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Corus wants in on local news fund post Rogers-Shaw
Media | 05/26/2023 3:58 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc. has written to the CRTC asking whether or not that the company will be allowed to avail of the Independent Local News Fund in the wake of Rogers Communications Inc.'s acquisition of Shaw Communications.
Corus was founded as Shaw Radio in the...
CanCon rules do not need vast overhaul, IIC Canada hears
Media | 05/15/2023 3:36 pm EDT
OTTAWA–Delegates to the International Institute of Communications Canadian chapter’s annual conference were told Monday that current Canadian content rules are working, with only one dissenting panelist.
The day got underway with a session called New Definition of...
CRTC unveils consultations following passage of Streaming Act
Media | 05/12/2023 12:32 pm EDT
Now that the Online Streaming Act has become law, the CRTC is launching a...
Cheers, jeers, as streaming act becomes law
Media | 04/28/2023 4:34 pm EDT
After months of contentious debate, Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, has become law. The Senate voted...
CRTC grants CanCon producers flexibility on stock footage costs
Media | 03/24/2023 5:30 pm EDT
The CRTC has adjusted how it considers the use of stock footage for the...
Rodriguez not worried about Biden lobbying against online bills
Internet and Governance | 03/23/2023 3:24 pm EDT
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says he is not worried that...
Bell and Telus being “difficult” in MVNO negotiation: PKP
Media | 02/23/2023 4:58 pm EST
Quebecor Inc.’s efforts to reach all wholesale and MVNO access agreements with BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. has proved to be difficult according to the company’s president and CEO.
Pierre Karl Péladeau made the comment Thursday on a fourth quarter conference call with...
CRTC to release broadcaster revenue data, aggregated by industry segment
Media | 02/16/2023 4:43 pm EST
The CRTC announced that it will publish the data collected in its Annual...
Senators continue fight over Streaming Act and CBC’s future
Media | 02/08/2023 1:22 pm EST
The battle over the government’s Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11,...
Unscripted series the wave of the future for streamers, CMPA conference hears
Media | 02/06/2023 1:31 pm EST
OTTAWA–Streaming is the way of the future, a panel told the Canadian...
CBC’s Tait says IP ownership has to remain front and centre of CanCon rules; Amazon disagrees
Media | 02/03/2023 5:14 pm EST
OTTAWA– An Amazon Inc. Prime Video executive has...
Australia provides a model for Canadian production, CMPA conference hears
Media | 02/03/2023 4:35 pm EST
OTTAWA–Australia has followed a different path to film and television...
UPDATED: Senate passes C-11; Rodriguez expects C-11 to become law next week
Media | 02/02/2023 7:17 pm EST
OTTAWA – The Senate officially adopted the Online Streaming Act, a year...
Business Development Bank of Canada announces $30M, partnership with Telefilm, for Canadian cultural sector
Media | 02/02/2023 3:59 pm EST
OTTAWA — The Business Development Bank of Canada...
CRTC vice-chair broadcasting prioritizing public policy goals over financial implications of C-11
Media | 01/24/2023 6:19 pm EST
The purpose of the CRTC is to achieve policy...
CRTC awards Mennonite group FM station in Alberta
Media | 01/17/2023 5:20 pm EST
The CRTC Tuesday approved a proposal for an FM station serving La Crete, Alta. Two years ago the commission rejected a similar proposal from the Lawen Met Hopninj Radio Society for a licence, saying the limited broadcast day and restricted diversity did not meet regulatory...
CRTC revamps Canadian content regulations for radio; CAB dismayed
Media | 12/07/2022 5:43 pm EST
The CRTC has revised its rules for Canadian content in commercial radio. In...
Senators add audience interest in broadcasting act objectives which could ease discoverability concerns
Media | 12/01/2022 1:40 pm EST
Senators voted to add a clause in Bill C-11, the...
CRTC must hold public hearings for interim exemption orders in Online News Act
Media | 11/29/2022 7:02 pm EST
The House of Commons Heritage committee passed an amendment to the...
Consultation will be held for exemption under Bill C-18, committee votes down amendment to force negotiation with all outlets
Media | 11/25/2022 4:56 pm EST
The committee studying the Online News Act...
Senate won’t define discoverability in Online Streaming Act definitions
Media | 11/24/2022 5:11 pm EST
Supporters and opponents of the Online Streaming Act alike have their eyes on the Senate’s Transportation and Communications committee as it begins to sift through the 98...
Rodriguez urges senators to pass Online Streaming Act
Media | 11/22/2022 8:17 pm EST
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and members of his department were the final witnesses as the...
Tories slow down C-18 clause-by-clause consideration with amendments
Media | 11/22/2022 3:23 pm EST
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee’s clause-by-clause review of...
Libs, NDP, accuse Conservatives of running out the clock on C-18 clause-by-clause review
Media | 11/18/2022 5:11 pm EST
The first day of the House of Commons’ Heritage...
Scott tells senators CRTC won’t regulate algorithms
Media | 11/17/2022 1:40 pm EST
CRTC chair Ian Scott told members of the Senate Committee on Transport and Communication that the...
Heritage Committee hears final witnesses on Online News Act
Media | 11/04/2022 5:50 pm EDT
Canada’s Online News Act could serve as a template for countries around...
Facebook denounces Online News Act as it finally appears at committee
Media | 10/28/2022 6:02 pm EDT
Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, came out swinging against...
UPDATED: Senators want incoming CRTC chair to testify about C-11
Media | 10/27/2022 5:41 pm EDT
Hopes that the government’s Online Streaming Act would receive quick...
Streamers should be obliged to sell cable integration apps to small BDUs: CCSA
Media | 10/27/2022 11:35 am EDT
The organization representing independent companies providing cable TV and...
Facebook threatens to leave Canada, MP wants it to testify on C-18
Media | 10/25/2022 4:08 pm EDT
OTTAWA–Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, is so upset that it has not been called to testify about the Online News Act that it is considering halting the...
C-11 allows Canadian cultural sector to avoid becoming “service industry”: Canada Media Fund
Media | 10/25/2022 4:03 pm EDT
Whether or not enough content is produced in...
Corus partially blames advertising recession, CRTC required programming expenditures, for fourth-quarter losses
Media | 10/21/2022 7:18 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc. revealed a $367.1 million...
Chair of Senate committee studying C-11 defends his fundraising letter against the bill
Media | 10/20/2022 3:44 pm EDT
The chair of the Senate Transport and...
Google amplifies its messaging around C-18 through commissioned poll
Internet and Governance | 10/14/2022 5:18 pm EDT
A survey commissioned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada found that most...
Thomas makes heritage critic, Perkins moves to industry in CPC shadow cabinet shuffle
Media | 10/12/2022 2:51 pm EDT
New Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre revealed a revamped shadow cabinet on Wednesday, shuffling many MPs into new positions.
Alberta MP Rachael Thomas is the new...
Unregulated algorithms is “privatized discoverability regulations” not consumer choice, Senate hears
Media | 10/06/2022 6:22 pm EDT
The question over the place of algorithms and...
Group suing CRTC worried language-minority groups will get left out of consultations, Senate hears
Media | 10/06/2022 10:51 am EDT
Executives from the French-language music group...
Senator claims privilege over Digital First lobbying letter
Media | 10/05/2022 12:08 pm EDT
An Alberta Senator is claiming his privileges as a parliamentarian were...
Netflix and MPA-Canada want C-11 to be flexible for global undertakings
Media | 10/04/2022 5:14 pm EDT
Netflix Inc., and the Motion Picture Association - Canada (MPA-Canada), of...
Digital First Canada director addresses bullying, lobbying allegations, made by Heritage parliamentary secretary to Senate
Media | 09/29/2022 2:26 pm EDT
The executive director of Digital First Canada...
Senator wants to amend Online Streaming Act to deal with CBC
Media | 09/28/2022 11:31 am EDT
A Prince Edward Island senator told his colleagues he wants to bring in a...
C-18 would harm trust in Canadian media: former CRTC chair; secrecy of deals harms trust: Tyee publisher
Internet and Governance | 09/27/2022 5:44 pm EDT
As the House of Commons Heritage committee Tuesday...
Opponents of Online Streaming Act out in force at Senate hearing including YouTubers
Media | 09/27/2022 4:50 pm EDT
The Senate Committee on Transportation and Communications continued its...
Heritage committee opens hearings on news compensation legislation
Internet and Governance | 09/23/2022 5:56 pm EDT
The government’s plan to force social media platforms to negotiate compensation deals with Canadian news organizations is either “rent-seeking behavior” that will prop...
CBC licence renewal sent back to CRTC for not meeting objective of Broadcasting Act
Media | 09/22/2022 5:28 pm EDT
The federal government is sending the CRTC's renewal of...
Broadcasters want policy direction on C-11; streamers want their algorithms left alone
Media | 09/15/2022 7:51 pm EDT
Canadian broadcasting executives, from companies...
Former commissioner laughs at idea that CRTC is capable of handling C-11; PIAC advocates for static discoverability
Media | 09/15/2022 1:22 pm EDT
The idea that the CRTC is capable of handling the...
CRTC to arbitrate Rogers dispute over Family Channel
Media | 09/08/2022 4:50 pm EDT
In a Sept. 6 letter, the CRTC has accepted a request from Rogers Communications Inc. for final offer...
Senator hopes ‘nonpartisan’ committee study of C-11 will clear up ‘misinformation’ around Online Streaming Act
Internet and Governance | 08/30/2022 5:34 pm EDT
The Senate’s upcoming review of the Online Streaming Act will be a good opportunity to clear up "misinformation" circulated by opponents of the bill and dive into concerns...
Tories take aim at future of CBC in leadership race
Media | 08/29/2022 3:37 pm EDT
The CBC/ Radio-Canada’s English services may have a target on its back, depending on who wins the...
OUTtv licence renewed, becomes must-offer in English Canada
Media | 08/18/2022 5:05 pm EDT
Thursday the CRTC renewed the licence of OUTtv Network Inc. for five years...
In petitions to GiC, broadcasting stakeholders upset of lack of local news requirements for CBC
telecom | 08/12/2022 5:06 pm EDT
Several broadcast industry stakeholders are...
AG won’t fight CMPA’s application for leave to appeal CBC license
Media | 08/11/2022 3:22 pm EDT
The Attorney General of Canada will not make any representations for itself...
CMPA files petition to cabinet on CBC license
Media | 08/08/2022 6:57 pm EDT
The Canadian Media Producers Association, with support from parties across the television and film...
CBC says CRTC decision on French N-word threat to journalistic independence; issues apology to complainant
Media | 07/13/2022 4:28 pm EDT
Editor's note: for clarity, this story makes...
Online harms panel finds diverging opinions on content removal for planned legislation
Internet and Governance | 07/08/2022 5:11 pm EDT
The removal of problematic content online remains...
Radio-Canada personalities say mandated apology for using French N-word is censorship
Media | 07/04/2022 5:29 pm EDT
More than 50 personalities for CBC/...
Scott says platforms may be asked to ‘manipulate’ algorithms for Canadian discoverability
Media | 06/23/2022 10:49 am EDT
The CRTC chair has said that social media platforms may have to change their algorithms to promote Canadian content online if the Online Streaming Act passes, despite there...
Rodriguez lashes out at Online Streaming Act critics, Senate begins study
Media | 06/17/2022 3:44 pm EDT
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked Conservative party...
Rodriguez slams Tories for misinformation on Online Streaming Act
Media | 06/07/2022 3:45 pm EDT
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked the opposition for...
C-11 needs to incentivize a new era of foreign-domestic partnerships: Bell
Media | 06/02/2022 2:54 pm EDT
BCE Inc. wants the government to incentivize foreign-domestic partnerships...
Intent of C-11 is to exclude digital creators: CRTC chair
Media | 06/01/2022 6:01 pm EDT
CRTC chair Ian Scott told the House of Commons Heritage Committee Tuesday...
Disney questions CanCon under Bill C-11, ACTRA says bill reduces foreign requirement to use Canadian talent
Media | 05/30/2022 6:15 pm EDT
A Walt Disney Company executive is questioning rules around Canadian content, claiming that some of its Canada-specific stories do not qualify as CanCon while American-based...
Bill C-11 could be fully implemented within two years of receiving Royal Assent: CRTC chair
Media | 05/19/2022 5:19 pm EDT
The CRTC will take at least two years to fully...
Freedom of expression regulation concerns on C-11 are “silly”: CRTC’s Scott
Media | 05/16/2022 6:55 pm EDT
CRTC chair Ian Scott told conference attendees...
Tories put forward motion to kill Bill C-18, send “subject matter” to committee
Media | 05/13/2022 5:12 pm EDT
Conservative MP John Nater wants the Liberal government to withdraw its...
Liberal MPs say Tories faking outrage over Bill C-11, defend CRTC as regulator
Media | 05/12/2022 6:53 pm EDT
Liberal MP Mark Gerretsen decried the fake outrage he said the...
Tories attack C11, Grits compare it to CanCon regulations
Media | 05/11/2022 6:11 pm EDT
The Conservatives continue to lambaste the government for the Online...
CMPA enters fight for passage of Online Streaming Act
Media | 05/10/2022 3:13 pm EDT
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) has entered the battle to pass Bill C-11, the Online...
Tories denounce Bill C-11 while Bloc defends it
Media | 05/06/2022 4:08 pm EDT
Debate continued in the House of Commons Thursday on the Online Streaming Act, known as Bill C-11....
Quebec and French Canadian artists will be the losers if social media is unregulated, conference hears
Media | 05/04/2022 6:15 pm EDT
A Canadian cultural policy that adopts a...
CPAC appoints new president, CEO
Media | 04/29/2022 1:02 pm EDT
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...
UPDATED: Gov. launches Online News Act, will mandate bargaining between outlets and web giants for compensation
Media | 04/05/2022 1:06 pm EDT
New legislation from the Government of Canada will...
Digital creators may still be subject to C-11, Heritage Committee told
Internet and Governance | 03/24/2022 5:26 pm EDT
Digital creators are wary of the government’s claim that amendments to...
Federal government spends $2.5m to battle disinformation
Internet and Governance | 03/16/2022 3:17 pm EDT
The Canadian government has allocated $2.5 million to help people identify...
Bill C-11 a new bill with no new ideas, and a ‘legal pretzel’ for censorship: CPC
Media | 03/01/2022 5:05 pm EST
For the second time in the span of a year, the...
Telus, TLN, have a business dispute, not an actionable complaint: CRTC
telecom | 02/11/2022 2:41 pm EST
On Friday the CRTC dismissed a complaint by Telus Corp. against TLN Media Group (TMG), saying what was before it was a business dispute, not a violation of commission...
Government, Telefilm, extend support for uninsured Canadian productions
Media | 02/11/2022 1:06 pm EST
The Government of Canada has extended its temporary emergency fund...
Opposition grills Libs over definitive date on suicide hotline implementation, Online Streaming Act
Media | 02/07/2022 5:19 pm EST
Conservative MP and Heritage Critic John Nater...
Few stakeholders fully support Heritage proposal for online harms: report
Internet and Governance | 02/03/2022 7:12 pm EST
The government needs to rethink its approach to regulating harmful content...
