Representatives from major tech companies warned that the government bill aimed at regulating AI is too broad and risks hindering its development and use in Canada....
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Monday that it was providing state of the art WiFi across the prairie province. SaskTel is joining forces with Eero, a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., to deliver next-generation service. The telecom says broadband users need not worry about dead spots, dropped connections or buffering, even if everyone in a residence is online. The Wi-Fi 6e devices will offer faster connectivity with little loss in internet speed...
Foreign streamers must pay their fair share of contributions to the Canadian broadcasting system, but...
As the CRTC works out how it is going to wrangle streaming platforms and...
Sentiment among speakers at the 2023 Canada...
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that WildBrain...
Stingray Group Inc. reported revenue and subscriber growth for the first quarter of the 2024 fiscal year on Tuesday, adding that early revenue growth in Q2 has already picked up. According to a statement from CEO Eric Boyko, the company is on track to “more than...
Streaming platforms are saying it is too early to be discussing...
A quarter of anglophone Canadian over-the-top (OTT) service subscribers...
An Ontario-based ethnic broadcaster lobbying the government for funding to...
Experts say Canada’s telecommunications networks are currently handling a...
In a phone interview with Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review panel chair Janet Yale,...
GATINEAU — Either Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc. is an essential part of...
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...
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is seeking assistance in moving...
The CRTC wants to know more about the potential for the Canadian broadcasting market to absorb virtual broadcasting distribution undertakings (vBDUs). Those services sit in-between a traditional BDU and an over-the-top (OTT) service like Netflix Inc.: it’s...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner considers personal data of Canadians...
In the lead-up to a meeting with Amazon.com Inc., the government was...
The panel in charge of reviewing the broadcasting and telecom acts received...
Internet-based video services generated enough revenue in Canada in 2017 to rival the total revenues of private and CBC conventional television stations combined, according to the CRTC’s...
Organizations representing Canadian publishers are flagging the difficulty of identifying Canadian content online to the panel in charge of reviewing the broadcasting and...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is now offering IPTV in Chatham, Ont., and the service will become available in...
Some of Canada’s biggest telecom companies rejected calls to force ISPs...
CBC/Radio-Canada wants the federal government to grant the CRTC the ability...
Andre Leduc recalls introducing Microsoft Inc. Canada president Kevin...
The number of English-speaking adults in Canada subscribing to over-the-top streaming services continues...
A new report from the Angus Reid Institute indicates that the cost of services is the main driver behind...
Canada has been “pushing hard” to speed up development of a plan for...
Nearly a dozen content producers have obtained a court order banning set-top box software developed by an individual in Canada that allows users to watch their content for free, according to court...
The new trade pact forged by Canada, the U.S. and Mexico to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) holds onto a key exemption for Canada’s cultural industries but contains a range of revisions to intellectual property, digital trade and broadcasting...
Amazon.com Inc. is launching a DVR that will work with a digital antenna to...
In a blog post on Wednesday, Facebook Inc. announced the global launch of...
Despite the impact over-the-top (OTT) streaming services have had on the television market for sometime in Canada, a new report by Think TV suggests that linear is still dominating those services. The report said that,...
Eight per cent of Canadians own a smart speaker, which is about in line with adoption of other early...
There is no legal or regulatory obligation on telecoms to offer paper bills, BCE Inc. said in a filing to the CRTC, responding to an application asking the regulator to ensure companies must provide a paper bill to customers who ask for one. In a June Part 1 application, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) said that the intent of a 2014 Telecom Act amendment forbidding telecoms from charging customers to receive paper bills was to ensure subscribers could access paper copies at no charge. “It entirely defeats the purpose of the enactment if it can be circumvented by refusing...
Domestic and international content producers and over-the-top (OTT) services are continuing to partner...
U.S.-based video services like Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube TV and Amazon.com...
OTTAWA — The House of Commons ethics committee spoke to a British MP on...
Amazon.com Inc. will add 3,000 new employees in Vancouver, B.C., the company said in a press release on...
CBS Corp.’s All Access streaming service is now available in Canada, the company said in a press...
Virtual assistants are beginning to take hold in Canada, with almost 40 per...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is “accelerating” its transformation into a more data-centric company, its...
A proposal to implement a website-blocking system to fight piracy has drawn...
