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3,800 MHz auction nets $2.2B in preliminary results

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Canada’s telecom industry have spent some $2.16 billion on the 3,800 MHz band of spectrum, according to preliminary results released Thursday by the Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED).

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Telecom workers union and NDP call for anti-scab legislation

Members of the NDP and the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1944 union, representing over 225,000 Canadian workers, held a joint news conference on Wednesday urging the government to improve protections for workers in the telecom sector. 

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988 crisis line now available to all Canadians

The federal government made its three-digit suicide crisis helpline, 988, officially available across Canada on Thursday.

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Corus proposes contribution framework at CRTC, says time to regulate streamers is now

Those who stand to benefit from the Online Streaming Act want the CRTC to act as quickly as it can while those who may be forced to pay are urging caution. The commission is now half way through its hearings into the changes to the contribution regime necessitated by the act.

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Google and federal government reach deal over Online News Act

Alphabet Inc.’s Google and the federal government have resolved their dispute over the Online News Act, with the tech giant agreeing to annually compensate news organizations $100 million and continue sharing Canadian news content on its platforms. 

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Only foreign streamers should be paying contribution, CRTC told

Major broadcasters think that there should be a flexible contribution regime for Canadian programming – just so long as they don’t have to pay into it. The CRTC is continuing its hearings into the ramifications of the Online Streaming Act.

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Social media companies must be compelled to address safety concerns, research chair tells ethics committee

The government needs to set clear standards of transparency and accountability that all social media platforms should be required to meet, if it hopes to address concerns around privacy, foreign interference, misinformation, and radicalization, the House of Commons privacy and ethics committee was told Monday. 

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Pending class action from prisoners’ families against Bell lands on CRTC desk

On a day in July, 2016, a man received eight long-distance collect calls from his son, who was in pre-trial custody and in solitary confinement in the Ontario Kenora Jail. The father was charged $146.60 by BCE Inc. for the calls. Nine days later, the same father was charged $27.91 for a 20-minute phone call. In November, 2017, a woman in Ottawa was charged $24.28 for a 19-minute phone call she received from a detention centre in Toronto. 

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IATSE calls for variety of funds to promote Canadian broadcasting

Renewal of the Canadian broadcasting system should not rely on one rigid formula, a major union in the sector told the CRTC Monday. Rather a wide range of funds should exist to reflect the diverse scope of the industry.

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BQ media fund idea won’t solve problems, St-Onge maintains 

The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight for a fund to help Canadian media. After first raising the issue last Tuesday, BQ Canadian Heritage critic Martin Champoux carried on last Friday in Question Period. 

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