The CRTC has agreed with CBC/Radio-Canada that it may exclude its spending on coverage of the Summer Olympic Games from its record of programming expenditures. The amount the...
Canadian broadcasters and telecoms reported experiencing mixed effects from a global outage on Microsoft Corp.’s Windows platforms Friday morning.
Third-party cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said it issued a faulty software update, causing blue screens worldwide for...
An Ontario senator is wondering why the Department of Canadian Heritage is looking at the future of...
A senator from New Brunswick is upset with the advisory committee on...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge announced Monday the appointment of the advisory committee...
CBC/Radio-Canada continued to come under fire in Parliament Thursday. The...
The Conservative Party launched attacks on CBC/Radio-Canada Wednesday after several days of the Bloc Québécois firing broadsides. The party used question period in both the House of Commons and the Senate to lambaste the public broadcaster.
Opposition leader Pierre...
CBC/Radio-Canada has significantly reduced its financial shortfall and will...
Sylvain Lafrance has been appointed the new chair of Telefilm Canada, effective Thursday. His term will...
Monday the Bloc Québécois continued its assault on plans for CBC/Radio-Canada to merge some of its...
The Bloc Québécois has sounded the alarm after a report in La Presse that...
Canada’s oldest public broadcaster is in a funding crunch but listeners...
A group of public interest broadcasters is getting more money from the...
A member of the Progressive Senators Group is calling on the federal...
In the wake of recent controversy surrounding BCE Inc.’s restructuring...
The CRTC has issued a call for comments as part of Phase 2 of the co-development process for an Indigenous broadcasting policy to ensure that all online broadcasts, radio, and...
Quebecor Inc. subsidiary Groupe TVA has reached an agreement with CUPE local 687, which represents...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pascale St-Onge announced Friday an...
CBC/Radio-Canada and the Canadian Media Guild have inked a tentative labour...
Witnesses before the House of Commons committee on Canadian Heritage all agreed Tuesday that a forum on the future of the media is required. Whether government has a role was...
Reaction has been swift and condemnatory to the announcement Thursday by BCE Inc. that it is laying off 4,800 workers, selling 45 radio stations and slashing news programming...
BCE Inc. announced Thursday that it will be...
OTTAWA–Foreign streamers will be a prickly problem for mainstream...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing to protest the job cuts at CBC/Radio-Canada announced last year. For...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said...
OTTAWA, Ont. – No public institution, including Canada’s public...
The Bloc Québécois is calling for CBC/Radio-Canada to have its funding...
CBC-Radio Canada CEO Catherine Tait won’t say if she, or the public...
CBC/Radio-Canada will not be permitted to appeal a lower court’s ruling...
The federal government released the details of the implementation of the Online News Act Friday. It outlined how money from social media giants will be distributed to Canadian news organizations.
Currently the rules apply only to Alphabet Inc.’s Google search engine,...
CBC/Radio-Canada continued to come under fire in Parliament Tuesday with...
The current and past Minister of Canadian Heritage were loath to endorse...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge would not take the bait when the...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge faced a barrage of questions...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight against cutbacks at CBC/Radio-Canada. Tuesday in Question Period, BQ leader Yves-François Blanchet said this is the worst possible time for the public broadcaster to cut jobs. The job losses were announced Monday.
In his...
Gatineau, Que. - CBC/Radio-Canada's decision to slash 600 jobs and leave...
Canada's public broadcaster is cutting 10 per cent of its workforce and slashing some programming to deal...
Stéphanie Paquette has been named as a regional commissioner for Quebec on the CRTC, it was announced Tuesday. She begins her five-year term on Nov. 23.
She comes to the commission from Quebecor...
The Conservative Party continued its attack on CBC/Radio-Canada Tuesday...
The CRTC denied an application by CBC/Radio-Canada to delay consultations...
Battles over money and how to allocate it are at the forefront as the CRTC...
Canadian public broadcasting advocacy group...
Other governments and private sector companies are joining in the boycott of Meta Platforms Inc. after it announced plans to block Canadian news from Facebook and Instagram. Meta’s move came in...
The CRTC has now received reply comments in its ongoing proceeding into how to implement the Online Streaming Act. As with the original interventions, proposals vary depending on the group submitting the suggestions.
The Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) calls for online undertakings to reveal the date they began operating in Canada, their annual revenues, operational model, and how much Canadian content is available. It disagreed with calls to exempt smaller...
The CBC is requesting the CRTC amend its conditions of licence (COL),...
Quebecor Media Inc. is asking the CRTC to remove some of the conditions of...
In a Thursday ruling, the Federal Court of Appeal sided with Société...
The government has extended the term of Catherine Tait as president and CEO...
The editors and executives of Canada's largest newspapers were on Parliament Hill Tuesday to convince Senators of the necessity of Bill C-18, and to call for some amendments...
