The CRTC announced that it will be postponing three hearings related to updating the Canadian broadcasting framework under the Online Streaming Act, after Prime Minister Mark...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has confirmed that the province will be cancelling its $100 million contract with Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) subsidiary Starlink...
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...
The CRTC has kicked off another consultation as part of its ongoing work to...
Rogers Communications Inc. says Canada’s Competition Bureau has given clearance to the company’s deal with BCE Inc. to buy the latter’s stake in the group that owns the...
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...
Membership on several House of Commons committees has changed, it was...
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister...
Regulation and creating space for innovation in Canada were repeated themes at the Competition Bureau’s summit on market dynamics and artificial intelligence Monday.
The...
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...
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 domestic content producers for the upcoming broadcast year.
The regulator held consultations with interested parties after releasing its initial policy in June. The...
Digital media saw an increase in revenues last year while conventional broadcasters experienced...
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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...
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 aggregated wholesale access to fibre networks across Canada, they are hesitant to celebrate just...
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)...
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has made slashing CBC/Radio-Canada’s...
Despite legislation introduced by the federal government meant to boost broadcasting outlets, there are still warning signs on the horizon, believes the president of the...
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. ...
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. He begins his five-year term on Aug. 26.
A longtime employee of the Department of Canadian Heritage, Olsen is currently associate director general its audiovisual...
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...
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 Canada. Since last year, the Facebook parent has been blocking such content for its Canadian users.
Speaking at an Australian parliamentary hearing last week, Meta’s...
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...
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 revenues will be required to pay five per cent of those revenues to support domestic content, the CRTC...
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...
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 study of Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Act Wednesday. Discussion centred around whether or not a...
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...
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 its clause-by-clause study of Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Act, on Monday. It has been looking at the legislation for...
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...
A past Competition Bureau Commissioner is calling on the federal government...
Northern Ontario is lagging behind the rest of the province when it comes to internet connectivity, a new report finds.
Blue Sky Net's 2024 Northern Ontario Broadband Report, released on Monday, mirrors results from last year’s study.
Federal statistics say 93.5 per...
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...
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 undertakings in Canada. The decision, released late Thursday, stems from the provisions of the Online Streaming Act.
“Under the new Broadcasting Fees Regulations,...
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...
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 other major adult websites broke Canada’s privacy law by sharing intimate content on its platforms without obtaining valid...
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...
The government must regulate artificial intelligence (AI) quickly to...
OTTAWA–Demographic reporting is essential if we...
The CRTC has initiated a special consultation process regarding an application for amendments to the conditions of service for a French-language community radio station based...
