Canada's competition laws have become too sensitive to price, particularly in mergers, and should instead focus more on the role of innovation and change, according to a Canadian competition and regulatory lawyer.
Lawson Hunter, a former senior civil servant involved in...
Conservative MP John Nater wants the Liberal government to withdraw its Online News Act and instead send the “subject matter” to the House of Commons Heritage Committee,...
Conservative MP Martin Shields castigated the government for advertising on...
A Canadian cultural policy that adopts a...
The implementation of age verification online is a...
New legislation from the Government of Canada will...
The Federal Court of Canada dismissed a motion for summary judgment brought by Sonos Inc. against Alphabet Inc.’s Google. The case revolves around allegations of patent infringement by Sonos.
Both companies manufacture devices for reconfiguring noise suppression and...
For the second time in the span of a year, the...
Canada’s pending news media compensation legislation is based on key...
A Supreme Court of British Columbia judge has...
The Canadian government should broaden its consultation over its online harms bill, a Wednesday Canadian...
A Quebec Superior Court judge has rejected an application by Alphabet...
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is expanding its News Showcase program, announcing Wednesday that it has signed...
The Federal Court has ordered Alphabet Inc.'s Google to turn over a number...
The Competition Bureau has asked a Federal Court...
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is appealing a July court decision that determined that federal privacy law did in fact apply to the company after the matter was brought forward in a reference case by the federal privacy watchdog.
In a Tuesday filing with the Federal Court of...
Canada wants to hear from stakeholders on how to modernize the Copyright Act to better include protections for new innovations and investments as new technologies develop. Friday, Heritage Canada...
A court decision that Canada’s federal private...
An initiative explored this past month in a Senate...
In order to encourage more diverse content online, Heritage Minister Steven...
Following a similar announcement from Facebook Inc. and promises from Heritage Minister Stephen Guilbeault to introduce legislation requiring compensation for news organizations’ content appearing on online platforms, Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced Thursday it has signed agreements with several Canadian news publishers for a new program. Google said in a release Thursday that participating news groups, including The Globe and Mail and Black Press Media, signed up to take part in “Google News Showcase,” a product and licensing program that allows newsrooms to curate their content for readers across the Google News app and its Discover panels. “These deals will help support Canadian newsrooms that provide comprehensive general-interest news to the communities they serve....
A group representing news outlets in Canada has put out a call to Premier...
The federal government is making more spectrum available to increase competition, rural connectivity and the effective deployment of Wi-Fi and 5G technologies. On Wednesday, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry...
The majority of the broadcasting experts invited before the House of...
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee is moving forward with a charter...
The Conservative party is “falsely accusing” the government of wanting...
The Conservatives “continue to oppose” Bill...
The day after Facebook Inc. made good on its threat to block all news from...
The Bloc Québécois is pushing the federal government to take “urgent” action to support local media by imposing new taxes on web giants such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. In the House of Commons...
The government’s draft legislation to reform Canada’s Broadcasting Act must be amended to explicitly include official language minority communities, stakeholders told the House of Commons heritage committee Monday, during its first hearing into Bill C-10. Representatives of the Fédération culturelle canadienne-française and the Quebec English-language Production Council both told the committee that the Bill should be amended to specifically reference the communities, which consist of Anglophones in Quebec and Francophones in the rest of Canada. QEPC co-chair Kenneth Hirsch said the legislation reforming the broadcasting sector was “more desperately needed than anything...
When the federal government’s proposed new privacy legislation, Bill...
In a case that could determine whether a "right to be forgotten" exists in...
The Liberal government’s long-awaited update to the Broadcasting Act...
An announcement Thursday from Alphabet Inc.'s Google that it would put...
Independent producers will be able to access a $50 million insurance backstop to help get TV and film productions off the ground despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault said Friday.
The Short-Term Compensation Fund for Canadian Audiovisual...
Given the precarious situation around the now-escalating COVID-19 pandemic, what will actually be...
Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien has urged Federal Court to find the...
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault Wednesday denounced what he called...
Canadian traditional media sources are in "crisis" as COVID-19 has exacerbated existing downward trends in advertising revenues, with shortfalls for local private broadcasters in the next two years...
The election of Erin O'Toole as federal opposition leader late Sunday night makes "the threat of CBC...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has cleared up uncertainty about...
Federal Court has said that both the CBC/Radio-Canada and the...
An open letter to online video teleconferencing (VTC) platforms signed by...
Telus Corp. has hired Jacob Glick to be its vice-president of public policy. Glick was most recently the general counsel for North, a wearable technology eyewear company based in Kitchener-Waterloo. That company was acquired by Alphabet Inc.'s Google, it announced on Tuesday. Thursday Glick announced through a tweet that he's been hired by Telus, and said in the tweet he was "excited to join a Canadian company with global ambitions and deep commitment to our communities." Before his position at the eyewear company, Glick was chief corporate affairs officer at Rogers Communications...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that in developing the federal...
Legislation modernizing Canada’s Broadcasting Act is “pretty much...
The outdated state of Canadian privacy laws may harm efforts to launch a...
Colin McKay, head of public policy and government relations for Canada for...
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains says the strength of Canada’s telecommunications networks has been on “full display” during the COVID-19 pandemic, as they have coped...
As reports emerge of countries around the world using cellphone location...
In a phone interview with Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review panel chair Janet Yale,...
OTTAWA — On Monday Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault, with some help...
The blue-ribbon panel tasked with modernizing Canada’s communications...
Facebook Inc. has registered to lobby the federal government on “proposed...
