The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) collected $267 million in royalties in 2011 and distributed a record-breaking $262 million to its members, the copyright collective said Monday. 

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The Conservative government’s 2012 budget will help Canadian companies push through from the design phase of a product to marketing it, Industry Minister Christian Paradis said in a speech in Montreal Monday at the annual general meeting of the Conseil du patronat du Québec.

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Telefilm Canada’s new private donation fund, recognized by the CRTC as a certified independent production fund last week, is aimed at encouraging private sector investment in Canadian feature films, Carolle Brabant, executive director of Telefilm, said in an interview Monday. 

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Research In Motion Ltd. has hired a New York law firm to help develop its expected corporate restructuring plans, Reuters reported Sunday. 

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The CRTC’s $106-million local TV fund should not support large, vertically integrated broadcast companies or CBC/Radio-Canada if the fund continues, Rogers Communications Inc. and the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) told a CRTC hearing Thursday.

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The CRTC’s local television fund discriminates against stations that serve religious and minority communities, small broadcasters told CRTC commissioners at a hearing this week.

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The CRTC said Friday it has approved a specialty channel licence to iLaugh Inc.

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The CRTC said Friday it has denied Papoo Holdings Inc. a broadcasting license for an ethnic commercial AM radio station in Ottawa.

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The federal government will hold consultations on a new “startup visa program” designed to attract foreign entrepreneurs with big ideas, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Wednesday.

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