As part of its government-ordered proceeding on future content distribution models, the CRTC is asking a number of companies — including Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Netflix Inc. — for information about their digital media broadcasting revenues, subscribers and viewing in Canada. Several years ago, during its Let’s Talk TV proceeding, those two companies refused to provide such info to the regulator, triggering conflict with the commission that saw then-chairman Jean-Pierre Blais briefly walk out of a hearing and threaten to revoke the digital-media exemption order under which Netflix...
The federal government said Friday it is “experimenting” with blockchain technology to create a...
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) said in a press release Monday that projects funded as part of its Community Investment Program will now have access to Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon...
Amazon.com Inc. announced multiple pieces of Amazon Web Service-based (AWS) video publishing software,...
On Wednesday, Amazon.com Inc. made a move to introduce its intelligent personal assistant Alexa into this...
Amazon.com Inc. is making available its Fire TV Stick Basic Edition plug-in streaming device available worldwide, including in Canada. The device, which costs $49.99, “provides customers with access to popular content from multiple providers, including Amazon Prime...
OTTAWA — Opposition MPs continued their criticism of Heritage Minister...
Sports remains one of the last bastions of defence for traditional TV against a wave of over-the-top...
OTTAWA — While the response to the long-awaited results of Heritage...
Amazon.com Inc. is making its voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant Alexa available on its...
Streaming service MHz Choice, which exclusively features international productions, is now available in...
The provincial governments should get cities together and collaborate on...
Amazon.com Inc. issued a request for proposals Thursday for North American cities interested in...
Nearly three million viewers around the world watched the much-anticipated boxing match between Floyd...
July lobbying activity was affected by the expected summer slowdown that comes with Parliament not sitting and politicians being spread out across the country in their ridings — but that didn’t mean groups weren’t active. On Monday, Heritage Minister Mélanie...
Walt Disney Co. will end its partnership with Netflix Inc. and launch two of its own separate...
On Wednesday, major internet and tech companies teamed up to rally against...
The acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI) could contribute to the discovery and growth of Canadian content, according to a mid-year trend report by the Canada Media Fund (CMF). “The progress of AI could support this...
Major internet-based companies and organizations are preparing to participate in a Wednesday campaign...
TMN Go, the TV-everywhere service from BCE Inc.’s media division, will begin allowing viewers to download content for offline viewing. The service will be available to customers of Bell, Rogers Communications Inc., Cogeco Inc., and Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink, Bell Media said in a press release Thursday. It said the service was “[ideal] for the cottage, road trips, work commutes, airplanes, camping trips and mountain tops.” Customers will be able to download movies and series from TMN, TMN...
American companies and organizations took aim at Canadian cultural...
Last month’s deluge of Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) members on Parliament Hill for the...
Amazon.com Inc. is poised to expand its Canadian workforce by 200 positions, the Ontario government...
More anglophone Canadians are watching movies online, as the popularity of over-the-top (OTT) services continues, according to the latest Media Technology Monitor (MTM) report. The Thursday report by MTM, a project...
BCE Inc.’s properties have scored the broadcast rights to the National Football League’s Thursday Night Football games, Bell Media announced Wednesday. The regular-season games will air on TSN, CTV Two and RDS as of the...
The parliamentary secretary to the innovation minister was a popular target for lobbyists last month, as...
CBC/Radio-Canada’s president and CEO Hubert Lacroix said the Crown corporation’s competition comes...
Facebook Inc. will live stream 20 Major League Baseball (MLB) games this season on its social media...
Canadian viewers will get to watch a National Football League (NFL) game that will be played out of London, England, this fall after Verizon Communications Inc. purchased the streaming rights to the game. The one-game deal is worth $21 million US, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. It will be available to Canadian viewers, unlike a previous deal with Amazon.com Inc., which secured a streaming deal with the NFL for 10 Thursday Night Football games. The Canadian broadcast rights are still under negotiation. A similar deal between Twitter Inc....
Annual subscription revenue from over-the-top (OTT) providers is estimated to be inching toward the billion-dollar mark in Canada, according to a new report from Convergence Consulting Group Ltd., which estimated a...
Amazon.com Inc.’s Twitch is asking the Supreme Court of British Columbia to order five companies, including Shaw Communications Inc., to identify a customer Twitch is accusing of “malicious spambot...
Amazon.com Inc. has secured the streaming rights to 10 Thursday Night Football games from the National Football League (NFL), according to a Wall Street Journal report. The deal is...
A Canadian class-action lawsuit is being filed against Amazon.com Inc. for the collection of sales tax on tax-exempt products, the Consumer Law Group announced Monday. In a press...
