Philip Lee

About 96 per cent of Canadians are now connected to the internet, but a digital divide still exists.

Nearly seven out of 10 Canadian millennials get their news from social media. Should we be worried?

Encryption is supposed to ensure that information stays private by scrambling data. In practice, security forces and corporate interests are keen to be able to crack any code.

As facial recognition becomes more and more common, there are also growing concerns about the gender and racial bias embedded in many systems.

Who will protect us from a collective vulnerability to misinformation, manipulation and cyber violence?

While climate change is already affecting Canada, its mainstream media are failing to provide citizens with adequate information about the issue and how it affects them at a global and local level.

The vast majority of Canadians have expressed concern about the protection of privacy, particularly around how online personal information is used.

Democracy fails when heads of state, populist politicians and unregulated corporate interests are allowed to ride roughshod over freedom of the press.

As migration and displacement of people worldwide have increased, so has media coverage, not all positive.

Accessibility and affordability are watchwords of the communication rights movement. Yet when it comes to digital access, governments still have not got their act together.