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28 Jun 2023, 3:30 am
While it claimed its Bill C-18 would add millions of dollars to the sector and support struggling media companies, the reality has quickly intervened: blocked news sharing on Internet platforms with cancelled deals on the horizon, reports of direct corporate intervention in news departments, massive layoffs and regulatory requests to decrease spending on news, and now a nightmare merger proposal between Postmedia and Torstar. [read post]
22 Sep 2018, 3:15 am
Computer and Internet Updates for 2018-09-20 https://t.co/enXcr2ykhX 2018-09-21 Computer and Internet Updates for 2018-09-20 https://t.co/HTNUb5maNP 2018-09-21 Torstar signs agreement to purchase political website iPolitics https://t.co/HeZa7weyiV 2018-09-21 Groupon Says $82M Verdict In IBM Patent Suit Was Too High https://t.co/bZ4hFNa0Nb 2018-09-21 CBS Wants 9th Circ. [read post]
15 Nov 2006, 8:55 am
The ineluctable pressures for firms to move towards (but not to) a more corporate-like managerial model. [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 9:17 am
Torstar Corporation last year. [read post]
23 Feb 2023, 4:40 am
The bill covers hundreds of businesses (the House actually expanded to hundreds of broadcasters that don’t even produce news) including some of Canada’s most powerful corporations: Bell, Rogers, Shaw, Corus, Postmedia, Torstar, Videotron, and the Globe and Mail among them. [read post]
26 May 2010, 12:46 pm
Unfortunately as matters stand, the Reynolds privilege will continue to complicate the task of journalists and editors who wish to explore matters of public interest and it will continue to erode freedom of expression” In its place, he commended the approach the the Supreme Court of Canada in Grant v Torstar Corporation (2009 SCC 61) that there should be a “broad new privilege based on public interest”. [read post]
16 Jul 2007, 4:17 am
Four companies similarly dominate the radio market (Corus, Astral Rogers, and CTVGlobemedia) and five companies lead the newspaper market (Canwest Global, Quebecor, Torstar, Power Corp., and CTVGlobemedia). [read post]
28 Apr 2016, 11:29 am
The Torstar case was abundantly clear that writing on matters of public interest is not reserved to the mass media. [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 5:59 pm
Torstar,, and which may be seen as broader than “publication”. [read post]
5 Sep 2018, 1:17 am
In doing so, the New Zealand Court of Appeal followed the view expressed by the House of Lords in Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd [2001] 2 AC 127 and the Supreme Court of Canada in Grant v Torstar Corp [2009] 3 SCR 640. [read post]
23 Sep 2018, 3:15 am
Senate support for Music Modernization Act is further evidence Canada must act to close the Value Ga… https://t.co/FavuXuMGFf 2018-09-20 Landslide European Copyright Directive vote is a call to action for legislators globally to fix the Value Gap – Mus… https://t.co/gKUDI5Jv5v 2018-09-20 Computer and Internet Updates for 2018-09-20 https://t.co/enXcr2ykhX 2018-09-21 Computer and Internet Updates for 2018-09-20 https://t.co/HTNUb5maNP 2018-09-21 Torstar signs… [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 11:46 am
Torstar Corp., 2009 SCC 61): “In addition to privilege, statements of opinion, a category which includes any “deduction, inference, conclusion, criticism, judgment, remark or observation which is generally incapable of proof” (Ross v. [read post]
19 Feb 2021, 5:51 am
For example, lower tax policies may be designed to encourage investment, while higher taxes are recognized as risking reduced investment or corporate flight. [read post]
10 Dec 2016, 6:24 am
They may pit a large corporation or politician against individual citizens who advocate their positions publicly through meetings, picketing, protests, or published material. [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 4:00 am
The law of Defamation continues to be one of the most technical areas of law, with special limitation periods, notice pre-conditions to the commencement of proceedings, special rules of pleading and evidence, and reverse onuses of proof. [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 4:52 am
’ It appears that the corporate parent of the Times–Picayune also took the Slabbed.org blog offline after Perret and Leary demanded this retraction. [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 4:07 pm
Even when modernizing the law of comment (WIC Radio & Mair v Simpson [2008] 2 SCR 420) and creating a new “public interest responsible communication” defence (Grant v Torstar Corp [2009] SCC 61) the court failed to take the step of importing Charter analysis or standards into the common law[12] As to the English solution of Reynolds, Eady J comments sadly that the Reynolds defence “seems hardly ever to be used in litigation. [read post]
2 Dec 2018, 2:49 pm
A deal this year between Torstar and Postmedia resulted in the closure of 41 community papers (in favour of concentrating on “primary regions”). [read post]
17 Jul 2010, 2:11 am
Reynolds and Jameel – the existing law Before examining the proposals in Lord Lester’s Defamation Bill it is perhaps worth summarising shortly the existing state of the Reynolds common law defence. [read post]
