Hyderabad: The Rajanna-Sircilla police department has created a QR code in order to assist individuals, particularly women in trouble.
If an auto driver misbehaves with a woman or attempts to take her on a different route with malicious intent, the victim can quickly scan the code on her mobile phone, and the information will be transmitted to the police control centre.
The QR code contains all of the information about the autorickshaw, including the registration number, the name of the driver, and its position, allowing authorities to track it down and rescue the victim. The police agency has placed the QR code on around 3,000 autorickshaws throughout the area.
Within 24 hours of its launch, the code garnered an overwhelming response from the general public. In addition, to raise public knowledge of the QR code, the police department produced a short flim and distributed it via Twitter and WhatsApp groups of inhabitants in the district.
The short clip depicts how a police squad tracked an automobile and was quickly apprehended by local cops after receiving information via a QR code supplied by a woman in trouble.
The clip was released on Twitter by SP Akhil Mahajan, the man behind the idea. State IT, Industries, and MAUD minister KT Rama Rao praised the Sircilla police for taking the effort to ensure commuter safety.
The SP is also collecting recommendations from netizens to improve policing. Akhil Mahajan has urged people to download the Abhaya Android App in order to receive immediate assistance from police around the clock.
The SP stated the drivers of all public transport vehicles (autos and taxis) have generated digital copies of their documents, which have been uploaded to the QR code. In addition to the app, users are encouraged to file complaints with the police via phone calls or text messages in order to receive prompt assistance.
“Message your SP” initiative has been launched in #sircilla district whereby anyone can directly tell any information, complaint, suggestion to SP. The details will be kept secret. The number is 6303922572 which will be used by me.@KTRBRS@TelanganaCOPs
On Page 3 of the Sun, I once saw the central i of the word “tit” asterisked out, not four inches away from a topless pair of the genuine article. So there’s always been a ludicrous coyness to Rupert Murdoch and his many works. But surely we are not really to believe that the media mogul this week ditched his highest-rating news anchor, Tucker Carlson, for referring to a woman as a “cunt” in an email? This is the take of the Wall Street Journal – proprietor: Mr R Murdoch – which explains: “Tucker Carlson’s Vulgar, Offensive Messages About Colleagues Helped Seal His Fate At Fox News”.
Righto. It’s fair to say the Wall Street Journal is not alone in the quest to make sense of Murdoch’s recent behaviour. The week after he paid $787.5m to settle the lawsuit brought against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems – Dominion’s lawyers were going to force him to take the stand – Murdoch sacked Carlson via his son Lachlan. Media outlets have been scrambling to find logical explanations for actions that arguably, to deploy a euphemism, defy logic. After all, this is a 92-year-old who only weeks ago was delighting us with news of his impending fifth marriage – a whirlwind engagement to a former dental nurse turned prison chaplain, which was hastily called off a mere fortnight later. Apparently, Murdoch had become “increasingly uncomfortable” with his fiancee’s “outspoken evangelical views”. Again: really?
The one thing we can say with certainty is that Murdoch would want us to pick over his actions and ask if he was still playing with a full deck of Happy Families cards. For decades, his newspapers have lasered in on public figures as they reach their twilight, premature or otherwise. Back in the day, a paparazzi picture of a painfully thin Freddie Mercury limping across the street was glossed with the Sun’s front page inquiry: “ARE YOU OK FRED?” – one of those newspaper questions to which the answer is patently: no. No, he’s not – what does it effing look like? So in the same solicitous spirit we must survey the recent actions of the mercurial mogul, and ask, in the way he taught us: ARE YOU OK RUPE?
Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall on their wedding day outside St Bride’s church, London, 5 March, 2016. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters
Put candidly … what does it effing look like? Last October, Murdoch announced plans to merge both his public companies, Fox Corp and News Corp, before being forced in January to abandon the scheme in the face of shareholder bafflement and dismay. March brought news of the bonkers betrothal and Murdoch’s bizarre interview about how he “dreaded falling in love”; April saw the engagement’s abandonment. Murdoch was supposed to end the month testifying in the Dominion lawsuit; having settled that, he set about blindsiding even his allies by sacking Carlson. While legacy media oblige their own moguls by suggesting lucid cause-and-effect, some of the upstarts are finally breaking the glass on the word “erratic”.
