As the CRTC works out how it is going to wrangle streaming platforms and bring them into the regulatory sphere, France’s media production industry could provide a window...
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...
Battles over money and how to allocate it are at the forefront as the CRTC...
Streaming platforms are saying it is too early to be discussing...
Social media companies are asking the CRTC to be added to the list of...
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne was the most-lobbied...
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...
Quebecor Inc.’s efforts to reach all wholesale and MVNO access agreements...
During Tuesday’s Question Period, two Conservative MPs from Quebec took...
Supporters and opponents of the Online Streaming Act alike have their eyes...
The organization representing independent companies providing cable TV and...
Whether or not enough content is produced in...
Netflix Inc., and the Motion Picture Association - Canada (MPA-Canada), of...
Canadian broadcasting executives, from companies...
The CRTC chair has said that social media...
With the NDP and the Bloc Québécois supporting the Liberals, the House of Commons has adopted Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, at third reading, despite a request by the...
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...
Former CRTC vice-chair Peter Menzies has claimed...
Debate continued in the House of Commons Thursday on the Online Streaming Act, known as Bill C-11....
The CRTC is generally supportive of Bill C-11, the revised broadcasting act, and does not have the authority to regulate user-generated content, according to remarks chair Ian...
For the second time in the span of a year, the...
After long consultation, the CRTC on Wednesday approved the establishment of an annual digital media survey. Under the regulations, all digital media broadcast undertakings (DMBUs) operating in whole...
Members of Parliament from the Bloc Québécois...
OTTAWA -- Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodríguez called previous...
Top brass from Shaw Communications Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc....
According to an advocacy group opposing restrictions on the internet,...
After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally called Sunday for a...
The CRTC’s efforts to implement a digital media survey are premature, according to the Canadian affiliate of the Motion Picture Association, who argued that the commission should wait until the...
Civil groups and Canadian telecoms companies agree that the CRTC should extend its digital survey to foreign digital media broadcasting undertakings operating in Canada, but...
Senators are looking beyond the free speech issues raised by critics of the revised Broadcasting Act and...
The Heritage Committee will be making the 2017 “Netflix deal” public after the NDP brought a motion to the committee compelling its disclosure. At Monday’s committee meeting -- the first...
Asked whether or not the CRTC is up to the task of dealing with broadcasters who may try to circumvent Canadian content regulations if Bill C-10 is passed and brings streaming...
As the House of Commons Heritage committee hearings on the government's proposed update to the...
Stakeholders from across the broadcasting sector will have a chance to comment on a draft of the policy direction that will shape how the CRTC applies the forthcoming update to the Broadcast Act, officials from the Department of Canadian Heritage have said. Under the government’s proposed update to the Broadcasting Act, known as Bill C-10, foreign streaming platforms like Netflix, Inc. would be brought under the regulatory framework of the CRTC, though it will be up to the CRTC to...
Cogeco Inc. has responded to a Part 1 from television company Wildbrain,...
MPs on the House of Commons Heritage Committee...
The government’s draft legislation to reform Canada’s Broadcasting Act must be amended to explicitly include official language minority communities, stakeholders told the House of Commons heritage committee Monday, during its first hearing into Bill C-10. Representatives of the Fédération culturelle...
The federal government plans to begin imposing sales taxes on foreign digital services on July 1, 2021...
Canadian content programming relief from the CRTC would allow BCE Inc.'s...
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault isn’t concerned about potential...
The Liberal government’s proposed updates to the Broadcasting Act have...
Canadian traditional media sources are in "crisis" as COVID-19 has exacerbated existing downward trends in advertising revenues, with shortfalls for local private broadcasters in the next two years...
The election of Erin O'Toole as federal opposition leader late Sunday night makes "the threat of CBC privatization more real," according to Friends of Canadian Broadcasting executive director Daniel Bernhard.
During his campaign for the Conservative party leadership,...
A quarter of anglophone Canadian over-the-top (OTT) service subscribers...
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains says the...
Netflix Inc. has announced it will lower its bit rate in Canada by 25 per cent for the next 30 days, just days after three telecommunications associations publicly urged the streaming giant to lower rates to lessen network...
Experts say Canada’s telecommunications networks are currently handling a...
The COVID-19 global pandemic represents "an unprecedented challenge for all involved in the screen-based industry across Canada," according to the Canadian Media Fund. As such, the CMF has joined a “task force” made up of some 11 agencies that represent Canadian media producers that will seek to guide the industry through the economic fallout of the global public health crisis, according to a Friday press release. The group, the release says, will "collectively work together to assess the impact on the industry," and will "inform governments at the federal, provincial and...
Former Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly’s much-touted 2017 deal with Netflix Inc. to spend $500 million...
