Michael Geist

If you follow me for Canadian digital policy, copyright, and AI regulation, the deeper analysis lives on my Substack - including every Law Bytes podcast episode embedded in full. Free to subscribe: mgeist.substack.com

What is happening to Jewish life in Canada? @JesseBrown joins Call Me Back to examine. Listen here: lnk.to/joWTZ9

Three years after the Rogers-Shaw merger was approved, the fallout is arriving: buyouts for half the workforce, rising consumer complaints, and a company pivoting toward sports and media. @peternowak joins the Law Bytes podcast this week to break it down. michaelgeist.ca/2026/05/the-la…

News Release - Suspected Hate-Motivated Assault with a Weapon Investigation, Bathurst Street and Lawrence Avenue West area, Video Released tps.ca/media-centre/n…

Banning social media for kids doesn’t address underlying harms, evidence shows it doesn’t work, and mandating digital age checks for Canadians creates big privacy risks. Yet politicians can’t resist as Conservatives jump on board. michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/the-il… nationalpost.com/news/canada/ki…

Would limiting access to social media make young people safer? Or open new dangers? Thanks @mgeist and Lloyd Richardson for the debate. thestar.com/opinion/contri… via @torontostar

NEW: FOI cancellation notices have already started going out, just one week after Bill 97 - which made retroactive changes to Freedom of Information laws - took effect. Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner says dozens of cases may be impacted. #onpoli

“his proposed social media and AI chatbot ban for kids 16 and under all but ensures more surveillance and more of our data at risk” thestar.com/opinion/contri…

“At a bar mitzvah I attended in Toronto recently, the rabbi began the service by explaining the emergency plan in case of an attack. At a synagogue. To beaming relatives and 13-year-old kids.” theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

There is no longer meaningful debate about whether antisemitism is rising. 🧵The Senate's recent report and implied condemnations of their own party are an important step in the right direction.

Michael Geist Weekly Digest #6: This week includes illusion of a social media ban, government money to Bell and Rogers, a Senate antisemitism report that misses half the problem, Ontario's FOI overhaul, and political parties still getting a privacy pass. linkedin.com/pulse/michael-…

Group preparing legal challenge to Ford government freedom of information clampdown | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/11824648/…

Wow - congratulations! x.com/MinJusticeEn/s…

Bill C-25 includes foreign interference rules, deepfake offences, third party financing reforms, new investigative powers, long ballot reforms, and an inadequate political party privacy framework. PROC committee is allocating just three days to study it. michaelgeist.ca/2026/05/going-…

Minister Miller makes a statement to mark Canadian Jewish Heritage Month ow.ly/YPmN106xWl6

The committee studying Bill C-25 - which includes foreign interference, deepfakes, and political party privacy - has set a noon deadline for submissions of witness briefs. Deadline not publicly posted. House committees have gone off the rails this week. x.com/mgeist/status/…

Privacy commissioners, civil liberties groups, and privacy experts have all concluded that the current privacy safeguards for political parties are inadequate. My post on how government is betting no one notices as it limits committee study on Bill C-25. michaelgeist.ca/2026/05/going-…

At an AI policy event where Culture Minister @MarcMillerVM was just asked about a social media ban for youth. Says the Australian experience shows it only works about 50% of the time. The data is actually much worse. The bans do not work. michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/the-il…

A new Senate report on antisemitism documents repeated examples of Jews targeted as Zionists. The committee's response: call definitional questions a distraction. For the community most affected, that's denial, not analysis or a way to address the issue. michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/why-th…

Good piece that echoes many of the things I wrote earlier this week on a social media ban for kids: “good intentions are not the same as good policy” michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/the-il… theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

A new Senate report on antisemitism documents two-channel targeting: Jews targeted for being Jewish, and Jews targeted for being Zionists. The report's response: label the distinction a "distraction." That's not balance. My op-ed on why it's the problem. michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/why-th…