“Erratic” was certainly a word that came to mind when reading the epic recent Vanity Fair article on Murdoch, in which every line was a marmalade-dropper. Take the single paragraph that revealed Murdoch had fallen and seriously injured himself on a Caribbean superyacht trip with his now-former wife Jerry Hall. Though it hastened to dock to get him to hospital, the boat was too big for the pier, resulting in Murdoch having to be precariously lowered down, after which he spent a night under a tent in a car park (the local hospital was closed). He was finally medevaced out, but, according to a family friend, “kept almost dying”. LA medics discovered a broken back, noting from the X-rays that he had previously fractured vertebrae. The paragraph concludes: “Murdoch explained it must have been from the time his ex-wife Deng pushed him into a piano during a fight.” (Ms Deng did not respond to the publication’s requests for comment.)
It feels particularly piquant that all this is taking place against the backdrop of the final series of Succession. Murdoch is extremely, extremely relaxed about the show, to the point of having it written into his divorce settlement with Jerry Hall that she was banned from speaking to its writers. Jerry reportedly realised the Oxfordshire house she got in the settlement was rigged with cameras still beaming their footage back to Fox HQ, a discovery that prompted Mick Jagger’s security guy to come and dismantle the apparatus for her.
Despite settling with Dominion, Murdoch’s unfortunate courtroom dramas continue. This week, Prince Harry’s phone-hacking case alleged Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers reached a huge settlement with Prince William, but requested it be kept secret so as not to affect their ongoing legal battles with other claimants. Pleading favours off the establishment he has always regarded as his lawful prey – perhaps Murdoch is not so very different from other unhappy kings. Harry’s statement suggested he had bonded with Rupert’s boy James when they had met at some Google event / creche for megarich estranged second sons. “He made a real effort to try and come and talk to me,” recalled Harry of James Murdoch. “I got the impression that, having broken away from the cult that is the Murdoch dynasty, he was starting to show signs that he wanted to do things differently … Given that he had broken away from his family’s history, and I was about to do the same with mine, I felt that we were kindred spirits of sorts.” Real rebel hearts. As Succession’s Connor Roy once put it: “The elites are scared.”
But are the shareholders a little on edge too? There is something increasingly preposterous in the spectacle of media outlets searching for rational explanations to explain Rupert Murdoch’s recent antics. Surely at some point soon, we might need to consider irrational ones instead?
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Abhishek Bachchan, Aaradhya Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Instagram)
Mumbai: A recent buzz on social media has sparked speculations about the marital status of Bollywood power couple Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan. Rumors started swirling after Abhishek’s absence from recent events including the NMACC launch, where only Aishwarya and their daughter Aaradhya were seen.
Social media has been abuzz with fans and gossipmongers speculating about the state of Aishwarya and Abhishek’s marriage, with some even suggesting that trouble may be brewing between the couple.
According to recent rumors, there have been claims that Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been living separately with her daughter Aaradhya due to undisclosed issues with her in-laws, particularly her mother-in-law Jaya Bachchan and sister-in-law Shweta Bachchan. These alleged issues have reportedly caused a strain in Aishwarya’s relationship with her husband Abhishek, leading her to live separately with her daughter.
Furthermore, Abhishek was not seen accompanying Aishwarya and Aaradhya at a recent NMACC event, which has fueled speculations about the state of their relationship.
However, it’s important not to jump to conclusions based on mere appearances and rumours. Let’s wait for an official announcement from the couple.
Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan got married in 2007. They welcomed their first child, daughter Aaradhya in 2011.
Kolkata: More trouble seems to be brewing for arrested youth Trinamool Congress leader Kuntal Ghosh, who acted as a middleman in the multi-crore teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal, as two other middlemen arrested in this case have expressed interest to turn approver in the matter.
Sources said that counsel of the two middlemen — Tapas Mondal and Niladri Ghosh — have started initial communication with the central agencies on this count.
However, neither of the two central agencies, the ED and the CBI, has given any indication that they will accept the proposal of the two accused middlemen to turn approver so far.
Explaining that the process of turning approver for an accused is a lengthy one, senior counsel of the Calcutta High Court, Kaushik Gupta, said that Section 306 of CrPC has provisions on this count.