The upcoming renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) could include pressure to change rules requiring some information to stay in Canada, University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist told a Parliamentary committee. He said the talks seem “likely to include U.S. demands that Canada refrain from establishing so-called data localization rules that mandate the retention of personal information on computer servers located in Canada,” he said at...
Facebook Inc. is increasing its government relations presence in Ottawa, with three new registrations filed with the lobbying commissioner’s office last month. According to the federal lobbyists’...
In another deal that highlights the value of e-sports, Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube has signed a multi-year partnership with competitive gaming company FaceIt to be the exclusive hub for its content. FaceIt, creators of the...
Global revenue from streaming e-sports and video game content will nearly double four years from now, according to Juniper Research, which projected total revenues from video game streaming...
Alphabet Inc. said Thursday it is expanding its cloud platform reach by launching its first Canadian data service in Montreal. The Cloud Platform “consists of a set of physical assets, such as computers and...
On May 27, members of the Conservative Party of Canada will select who will succeed former prime minister Stephen Harper as permanent leader of the party, relieving interim Opposition leader Rona...
Taxing foreign digital services such as Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc.’s Prime service, Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube and Netflix Inc. could provide the federal...
The start of the new year was marked by new registrations for new and not-so-new companies and groups in the federal lobbyists’ registry. Iristel Inc. registered to lobby the federal government as of Jan....
Amazon.com Inc. announced Wednesday a new service that provides video, voice, chat and screen sharing for meetings, called Amazon Chime. The ecommerce giant’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) said in a...
In November 2016, a group of Internet experts met in Toronto to discuss how to address the issue of Canadian Internet traffic travelling to the United States, which some say raises data privacy concerns that have now been amplified with the election of U.S. president Donald Trump. The two-day meeting was the first of its kind and was intended to determine what a national organization of Internet exchanges (IX) would look like, Ryan Hill, communications manager at the Canadian Internet...
More than 1,700 people representing a variety of tech and telecom companies have signed on to an open letter opposing U.S. President Donald Trump’s weekend executive order blocking entry of...
MONTREAL — Moves by Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. into the Canadian data centre business won’t compete directly with Cogeco Inc., which is changing its data...
Amazon.com Inc. must pay a $1-million fine over the pricing practices on its Canadian website following a Competition Bureau investigation. The bureau said in a press release Wednesday that Amazon compared its...
Last month, Amazon.com Inc. announced that its data centre business was expanding into Canada, a move that illustrates what some say is the need for more data points as an increasing amount...
The initial pinch of the CRTC’s decisions on two important issues in 2016 — wholesale rates and pick-and-pay — will be felt in the new year, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst Aravinda Galappatthige. In a Thursday note forecasting the year ahead, Galappatthige said wireline competition, which he noted previously will pressure telecoms in 2017, will be exacerbated by the CRTC’s October decision on wholesale rates. ...
A tepid launch of Amazon.com Inc.’s Prime video streaming service in Canada doesn’t seem likely to pose a challenge to existing players in the Canadian streaming market — for...
Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Prime Video has entered the Canadian market, as part of a worldwide launch for the streaming service, the company announced in a press release Wednesday. The...
Amazon.com Inc. has expanded its data centre services into Canada with the introduction of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Montreal. It is the first AWS in Canada, joining four other regions in North America (in Northern Virginia,...
A move by Netflix Inc. to allow users to download some content for offline viewing is part of a wider push for customers among streaming services, according to a research note from Desjardins Capital Markets....
GATINEAU, Que. — BCE Inc. has to take both offensive and defensive positions when facing off against international competitors, the company told the CRTC Tuesday, as it took its...
Amazon.com Inc. will be bringing its new automotive-based reality show, The Grand Tour, to more than 200 countries next month, the company announced this week. In a video and post on the company website featuring the stars...
OTTAWA — With more than six months left in his term as CRTC chairman, Jean-Pierre Blais isn’t ready to start using the word “legacy” in relation to his term as head of the Canadian regulator, but in a...
Telus Corp. has named Stephen Hampton its new senior project manager of government relations. Hampton told The Lobby Monitor in an interview the role would combine government relations and strategic affairs work “with a big focus on Telus Health.” Hampton worked as a consultant at...
An organization representing four-dozen major online-based companies has reached out to president-elect Donald Trump, congratulating him on his victory while proposing digital policy planks for his administration to consider. “The internet industry looks forward to working with you on policies that encourage this kind of growth, innovation, and consumer choice,” the Internet Association said in the letter posted Monday to its website. The association’s membership includes Facebook Inc., Netflix Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Twitter...