Michael Geist

Unleashing the Trolls: Ontario Court Opens the Door to Liability for Influencers Who Weaponize Their Audiences

The legislative efforts to combat online harms in Canada have focused chiefly on platform responsibility, with Bill C-34 ...
Michael Geist

Digital Trade Alignment: What May Be in Play in the Canada-U.S. Trade Deal

Less than two hours before new U.S. tariffs on Canada were set to take effect, U.S. President Trump last night announced a ...
Michael GeistOpinion

Why Ottawa Will Likely Join the U.S. in Opposing the Quebec Online Streaming Law at the Centre of the Trade Battle

French language policy has emerged as a hot-button issue in the breakdown of trade talks between Canada and the U.S. While ...
Michael GeistOpinion

Online Harms’ Forgotten Generation: Why the Government Needs to Pay Attention to Protecting Seniors

For much of the past month, someone has been trying to break into my Apple account. I receive regular e-mail and text ...
Michael GeistOpinion

Culture Off the Table? What the Collapsed Canada-U.S. Trade Talks Reveal About the Carney Government’s Cultural Policy

The Canada-U.S. trade talks collapsed on Friday night with 50 percent tariffs on billions of dollars in Canadian goods now in ...
Michael GeistOpinion

Thanks For Joining the Movement: French Constitutional Council Strikes Down Kids’ Social Media Ban

French President Emmanuel Macron has been the global leader in promoting a ban on social media for kids, consistently ...
Opinion
Michael GeistOpinion

TMU Picks Damage Control Over Fixing the Damage: Behind Its Shameful Response to the Devastating Benotto Report on Campus Antisemitism

Last fall, two incidents at Toronto Metropolitan University attracted national attention: the September 2025 disruption by the group Students for Justice in Palestine at TMU of a Democracy Forum event ...
Michael Geist

Canada’s Campus Antisemitism Crisis: National Survey Finds Antisemitism Nearly Everywhere and University Responses Nowhere

For the better part of two years, I have written about antisemitism on Canadian university campuses from the vantage point of personal experience: a post I never thought I would need to write on the ...
Michael Geist

The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 278: Ben Waldman on Gander Social and the Challenges of Building a Sovereign Social Network

Sovereignty, whether digital sovereignty, data sovereignty, or AI sovereignty, has been the hot-button issue in Canada for months. Governments have shifted policies in hopes of addressing the issue, ...