“First, the investigating body has to accept the plea from the accused to turn approver after examining the pros and cons of the development and also the probable future legal complexities arising out of the development. But mere acceptance of the investigating agency does not complete the process and guarantee pardon for the accused turning approver.
“The investigating agency will then seek the permission of the court concerned where the matter is being heard. The judge will take the final decision on this count after recording the reasons for doing so and other legal angles in the matter,” Gupta explained.
On Thursday, a special CBI court had extended the judicial custody of Kuntal Ghosh, Niladri Ghosh and Tapas Mondal till March 23.
Jammu, Mar 03: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday said that his doors remained open for common citizens to address their genuine grievances but there is no space for trouble mongers, who are spreading misinformation about property tax.
“The doors of Raj Bhawan are 24X7 open for common citizen of Jammu and Kashmir, be it farmers, traders, scientist, cops or youth, if they have any valid grievance administration is there to listen it round the clock,” the LG said, as per news agency— Kashmir News Observer (KNO), addressing the passing out parade of police at Kathua, adding, “However, some influential try to manipulate common citizens by spreading misinformation on property tax to save their own wealth, which administration would not be tolerate at any cost.”
The LG further said that by misusing positions and law, some people make huge wealth for their next generations and friends but their time has gone.
“The administration of Jammu and Kashmir will work for the welfare of 1.30 crore people and not 1000-2000 ‘special’ citizens,” the governor said.
The Lt Governor was speaking at the attestation-cum-passing out parade of recruit constables of 29th Basic Recruitment Training Course (BRTC) at S Prithinandan Singh Police Training School here.
Earlier, the LG maintained that the proposed property tax in Jammu and Kashmir is lowest in the country.
“The total households in municipal areas of Jammu and Kashmir is around 5 lakh 20 thousand out of which 2 lakh six thousand household are exempted from all taxes as it is below 1000 Sq Ft, another 2 lakh three thousand household are between 1000 to 1500 Sq ft and its maximum tax in Jammu and Srinagar cities is not above Rs 1000”.
He further added that when it comes to commercial complexes and shops, Jammu has 1 lakh 1000 buildings and 46000 is below 100 Sq ft, which invites just Rs 600 tax in a year.
He maintained that around 40 percent of households in municipalities are exempted from any tax while the remaining 40 have to pay very nominal tax.
The Government said that how the system works if owners take lakhs of rent for commercial property and not give 5000 to corporation.
On land eviction drive, the LG ensured that no poor will be affected during the anti-encroachment drive, adding, “All the land taken away from encroachers will be utilized for development and creating facilities for the citizens.
The LG also lauded the role of Jammu and Kashmir Police in its fight against terrorism and highlighted the need to neutralise the ecosystem providing ‘ideological and financial’ support to terrorists in the Union Territory.
“I am confident that you will discharge your responsibility towards the nation with utmost sensitivity, commitment and dedication,” added the Lt Governor.
“The integrity, dedication and professionalism of J&K Police are pivotal in the fight against terrorism, ” he said, and stressed upon the future-ready policing strategies to tackle the new forms of internal security challenges.
“These are challenging times for our police forces as the world today is facing conventional & non-conventional threats. We need to be vigilant & determined to neutralise the ecosystem providing ideological and financial support to terrorists,” the Lt Governor said.
“We believe in ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ and peaceful coexistence. There is no place for subversive elements in a civilized society,” observed the Lt Governor. Narco-Terrorism has become one of the biggest threats to society.
J&K UT is on the march and is being transformed. It is our sacred duty to provide a safe, secure and right environment to fulfill the aspirations of the common man, he said.
Noting that the top positions in the batch have been secured by women constables, the Lt Governor said that these achievements show that our women are no less than anyone. The Lt Governor further asked the DGP, Dilbag Singh to consider increasing the quota of reservation for women in the police force.
An oath was administered to the passing out cadets for performing their duties with dedication and honesty.
The Lt Governor took the Rashtriya Salute and witnessed the spectacular parade and martial art demonstration. He also felicitated the cadets who excelled during their training course.
