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Mass media are very influential in shaping discourses about health but few studies have examined the extent to which newspaper coverage of such stories reflect issues embedded in health policy documents. We estimate the relative distribution of health stories using content analysis. Nine meta-topics are used to sort stories across a range of major influences shaping the health status of populations adapted from the document Toward a Healthy Future (Second Report on the Health of Canadians (1999)) (TAHF). A total of 4732 stories were analyzed from 13 Canadian daily newspapers (10 English, 3 French language) using a constructed week per quarter method. Stories were sampled from each chosen newspaper for the years 1993, 1995, 1997 and 2001. 72% (n=3405) of stories in this analysis were from English-language papers, 28% (n=1327) were from French-language papers. Topics related to health care (dealing either with issues of service provision and delivery or management and regulation) dominated newspaper stories, accounting for 65% of all stories. Physical environment topics accounted for about 13% of all stories, the socio-economic environment about 6% of stories, personal health practices about 5% of stories, and scientific advances in health research about 4% of stories. Other influences upon health identified in TAHF were rarely mentioned. The overall prominence of topics in newspapers is not consistent with the relative importance assigned to health influences in TAHF. Canadian newspapers rarely report on socio-economic influences frequently cited in the research literature (and reflected in TAHF) as being most influential in shaping population health outcomes.

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Shots were fired at the residence of an Indian-origin man in Canada's Surrey this week. According to news agency ANI, the incident happened on Wednesday, December 27 at the residence of the son of Satish Kumar, the president of Lakshmi Narayan Mandir, in Surrey.

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The agreement removes a threat by Google to block the ability to search for Canadian news on Google in Canada. Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta already has been blocking Canadian news since earlier this year.

Meta has taken similar steps in the past. In 2021, it briefly blocked news from its platform in Australia after the country passed legislation that would compel tech companies to pay publishers for using their news stories. It later struck deals with Australian publishers.

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The bill, which was passed by the Senate in June 2023, would require tech giants such as Meta and Google to make fair commercial deals with outlets for the news that is shared on their platforms. Shortly after the government introduced the bill, however, both Meta and Google announced they would block news in Canada on their platforms.

This block is important as both platforms are very popular in Canada. According to our Digital News Report 2023, 29% of Canadians used Facebook for news. Around 11% used Facebook Messenger and 10% used Instagram for the same purpose. Google, also widely used for news in Canada, said that it would be removing links to Canadian news from search, news pages and Google Discover when the law goes into effect at the end of the year.

However, the new legislation may make things worse for Canadian outlets, and while public broadcaster CBC or legacy newspapers will unlikely suffer much due to their robust funding models and name recognition, smaller, independent publications are already seeing the impact of the new law.

The Meta blackout has also affected IndigiNews, an independent digital news outlet doing journalism for Indigenous people, by Indigenous people. Publisher Eden Fineday says that over 40% of their total traffic came from Facebook before the Meta blackout.

Hermida points out that there is a two-fold impact of this blackout: people lose valuable sources of news and information, and publishers lose one of the key tools they have in developing and growing their audience.

Canada is not the first country to introduce a bill that would force tech companies to pay news media for their content. In 2021, Australia introduced the News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code.

Shortly after Australia passed their law, Facebook blocked all news content from its platform in the country while Google warned that the law would affect Australians ability to get the news from their site. A week after Facebook launched a news blackout in Australia, restrictions stopped when both Facebook and Google struck a deal with the government.

News organisations have invested this money back into their newsrooms. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, for example, said that it expanded its regional and rural coverage and network of regionally based journalists. The Guardian Australia said its newsroom grew by over 40 journalists. Solstice Media, which owns a number of newspapers in the country, said they were not only able to hire more journalists, but they also invested in professional development for their current staff and upgraded its content management platforms and its video player.

The Australian Facebook news ban also came before legislation passed, giving both parties some leeway to continue negotiations whereas in Canada there is little flexibility as Bill C-18 has already passed.

Other countries have failed before. Back in 2014, Google removed news from Spanish publishers from Google News in the country after the government passed a law requiring online aggregators to pay a copyright fee for linking to content created by newspapers and news publishers. The block also prevented users from other countries from finding links to Spanish articles on Google News.

A 2017 study found that this intervention did not have a significant impact on the reach of news sites, but it did increase audience fragmentation. In 2022, Google reopened Google News in Spain after the government changed the legislation allowing media outlets to negotiate directly with the tech giant.

The government does not seem to be backing down any time soon. The CRTC, the agency responsible for implementing the act, concluded a public consultation this fall to determine the bargaining process between platforms and news organisations. While the results of that consultation have not been made public, the actual bargaining is not set to begin until late-2024 at the earliest.

Google, which has not yet blocked news in Canada and which is one of the funders of the Reuters Institute, published a lengthy response addressing its view of this legislation and has remained firm that it will go ahead and pull news content from their platform if the law comes into effect as intended in December.

A survey done in mid-September by the Centre d'tudes sur les mdias in the French-speaking province of Quebec suggests that the blackout may be having some impact on news consumption. Up to 32% of respondents said that the blackout has impacted their news habits. Asked whether they have changed their consumption habits on Facebook or Instagram, 29% said they've been driven to other sources like going directly to the news media while 34% said that this form of consumption does not apply to them.

Eden Fineday from IndigiNews says they have started reaching out to other smaller outlets to support each other and trade ideas on how to reach audiences without Facebook. But she also says that the resilience of smaller news outlets depends on audiences' willingness to support them.

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Google agreed to contribute C$100 million ($74 million) in financial support annually, indexed to inflation, for a wide range of news businesses in Canada, Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said in a statement Wednesday.

But both big technology firms are pushing back hard. Meta has already blocked all links to news content in Canada on Facebook and Instagram since August to avoid making payments. Google had earlier threatened to remove news from search results before the law comes into effect on Dec. 19.

Google announced on Thursday that it will start blocking links to Canadian news articles once a new law in the country forcing tech companies to bargain with news publishers takes effect. LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Googles said on Thursday that it will block all links to Canadian news articles for people using its search engine and other services in the country in response to a new law that would compel tech companies to pay publishers for content.

"We have now informed the government that when the law takes effect, we unfortunately will have to remove links to Canadian news from our Search, News and Discover products in Canada," Google executive Kent Walker wrote in a blog post. 2351a5e196