Julie Roy is leaving the National Film Board to become executive director at Telefilm Canada, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez announced Monday. She begins her five-year term on Apr. 3.
“With Julie Roy’s appointment as executive director, I am confident that Telefilm Canada’s important national goals will be strongly supported,” the minister said in a news release. “Her extensive knowledge of the industry and her unifying and mobilizing leadership...
Ericsson Canada announced Tuesday that Jeanette Irekvist has been appointed president of the telecom manufacturer. The appointment is effective immediately.
She will remain as VP and head of customer unit Canada. She succeeds Graham Osborne, VP customer unit at Verizon.
“I am thrilled to take on the responsibilities as president of Ericsson Canada, particularly as we mark our 70-year anniversary of our operations here in Canada,” the 24-year veteran of the...
Xplore Inc. has announced that the company's CEO Allison Lenehan will be...
CRTC chair Vicky Eatrides announced in a Wednesday press release that the...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Co. announced the retirement of its president and CEO Doug Burnett.
Burnett will be leaving at the end of May to early June,...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez Monday announced the appointment of...
The purpose of the CRTC is to achieve policy outcomes rather than regulate the broadcasting sector and that financial interests come second, according to the CRTC's interim...
The CRTC is starting a fresh chapter with new...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced late-Monday night the passing of...
Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, is a necessary tool to update...
Former CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein has been appointed a member of the Order of Canada. The honour...
Ian Scott's tenure as chair of the CRTC comes to a close Thursday. The Wire Report sat down with Scott to...
Tandy Yull is returning to the Canadian Association of Broadcasters as Vice President, Policy and...
Rogers Communication Inc. has appointed Ron McKenzie, the company’s former president of Rogers for...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed Philippe Dufresne as Privacy Commissioner Wednesday. ...
The Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. (CPAC) named Christa Dickenson as its president and chief executive officer, the public affairs broadcaster announced Friday in a press release.
Dickenson has 30 years of experience in the film, cable television, interactive digital media,
technology, and telecommunications sectors. She has worked at Telefilm Canada, Interactive Ontario, Rogers Communications Inc., CTV News, as well as CPAC.
She was also named as one of “the 20 most powerful women in global entertainment” by...
Friends, formerly known as Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, announced Wednesday that Marla Boltman has...
Cogeco Communications Inc. has appointed a new senior vice-president and chief human resources officer, the company was announced Tuesday in a press release.
Linda Gillespie will begin her duties at the Montreal head office effective April 4, 2022.
The Queen's University alumna spent the...
Tony Staffieri had been appointed as President and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc., the company...
Lawson Hunter, a former Commissioner of the Competition Bureau and a one-time BCE Inc. executive, has...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Thursday afternoon that Robert Dépatie is joining the company as chief operating officer of the home and business division. He will start Dec. 6.
In a statement, interim CEO Tony Staffieri praised Dépatie's experience.
“With...
John Raines will be joining Telus Corp.’s agriculture division as president effective Nov. 29, the...
Bryson Masse is the new Regulatory and Communications Advisor at Competitive Network Operators of...
Satellite operator, Telesat Corp. appointed an executive in the...
Telus Corp.’s executive vice-president François Gratton will be transferring into a new role as the non-executive chair of the board of directors of Telus Health and Telus Agriculture at the end of...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Wednesday evening that CFO Tony Staffieri has left his post after...
The Canadian Communication Systems Alliance (CCSA) Friday announced four new members have been elected to its board of directors. Hearst Connect general manager Tania Cossette, Novus Entertainment Inc. co-president and chief...
The data services company TeraGo Inc. announced Monday that it has appointed Andy Ramsey, the company's...
The data services company TeraGo Inc. has announced it is looking for a new chief financial officer as its current CFO David Charron is stepping down "to pursue other...
Redline Communications Group Inc., a Markham-Ont.-based manufacturer of wireless network technology for mining, oil-and-gas, and utilities groups, is taking on a new CEO as it...
