Too much Chinese influence manages to anger the Canadians

Canada has instructed TikTok to wind up its business (get it?) within the country, citing potential national security risks posed by the platform and its parent company, ByteDance.

Joins US and EU

Canada has joined the US and EU banning the social notworking site TikTok from government-issued mobile devices.

We must obey the US

Canada is planning to ban Huawei from working on Canada's fifth-generation networks to appease its US neighbours.

Got to prop up the mass media

The Canadian government introduced legislation Tuesday to force digital giants to compensate news publishers for the use of their content.

Get back to dog sleds 

Canada wants to ban sales of combustion engine cars by 2030 and will presumably be looking at alternative tech, such as dog sleds.

Claimed it was to save them from Covid

The Public Health Agency of Canada (or PHAC) accessed location data from 33 million mobile devices to monitor people's movement during lockdown.

Still keeping tourists out of the country

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government took time off from messing up his economy by keeping foreigners out of the country to do something good for polar bears.

Delayed by pandemic

 Canada is to start the auction of the mobile telecommunications bandwidth necessary for 5G rollout, one that was delayed more than a year by the pandemic.

Want’s China’s crown

The man who has locked his entire country away from the world for a year citing coronavirus now wants to have an internet that rivals China.

Should not have collected photos

American technology firm Clearview AI violated Canadian privacy laws by collecting photos of Canadians without their knowledge or consent, an investigation by four of Canada's privacy commissioners has found.