like Netflix to make fair contributions to Canadian content — up to $830 million within a few years, according to the minister. But it’s not about the money; it’s about the country.
Give up your content or give up the ghost: The basic blackmail of Google and Facebook
By Daniel BernhardContributor Mon., Oct. 19, 2020timer4 min. read Whenever I say that Google, Facebook and the like should pay for the news and other content that fuels their platforms, it doesn’t take long before I’m asked: “If giving up this content is so bad for business, why do publishers keep doing it?” It’s a fair question and we all know the answer: Because to turn your back on Google and Facebook is to effectively disappear from the internet — a death sentence for any digital business.
Give up your content or give up the ghost: The basic blackmail of Google and Facebook
By Daniel BernhardContributor Mon., Oct. 19, 2020timer4 min. read Whenever I say that Google, Facebook and the like should pay for the news and other content that fuels their platforms, it doesn’t take long before I’m asked: “If giving up this content is so bad for business, why do publishers keep doing it?” It’s a fair question and we all know the answer: Because to turn your back on Google and Facebook is to effectively disappear from the internet — a death sentence for any digital business.
Is Facebook complicit in Toronto mosque murder? Let a judge decide Original
By Daniel BernhardContributor Tue., Oct. 6, 2020timer4 min. read Mohamed-Aslim Zafis was murdered last month, simply for standing outside a mosque. This murder was not an apparent random act of violence and a judge should decide whether Facebook is a knowing party to this hate crime. The suspect is reported to follow several Facebook groups that “worship Hitler as a God figure” and advocate “culling” civilization of Jews, Muslims, and other identifiable minorities.
Canadian government should unfriend Facebook
By Daniel BernhardContributor Sat., July 11, 2020timer3 min. read More than 900 of the world’s largest corporations, including Unilever, Coca-Cola, Adidas, Lego, Ford, Pfizer and all five of Canada’s big banks are boycotting Facebook to protest its active participation in spreading hate and misinformation. Their objective is morally indisputable: #StopHateForProfit. Who’s missing from that list? The government of Canada, for one.
Facebook: Wanted for news theft
By Daniel BernhardContributor Thu., June 4, 2020timer3 min. read Google and Facebook love to call themselves “innovators.” Perhaps “thieves” is more accurate. This week, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting is placing large WANTED posters across Canada to call out Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for the sin of news theft. For more than 200 years, advertising funded journalism. Publishers and broadcasters invested fortunes to gather, verify, edit, produce, and distribute news.
Misinformation kills, so why do we reward Facebook and Google for it?
By Daniel BernhardContributor Tue., May 19, 2020timer3 min. read When crisis strikes, you learn who your friends are. In the COVID-19 context, our friends include fearless health-care professionals and front-line food workers. They include business owners, who have closed down at immense personal cost to keep customers and employees safe, and governments of all stripes that have provided income support, wage subsidies, child care for essential workers, eviction moratoria, and more.
Opinion | Our media is on the brink of mass failure
By Daniel BernhardContributor Fri., March 27, 2020timer3 min. read updateArticle was updated Mar. 28, 2020 By some industry estimates, many of our major media outlets will fail within weeks. Starved of advertising revenues for years, the COVID-19 pandemic will deliver the final blow, especially for newspapers. And with the government now preparing to spend unprecedented amounts of money, we should be concerned that there will be no journalists left to keep watch. This is a six-alarm fire.
No need to cry foul over broadcast review panel's report
Home Page Election 2019 News Opinion Foreign Policy Politics Policy Legislation Lobbying Hill Life & People Hill Climbers Heard On The Hill Calendar Archives Classifieds Hill Times Events Inside Ottawa Directory Hill Times Store Hill Times Careers The Wire Report The Lobby Monitor Parliament Now Subscribe Free Trial Reuse & Permissions Advertising Log In By Daniel Bernhard Feb. 5, 2020 Last week, an expert panel tasked with modernizing Canada’s communications laws issued its final report.
Opinion | New government must stop the free ride for streaming giants
This week, the Disney Plus premium streaming service becomes available in Canada, hot on the heels of Apple TV Plus, which launched on Nov. 1. Many people are celebrating their arrival as a boon for Canadian viewers: hundreds of new programs, available any time, anywhere, for less than $9 per month. One of the reasons why these foreign services are so cheap is that the federal government does not require them to invest a single red cent to produce Canadian content or collect sales taxes.
Opinion | New government must stop the free ride for streaming giants
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Google needed the perfect pushover. Clearly that’s Canada.
Share this on or Google’s public relations team deserves a medal. Or maybe a monument. While Facebook takes heat for its myriad transgressions – “intentionally and knowingly” violating privacy and anti-competition laws, breaking promises to regulators, throwing elections, disseminating incitements to genocide, etc. – Google has managed to contain its controversies to the local level – and to keep them bland as can be. Exhibit A: Sidewalk Toronto.
Opinion | Tax loophole helping kill local journalism
The steady bleeding of Canadian advertising dollars to Silicon Valley tech giants has burst into a full-blown hemorrhage. Data released in December suggest that the forces undermining Canadian journalism are advancing much faster than the government's attempt to address them. According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), Canadian internet advertising spending grew in 2017 by a staggering 23 per cent to $6.8 billion.
Opinion | Tax loophole helping kill local journalism
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Why is the Canadian government helping to kill local journalism?
The steady bleeding of Canadian advertising dollars to Silicon Valley tech giants has burst into a full-blown hemorrhage. Data released in December suggest that the forces undermining Canadian journalism are advancing much faster than the government’s attempt to address them. More than $6 billion per year in internet advertising travels down a tax-free highway south of the border to Google, Facebook, Amazon, and a handful of other internet media companies, writes Daniel Bernhard.
Opinion | Canada must regulate and tax U.S. social media and tech giants
The monopolistic tech empires of Silicon Valley dominate our social and economic lives. But in truth, their power rests on a fragile innovation fantasy, which holds that these businesses are unlike anything the world has ever known before. If this were in fact the case, then perhaps the demand to be exempt from the laws and regulations that predated these corporations would be appropriate.
Ottawa doit cesser de favoriser Google et Facebook
La Presse, un des plus grands journaux canadiens, a annoncé mardi que son modèle d’affaires, après une exploitation durable de 134 ans, n’était désormais plus viable. C’est un jour sombre pour les médias canadiens et pour la démocratie qu’ils alimentent.
Opinion | La Presse throws in the towel. Who’s next?
In a last-ditch attempt to stay afloat, La Presse will restructure as a non-profit organization to qualify for government handouts and corporate charity. And if that doesn’t work out, the curtain will soon come down on Quebec’s largest paper. Google, Facebook and other foreign internet giants extract 80% of Canada’s digital advertising spending, and this outsized dominance sucks the life out of newsrooms who are needed to defend our democracy against corruption and fake news.
Bernhard: Canada must protect itself from big tech companies
FILE - In this April 4, 2013 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg walks at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook has dropped 13.5 percent after allegations a political consulting firm working for the Trump campaign got data inappropriately from millions of Facebook users.
Trudeau simply waving goodbye to Canada's independent news media
Parliament’s Ethics Committee plans to invite Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg and representatives of other American web giants to Ottawa to answer tough questions about the latest Facebook scandal. Perhaps someone from Cambridge Analytica and its Canadian affiliate, AggregateIQ, will attend to explain how the Trump campaign may have got its paws on the personal information of 50 million Facebook users without their consent. Perhaps they can tell us whether something similar has happened in Canada.
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