Hello and welcome to another special edition of CFRC’s Campus Beat where we reach off Queen’s University campus in Kingston, Ontario and all the way down the 401 corridor to chat with Dr. Bonnie Stewart at the University of Windsor about early understandings of Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act and what may lie ahead.
Dr. Stewart is a longtime educator and digital researcher whose work in participatory learning has spanned all eras of the web. As an Associate Professor of Online Pedagogy and Workplace Learning in the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Education, Bonnie explores the implications of digital information ecosystems for institutions and society. As an early researcher of Massive Open Online Courses and digital disruptions in higher education, Bonnie has been thinking about digital systems and their impacts on education over decades of change.
Currentely, she is investigating what it means to know, to learn, and to belong in an era increasingly marked by digital automation and weaponization and has made ink recently in the Windsor Star about Bill C34 noting alongside her peers that teaching digital literacy and having conversations with youth is more important than banning social media access in Canada for youth 16 years of age or under.
Legislation is new and still in process, but we’re delighted to welcome Dr. Stewart to CFRC’s airwaves and podcast platform to chat about the new legislation early on. Thank you for joining us.
Original Broadcast:
CFRC 101.9 FM (Kingston)/CFRC.ca 14 July 2026 11 AM
Syndicated at CJAM 99.1 FM (Windsor) 17 July 2026 12 PM
Guest: Dr. Bonnie Stewart, University of Windsor
Host/Producer: Dinah Jansen, CFRC 101.9 FM Radio Queen’s University