Let Canada be the democratic beacon in an increasingly autocratic world by standing up to Silicon Valley

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Recently, I was a panellist at the Canadian Association of Journalists conference in Calgary. The session was titled, “Local Journalism in the Age of Cutbacks.” A great headline, sure, but that’s not why I was there. I was there to talk about our $8-billion class-action lawsuit against digital advertising giants Google and Facebook.

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Alongside Sotos LLP, I launched a national class-action lawsuit in 2022. I’m the representative plaintiff in a case filed in the Federal Court of Canada on behalf of all Canadian newspaper publishers, big and small, independent and chain owned. We allege that Google and Facebook have engaged in anti-competitive practices in digital advertising and siphoned billions in ad revenue from Canadian........

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