March 16, 2026 - AI companies built their products using Canadian journalism without permission and without compensation, and are now delivering that journalism to consumers as their own product. Existing copyright and media policy frameworks were not designed to address this.

In February and March 2026, we conducted the first large-scale empirical audit of how AI models use and distribute Canadian journalism.

February 24, 2026 - The Centre’s Founding Director, Taylor Owen, and Helen Hayes, Associate Director of Policy, are calling for immediate action to scope AI chatbots into a revised Online Harms Act.

The Centre’s Media Ecosystem Observatory released a new national brief that finds limited belief in conspiracy theories, but outsized visibility driven by a small number of highly active online accounts.

January 22, 2026 - In the Fall of 2025, the Minister of AI and Digital Inclusion Evan Solomon announced the creation of Canada’s National AI Task Force. The Centre’s Founding Director, Taylor Owen, was asked to be part of it. The members of the task force had one month to develop recommendations on different AI-related themes. Taylor’s focus was governance, safety and trust. His full memo is included below.

We are thrilled to announce that Anna Jahn will be joining McGill as Executive Director of the newly merged Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy and Media Ecosystem Observatory. Anna will also serve as Associate Professor of Research at McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy.