With a federal election looming, a former politician is urging the Canadian creative sector to work harder to inform members of Parliament about their industry’s importance...
OTTAWA–The head of the Canadian Media Producers Association delivered an upbeat state of the industry speech to delegates at the annual Prime Time conference Thursday....
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 House of Commons Canadian Heritage committee has made a half dozen...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri was met with scrutiny during...
A coalition of five Canadian media companies are suing OpenAI Inc. and several of its subsidiaries over the alleged use of copyrighted material by ChatGPT. The plaintiffs are...
The incoming president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada...
CBC/Radio-Canada announced Tuesday, Nov. 12 that it is increasing its local...
TV5 CEO Marie-Philippe Bouchard has officially been named the next...
Outgoing CBC/Radio-Canada CEO Catherine Tait has once again been grilled by...
Public broadcasters from around the world are pledging to fight...
GATINEAU, Que.–Canada needs to incubate more Indigenous content creators...
CBC/Radio-Canada could have a renewed mandate and a new president/CEO...
The final replies to the CRTC’s review of the independent local news fund (ILNF) offer a wide range of...
As the CRTC reviews Google’s application for exemption from the requirements of the Online News Act, some news publishers are weighing their industry’s urgent financial...
While providing closed captioning on all programming for the deaf and hard...
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has made slashing CBC/Radio-Canada’s...
The CRTC has agreed with CBC/Radio-Canada that it may exclude its spending...
Canadian broadcasters and telecoms reported experiencing mixed effects from...
An Ontario senator is wondering why the Department of Canadian Heritage is looking at the future of CBC/Radio-Canada when consultations on the public broadcaster have already been done.
In Thursday’s question period, Independent senator Donna Dasko asked what became 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...
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 are stepping up to the plate to support it as it works to raise $3 million by September. ...
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...
Quebecor Inc. subsidiary Groupe TVA has reached an agreement with CUPE local 687, which represents workers in Montreal, Quebec City and local stations across Quebec. The parties announced the pact on Saturday.
Bargaining began in December of last year and was conducted...
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. 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 broadcaster, should be immune from criticism, but recent attacks calling for it to be defunded are...
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...
CBC/Radio-Canada continued to come under fire in Parliament Tuesday with the direction of the crown corporation being raised in both the House of Commons and the Senate.
During the Commons Question Period, Bloc Québécois heritage critic Martin Champoux pointed out that...
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...
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 with Indigenous peoples and further directed the CBC to hold the consultations by the end of March and submit a report by the end of June.
Under the conditions of the CBC’s license, issued in...
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 CBC is requesting the CRTC amend its conditions of licence (COL), excluding programming expenditures from Olympic and Paralympic coverage in the calculation of its...
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...
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 federal government has left out the CBC/ Radio-Canada from its 2023 budget, released Tuesday....
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...
The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday it had dismissed a leave to appeal filed by the CBC/Radio-Canada and BCE Inc. subsidiary CTV. The two broadcasters had been seeking access to alternative measures program records.
The case started in March 2019 when Robert...
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...
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 on Thursday, with president and CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau pleased with the prospects for the future. This was despite a slight...
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...
The National Pensioners Federation and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre have filed a petition asking cabinet to overturn the CRTC’s renewal of the CBC/Radio-Canada...
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...
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 concerns over social media broadcasting regulations “legitimate questions” Wednesday as he introduced...