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‘The beginning of the end’: Blanchet worries about future of cultural exemption following Miller’s CRTC order

Internet and Governance | 06/10/2026 6:02 am EDT

Blanchet says CBC cuts at worst possible time

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said the federal government’s order for the CRTC to review its contribution requirements for online streamers could jeopardize Canada’s cultural exemption used in bilateral trade agreements.  Last week, Canadian Identity Minister Marc Miller said he will provide the CRTC with new policy directions to rethink its...

Liberals don’t expect online harms bill to pass before summer recess

Internet and Governance | 06/09/2026 1:56 pm EDT

Online harms panel looking to adopt U.K’s duty of care model, won’t prioritize freedom of expression: Co-chair

The Liberal government is expected to table its long-awaited online harms bill as early as Wednesday — but it’s not projected to become law before Parliament breaks for the summer, according to Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon. Speaking to reporters ahead of the weekly cabinet meeting, MacKinnon said the proposed legislation, listed on the Notice Paper on...

Producers challenge 20 per cent copyright threshold in new CanCon policy

Internet and Governance | 12/19/2025 1:44 pm EST

Producers challenge 20 per cent copyright threshold in new CanCon policy

The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) is seeking to overturn part...

Streamers challenge CRTC decision to publicly disclose financial information

Internet and Governance | 12/18/2025 5:35 pm EST

Judge gavel on computer.

Major international streaming companies are asking the Federal Court of...

Court upholds Quebecor capital gains tax strategy, dismisses government appeal

Internet and Governance | 11/26/2025 5:22 pm EST

Court upholds Quebecor capital gains tax strategy, dismisses government appeal

The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal brought by the federal...

New online harms bill coming soon with other departmental buy-in, Fraser states

Internet and Governance | 11/20/2025 2:18 pm EST

Senators asked to champion net neutrality in comms laws review

The federal government is once again promising to shepherd an online harms...

Digital services tax officially on the chopping block in new budget bill

Internet and Governance | 11/19/2025 6:02 pm EST

Parliament Hill

The government bill aimed at implementing the Liberal’s federal budget will officially pull the plug on the digital services tax (DST). In the House of Commons on...

Ontario telecom in dispute with landlord over revenue sharing demands

Internet and Governance | 11/11/2025 3:05 pm EST

Ontario telecom in dispute with landlord over revenue sharing demands

Southwest Ontario service provider Hay Communications Co-op Ltd. is asking...

CCTS names Josée Bidal Thibault as its new commissioner and CEO

Internet and Governance | 10/15/2025 4:19 pm EDT

CCTS names Josée Bidal Thibault as its new commissioner and CEO

After 17 years in various roles with the Commissioner for Complaints for...

Ontario First Nations ISP asking CRTC to extend internet subsidy beyond Far North

Internet and Governance | 10/07/2025 4:01 pm EDT

Ontario First Nations ISP asking CRTC to extend internet subsidy beyond Far North

A First Nations internet service provider in northern Ontario is looking...

Bell, Cogeco not worried about FCC reduction in service

Internet and Governance | 10/06/2025 4:43 pm EDT

Bell, Cogeco not worried about FCC reduction in service

The shutdown of the American government has forced the Federal...

Cardozo calls on Senate to study funding model for Canadian news media

Internet and Governance | 10/03/2025 2:53 pm EDT

Cardozo calls for CBC/Radio-Canada reforms, says it is 'essential service'

Senator Andrew Cardozo of the Progressive Senators Group is asking the...

TikTok needs to do more to keep kids off platform, privacy watchdogs find

Internet and Governance | 09/23/2025 6:39 pm EDT

TikTok's logo on an iPhone.

TikTok has not been doing enough to keep children off of its popular online...

CRTC declines to fine Northwestel in dispute with Iristel

Internet and Governance | 09/19/2025 5:02 pm EDT

CRTC declines to fine Northwestel in dispute with Iristel

The CRTC has found there is no need to fine BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel...

Canadians want quick action on potential AI harms, says advocacy group head

Internet and Governance | 09/17/2025 5:34 pm EDT

Canadians want quick action on potential AI harms, says advocacy group head

The messaging coming from the inaugural Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation, Evan Solomon, is misaligned with public expectations for Canada’s...

