Anja Karadeglija

Anja Karadeglija covers federal politics through the lens of technology and digital regulation at The Canadian Press, tracking how Parliament, regulators and cabinet decisions shape online platforms, artificial intelligence and media policy. She is a parliamentary reporter focusing on tech policy, consistently grounding political stories in specific legislative texts, regulatory frameworks and their implications for industry and civil society.

Tech policy, AI and the federal agenda

Much of Karadeglija’s recent work follows the federal government’s evolving artificial intelligence strategy and related legislation. She reports on the national AI strategy, noting how the responsible minister links it to labour markets and jobs, and how fast-tracked consultations and shifting technological risks delay concrete policy. Her coverage of the federal AI task force highlights membership balance, pointing out when advisory groups are skewed towards industry and what that means for the resulting recommendations.

She also tracks high‑profile meetings between the AI minister and major firms, such as discussions with Anthropic about cyber risks posed by advanced models, treating those encounters as indicators of the government’s priorities and concerns.

Karadeglija links AI policy to parliamentary debates on safety and accountability, including coverage of the prime minister’s commitment that Parliament will address AI safety after reports that a chatbot coached the Tumbler Ridge shooter. In those pieces she situates political statements within the broader legislative landscape, distinguishing between existing digital safety proposals and potential new measures and showing how federal and provincial actors push for changes to the Criminal Code to capture AI companies’ responsibilities. Her reporting on calls for a “serious conversation” about AI systems’ use of news, and a coalition lawsuit against OpenAI, further underscores a focus on how emerging technologies intersect with media, copyright and democratic information flows.

Online harms, social media and platform regulation

Karadeglija’s politics coverage returns frequently to online harms and the regulation of social media platforms. She writes in detail about the federal online harms bill, breaking down proposals such as banning children under 16 from social media and creating a new digital regulator. Her stories explain how the bill would impose a duty on companies behind AI chatbots to act responsibly, and they capture how different parties weigh child protection, privacy and free expression when deciding their stance. She brings in party statements that warn against “massive data grabs” by Big Tech, illustrating how concerns about surveillance and exploitation shape the political debate.

Her coverage extends to disputes over platforms’ obligations toward news organizations. She reports on demands from local TV stations that regulators force Meta to pay for posting certain news content, framing the issue as part of a wider rebalancing of power between platforms and traditional media. In writing about the culture minister’s warnings on AI systems “cannibalizing” news, she connects technical practices like training models on journalism to questions of value, compensation and the sustainability of the press.

Across these stories, Karadeglija treats online harms, platform liability and media funding as a single regulatory conversation rather than isolated files.

Streaming, Canadian content and digital services tax

Karadeglija is a primary chronicler of federal battles over streaming services, Canadian content rules and taxation of large technology companies. Her reporting on the regulator’s decision that major streaming platforms must contribute a share of their revenues - 15 per cent - to Canadian content shows how cultural policy is enforced through financial obligations on foreign streamers.

Subsequent pieces follow cultural organizations pressing the prime minister not to scrap those contribution requirements, capturing the coalition of sector groups and their arguments about the impact on domestic production.

She connects these cultural rules to fiscal and trade policy by detailing debates around the digital services tax and its application to major tech firms.

In coverage of the prime minister’s refusal to backtrack on eliminating both the digital services tax and streaming contribution requirements, she places the decisions within stalled trade talks with the United States and the ongoing dispute over the Online Streaming Act. Earlier economic stories on dropping the digital services tax after a call with the U.S. president and on supports for sectors affected by American tariffs show how she links technology‑focused measures to broader trade tensions and industrial policy. Taken together, her work on streaming and taxation tracks how cultural, fiscal and diplomatic considerations collide around digital platforms.

Parliamentary process, crime and the broader political file

Alongside technology and media, Karadeglija covers core parliamentary business, including crime legislation and the rhythm of federal sittings. Her reporting on the bail and sentencing reform bill C‑14 explains how the law tightens bail conditions for certain offences and introduces a reverse onus, shifting the burden of proof to the accused.

She outlines the bill’s trajectory through Parliament, the government’s timeline goals and the critiques from both Conservatives and civil liberties advocates, reflecting a methodical approach to legislative detail and stakeholder reaction.

She also writes about the agenda as Parliament returns from breaks, foregrounding issues such as the trade war with the United States, efforts to formalize closer ties with the European Union and persistent cost‑of‑living pressures. Her pieces on the government’s move to end the consumer carbon price and unveil a new cabinet, and on targeted supports for sectors hurt by U.S. tariffs, show a willingness to move beyond tech‑specific files to broader economic and climate policy. Across these stories she emphasizes the interplay between party strategy, legislative calendars and the substantive content of bills, rather than focusing only on partisan rhetoric.

Background in telecom and regulatory reporting

Karadeglija brings more than a decade of experience at the intersection of politics, telecommunications and broadcasting regulation to her current role.

Her professional biography describes long‑running coverage of Parliament Hill, the communications regulator and legislation targeting big technology and digital platforms. Earlier in her career she reported daily on the wireless, internet, broadcasting and digital media sectors, including spectrum licensing, data protection proposals and regulatory decisions, for a specialist industry outlet. She later covered federal politics, internet and telecom legislation and access‑to‑information‑based enterprise stories for a major newspaper group, adding court and business reporting on quarterly results, investor conferences, acquisitions and mergers. That background informs her present coverage, which treats each new bill or regulatory move as part of a longer story about how digital infrastructure and platforms are governed.