Canada and Facebook Are Fighting over News Dissemination

Who has the right to regulate and disseminate news? An Online News Act (Bill C-18) enacted by Canada might augment the country’s news media organization’s revenues, but the act will deny Canadians to access news on social media platforms and via search engines, mainly Facebook and Google.  News is new, noteworthy information about the latest and …

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Is It the Death of the Somali Language in Canada? 

Due to aging parents, youngsters drifting away from their heritage language, and the lack of unifying institutions, the use of the Somali language by Somali Canadians will disappear within three generations. Somali is a Cushitic language spoken by more than thirty million Somalis, regardless of their geographical locations. It is the mother tongue of an …

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