Gov. reintroduces Broadcasting Act update, with social media exemption
Media | 02/02/2022 7:32 pm EST
OTTAWA -- Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodríguez called previous...
New Broadcast Act update appears on order paper as Tories oppose move
Internet and Governance | 02/01/2022 6:05 pm EST
The government placed legislation to change the Broadcasting Act on the...
PIAC, Quebecor, music sector, all oppose Stingray financial relief proposal
Media | 02/01/2022 5:08 pm EST
Quebecor Inc., organizations supporting Canada music and radio sector, as...
CRTC approves community FM station on Salt Spring Island
Media | 01/24/2022 12:25 pm EST
On Monday the CRTC granted a licence to a new community FM station on Salt...
Hedy Fry new chair of Heritage committee
Media | 12/13/2021 5:43 pm EST
OTTAWA – Veteran Liberal MP Hedy Fry was elected chair of the House of Commons committee on Canadian...
No evidence suggests foreign streamers will enter into exclusivity with Rogers, incumbent tells CRTC
Media | 11/26/2021 5:08 pm EST
Rogers Communications Inc. executives told the CRTC that there is no evidence to suggest that its merger with Shaw Communications Inc. would result in content exclusivity with...
Safeguards can’t justify Rogers-Shaw merger: Bell to CRTC
Media | 11/25/2021 6:35 pm EST
No amount of proposed remedies will undo the damage of Rogers...
OpenMedia denounces government plan to reintroduce C-10
Media | 11/24/2021 11:56 am EST
Lobby group OpenMedia is disappointed that Tuesday’s Speech from the...
Rogers-Shaw merger will result in content exclusivity, “force” consumer to switch services: Telus
Media | 11/23/2021 6:10 pm EST
Telus Corp. executives told the CTRC that if the...
Successor bill to C-10 “absolute priority”, Rodriguez says
Media | 11/23/2021 11:50 am EST
Canadian Heritage minister Pablo Rodriguez says revisions to the...
CRTC lifts local expression conditions for Quebecor, Bragg on-demand services
Media | 11/04/2021 5:40 pm EDT
The CRTC approved applications by Quebecor Media Inc.’s Videotron and Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink, to amend their on-demand broadcasting licences after the...
CanCon rules need to be updated for new media landscape, conference hears
Media | 11/03/2021 6:35 pm EDT
Canadian content should be better defined as we advance to a greater...
C-10 creates ‘false battle’ amongst broadcasters: former CRTC commissioner
Media | 11/03/2021 6:26 pm EDT
The Canadian government is “expanding the...
Francophone music group loses CanCon case against CRTC
Media | 11/02/2021 4:12 pm EDT
A group representing Francophone and Acadian musicians outside Quebec has...
CRTC orders Sogetel, Comwave to pay Cancon shortfalls
Media | 11/02/2021 12:36 pm EDT
The CRTC is ordering two telecommunications companies to cough up Canadian programming contribution...
Delay Rogers-Shaw CRTC hearing until its clear who controls Rogers: PIAC
Media | 11/01/2021 5:35 pm EDT
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre has asked the CRTC to delay a hearing...
Google expands News Showcase program
Media | 10/27/2021 12:37 pm EDT
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is expanding its News Showcase program, announcing Wednesday that it has signed...
UPDATED – Rodriguez back as Heritage minister, Champagne remains in Innovation
Media | 10/26/2021 12:47 pm EDT
OTTAWA -- MP Pablo Rodriguez is back in familiar territory as he is once...
Rogers ordered to put employment and programming data on the public record for merger hearing
Media | 10/22/2021 6:21 pm EDT
The CRTC ordered Rogers Communications Inc. to...
Corus says COVID-delayed CPE requirements will significantly increase production spending
Media | 10/22/2021 4:47 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc. expects to see a “pretty significant increase in programming costs” this coming quarter, which executive vice-president and CFO John Gossling said...