In a Friday statement, leaders from Canada and the European Union announced the creation of a new “Digital Framework” under the auspices of the Strategic Partnership Agreement and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). The partnership establishes a...
The Competition Bureau, CRTC, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner have set up the Canadian Digital Regulators Forum as part of a joint effort to tackle “matters that...
Interim Conservative leader Candice Bergen shuffled her shadow cabinet on Tuesday, moving some MPs into...
The RCMP is seeking to expand its digital policing services, months after the Office of the Privacy...
According to a Statistics Canada study, in order to better measure the well-being or quality of life and progress of nations, digitization needs to be taken into account, among other trends, in “a...
Heritage Canada has commissioned seven working groups that are looking at...
The Competition Bureau has created a new chief digital enforcement officer position and has appointed George McDonald, currently a senior account leader at IBM Corp., to the role. Effective Tuesday, McDonald will help the bureau “monitor the digital landscape, identify and evaluate new investigative techniques, and boost its digital intelligence gathering capabilities,” according to a press release. He’ll report directly to competition commissioner Matthew Boswell. McDonald will join the bureau through Interchange Canada, an exchange program that allows individuals from the...
The CRTC wants to update both its Canadian Programming Expenditure policy and its annual broadcasting survey to reflect the growth of streaming and other digital options and is asking for input on how...
The CRTC said Thursday it is considering taking action on potential changes it outlined in a May report looking at programming distribution models. The Harnessing Change report recommended a number...
The Canadian government announced Tuesday it has reached an agreement with 10 other countries taking part in the negotiations of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). It said it had...