R/Ct. Sunali Bhagat emerged as the best all-rounder. Recruit Constables Sarleen Kour, Sapna Saini, Heena Choudhary and Nitika Rajput were also felicitated by the Lt Governor for their excellent performances.
A total of 480 new recruits, including 49 women recruit Constables have completed their rigorous training today at the PTS Kathua. Out of 480, as many as 330 constables have already served as SPOs, 32 as followers, and 85 have been appointed under SRO—(KNO)
Gautam Adani is a hard man to avoid in India. Whether it’s electricity, ports, power plants, coalmines, airports, cement, solar panels, apples, edible oils, storage of data or grains or even a television news channel, the colossal empire of India’s most powerful billionaire has reached into almost every corner of Indian life.
According to Adani, his staggering rise from a nondescript diamond merchant in Gujarat to Asia’s richest man – whose wealth at one stage surpassed Jeff Bezos – and with whom much of India’s future development has been entrusted, is due only to “hard work, hard work, hard work”. His own successes, he has said, are the successes of the “India growth story”.
Yet, as many have pointed out, Adani’s meteoric rise has mirrored that of another powerful man from Gujarat: Narendra Modi, who has been prime minister since 2014. In the past five years, the Adani Group, a sprawling conglomerate of companies, rose in value by 2,500%, with a private sector monopoly on everything from electricity to coal, and Adani’s net worth touched $127bn. That was, until two weeks ago.
It was a bombshell report by a US-based investment research firm Hindenburg that that has brought much of the Adani empire crashing down to earth. In a highly detailed document that took two years to research, Hindenburg said Adani was pulling off the “largest corporate con in history” through stock manipulation, eye-watering levels of debt and secret offshore accounts.
The Adani Group hit back, denying all the allegations as baseless in a response that stretched to 413 pages. It said the report was an “attack on India itself” and that its debt levels conformed to industry standards.
The impact continues to reverberate through the domestic and international markets. The Adani Group has lost over $100bn in market value, been forced to cancel a major share offering and its stocks continue to fall, while Adani himself dropped off list of the world’s top 20 richest men. But given the well-documented close relationship between Adani and the Modi, who has himself been dogged by allegations of indulging in crony capitalism, the repercussions have also reached into the political sphere.
Modi has been silent on all questions about his ties to Adani. Attempts by the opposition parties to get the matter debated in parliament have been shut down, causing the parliament session to be suspended for two days, and the government has refused to entertain demands for a supreme court investigation into the alleged fraud. Over 200 members of the opposition Congress party were arrested for holding protests outside offices which has stakes in the conglomerate.
After Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi stood up in parliament with photos of Modi and Adani on a plane together and accused the government of giving Adani preferential treatment, all of his remarks were ordered to be expunged from parliamentary record.
Speaking on Tuesday, home minister Amit Shah said the government had “nothing to hide or be afraid of” on the controversy over Adani Group.
A shared vision, a shared rise
The relationship between Modi and Adani dates back more than two decades to 2002. As chief minister of Gujarat, Modi’s close links with big industrialists like Adani helped him reinvent himself as the pro-business face of modern economic progress, while Adani was granted highly beneficial concessions on tax and regulation in the state that allowed his wealth and stature to grow exponentially.
“Adani’s astounding, debt-fuelled rise mixed entrepreneurial dynamism, extravagant risk taking and canny political connections,” said James Crabtree, author of The Billionaire Raj.
After Modi won the 2014 general election, he flew back to Delhi on Adani’s plane, captured in a now iconic photo of him in front of the Adani logo. Adani also became a regular companion on Modi’s international trips, sometimes officially as part of a business delegation but other times unofficially, and, according to a 2015 report, was present during Modi’s visits to the United States, Australia, Brazil, Japan, France and Canada.
Adani has repeatedly denied that his longstanding connection with the prime minister has led to preferential treatment, as has the Indian government. Yet it has been evident that much of Modi’s vision for the development of India, particularly his infrastructure and energy ambitions, have been placed in the hands of the Adani Group, even as accusations of tax evasion, over-valuation and heavy debt swirled for years. The industrialist’s personal wealth went from $2.8bn in 2014 to $127bn by the end of 2022.
