CRTC rejects proposed St. John’s radio station

The CRTC has declined an application to establish a new FM radio station in St. John’s, N.L.

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Transparency reporting in Canada: still opaque?

Without an Edward Snowden-like scandal, exposing inappropriate government access of citizens’ personal information, the current landscape may be as good as it gets for transparency reporting in Canada, a privacy expert says.

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Self-driving car crosses U.S.-Canada border

The first cross-border test in North America involving self-driving vehicles took place Monday with a demonstration at the Canadian-U.S. border.

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Telecoms call for 20-year term for AWS-1, no R&D minimum

Canada’s largest wireless providers told Innovation Canada that they support its suggested 20-year term for AWS-1 and G Block Spectrum, but asked the department to eliminate a research and development requirement tied to the licences.

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YouTube introducing new CanCon channel

In a company first, Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube will begin specifically highlighting Canadian content on its website.

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Non-profit gives tech leg up to telecoms, smaller businesses

Canada’s big three wireless providers are now cooperating on a not-for-profit initiative that offers small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) a networking test bed to experiment with new technologies, such as 5G communications.

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CRTC asks telecoms about MVNOs, plans for low-income customers

The CRTC is asking wireless service providers about whether they’ve been approached by potential mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) and their service offerings for low-income individuals.

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BDU revenue losses accelerate to 2.1%: CRTC

Canadian TV providers’ revenues dropped 2.1 per cent in 2016 — a marked increase from the 0.1 per cent fall a year earlier, which was the first such decline in a decade.

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Ethnic channel applicants get more time to apply

Prospective applicants looking to provide the country with a new multilingual, multi-ethnic channel have more time to put their ideas together, the CRTC announced Thursday.

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Gerry MacKrell to head Canadian Broadcast Sales

Gerry MacKrell will be the new head of the country’s biggest radio sales company as of Sept. 1, Canadian Broadcast Sales announced in a press release Thursday.

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