From Foreign Waters

  There is a lot of buzz around a proposed social media law that regulates the content one watches online in Canada . If the bill is passed in the parliament, it will be the first time that a lberal country will be going ahead with such social media restriction. If this was for any other country, there would have been large scale protests by people opposing such a law that snacthes their right to express themselves. There is no denying that the law threatens the human rights of the people of the country but if it were to be implemented in a more sophisticated way, it might prove to be the best thing for Canada in recent years. The law will essentially be regulating the social media platforms and moderate the harmful user generated content on the platform. The scholars have already started to criticise the law stating various facts by which this breaks the human rights norms. Many experts have gone through the proposed norms and as per them, they consist of some of the most wi...

China is unhappy with recent statements by Canadian politicians regarding the situation with Canadian citizens detained in China and is strongly opposed to Canadian "megaphone diplomacy."   This is stated in a statement by the Chinese embassy in Ottawa.   "Recently, some Canadian politicians made erroneous remarks about Sino-Canadian relations and the situation with Canadian citizens Michael Covrig and Michael Spavor. The Chinese side expresses strong discontent and strongly opposes these statements”,   the document says.   It says that relations between China and Canada recently "have encountered serious difficulties and the responsibility lies with the Canadian side."   "Attempting to oppose China with the help of" megaphone diplomacy "or exert pressure on China with unrelated [to the case of detained Canadians] issues is doomed to failure," the embassy emphasized.   The diplomatic mission also called on Ottawa to immediately releas...