Over the past decade, the Adani Group won an endlessly expanding list of nationally significant projects. It now owns a string of strategic ports along India’s coast that handle about 30% of all India’s international freight and been able to acquire some of India’s most valuable tracts of land, be it Dharavi slum in Mumbai for redevelopment or the ancient Hasdeo Arand forest in Chhattisgarh for coal mining. Many of their projects face ongoing protests for causing environmental devastation or displacing communities.
Gautam Adani speaks at the World Congress of Accountants in Mumbai. Photograph: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images
Modi stands accused of helping Adani secure lucrative deals for coal and renewable energy projects in neighbouring Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. India’s ongoing commitment to coal has also been linked to the Adani group’s mammoth investment in India’s coal sector. “It’s interesting how the bigger Adani got in coal mining in India, the less momentum towards decarbonisation the Indian government seemed to be pursuing,” said Tim Buckley, a Sydney-based energy finance consultant.
The powerful connections wielded by the Adani Group have also appear to enable them to get projects done quicker than most, often sidestepping the entangled bureaucratic systems and regulations of India. On more than one occasion, legislation and regulations were amended or weakened to allow Adani to enter into new sectors or gain a significant tax advantage, including rules being changed so he could take ownership of six airports in Maharastra, India’s second busiest in Mumbai among them. The group denied any wrongdoing.
The activities of the group also became notoriously difficult to scrutinise, with journalists and news companies who reported critically on Adani slapped with lawsuits. After Adani recently pulled off a stealth take-over of India’s popular TV news channel NDTV, which had been seen as one of the last remaining bastions of mainstream independent journalism, the space for critical reporting on the Adani empire appeared to shrink further.
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, one of the few journalists who produced critical reports on the Adani businesses, is currently subject to six defamation suits brought by the Adani Group and a gag order from the court. “No one else has built a corporate empire so vast, sprawling, diversified and dominant in so many sectors of the Indian economy than Mr Adani,” said Thakurta, who said he felt “vindicated” after the Hindenburg report.
What next for India?
With around 10% of India’s future infrastructure projects in the hands of the Adani Group, as well as a promised $100bn investment in India’s green energy sector in India, there is concern that India’s development could falter if the fortunes of the Adani Group worsen and it is unable to raise capital. The Adani group has insisted “all ongoing projects will continue according to plan”.
“If the bubble hasn’t already burst it has at least halved in size,” said Geoff Law, who runs Adani Watch, a website funded by an Australian non-profit that has reported on the Adani Group’s actions in Australia and India.
“It is inevitable that their more ambitious projects will be re-examined and authorities and corporations will have second thoughts about the ventures that they’ve entered into with Adani.”
This week, the country’s market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India, said it was “inquiring” into the allegations made in the Hindenburg report, while the government told the supreme court it had no objection to an expert committee looking into the impact on Indian investors.
Nonetheless, Crabtree was among those who were doubtful that Adani would be brought down entirely by the Hindenburg report, given the powerful political actors vested in his conglomerate.
“But it does suggest that a corporate growth model that combines heavy debt, complex financing and opaque governance might not be in India’s long-term interest,” he said.
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“There are two leaders today that you have to choose between,” he said in reference to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, a formidable communicator who has been tapping into the politics of misery to build an anti-Trudeau coalition.
In his Friday speech to his party, Trudeau cast himself as a leader with a “positive vision of the future” and portrayed his rival as full of rage and light on policy and “positive solutions.” But by Saturday’s caucus meeting, the prime minister had softened his language on the threat of his government falling.
“We are still in delivery mode,” Trudeau said in French after being asked if his government is aiming to walk the talk on promises made in the last campaign, in case another one comes sooner rather than later.
Here are some hazards that could bring Trudeau some trouble in the year ahead.
Inflation, affordability and recession woes
Canada’s gross domestic product per capita dropped 1.3 percent during the pandemic, a stark contrast to the 1.2 percent growth tracked before 2020. The souring economy risks curdling Trudeau’s progressive agenda — and boosting Poilievre’s appeal to a broader swath of Canadians.
Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem offered a bleak forecast last week, predicting economic growth will be “pretty close to zero” over the next two, three quarters.
“It’s not going to feel good,” he said shortly after the central bank raised its benchmark interest rate 25 basis points — its eighth consecutive hike in the past year to tamp down inflation.
