With Meta making good on its threat to expunge news from Facebook and Instagram, Canada’s publishers and broadcasters pin their hopes on the Competition Bureau to set things right. (We’re doomed?)

And when the Liberals promised to plant 2 billion trees, they probably weren’t betting that anyone would actually try to keep count.

The Narwhal’s Mike De Souza joins Jonathan on Short Cuts.

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guest: Mike De Souza

Further reading: 

• CBC, media groups ask Competition Bureau to investigate Meta's move to block news in Canada - CBC
• Do It, F*ckers! - How Things Work
• Was Elon Musk’s banning of rival social-media links on Twitter illegal? - The Globe and Mail (2022)
• Opinion: What's B.C.'s next move on Fairy Creek logging? - The Narwhal
• Oilsands giants lobbied to weaken emissions cap - The Narwhal
• Ottawa modifie discrètement son calcul des deux milliards d’arbres - Le Devoir
• Turns out that wasn't the tweet - Paul Wells

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Broadcast on:

10 Aug 2023