Geist researching Canadian ‘digital policy divide’

Internet and Governance | 09/16/2025 5:55 pm EDT

Geist researching Canadian ‘digital policy divide’

A new research initiative led by University of Ottawa law professor Michael...

CRTC considering raising telecom contribution threshold

Internet and Governance | 08/13/2025 2:31 pm EDT

Popular Wire Report stories of 2025

The CRTC is seeking input on a proposed increase of the revenue threshold...

CRTC seeks contractor for nationwide ‘secret shopper’ review of sales practices

Internet and Governance | 08/12/2025 5:27 pm EDT

Quebecor files complaint with Competition Bureau over Loblaw deal with Bell, Rogers

The CRTC is looking for proposals to run a nationwide secret shopper...

UPDATED: CRTC postpones broadcast hearings following snap election call

Internet and Governance | 03/24/2025 1:37 pm EDT

UPDATED: CRTC postpones broadcast hearings following snap election call

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...

Where parties stand on broadband connectivity, AI in Ontario election

Internet and Governance | 02/25/2025 5:05 pm EST

Where parties stand on broadband connectivity, AI in Ontario election

With Ontarians heading to the polls Thursday, issues such as the tariff...

Canadian Journalism Collective announces estimated amounts it expects to pay out

Internet and Governance | 12/16/2024 4:20 pm EST

Canadian Journalism Collective announces estimated amounts it expects to pay out

The Canadian Journalism Collective (CJC) says it expects to send eligible...

Champagne announces launch of Canadian AI Safety Institute

Internet and Governance | 11/12/2024 6:37 pm EST

Bletchley Declaration signals international efforts to tame AI risks

The federal government has launched the Canadian Artificial Intelligence...

Telesat deal good for Canada, Champagne tells INDU committee

Internet and Governance | 10/04/2024 12:59 pm EDT

Telesat deal good for Canada, Champagne tells INDU committee

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...

Public service union slams CRTC for office space raffle

Internet and Governance | 10/02/2024 3:00 pm EDT

CRTC logo graphic The Wire Report

Canada’s largest public sector union is condemning the CRTC for...

Geoff White new executive director of Public Interest Advocacy Centre

Internet and Governance | 10/01/2024 3:25 pm EDT

Geoff White

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has announced Geoff White is its...

Two years in, balancing change and privacy the main task for Philippe Dufresne

Internet and Governance | 09/30/2024 4:28 pm EDT

Philippe Dufresne, Canadian Privacy Commissioner

Supporting technological change while still protecting the privacy rights...

Tories shake-up membership of House of Commons committees

Internet and Governance | 09/18/2024 4:41 pm EDT

Parliament Hill

Membership on several House of Commons committees has changed, it was...

Champagne rebukes Tories for Musk connectivity query; Telesat hires retired brigadier-general

Internet and Governance | 09/18/2024 4:21 pm EDT

Retired Brigadier-General G. Michael Adamson has been named the senior director of defence strategy and business development with Telesat. (Graphic by Naomi Wildeboer/Hill Times Publishing. Photo courtesy of Telesat.)

Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne lambasted a Conservative MP for suggesting that Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. would...

Online harms and more in focus as Parliament returns

Internet and Governance | 09/16/2024 7:00 am EDT

Parliament Hill

With Parliament returning today, there are a handful of bills affecting the online world still before...

Federal Court of Appeal rules against Facebook in data collection, privacy dispute

Internet and Governance | 09/11/2024 4:38 pm EDT

Federal Court of Appeal rules against Facebook in data collection, privacy dispute.

A Federal Court of Appeal judge has found that Facebook violated Canada’s...

CRTC issues final conditions of Online Streaming Act

Internet and Governance | 09/03/2024 2:50 pm EDT

Stingray, Rogers bolstering FAST channel options

The CRTC has released the final conditions for contributions to be paid by online streamers to support...

Digital media leads the way in CRTC broadcast survey

Internet and Governance | 08/30/2024 3:36 pm EDT

Digital media leads the way in CRTC broadcast survey

Digital media saw an increase in revenues last year while conventional broadcasters experienced...

