{"id":424451,"date":"2026-01-21T21:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/424451\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T21:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:46:11","slug":"canadas-tiktok-operations-ban-overturned-by-federal-court-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/424451\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s TikTok operations ban overturned by Federal Court &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy David Ljunggren<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tReuters\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted January 21, 2026 3:38 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s Federal Court on Wednesday overturned a government order to close <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/tiktok\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok\u2019s<\/a> Canadian operations, allowing the short-video app to keep operating for now, and told Ottawa to review the case.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In November 2024, Canada\u2019s industry ministry ordered TikTok\u2019s business to be dissolved, citing national-security risks, but added the government was not blocking access or users\u2019 ability to create content.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok, which says it has more than 14 million monthly users in Canada, appealed the decision.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>In a short judgment, Federal Court judge Russel Zinn set aside the order and sent the matter back to Industry Minister Melanie Joly for review. He did not give any reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The industry ministry was not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, TikTok welcomed the decision and said it looked forward to working with Joly.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11621581\/canada-thinks-unthinkable-as-trump-burns-allies\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769031971_464_20095c365457875ba88b3d74dabd598e3b5950886a3dd245e831cb5ed4d54b3c.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAs Donald Trump burns longstanding alliances, Canada thinks the unthinkable\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11622372\/donald-trump-davos-speech\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769031971_978_Trump-Davos-leave.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u2018That\u2019s our territory,\u2019 Trump says as he vows again to acquire Greenland\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mark Carney has been seeking closer ties to China to help offset the damage done to the Canadian economy by U.S. tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Canada and other nations have been scrutinizing TikTok because of concerns China could use the app to harvest users\u2019 data or advance its interests. TikTok is owned by Chinese company ByteDance Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Last September, TikTok agreed to improve its measures to keep children off its Canadian website and app after a investigation found its efforts to block children and protect personal information were inadequate.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By David Ljunggren Reuters Posted January 21, 2026 3:38 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,177545,1849,44,714,1059,147631],"class_list":["post-424451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-tiktok-ban","tag-consumer","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-tiktok","tag-tiktok-ban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}