Cogeco Inc. cable subsidiary Cogeco Connexion has signed on Fido Mobile VP Nancy Audette as its own vice...
Quebecor Inc. executive Jean-François Pruneau announced Tuesday morning that he would be stepping down from his position as president and CEO of Videotron in order to "leave active professional life and devote himself to personal...
Cogeco Inc. Monday announced the appointment of John Hargrave as its vice-president of products. "I am very excited that John is joining the Cogeco family. He will be an undeniable asset to our growth strategy, especially in...
James Moore, who served as industry minister in Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, has joined the board of directors at Xplornet Communications Inc.
The company said in a late-December press release the appointment...
President of Cogeco Inc.'s media division Michel Lorrain has stepped down from the position, the company announced today.
Lorrain is leaving the position to "pursue personal interests," according to a release.
"On behalf of my colleagues and the entire Cogeco team,...
Paul Beaudry is to become the new vice-president for regulatory affairs at Cogeco Inc., taking over from Nathalie Dorval. Beaudry announced the news on Twitter Thursday morning. “It’s an exciting time to be in the...
President of BCE Inc.'s Bell Media Randy Lennox will step down on Jan. 4,...
The federal government has appointed Federal Court judge Luc Martineau as...
Quebecor Inc. has promoted Peggy Tabet, previously vice-president of broadcasting regulatory affairs, to the job of vice-president of regulatory and public affairs. In the new position, Tabet will oversee regulatory matters for...
Telus Corp. has hired Jacob Glick to be its vice-president of public policy. Glick was most recently the general counsel for North, a wearable technology eyewear company based in Kitchener-Waterloo. That company was acquired by...
BCE Inc. Wednesday announced that Jean-Philippe Pineault will lead up the news division at Groupe V Media Inc., the Francophone broadcaster Bell was approved to purchase in April. The position -- general manager, news and information -- is a new one, and will be created June 27. "The...
The federal government has appointed two individuals to the board of directors of CBC/Radio-Canada. Sandra Mason and Bill Tam will join the board for five-year terms, according to a Thursday press release from Canadian...
Telus Corp. announced Wednesday that it has accepted the resignation of former federal Conservative MP Stockwell Day from its board of directors, following his appearance on a CBC/Radio-Canada...
Music Canada CEO Graham Henderson will step down from the role he’s held for more than 15 years, the organization announced in a Thursday press release. In the statement, Henderson said working at Music Canada had been a “great honour and privilege.” “I have absolutely every confidence that the staff, the Board and everyone at Sony, Universal and Warner will go forward from strength to strength. I hope that my experience and insight may be of some value down the road,” Henderson said. Board chairperson Jennifer Sloan thanked Henderson for guiding the trade organization...
Cogeco Inc. has appointed T-Mobile Polska S.A. chief commercial officer, Frédéric Perron, as the new president of its cable division, Cogeco Connexion, the company announced on Thursday. In a press release Cogeco said Perron, who has more than 20 years managerial experience in both the telecommunication and banking...
Eric Baptiste, CEO of the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) has left the organization, effective immediately. “With the end of the current CEO contract approaching, Eric thought it was time to move on and a mutual decision was reached with the Board to end his...
Shaw Communications Inc. founder JR Shaw has passed away at the age of 85, the company said Tuesday....
Shaw Communications Inc.'s president Jay Mehr will retire in April after four years in the role and be...
Ken Smithard, the president of Cogeco Inc.’s Canadian telecom division, is leaving the company after 20 years.
Cogeco said in a press release Monday that Smithard is departing “at the end of January 2020 to pursue personal interests.”
The company said it would...
Satellite service provider Telesat Holdings Inc. has named Andrew Browne as its new chief financial officer on Thursday, following the retirement of Michel Cayouette. ...
Starting in February 2020, Donald Lizotte will take over as CBC/Radio-Canada’s general manager and...
