The CRTC is seeking input on a proposed increase of the revenue threshold that determines which telecom service providers must contribute to the National Contribution Fund (NCF) and pay telecom fees.
The request stems from an application filed last year by the...
The CRTC is looking for proposals to run a nationwide secret shopper project examining how telecom and broadcasting services are sold in Canada.
The project will gather...
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 fibre regime, stating that, while it was in place, the benefits for consumers outweighed any impacts...
Meta Platforms Inc.’s decision to end its...
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...
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 of Canadians is the complex balancing act that Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne is trying to...
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 partnerships in the coming months, as it signs a deal for what it describes as a critical part of its yet-to-launch satellite network. ...
A Federal Court of Appeal judge has found that Facebook violated Canada’s...
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...
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 of hearing is a laudable goal, it is not achievable, several streaming companies have told the CRTC....
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 prevent Telus Corp. from implementing in-person work rules. The telecom sought to have all call centre employees coast to coast back in the office three days per week.
Late Thursday, the British...
An Ottawa man is spearheading a drive to get next generation 911 (NG911)...
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...
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.
Bell first worked with California-based ServiceNow, billed as an “AI platform for business...
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 users online – are rampant across many websites and mobile apps, particularly those meant for...
The Competition Bureau has brought on an expert in economics for a...
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...
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 Inc. to provide it with detailed internal records related to user reviews and promotional badges. The watchdog has been investigating potential fake or misleading product reviews on Amazon's platform...
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 to raise the threshold for contribution levies from $10 million to $25 million. It also wants to...
The government’s proposal to establish a privacy tribunal as part of Bill...
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...
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 uncertain and effectively addressing its risks to safety requires international collaboration, robust regulation, and improved...
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 Bill C-288 on Tuesday, which would amend the Telecommunications Act to require telecom carriers to be...
The clause-by-clause study of Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Act, continued...
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...
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 support Telesat Corp.’s development of its low-earth orbit (LEO) global broadband satellite constellation.
The company...
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 Parliament that prices for telephone services are falling, Statistics Canada released data illustrating the...
The CRTC launched its first public consultation on the Online News Act’s regulatory framework to gain...
The Wire Report, the leading news source covering telecom, digital communications and broadcast media in Canada, is searching for an editor to join our Ottawa office.
The Wire Report is part of The Hill Times Canada’s leading...
The Montreal-based company behind Pornhub and...
The Competition Bureau announced...
The government of Canada has unveiled its long-awaited Online Harms Act...
The government has named Natalie Théberge as vice-chair at the CRTC, it was announced Thursday. Her...
Organizations representing Canada’s creative industries are calling on...
The CRTC has forensic investigative tools but deploys them rarely, the...
Federal departments have forensic diagnostic tools that can be used for surveillance but they are only lawfully applied and never used outside the ministry staff, a...
