It seemed like a pipe dream when the idea was first broached, but determination, government support and a dedicated leadership brought the notion of an Indigenous television network into existence. It celebrated its 25th anniversary last September.
The Aboriginal Peoples...
Two people from the world of broadcasting were among those named in the latest appointments to the Order of Canada. Rideau Hall made the announcement Monday, June 30, just ahead of Canada Day.
Tonya Williams was made an officer of the Order, the second of the three tiers...
BCE Inc. has accused Telus Corp. of cutting into...
The broadcasting landscape is slanted in favour of the big players, a...
Iristel Inc.’s arguments that the CRTC was wrong...
As the first week of the CRTC’s hearing on...
Most Canadian telecom players want the federal government to step in to overrule the CRTC on permitting large incumbents from selling wholesale high-speed internet service to...
Important programs that the CRTC decides are mandatory for broadcasters to...
A consortium of small internet service providers...
The CRTC has reached majority agreement that Rogers Communications Inc. can acquire BCE Inc.’s stake in...
Canada’s telecoms do not want the CRTC to impose so-called broadband...
American experiences with internet labelling regulations demonstrate that...
Rogers Communications Inc. revealed Wednesday, June 4 that it has received...
TORONTO—Telecommunications should be recognized...
BCE Inc. and National Indigenous Connectivity Inc. (NICI) have signed a...
The minister of innovation and new technology for Manitoba sent a letter to the CRTC May 26 complaining about lack of 911 service in March, during which the family of a man...
The federal government is congratulating Canadian telecom firms for investing in artificial intelligence...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers...
A media company appearing at the last day of a CRTC hearing on redefining...
Rogers Communications Inc. is urging the CRTC to...
BCE Inc. says it is producing Canadian content (CanCon) above mandated levels and will continue to do so, no matter what the CRTC decides new standards should be. The company...
Telus Corp. has plans to launch broadcasting...
Several telecoms are asking the CRTC to launch a proceeding looking at how...
Telus Corp. CFO Doug French said Wednesday, May 14...
In a Wednesday, May 14 ruling, the CRTC told incumbent telephone companies...
The Copyright Board of Canada has been ordered by the Federal Court of...
As Telus Corp. reported its first quarter of 2025 on Friday, May 9, the western telecom said it had good...
BCE Inc. has entered into a partnership with the Public Sector Pension...
As the CRTC works on revising how it defines Canadian and Indigenous audio...
While Canada has seen a swath of climate disaster-related destruction in recent years, telecommunications providers have come up with game plans for keeping people...
While many wireless internet service providers...
BCE Inc. is looking to the CRTC to confirm it can make changes to how it...
For the first time in its reporting history, the...
BCE Inc. is joining the roster of companies which have filed undue...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers Association is asking the CRTC to release its members providing wireline phone services of some of the “regulatory burden”...
When Tonya Williams was a teenager in Toronto, she...
BCE Inc. and the Province of Ontario are back at the CRTC looking for...
The Canadian Football League has appointed Stewart Johnston as its next commissioner. He is currently the senior VP of content and sales at BCE Inc. subsidiary Bell Media. He...
The agency responsible for administering the 988 mental health helpline...
BCE Inc. has named Matt McGowan as senior vice president for business...
The CRTC has decided that wireless data and short message service (SMS)...
The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected TekSavvy Solutions Inc.’s...
Telus Corp. is planning to sell a minority stake in wireless tower...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Media is branching further into global content distribution with the acquisition of a majority stake in content distributor Sphere Abacus.
Sphere...
Starlink parent Space Exploration Technologies Inc. (SpaceX) says it would...
Two and a half million Canadians have virtually no access to local news, a...
Rogers Communications Inc. and its fellow broadcasters in the Canadian...
With a trade war launched against Canada by U.S. President Donald Trump’s...
The CRTC decided on Friday that BCE Inc. did not prejudice kids’ TV programming from DHX Television Ltd. by giving undue preference to similar children’s services. ...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada and Telus Corp. have seen their current wholesale...
BCE Inc. property Northwestel Inc. now has permission from the CRTC to...