BCE Inc.’s Quebec vice-chair, Martine Turcotte, will retire in January 2020, the company announced...
Ontario public broadcaster TVO is losing its longtime leader, after Lisa de Wilde announced yesterday that she would be stepping down as the broadcaster’s CEO after 14 years in the job. In a statement she posted on Twitter,...
Quebecor Inc. announced in a release Tuesday that Patrick Jutras would take over as senior vice-president and chief advertising officer of Quebecor and its TVA Group subsidiary. Jutras was previously vice-president of digital...
DHX Media Ltd. announced Thursday night that Michael Donovan would step down as CEO of the Halifax-based...
The Office of the Prime Minister announced late last week that Simon Kennedy would become deputy minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development starting September 3. Kennedy will be replacing John Knubley, who retired in June after seven years at ISED and 39 years in public service. Kennedy has been deputy minister of health since...
Alyson Walker, vice-president of brand partnerships and client strategy at BCE Inc.’s media division,...
Alex Benay, Canada’s chief information officer, is headed to the private sector after two and a half years in the role.
He is joining the Ottawa-based startup Mindbridge Analytics Inc., where he will join as chief client officer and be “responsible for the...
The Canadian Media Fund has announced it is hiring former Heritage Canada strategist Kelly Wilhelm to a newly created role of chief strategy officer. According to a release, Wilhelm will be “tasked with contributing to setting the future trajectory of the CMF, with a specific focus on...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s media division has appointed Jordan Banks as president, effective September 9, according to a Monday press release. Banks will replace Rick Brace, who was president since 2015 and will retire from Rogers at the end of this year. “Banks’s mandate will include overseeing the current $2 billion Rogers Media...
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains’ chief of staff Gianluca Cairo is leaving Parliament Hill to work for human resources software company Ceridian HCH Inc. “My time at Innovation, Science and Economic Development under Minister Bains has been particularly special for a couple of reasons. First, having a chance to play an integral role in developing and implementing economic policies to spur innovation and growth in...
The CRTC has filled the last of its open commissioner slots, as Yukon lawyer Claire Anderson has been named to the vacant seat representing British Columbia and the Yukon. Anderson, who practices law at the Whitehorse firm...
John Knubley, who has been deputy minister at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) for seven years, announced his retirement last week. Knubley has been at ISED since 2012, and before that was deputy Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food from 2009. He has worked in public service since 1980. His last day of work was today, Friday June 28, an ISED spokesperson confirmed....
Cogeco Inc. said it has hired Marie Ginette Lepage as its new...
Long-standing Quebecor Inc. executive Serge Sasseville has announced he will retire from his position as...
A former Astral executive is Quebec’s new representative to the CRTC, with the federal government appointing Alicia Barin to the commission for a five-year term. Barin will join the CRTC in August. She is a former executive...
Nicholas McHaffie, who served as counsel to TekSavvy Solutions Inc. in its long-running legal saga against movie studios looking to get the personal information of Canadians in copyright cases, has been appointed to the Federal...
The CRTC has created a new chief of consumer, research and communications...
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) said it has a new national executive director in Marie Kelly, effective on Monday. Kelly, a labour lawyer by trade, will replace the retiring Stephen...
Bart Yabsley has been appointed as the new president of Sportsnet, filling a role left vacant when Scott Moore stepped down from that position last fall. Yabsley was most recently senior vice-president of sports and...
The Liberal government has appointed Matthew Boswell on a full five-year...
Marco Dubé will take over the vice-president of people and culture position at CBC/Radio-Canada when Monique Marcotte retires at the end of June.
Dubé has been with the CBC for 22 years in a variety of roles, including working on developing the public broadcaster’s...
Corus Entertainment Inc. has promoted Troy Reeb and Colin Bohm to its executive vice-president ranks,...
Trish Williams is moving from Temple Street Productions to CBC/Radio-Canada, where she will be CBC’s new executive director of scripted content.