Quebecor to operate as MVNO on Bell lines as of mid-September

Internet and Governance | 08/29/2024 5:25 pm EDT

Quebecor to operate as MVNO on Bell lines as of mid-September

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...

Privacy Commissioner, FCC sign memorandum on telecom consumer privacy protection

Internet and Governance | 08/29/2024 3:16 pm EDT

Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne holds a press conference in Ottawa on on Jan. 26, 2023 (photo: Andrew Meade).

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner and the United States Federal...

Rural, remote communities training local workers to help bridge digital divide

Internet and Governance | 08/28/2024 6:12 pm EDT

Since it first helped a community in Hawaii develop its own network following one of its yearly summits several years ago, the Indigenous Connectivity Institute (ICI) has been putting on bootcamps and workshops in Indigenous communities as part of its efforts to bridge the digital divide.

A group looking to make it easier to find local workers when building...

Streamers tell CRTC closed captioning on all programming not feasible

Internet and Governance | 08/26/2024 4:50 pm EDT

Streamers tell CRTC closed captioning on all programming not feasible

While providing closed captioning on all programming for the deaf and hard...

Telecom association CEO wants more action, predictability from government

Internet and Governance | 08/21/2024 4:52 pm EDT

Robert Ghiz

The head of the Canadian Telecommunications Association wants more...

Federal appeals court dismisses TV patent disputes against Telus, Videotron

Internet and Governance | 08/19/2024 5:13 pm EDT

Judge gavel on computer.

The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld two lower court rulings that found Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron and Telus Corp. did not violate another company’s patents. In...

Effects of mandated wholesale fibre access depend on final rates, stakeholders say

Internet and Governance | 08/13/2024 9:43 am EDT

Effects of mandated wholesale fibre access depend on final rates, stakeholders say

While some companies praised the CRTC’s long-awaited decision to mandate...

Google challenges CRTC broadcasting fees decision in appeal court

Internet and Governance | 08/09/2024 2:27 pm EDT

YouTube logo on mobile screen.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google wants the Federal Court of Appeal to set aside a...

Union gets injunction against Telus over back-to-office rules

Internet and Governance | 08/09/2024 12:13 pm EDT

Roaming revenue not expected to fully recover until 2022: Telus CFO

The United Steelworkers Union (USW) successfully petitioned a B.C. court to...

Parliamentary petition seeks faster adoption of next generation 911

Internet and Governance | 08/08/2024 11:58 am EDT

‘Unlimited’ plans leading to 50% more data use, Rogers says

An Ottawa man is spearheading a drive to get next generation 911 (NG911)...

CBC CEO Catherine Tait not worried for broadcaster’s longevity

Internet and Governance | 08/06/2024 4:25 pm EDT

The Wire Report’s most popular stories of 2024

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has made slashing CBC/Radio-Canada’s...

Canadian Association of Broadcasters president sees warning signs on the horizon

Internet and Governance | 07/30/2024 4:31 pm EDT

The Wire Report’s most popular stories of 2024

Despite legislation introduced by the federal government meant to boost...

Nine companies finish ISED’s residual spectrum auction with total of 56 licences

Internet and Governance | 07/26/2024 1:17 pm EDT

A cell tower with a blue sky in the background.

A residual spectrum auction run by the department of Innovation, Science...

Court rejects TekSavvy appeal of CRTC decision to revert wholesale rates

Internet and Governance | 07/24/2024 12:51 pm EDT

Rogers-Quebecor TPIA arrangements in Shaw merger violate Telecom Act: TekSavvy to CRTC

TekSavvy Solutions Inc.’s appeal of the CRTC’s reversal of a 2019...

Court adds MLB, UFC, UEFA Euro live streams to site-blocking order

Internet and Governance | 07/24/2024 11:21 am EDT

Stingray, Rogers bolstering FAST channel options

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...

CBC allowed to exclude Olympic coverage from Canadian programming expenditures

Internet and Governance | 07/23/2024 4:34 pm EDT

CBC, CRTC still viewed as keepers of Canadian identity: study

The CRTC has agreed with CBC/Radio-Canada that it may exclude its spending...

IPTV site ordered to pay millions in damages to Turkish broadcaster for piracy

Internet and Governance | 07/22/2024 3:47 pm EDT

Judge gavel on computer.

