Canada’s decision to scrap its digital services tax (DST) has raised questions among political scientists and internet governance experts about the durability of the...
As the first week of the CRTC’s hearing on market dynamics in the broadcasting sector came to a close, a divide emerged between major players in the industry, with...
On Thursday, June 19, the CRTC set cost recovery charges of $2.71 million...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced Wednesday, June 4 it is launching an...
The government of Quebec has introduced a bill that would allow for the...
As the CRTC works on revising how it defines Canadian and Indigenous audio...
The Canadian Journalism Collective (CJC) has released the details of initial funding provided to media outlets, from money collected under the Online News Act.
The CJC is...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is again asking the courts to overrule the CRTC...
The Competition Bureau and Google are butting...
Online streamers continue to argue against the...
The CRTC decided on Friday that BCE Inc. did not...
Google will have to foot the bill for the costs the CRTC incurs through...
Google is firing back at the Competition Bureau following a suit the...
The Canadian Journalism Collective (CJC) says it expects to send eligible...
CBC/Radio-Canada announced Tuesday, Nov. 12 that it is increasing its local...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google will be exempt from the requirements of the Online News Act for five years, the CRTC has decided.
The ultimate goal of the act, which passed into law in June 2023, is to facilitate fair commercial agreements between Canadian news organizations...
By Sophall Duch
Canadian media outlets won’t likely see money from...
The CRTC is asking for comments on its proposed code of conduct for...
As the CRTC reviews Google’s application for...
While providing closed captioning on all programming for the deaf and hard...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google wants the Federal Court of Appeal to set aside a decision by the CRTC that adds online streaming services to the list of companies required to pay the...
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has made slashing CBC/Radio-Canada’s...
Corus Entertainment Inc. expects to have cut a quarter of its full-time...
The Competition Bureau has brought on an expert in economics for a...
The CRTC has kicked off what could be the final hurdle for Google to be...
A consortium of news publishers is calling on the CRTC to make regulations...
Online streaming services generating over $25 million in annual Canadian...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has unveiled the widespread availability of...
Advertising on foreign digital media like Meta...
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...
Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne...
Beanfield Technologies Inc. has hired Chris Adamkowski as its new SVP of commercial services, the company announced Thursday.
“I am thrilled to be joining Beanfield and contributing to the mission of connecting communities...
The Competition Bureau announced...
Representatives from major tech companies warned...
Canada must revise its election rules and the use of artificial intelligence must not be overlooked when making changes, several MPs told The Wire Report.
The issue of AI-generated advertising has come to the fore in the United States. Florida governor Ron DeSantis has...
The federal government released the details of the implementation of the...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight against cutbacks at CBC/Radio-Canada. Tuesday in Question...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google and the federal government have resolved their...
BCE Inc. revealed more details on Tuesday on its proposal for how base contributions from online...
The long-awaited hearing on how the CRTC should...
Earlier this month, TerreStar Solutions Inc. announced it successfully...
A Parliamentary committee is calling for checks of artificial intelligence...
Sentiment among speakers at the 2023 Canada...
International communications trade association, Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), has voiced its concerns regarding the Online News Act and its...
The CRTC has determined that online services that...
Even though the Online News Act has become law, it is still the subject of debate in Parliament. Thursday...
The Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI) is urging the federal government...
Colin McKay, head of Canada public policy and government relations at...
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that WildBrain Ltd. is “flooding” the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) market with its programming and “diluting” the value of its...
The Online News Act standoff between the federal...
Canadian Heritage announced its proposed regulations to implement the...
Meta Platforms Inc. has not experienced any notable drop in Facebook usage despite banning news content...
The CRTC announced its action plan to implement the Online News Act which...
Stingray Group Inc. reported revenue and subscriber growth for the first quarter of the 2024 fiscal year...
Battles over money and how to allocate it are at the forefront as the CRTC...
by Heather Wright, publisher of The Independent of Petrolia and Central...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is adding itself to the list of industry players who are suspending advertising on Meta Platform Inc. after the tech giant announced it will block Canadian news content on Facebook and its other platforms...
In an ongoing tug-of-war at the CRTC, tech giants are arguing that a level of consensus has emerged surrounding the applicable revenue threshold for registration under the...
Canadian Heritage is proposing regulations under the Online News Act that...
The federal government, Quebecor Inc., and Cogeco Inc., are pulling all their advertising investments...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has announced it will be removing Canadian news links from its websites.
The...
Social media companies are asking the CRTC to be added to the list of...
The proposed financial threshold for exemption for online streaming undertakings in the new Broadcasting Act should be changed, several organizations have told the CRTC. How...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Meta Platforms Inc.’s move to block news content on its platform is...
Spokespeople for Alphabet Inc.’s Google expressed further concerns they...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is not impressed by Meta...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) told the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications...
With Bill C-18, the Government's plan to have news...
The chair of the Senate's Transport and Communications committee Tuesday expressed annoyance that as the...
The government’s Online News Act will not regulate the media nor will it require internet users to pay...
Senior executives of Alphabet Inc.’s Google appeared before the House of...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says he is not worried that American president Joe Biden will lobby against the Canadian government’s two online bills, Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, and Bill C-18, the Online News Act. There are reports that the president...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google will stop limiting consumer access to news links...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is rejecting a Senate amendment...
The House of Commons Heritage committee voted Tuesday to summon top...
The House of Commons Heritage committee passed an amendment to the...
The committee studying the Online News Act unanimously voted to include a clause in Bill C-18 that would ensure that the CRTC can hold public consultations regarding...
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee’s clause-by-clause review of...
A survey commissioned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada found that most...
The question over the place of algorithms and...
An Alberta Senator is claiming his privileges as a parliamentarian were...
The executive director of Digital First Canada...
As the House of Commons Heritage committee Tuesday...
The government’s plan to force social media platforms to negotiate...
Multinational streaming platforms continue to decry the influence of the CRTC in the Online Streaming Act, calling for two amendments, while representatives of the Canadian music industry say Bill...
Canadian broadcasting executives, from companies both big and small, told Senators studying the government’s efforts to update the Broadcasting Act that they would like to...
The idea that the CRTC is capable of handling the...
Friday the CRTC approved a report from the CRTC Interconnection Steering...
The Federal Court dismissed Alphabet Inc.’s Google patent infringement...
The Superior Court of Quebec has authorized a class-action lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.'s Google for...
The CRTC chair has said that social media platforms may have to change their algorithms to promote Canadian content online if the Online Streaming Act passes, despite there...
With the NDP and the Bloc Québécois supporting...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked the opposition for...
Alphabet Inc.'s YouTube believes the provisions of Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, give too much power to the CRTC to regulate content, the company’s head of government affairs and public...
A former senior general counsel at the Department...
Canada's competition laws have become too sensitive to price, particularly in mergers, and should instead...
Conservative MP John Nater wants the Liberal government to withdraw its...
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 difficult task and online content providers, rather than search engines like Alphabet Inc.’s Google, are best suited to...
