Conservatives Flip Flop on Plan to Restrict Govt Funding
Ontario Government Acts on Sexual Harassment in Ontario
Ontario Govt Funds Violent Game Developer Digital Extremes
Heritage Minister to Meet with CHOI Owners
Heritage Promises Changes to Tax Credit Policy.pdf
Senator Clinton to Introduce Legislation
Articles on Senator Clinton's Initiative
Senator Clinton's Speech to Kaiser Family Foundation
Government Not Enforcing Regulations on Porn Videos.pdf
Information on Bill 158 (new film classification act) Ontario
Bill 202 - Crime Redepiction
New Video Game Law in Ontario
New Video Game Law in Manitoba
ESAC Presents to York Police Services Board
Canadian Anti Spam Roadmap
Film Boards Look to Reduce Video Game Violence
Maryland Considers Video Game Bill
Key Lawmaker Calls for Criminalizing Indecency
Governor Pushes for Video Game Bill
Ontario Tories Call for Youth Violence Summit
Bernardo Video Clips Sold to HBO
GTA:SA Prompts Warning in Ontario
Manitoba to Rate Video Games
U.S. Senate Approves Fine Increase
OFRB Classifies Manhunt as Restricted
Good Old Days in Canada - Part I
Good Old Days - Part II
Good Old Days - Part III
Battle Over Violent Games Heats Up
U.S. Presidential Candidate Slams Media
TV Violence Creates Bullies
Britain to Examine Media
FTC Pursues Firms Marketing Violence
Violent Media Marketed to Youth
Bill 19 - BC Video Games
B.C. Calls for National Strategy
FTC on Marketing Violent Entertainment
Peddling Violent Movies to Kids with TV Ads
Hollywood Violence Targets Kids
Senators Push Safe Harbour Bill
BC Discussion Paper on Media Violence

Government Action

The Canadian federal government announced several years ago that media violence was a priority, but has done nothing meaningful to address the problem in the intervening years.  Under the Liberal government, which was in power for many years, violence on television escalated dramatically, and they did absolutely nothing to curtail the brutal violence in other media, so you won't find much in this section on recent federal government initiatives. 

Ontario has a Liberal government that was very active on the issue of media violence while in opposition, but hasn't done much while in power, although they did introduce a legislated classification system for video games (based on the ESRB classifications), that makes it illegal to sell or rent M or AO rated games to minors.

Click here to read the initiatives on media violence undertaken by the NDP government in British Columbia back in 2000.  This is old news, but should be a template for other provinces, territories and the federal government. (Sorry about the underlining.  These documents are my file copies.)