An online TV streamer has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay a...

Bell increasing use of AI for customer service and business clients

Internet and Governance | 07/19/2024 5:21 pm EDT

AI concept image

BCE Inc. has signed a multi-year deal with AI platform ServiceNow. ...

Telecoms and broadcasters hit by CrowdStrike IT outage

Internet and Governance | 07/19/2024 12:04 pm EDT

Telecoms and broadcasters hit by CrowdStrike IT outage

Canadian broadcasters and telecoms reported experiencing mixed effects from...

Greenwin responds to Netflash Part 1 over Kitchener building access

Internet and Governance | 07/18/2024 1:41 pm EDT

Greenwin responds to Netflash Part 1 over Kitchener building access

Greenwin Corp., the owner of two buildings in Kitchener that are centred in a dispute over a telecom’s access, argues Continuum Online Services Ltd. is overreaching in its...

Drew Olsen named CEO of Copyright Board

Internet and Governance | 07/17/2024 4:25 pm EDT

Drew Olsen has been named vice-chair and CEO of the Copyright Board of Canada.

Drew Olsen has been named vice-chair and CEO of the Copyright Board of Canada, it was announced Tuesday....

Watchdogs find deceptive privacy practices across majority of websites, apps studied

Internet and Governance | 07/10/2024 4:49 pm EDT

OPC calls for changes to Bill C-27

Deceptive design practices – meant to influence the privacy decisions of...

Competition Bureau appoints professor as advisor on digital economy

Internet and Governance | 07/10/2024 3:31 pm EDT

Heski Bar-Isaac. Photo courtesy of University of Toronto Rotman School of Management.

The Competition Bureau has brought on an expert in economics for a...

CRTC considering expanded mandate for Broadcasting Participation Fund

Internet and Governance | 07/05/2024 4:41 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

The CRTC is considering broadening the scope of the Broadcasting...

Meta considers blocking Facebook news in Australia

Internet and Governance | 07/04/2024 2:02 pm EDT

Facebook to penalize false news disseminators

Meta Platforms, Inc. is threatening to apply the same rules on news content in Australia as it uses in...

Canada and Ontario repeat broadband announcements despite persistent delays

Internet and Governance | 06/28/2024 5:56 pm EDT

The northern lights.

The governments of Canada and Ontario announced on Monday a broadband...

CRTC launches consult on Google’s Online News Act exemption

Internet and Governance | 06/27/2024 5:40 pm EDT

Google Canada

The CRTC has kicked off what could be the final hurdle for Google to be...

ISED launches consultation on AI computing power

Internet and Governance | 06/27/2024 1:29 pm EDT

AI concept image

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...

Internet service quality bill becomes law

Internet and Governance | 06/20/2024 12:47 pm EDT

Tory MP says CRTC directives don’t go far enough when it comes to transparent service quality metrics

A private member’s bill on internet service quality has passed through Parliament and received royal...

Connectivity is a human right, says Irekvist

Internet and Governance | 06/18/2024 6:10 pm EDT

Connectivity is a human right, says Irekvist

TORONTO – Connectivity is not only a tool for good, it is a human right, the president of Ericsson...

Competition Bureau investigating fake reviews on Amazon

Internet and Governance | 06/13/2024 8:33 pm EDT

Big tech antitrust crusade continues as U.S. sues Amazon

The Competition Bureau has been granted a court order compelling Amazon.com...

Publishers call on CRTC to set rules for Online News Act collective

Internet and Governance | 06/13/2024 10:12 am EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

A consortium of news publishers is calling on the CRTC to make regulations...

UPDATED: Google signs $100M deal with news collective, ends News Showcase in Canada

Internet and Governance | 06/07/2024 10:31 pm EDT

CNOC calls for gov’t funding to keep Canadians connected

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has chosen the collective responsible for distributing its $100 million annual contribution to Canadian news businesses, the company announced...

Streamers ‘disappointed’ in five per cent base contribution requirement 

Internet and Governance | 06/04/2024 10:15 pm EDT

CRTC releases described video statistics

Online streaming services generating over $25 million in annual Canadian...

CRTC lacking in battle against cybercrime: Auditor General

Internet and Governance | 06/04/2024 6:28 pm EDT

Public Health Agency among most targeted for cyber threats: CSE

The Office of the Auditor General of Canada released a report Tuesday that...

