After 17 years in various roles with the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS), Josée Bidal Thibault has been named as the new Commissioner and CEO of the consumer ombuds group, as longtime leader Howard Maker steps down later this year....
A First Nations internet service provider in northern Ontario is looking for the CRTC to expand its internet subsidy from the Far North to many remote reserves across the...
The shutdown of the American government has forced the Federal...
Senator Andrew Cardozo of the Progressive Senators Group is asking the...
TikTok has not been doing enough to keep children off of its popular online...
The CRTC has found there is no need to fine BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel...
The messaging coming from the inaugural Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation, Evan Solomon, is misaligned with public expectations for Canada’s...
A new research initiative led by University of Ottawa law professor Michael...
The CRTC is seeking input on a proposed increase of the revenue threshold...
The CRTC is looking for proposals to run a nationwide secret shopper...
Reporting by Hannah Daley, Phalen Tynes-MacDonald...
The CRTC announced that it will be postponing three hearings related to...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has confirmed that the...
With Ontarians heading to the polls Thursday, issues such as the tariff...
The CRTC has decided not to change its temporary decision on the wholesale...
Meta Platforms Inc.’s decision to end its fact-checking program and loosen the content moderation policies on its platforms is raising concern among Canadian digital policy...
The CRTC has kicked off another consultation as part of its ongoing work to...
Rogers Communications Inc. says Canada’s...
The Canadian Journalism Collective (CJC) says it expects to send eligible...
The federal government has launched the Canadian Artificial Intelligence...
Canadians are getting a good deal with loans to Telesat Corp. because they will protect national security and northern sovereignty, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry said Thursday, Oct. 3. François-Philippe Champagne (Saint-Maurice–Champlain, Que.) was...
Canada’s largest public sector union is condemning the CRTC for...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has announced Geoff White is its...
Supporting technological change while still protecting the privacy rights...
Membership on several House of Commons committees has changed, it was...
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister...
Regulation and creating space for innovation in...
With Parliament returning today, there are a handful of bills affecting the online world still before...
Telesat Corp. expects to announce more...
A Federal Court of Appeal judge has found that Facebook violated Canada’s private sector privacy law, known as PIPEDA, by failing to get “meaningful consent” from its...
As the CRTC reviews Google’s application for...
The CRTC has released the final conditions for contributions to be paid by online streamers to support...
Digital media saw an increase in revenues last year while conventional broadcasters experienced...
By Manish Singh
5G offers a transformative...
The CRTC has denied a request from Quebecor Inc. for a mandated settlement on its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) agreement with BCE Inc. — but it has told the two parties to reach an agreement themselves within two weeks.
The dispute centred around the...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner and the United States Federal...
A group looking to make it easier to find local workers when building...
While providing closed captioning on all programming for the deaf and hard...
The head of the Canadian Telecommunications Association wants more...
The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld two lower court rulings that found...
While some companies praised the CRTC’s long-awaited decision to mandate...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google wants the Federal Court of Appeal to set aside a...
The United Steelworkers Union (USW) successfully petitioned a B.C. court to...
An Ottawa man is spearheading a drive to get next generation 911 (NG911) systems implemented more quickly, by way of a parliamentary petition which is garnering support across...
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has made slashing CBC/Radio-Canada’s...
Despite legislation introduced by the federal government meant to boost...
A residual spectrum auction run by the department of Innovation, Science...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc.’s appeal of the CRTC’s reversal of a 2019...
More sports leagues have been added to the list of game live streams protected from pirate streamers through a site-blocking order issued by the Federal Court earlier this...
The CRTC has agreed with CBC/Radio-Canada that it may exclude its spending...
An online TV streamer has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay a...
BCE Inc. has signed a multi-year deal with AI platform ServiceNow. ...
Canadian broadcasters and telecoms reported experiencing mixed effects from...
Greenwin Corp., the owner of two buildings in Kitchener that are centred in...
Drew Olsen has been named vice-chair and CEO of the Copyright Board of Canada, it was announced Tuesday....
Broadcasters that hold the rights to televise live...
Deceptive design practices – meant to influence the privacy decisions of...
The Competition Bureau has brought on an expert in economics for a short-term position as part of its efforts to boost competition in digital and platform markets, while it...
The CRTC is considering broadening the scope of the Broadcasting...
Meta Platforms, Inc. is threatening to apply the same rules on news content in Australia as it uses in...
The governments of Canada and Ontario announced on Monday a broadband...
The CRTC has kicked off what could be the final hurdle for Google to be...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has launched a consultation on artificial intelligence, with an eye on determining how to provide the necessary computing power for AI in Canada, as well as keeping AI talent at home.
The government’s...
A private member’s bill on internet service quality has passed through Parliament and received royal...
TORONTO – Connectivity is not only a tool for good, it is a human right, the president of Ericsson...
The Competition Bureau has been granted a court order compelling Amazon.com...
A consortium of news publishers is calling on the CRTC to make regulations...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has chosen the collective responsible for...
Online streaming services generating over $25 million in annual Canadian...
The Office of the Auditor General of Canada released a report Tuesday that...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers Association (ITPA) is seeking...
The government’s proposal to establish a privacy tribunal as part of Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Act, is likely going down to defeat, The Wire Report has learned. The...
The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) is asking the CRTC to review the broadcasting...
The House of Commons Industry Committee continued its clause-by-clause...
A Senate bill aimed at protecting children from...
The CRTC defended its telecommunications mandate before a skeptical Senate...
Conservative MPs on the House of Commons industry committee continued their assault Monday on the suggested Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal found in the...
During the House of Commons’ industry committee’s ongoing...
The CRTC is asking for comments on its proposed Cost Recovery Regulations...
The future of general-purpose AI is highly...
Complaints filed with the CRTC’s Spam Reporting Centre (SRC) are on the rise, according to the...
The Senate Committee on Transport and Communications hastily adopted a private member’s bill on...
The House of Commons industry committee continued...
The Bloc Québécois has sounded the alarm after a report in La Presse that...
The Senate Committee on Transport and Communications began its study of...
The clause-by-clause study of Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Act, continued at the House of Commons Industry Committee meeting on Monday. Three amendments were made to the...
A past Competition Bureau Commissioner is calling on the federal government...
Northern Ontario is lagging behind the rest of the province when it comes...
Quebecor Inc. announced that it is suspending the launch of its "data-rich"...
Canadian broadcasters are encouraging the CRTC to...
The House of Commons industry Committee continued its clause-by-clause study of Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Act Monday. The dozen-member panel had officials from the...
Advertising on foreign digital media like Meta...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Sunday that next week’s federal budget will include $2.4...
The federal government is loaning $2.14 billion to...
Four Ontario school boards have launched a lawsuit against three social...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has...
After months of consultations, the CRTC has issued its Broadcasting Fees Regulations for all broadcasting...
The Competition Bureau announced Thursday that it is seeking feedback from...
A day after the leaders of Canada’s biggest three telecoms told...
The CRTC launched its first public consultation on the Online News Act’s regulatory framework to gain input on handling the bargaining process, unfair treatment complaints, and data collection requirements outlined in the act and its accompanying regulations.
The...