Iristel Inc. is fighting with BCE Inc. over a notice of disconnection of...
Lana Payne has a perspective on broadcasting and telecommunications few do....
The CRTC announced late Friday, Feb. 28 that it is delaying the timeline for transitioning to next...
Telus Corp. and BCE Inc.’s Bell Media are continuing to shed staff. This is the latest in a long line...
While the CRTC’s recent decision to expand the wholesale fibre access...
A survey by consulting firm Normandin Beaudry has found that Canadian companies in general are exercising caution when it comes to increasing compensation to their employees....
Canada’s broadcasting distribution undertakings (BDUs) are continuing their fight against a proposal by OUTtv Network Inc. that would see them forced to carry the LGBTQ+ channel. The CRTC proceeding has been going on since last fall.
Currently, OUTtv has...
BCE Inc. and Ziply Fiber have filed paperwork with the American Federal...
Rogers Communications Inc. is laying off a number...
The CRTC is undertaking proceedings to consider the Canadian content...
After launching multiple consultations on...
Telus Corp. CEO Darren Entwistle says the company expects the CRTC will uphold its decision to allow incumbent telecom companies to use the wholesale access framework to...
The CRTC has approved the sale of 21 radio stations previously owned by BCE...
BCE Inc. is hoping the CRTC will overturn its...
Rogers Communications Inc. has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC asking the commission to review...
The CRTC has decided not to change its temporary decision on the wholesale...
Telus Corp. has been denied the extension it wanted before it has to give...
Two provincial cabinet ministers are calling on the federal cabinet to halt...
The reasons behind a Federal Court justice’s December decision to grant a...
Political intrigue on both sides of the Canada/United States border could...
Canada’s broadcasters have responded to the CRTC’s call for comments on the modernization of radio.
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) submitted one of...
The CRTC’s commissioner for British Columbia and Yukon disagrees with her...
The Commission for Complaints for Telecom-Television Services says the...
The concept of a “quantum internet” might feel far off and far-fetched...
Telus Corp. appears to be fighting a solo battle...
BCE Inc. says it will not participate in future government-subsidized broadband projects – such as those meant to support Canada’s connectivity goals through the Universal...
Rogers Communications Inc. says Canada’s...
Representatives from the Canadian Telecommunications Association (CTA), BCE...
Telus Corp. is challenging the federal...
BCE Inc. announced Dec. 3 that it is unifying its English and French media...
Quebecor Inc., acting on behalf of its Videotron and Freedom Mobile divisions, is asking the CRTC to...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri was met with scrutiny during...
Members of the federal standing committee on industry and technology (INDU)...
BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel announced that it has completed the Canada...
A union representing thousands of BCE Inc. employees is concerned that the Canadian telecom and broadcasting giant is expanding into the United States. In early November, Bell announced plans to purchase Ziply Fiber, operating in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S.
The move...
Stakeholders have responded to the CRTC’s call for comments on providing...
Some major broadcast distribution undertakings (BDUs) are against an...
Multiple telecom companies -- including Rogers, Cogeco, Eastlink, and...
Reporting by:
Phalen Tynes-MacDonald
Hannah...
BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic expressed optimism over his company’s recent acquisition of U.S. telco Ziply Fiber during a Thursday quarterly earnings conference call – emphasizing its potential as a “great growth opportunity” right in Bell’s “swim lane.”
“If...
Execulink Telecom Inc. has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC,...
BCE Inc. has moved into the Pacific Northwest of the United States with the...
Telus Corp. has asked for an additional four months until it has to provide...
The CRTC’s recent decision on interim wholesale fibre rates is supposed...
New Democratic Party MP Brian Masse (Windsor West)...
The CRTC has announced the interim rates competitors will pay three of Canada’s largest telephone...
Rogers Communications Inc. has announced a $7-billion-deal to sell a...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is looking to the Supreme Court of Canada for an...
The CRTC is holding firm on its decision to implement thousand-block pooling to manage the growing demand for telephone numbers in Canada, despite arguments from companies concerned about the amount of time they have to make it work.
Under the current number system,...