Starting this week, she...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s former chief operating officer, Barbara Williams, will be CBC/Radio-Canada’s new executive vice-president of CBC.
Williams, who retired from Corus last year, will start the Toronto-based job on May 1, CBC said in a press release Wednesday.
Michel Bissonnette,...
Former CBC/Radio-Canada president Hubert Lacroix has joined the business law firm Blake, Cassels &...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp.’s acting president and CEO has been named to the role on a permanent basis, the company said in a press release Tuesday.
Doug Burnett replaced Ron Styles, who retired in 2017. Prior to that, Burnett was vice-president of...
Quebec MP Rémi Massé will replace David Lametti as the parliamentary...
Daniel Boudreau, previously vice-president of TVA productions, operations and technology, is leaving the Quebecor Inc. broadcasting division to become executive vice-president of media technology and infrastructure services at...
Karine Moses has been named president of the Quebec division of BCE Inc.’s media subsidiary, the...
Scott Bradley, vice-president of corporate affairs at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s Canadian division, has left the company.
Bradley had been with Huawei for eight...
CBC/Radio-Canada’s head of sports Greg Stremlaw is leaving the public broadcaster at the end of the...
Jean-François Pruneau, Quebecor Inc.’s chief financial officer, has been appointed the new CEO of its...
Canada’s public broadcaster has hired Torstar Corp.’s Claude Galipeau as its executive vice-president of corporate development.
The chief revenue officer of Torstar will join CBC/Radio-Canada on Jan. 7, 2019, the...
Michel Bissonnette, the executive vice-president of Radio-Canada, has been named interim head of CBC,...
Cogeco Inc. has a new senior vice-president of public affairs and communications, the telecom announced Tuesday, following the retirement of René Guimond.
Marie-Hélène Labrie will replace Guimond, who Cogeco spokeswoman Nancy Bouffard confirmed is retiring from the position and Cogeco. Guimond was appointed to the position eight years ago and has held other roles at the company since 2005.
“René wishes to devote more time to personal projects and will serve...
CBC/Radio-Canada’s executive vice-president of English-language services, Heather Conway, is leaving the public broadcaster next month, the Crown corporation announced...
CBC/Radio-Canada has named Jack Nagler its new English services ombudsman.
Nagler, who is currently CBC’s senior director of journalism, replaces Esther Enkin in the...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s chief operating officer, Barbara Williams, will retire at the end of this...
Steve Ladurantaye is leaving CBC/Radio-Canada after two and a half years at...
Blue Ant Media Inc. has named Julie Chang its new vice-president of international co-productions.
She will “be focused on the identification, structuring and closing of...
BCE Inc.’s head of regulatory, Mirko Bibic, has been named its new chief operating officer.
Bell said in a press release Thursday that in his new role, Bibic will “lead...
The upcoming departure of Telus Corp.’s president of consumer and small...
Hélène Laurendeau will be the new deputy minister at Canadian Heritage, the Prime Minister’s Office announced Friday afternoon. Laurendeau is currently deputy minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, a...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. has appointed Ryan Fuss its new senior vice-president of advertising sales,...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) introduced two new members to the Copyright Board on Monday, including the body’s first female vice-chair and CEO. Nathalie Théberge will assume the latter role on October 1 for a five-year term, replacing vice-chairman Claude Majeau. She will lead work and supervise and direct board staff,...
Former Blue Ant Media Inc. content executive Vanessa Case has joined the ranks of Vice Media Inc.'s...
Opposition Conservative leader Andrew Scheer has shuffled his caucus's shadow cabinet in the lead up to...
Long-time Liberal insider and Bluesky Strategy Group principal Tim Barber has registered formally to...
After this summer’s cabinet shuffle, the Heritage minister will gain two new parliamentary secretaries, effective Aug. 31.
In a press release Friday, the Prime Minister’s Office announced 39 updated or renewed positions, including MPs Gary Anandasangaree and Andy...