I'm always amazed that somehow has a first world nation we have this shit. When my kids had COVID there was nothing for a fever and there were guides on how to split pills for kids.
Just use our purchasing power to import it from some other country and ignore the red tape.
But the news org provides that summary with the page to Facebook... it's part of the Open Graph Protocol which... is for facebook. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Platform#Open_Graph_protocol
Lets look at the source of a CBC News story.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-variant-ba-2-86-1.6943005
property="og:description" content="A highly mutated variant of the virus behind COVID-19 has popped up in multiple countries, but scientists aren't yet sure whether it will fuel a fall wave of infections or simply fizzle out."/>
So if the news companies are upset that Facebook is showing a summary... maybe stop providing a summary to facebook explicitly in your code?
I find this outrage so funny. "Hey you give me $500 for this used Timmies cup?" "No" "How dare you!"
Why would Meta / Google want to pay 250+ million dollars a year to link to news sites? Do you think they're generating billions of dollars in revenue from those links?
I hope the situation is better over there than in Ontario. Sure day care is getting cheaper for those who have it. However there is basically no availability to the point where I have a nanny for my kids.
When the wait lists are years.... what the hell is the point. Should you register before your planning on getting pregnant?
less than 1.5 litres of wine or less than 3.5 litres of beer or less than 450 millilitres of spirits per week.
The WHO considers that light? Holy crap... so if you're drinking 2 bottles of wine yourself per week you're a "light drinker"
The article says "Financial markets data firm Refinitiv says Telus had 108,500 workers at the end of last year."
Why does social media have to fund journalism... they pay taxes here.
Personally I find this hilarious. The argument that Meta (Facebook) and Google are making "so much money" from Canadian News is in itself laughable. If anything they're helping keep Canadian News relevant by suggesting it to people. No-one forced CBC to go make an instagram account etc.
So I think the law is working great. They demanded if you're going to link to a website you have to pay them a share of the revenue you generate. So these companies have elected that it's not worth the cost and will not link to them. Seemingly the media is going full shocked pikachu over this.
This is an insane idea.
14 years here checking in. Such is life, I left digg, I'll leave Reddit.
Check out some other instances. Lemmy.ml will be taking the brunt of the beating today and for the next 48 hours.
Sounds like the town needs to run a better website and not depend on Facebook for broadcasting news..