OTTAWA — On Monday Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault, with some help...
OTTAWA — A broadcasting and telecommunications legislative review report...
The blue-ribbon panel tasked with modernizing Canada’s communications...
The Liberal government's minority mandate means it will have to move fast...
Following the federal parties’ shared pursuit to further regulate foreign...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has delivered a greatly expanded set of telecom and internet-related...
Facebook Inc. has registered to lobby the federal government on “proposed...
OTTAWA — New Public Safety Minister Bill Blair indicated Wednesday he is open to talking to telecoms about whether to ban Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd equipment from 5G...
The country’s largest TV service providers are appealing an increase in the over-the-air distant signal...
GATINEAU — Either Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc. is an essential part of...
With the Liberal Party’s victory in the federal election Monday, its...
Despite Conservative leader Andrew Scheer indicating throughout this...
Federal party leaders agreed Thursday evening in the last debate of the election campaign on the need for big online companies to pay more in taxes, for the government to...
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...
Organizations that represent important stakeholders in the field of Canadian content are staying...
During the first French-language debate of the federal election campaign,...
Even before the federal election campaign officially kicked off, telecom...
Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal is lobbying both the Alberta and Ontario...
MONTREAL — Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron unveiled its new Helix platform...
The federal government last week announced that it would pour $14.6 million...
The CRTC wants to know more about the potential for the Canadian...
The CRTC has asked several telecoms to explain how their throttling of wireless speeds once customers exceed their data allotments doesn’t violate the commission’s regulatory policy on internet traffic management practices (ITMPs). In a June 28 letter posted to its website this week, the regulator issued requests for information to eight telecoms related to their use of ITMPs. That includes questions to Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile, Rogers Communications Inc. regarding its Chatr flanker brand, and BCE Inc.’s Bell MTS and Lucky Mobile about throttling mobile speeds after...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said in a social media post Wednesday that the Liberal government plans...
New data released by the CRTC Thursday shows the industry-wide trend of tumbling broadcast sector revenue...
The House heritage committee says the government should do more to fight...
Almost 60 per cent of Canadians have “low trust and confidence” in Netflix Inc. to “protect Canadian culture and identity on television”; half of Canadians don't trust cable companies to do...
MONTREAL — The NDP’s platform for this year’s federal election will include requiring foreign over-the-top (OTT) services to collect and remit sales tax on revenues earned in Canada and ending the tax exemption for advertising on foreign online platforms.
NDP MPs...
OTTAWA — Quebecor Inc. president and CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau said...
OTTAWA — NDP industry critic Brian Masse says the new broadband strategy...
Both over-the-top services and broadcasters should be required to show a certain amount of Canadian feature films, the Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters is asking the panel...
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...
Netflix Inc. will expand its production presence in Canada by leasing space at two Toronto production...
Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube makes up just over 35 per cent of worldwide mobile data traffic, making it the...
Canada’s private radio broadcasters are fighting against a push to keep...
OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada’s president Catherine Tait compared Netflix Inc.’s worldwide presence to...
The House of Commons unanimously passed a motion Tuesday condemning Netflix Inc. for using footage of the Lac Mégantic, Que. train disaster in a TV show and a movie.
The motion, introduced by NDP heritage critic Pierre Nantel, condemns the use of the images, and demands...
Netflix Inc. is defending against calls to rope foreign over-the-top...
BCE Inc. urged the federal government to make virtual private networks (VPNs) used to circumvent...
As a rule, when Canadians search keywords on the internet, they should be presented with Canadian content...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) wants the government to...
Some of Canada’s biggest telecom companies rejected calls to force ISPs to contribute to Canadian programming in their submissions to the Liberal government’s panel...
Toronto mayor John Tory said he has been in discussion with Netflix Inc. about setting up a production...
As the new year begins, the months ahead promise a new spectrum auction, new CRTC announcements on...
The number of English-speaking adults in Canada subscribing to over-the-top streaming services continues...
A new analysis published by the consumer website Comparitech this week...
A new report from the Angus Reid Institute indicates that the cost of services is the main driver behind...
OTTAWA — Canada’s federal privacy watchdog asked a Senate committee...
Internet service providers (ISPs) in rural and remote communities are trying to keep up with the appetite...
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...
OTTAWA -- There is an “urgent need” for Canadian lawmakers to set out a new communications framework now that Canada has hammered out a new trilateral agreement on trade to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) so that Canadian industry isn’t put at a disadvantage, according to a Canadian telecom consultant. Nordicity’s Stuart Jack told a Senate committee reviewing Canada’s communications industry laws that Canada is three decades “out of date” with other OECD countries in adopting a “unified” communications act. He said there’s a “narrow window”...