A potential recession, mild or full blown, will give Conservatives ammunition to callback some sass from the last campaign when Trudeau asked a reporter for forgiveness, “if I don’t think about monetary policy.”
Macklem’s prognosis, and the Bank of Canada’s decision to pause interest rate hikes, puts pressure on the Liberals to slow government spending.
It will be a hard trick to pull off.
A new health deal with provinces and territories is anticipated soon, plus Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has promised a budget decked with measures in response to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, so that Canada isn’t left scrounging for crumbs in a global energy investment race.
McKinsey controversy
Government contracts awarded to the world’s most powerful consulting firm have spiked since Trudeau’s Liberals took office in 2015. Now a parliamentary committee is investigating the deals, valued at least C$116 million.
Dominic Barton, McKinsey’s former global managing director and Canada’s most recent ex-ambassador to China, has been called to testify before members of Parliament. This week’s showdown will give opposition members an opportunity to grill the former Trudeau political appointee about cronyism and government bloat — issues Poilievre has amplified in a bid to portray Liberals as out of touch.
Convoy inquiry report
A final report due by Feb. 20 risks inflicting massive damage for Trudeau.
It’s been nearly a year since the Trudeau government invoked unprecedented powers to clear blockades on Parliament Hill and at U.S.-Canada border crossings. The convoy protests threaded together far-right extremists with the pandemic fatigued, disenchanted voters and QAnon enthusiasts in a weeks-long occupation of downtown Ottawa.
It is up to the Public Order Emergency Commission, led by Justice Paul Rouleau, to determine if the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act was appropriate and effective.
A damning report could elicit a vote of non-confidence in the House of Commons, giving the New Democrats’ deal to prop up the minority Liberals’ until 2025 its first major stress test.
A Biden visit
Trudeau’s team has dined out on the prime minister’s friendship with former Preisdent Barack Obama to lift his progressive credibility in times of need. Biden’s first in-person visit to Canada as president will be a bromide for the prime minister on the heels of whatever the Rouleau’s inquiry finds.
New economic and geopolitical challenges brought on by Russia’s war in Ukraine have brought Canada’s challenge in building major infrastructure projects to the fore. Ottawa is under pressure to move fast and build liquefied natural gas and hydrogen facilities, develop its battery supply chain from critical minerals to electric vehicles, in order to create jobs, maintain gross domestic product growth and relevance to its allies.
Budget politics
Health care and the green energy transition will take center stage in Freeland’s 2023 budget which, she said, will take a “fiscally prudent” approach.
Freeland’s Fall Economic Statement introduced C$11.3 billion in new spending. A potential big price tag for her upcoming budget risks sinking her party’s fiscal credibility. Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine has put new demands on Freeland to increase military funding and shed the perception of Canada as a laggard in the NATO alliance.
A prudent spring budget won’t necessarily mean a thrifty Fall Economic Statement. In 2021, the Liberals campaigned on a platform that touted C$78 billion in new spending, a bulk of which remains unallocated.
Policy pressures
The Liberal’s proposed gun legislation (Bill C-21), prohibiting some hunting rifle and shotgun models, is a ripe opportunity for Conservatives to cast Liberals as an urban party.
Government House Leader Mark Holland has described it as an “emotionally charged” issue with no quick fix. A lack of consultation created blowback for the Liberals, irritating Trudeau-friendly premiers, Indigenous communities and compelled Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price to speak out against the bill.
On the energy front, details of the Liberals’ promised cap on oil and gas greenhouse gas emissions are expected this year — policy guaranteed to spark debate between Ottawa and Alberta.
There will be a provincial election in Alberta in May, which means United Progressive Conservative Premier Danielle Smith will use spring to squeeze in attacks against Trudeau, and specifically Ottawa’s imminent energy transition legislation, to shore votes in Canada’s oil and gas sector.
Bill C-11, the Liberals’ Online Streaming Act, is on the cusp of becoming law, much to the disappointment of U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai. If passed, the new law would require online streaming giants such as Netflix, Spotify and YouTube to pay up to support more Canadian content on their platforms or be hit with penalties if they don’t comply.
Tai has criticized the legislation as being discriminatory against American companies and has not ruled out potential retaliation.
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