Big telecoms oppose change to contribution regime threshold, CNOC supports

Internet and Governance | 06/03/2024 4:59 pm EDT

Big telecoms oppose change to contribution regime threshold, CNOC supports

The Independent Telecommunications Providers Association (ITPA) is seeking...

Privacy tribunal unlikely to get through INDU’s look at Bill C-27

Internet and Governance | 06/03/2024 3:28 pm EDT

Groups diverge on handling of net neutrality in comms laws

The government’s proposal to establish a privacy tribunal as part of Bill...

FRPC seeking CRTC review of public alerting system

Internet and Governance | 05/31/2024 2:06 pm EDT

FRPC seeking CRTC review of public alerting system

The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) is asking the CRTC to review the broadcasting...

Privacy tribunal needed in Digital Charter, ISED continues to tell MPs

Internet and Governance | 05/30/2024 6:30 pm EDT

ARIN asks Parliament to require ISPs to maintain Whois info

The House of Commons Industry Committee continued its clause-by-clause...

CRTC defends regulatory policies in Senate, asserts lower prices for consumers

Internet and Governance | 05/28/2024 7:09 pm EDT

Net neutrality prevents CRTC from ordering ISPs verify age online: CRTC to Senate

The CRTC defended its telecommunications mandate before a skeptical Senate...

Private rights of action could undermine privacy commissioner, MPs told

Internet and Governance | 05/27/2024 5:03 pm EDT

Private rights of action could undermine privacy commissioner, MPs told

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...

INDU debates necessity of privacy tribunal in Bill C-27

Internet and Governance | 05/24/2024 7:57 pm EDT

INDU debates necessity of privacy tribunal in Bill C-27

During the House of Commons’ industry committee’s ongoing...

CRTC proposes cost recovery regulations for digital news platforms

Internet and Governance | 05/23/2024 2:20 pm EDT

CRTC proposes cost recovery regulations for digital news platforms

The CRTC is asking for comments on its proposed Cost Recovery Regulations...

CRTC reports continued increase in spam complaints

Internet and Governance | 05/15/2024 6:32 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

Complaints filed with the CRTC’s Spam Reporting Centre (SRC) are on the rise, according to the...

Senate committee passes internet service quality bill

Internet and Governance | 05/07/2024 2:01 pm EDT

Throne speech reiterates rural broadband, web giant promises

The Senate Committee on Transport and Communications hastily adopted a private member’s bill on internet service quality Tuesday. The legislation, Bill C-288, had previously passed the House of Commons unanimously. In its second day of consideration of the bill, the...

Bloc condemns reported integration of CBC English and French services

Internet and Governance | 05/03/2024 3:07 pm EDT

CBC board postings extended

The Bloc Québécois has sounded the alarm after a report in La Presse that...

Senate committee takes up study of internet service quality bill 

Internet and Governance | 04/30/2024 6:01 pm EDT

Tory MP says CRTC directives don’t go far enough when it comes to transparent service quality metrics

The Senate Committee on Transport and Communications began its study of...

Bill C-27 sees amendments to minor and personal information definitions

Internet and Governance | 04/29/2024 6:38 pm EDT

Bill C-27 sees amendments to minor and personal information definitions

The clause-by-clause study of Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Act, continued...

Open telecom to foreign investment, former competition commissioner says

Internet and Governance | 04/26/2024 5:25 pm EDT

Open telecom to foreign investment, former competition commissioner says

A past Competition Bureau Commissioner is calling on the federal government...

Digital divide still exists in Northern Ontario, study finds

Internet and Governance | 04/24/2024 6:27 pm EDT

The northern lights.

Northern Ontario is lagging behind the rest of the province when it comes...

Updated: Quebecor scales back Manitoba expansion after CRTC access rate decision

Internet and Governance | 04/22/2024 6:16 pm EDT

A cell tower with a blue sky in the background.

Quebecor Inc. announced that it is suspending the launch of its "data-rich"...

INDU committee takes out “accepted practices” language from C-27

Internet and Governance | 04/15/2024 3:23 pm EDT

INDU committee takes out “accepted practices” language from C-27

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...