Twitter Inc. has registered to lobby the federal government on its internet advertising policy, following the social media company’s ban on political ads on its platform globally. The registration, effective November 1, seeks...
In a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic and foreign affairs teams, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and 14 other organizations have told the American government that they are concerned...
In a joint resolution, passed in Prince Edward Island last month and announced in Gatineau last week, federal, provincial and territorial information and privacy commissioners are calling on their respective governments to...
Federal party leaders agreed Thursday evening in the last debate of the election campaign on the need for big online companies to pay more in taxes, for the government to...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development will host a public consultation next month on its proposed “unified approach” to the taxation of the world’s biggest tech companies. A document released by the...
During the first French-language debate of the federal election campaign,...
Two local Quebec radio groups representing around 60 stations in the province are asking the provincial...
MONTREAL — Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron unveiled its new Helix platform...
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is seeking assistance in moving certain data on Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud services, just as the e-commerce giant comes under scrutiny after a hack of its servers leaked millions of personal data records at an American bank.
Late...
The CRTC wants to know more about the potential for the Canadian...
Artificial intelligence technology allowing videos to be seamlessly...
The CRTC has asked several telecoms to explain how their throttling of wireless speeds once customers exceed their data allotments doesn’t violate the commission’s regulatory policy on internet...
Music Canada, the trade organization which represents the Canadian divisions of some of the world’s largest record labels, has declared that the gap between what artists create and what they are...
The House industry committee is asking the Heritage committee to study...
The Centre for Digital Rights has hired new lobbyists to help it research...
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc.’s head of public policy in Canada said Friday the platform’s community guidelines, “in many respects,” go above what is currently prescribed in Canadian law, as the...
OTTAWA — In an at-times tense hearing of the House of Commons ethics committee, executives from the Canada office of Alphabet Inc.’s Google made the case that the company was technologically...
If the Office of the Privacy Commissioner takes Facebook Inc. to Federal Court over the social media and data giant’s refusal to implement the office’s recommendations, the case will be the first of its kind — testing the limits of Canada’s privacy legislation,...
A chief Federal Court clerk has rejected Alphabet Inc.’s request to expand to constitutional questions the scope of a legal reference that seeks to determine whether Canada’s private sector...
Twitter Inc. has added a timely subject matter to its lobby files: educating federal officials on social media use during elections. The social media company updated its files last week to include...
In the lead-up to a meeting with Amazon.com Inc., the government was...
OTTAWA — If a court determines Google’s search engine falls under the country’s private sector privacy law, then that would effectively make the internet company a media regulator, counsel to...
Facebook Inc. will solicit the advice of an advisory group as part of its effort to ensure its ad registry captures key issues leading to the 2019 federal election. The group of five will include former NDP deputy leader Megan Leslie, former Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff Ray Novak, University of Manitoba’s Ry Moran, McGill University’s Antonia Maioni, and University of Victoria professor David Zussman, it said in a Monday press release. The company announced in the release details of its “Ad Library,” which intends to fulfill a legal requirement under elections...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner and the Attorney General of Canada (AGC) have filed appeals challenging Alphabet Inc.’s application to expand the scope of a deindexing case to include questions about whether forcing it to...
Quebecor Inc.’s company brass says its Fizz flanker brand is picking up...
The panel in charge of reviewing the broadcasting and telecom acts received...
Alphabet Inc.’s search giant Google plans to ban political advertising from its platforms during the next federal election campaign in Canada, following the introduction of tougher political advertising transparency rules by...
The Federal Court has denied the CBC/Radio-Canada’s and the Media Coalition’s application to intervene in a case that will determine whether the privacy commissioner can order search engines to delist certain content -- at...
The Shaw Rocket Fund wants CBC/Radio-Canada to expand its focus on children’s content to reflect a broader age range and is asking for new communications legislation to ensure it has the funding...
Organizations representing Canadian publishers are flagging the difficulty...
Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube makes up just over 35 per cent of worldwide mobile data traffic, making it the...
OTTAWA — A lawyer for CBC/Radio-Canada who is asking the Federal Court to allow it to intervene in a case that could determine if the Office of the Privacy Commissioner...
Canada’s private radio broadcasters are fighting against a push to keep...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is now offering IPTV in Chatham, Ont., and the service will become available in...
Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube says it plans to tamp down on the spread of misleading, fake or conspiratorial video content that gets recommended for its users to watch by limiting the promotion of...
While online misinformation needs to be taken seriously, that doesn’t...
The CEO of an independent specialty TV channel is raising concerns that a lack of regulation could let foreign-based digital companies operating in Canada de-monetize or discriminate against types of Canadian content based on cultural values, such as works made by the LGBTQ community. Brad Danks, the CEO of OUTtv Network Inc., a Canadian-based LGBTQ television network, raised the point in his company’s consultation submission to the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review panel -- the expert group studying how to modernize Canada’s communications legal and regulatory...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google already contributes to the Canadian creative...
Canadians appear to be generally in favour of the ‘right to be forgotten’, with most showing support for the idea and a majority saying they would support having it set out in Canadian law,...
The organization responsible for allocating IP numbers to intermediaries in...
An industry group has created a code of conduct governing the content and application of beer...
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) is currently testing radio technology...
OTTAWA — Consumer advocacy groups are cautioning MPs against proposals that would make site-blocking in Canada easier, after a push for those anti-piracy policies failed at the CRTC failed last...
Colin McKay, head of public policy and government relations for Alphabet...
OTTAWA — Canada’s federal privacy watchdog asked a Senate committee...
Canada has been “pushing hard” to speed up development of a plan for the G20 to “make sure that digital companies pay their fair share of tax,” Canada’s Finance...