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Peter Menzies: Online News Act Must Be Amended to Halt Damage to Canada’s Independent Publishers

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Peter Menzies: Online News Act Must Be Amended to Halt Damage to Canada’s Independent Publishers
Meta banned links to news pages on its platforms after the introduction of the Online News Act. Rick Bowmer/AP Photo
Peter Menzies
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Earlier this month I was in Ottawa, moderating a panel and listening to the hopes and fears of some of Canada’s independent publishers.

Peter Menzies
Peter Menzies
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Peter Menzies is a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, an award winning journalist, and former vice-chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.