CBC/Radio-Canada has received several letters of support in its attempt to delay a mandated consultation...
In a back-and-forth between CBC/Radio-Canada on when the broadcaster should...
The CRTC “must implement a reasonable test” for fibre-to-the-premise...
CBC/Radio-Canada is asking the CRTC to give it more time before holding a required consultation with...
Public broadcasting advocacy group Friends is “frustrated” that the...
Thursday the Supreme Court announced it was allowing an appeal by a group of media into the unsealing of...
Members of the Senate are calling on the CBC/Radio-Canada to maintain its...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is rejecting a Senate amendment...
The CRTC released two commissioned reports on the changing nature of the broadcast industry Friday.
One confirms what has been common wisdom for some time, namely that...
The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday it had dismissed a leave to...
Quebecor Inc.’s efforts to reach all wholesale and MVNO access agreements...
OTTAWA – The Senate officially adopted the Online Streaming Act, a year...
The Senate committee studying the Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11, officially completed its work after...
The House of Commons Committee on Canadian Heritage finished clause-by-clause study of bill C-18, the Online News Act, on Friday morning. Committee chair Hedy Fry was scheduled to report the bill back to the chamber that afternoon.
The final day went quickly. An...
Despite concerns about CBC/Radio-Canada muscling private media out of competition for advertising dollars in the news sector, the House of Commons Heritage committee defeated...
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee’s clause-by-clause review of...
MISSISSAUGA – CRTC chair Ian Scott said he does not know what the state of the CRTC’s finances will look like in future but the commission is “fine” for the moment as it prepares to take on a...
Canada’s Online News Act could serve as a template for countries around...
Quebecor Inc. released its third quarter figures...
A Prince Edward Island senator told his colleagues he wants to bring in a...
Several broadcast industry stakeholders are...
The Attorney General of Canada will not make any representations for itself...
The Canadian Media Producers Association, with support from parties across the television and film production sector, has added its voice to calls for the cabinet to overturn the changes granted to CBC/Radio-Canada in the CRTC's renewal of the broadcaster's license.
In...
The National Pensioners Federation and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre...
Editor's note: for clarity, this story makes...
More than 50 personalities for CBC/...
Public interest advocacy groups and the union representing CBC/Radio-Canada workers are sounding the alarm about the level of programming discretion afforded to the public broadcaster under the five year licence renewal released...
Canadian politicians were quick to condemn Russia’s move to close the CBC/Radio-Canada’s bureau in Moscow in retaliation for the removal of RT, the state-sponsored Russian...
Conservative MP John Nater wants the Liberal government to withdraw its...
The CRTC is generally supportive of Bill C-11, the revised broadcasting...
The CRTC has issued an administrative renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada's...
Rogers Communications Inc. and civil organizations...
OTTAWA -- Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodríguez called previous...
Friends, formerly known as Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, announced Wednesday that Marla Boltman has...
The CRTC Wednesday approved the transfer of two English-language AM radio...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez is...
According to an advocacy group opposing restrictions on the internet, although the Conservative government has a better approach when it comes to the question on what to do...
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is the first party leader to explicitly oppose the proposed acquisition of Shaw...
After Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order survived an appeal from...
The CRTC has ruled that the CBC/Radio-Canada is not giving itself an...
With advertising revenues battered by the pandemic -- particularly the second half of the year -- the...
As part of its 2021 budget, the federal government is plowing another $1 billion dollars into its Universal Broadband Fund over the next five years, bringing the total fund up to $2.75 billion. According to the budget document released Monday, the government will spread the additional $1 billion over five years starting in 2021-2022, with more than half of it—some $616 million—front-loaded in the first two years. The fund was first announced in the 2019 budget as a $1 billion...
The federal government has launched a consultation document to solicit feedback on whether or not it...
The CRTC has released the findings from its first phase in the development of a new Indigenous...
CBC/Radio-Canada is once again asking the CRTC to temporarily relieve it of its local programming and described video obligations for the period of this year’s Tokyo Olympics. In its part 1 application to the CRTC, posted...
As the House of Commons Heritage committee hearings on the government's proposed update to the...
CBC/Radio-Canada president Catherine Tait doubled down on its request for greater flexibility to spend on...
The Canadian Media Producers Association has called on the CRTC to force...
The new digital initiatives from CBC/Radio-Canada like the English-language Gem and its French counterpart ICI Tou.tv have not yet shown themselves to be good enough to fulfill the broadcaster's...
To begin the third and final week of the CRTC's hearings on CBC/Radio-Canada's license renewal, organizations representing the directors and writers for Canada's film and television industry have...
The COVID-19 pandemic dropped CBC/Radio-Canada’s revenues by 11 per cent, but that impact was significantly less than public broadcaster’s leadership had feared, CEO Catherine Tait told the CRTC Monday.
That meant six months into the current fiscal year, CBC revenue...