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Federal court rejects OPC complaint that Facebook violated Canadian privacy law

In a decision several years in the making, a Federal Court judge has rejected an application from Canada’s federal privacy watchdog, which alleged that the social media giant had violated the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), Canada’s private sector privacy law, in its data harvesting in the incident known as the Cambridge Analytica scandal. 

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CRTC further extends deadline for block pooling comments

The CRTC has again extended its deadline for comments and replies on a proposal to implement thousand-block pooling. The recommendation is to reduce block pools to 1,000 phone numbers, slashed from the current level of 10,000.

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Conservatives and Liberals keep up dispute over online legislation

The Conservatives are keeping up their battle against the government’s online legislation, with a party critic seizing on the Liberals’ own answers to combat them. The Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11 is back before the House of Commons after moving through the Senate; the Online News Act, Bill C-18, is heading to the Red Chamber.

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Public interest groups call for shored up Broadcasting Participation Fund

A group of six consumer and public advocacy organizations is asking the CRTC to step in to restructure a Rogers Communications Inc. payment to shore up a fund meant to bankroll public interest participation in broadcasting proceedings before the regulator. 

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Federal government invests $470M in Ericsson facilities in Ontario and Quebec

The government of Canada announced Monday it was investing $470 million in research and development (R&D) facilities of Ericsson AB. The money will be used to expand operations in the Ottawa suburb of Kanata and in Montreal.

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Public safety authorities want lower thresholds for network outage reporting requirements

Provincial public safety agencies are requesting to the CRTC that they be included on the list of authorities that must be notified by carriers when a major network outage occurs and that the threshold which would trigger such an event be lowered.  

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Rogers needs to work with competitors on TTC network expansion: Experts

Rogers Communications Inc.‘s announcement to extend cell service to Toronto’s entire subway system is getting universal praise from experts, activists and elected officials – but they want to see Canada’s other major telecom companies more involved. 

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Court rejects Telus challenge to CRTC’s wholesale roaming, municipal infrastructure decisions

The Federal Court of Appeal has rejected a Telus Corp. court challenge, supported by BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. that sought to do away with certain elements of the CRTC’s 2021 decision flowing out of the regulator’s wireless review. 

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Cogeco releases Q2 numbers, plans to enter MVNO market

Cogeco Communications Inc. plans to aggressively enter the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) sphere now that the situation in the marketplace has stabilized. 

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Ottawa police caution about misusing 911 calls

To mark National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, the Ottawa Police Service issued a news release outlining some of the more outrageous calls the 911 system has received. In 2021, the service handled 667,000 calls. As the pandemic wanes, those numbers are expected to increase.

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