GATINEAU, Que.—In addition to implementing flexible Canadian content regulations for both traditional broadcasters and online streaming companies, broadcasters want to see...
Online streamers continue to argue against the CRTC applying traditional broadcasting regulations on their operations, asserting that their business models and the nature of...
The CRTC decided on Friday that BCE Inc. did not...
An audio streamers’ advocacy group is looking to the public for support...
Netflix Inc. is pulling its financial support of programs in the Canadian...
Amazon.com, Inc. is set to become the seventh member of the Motion Picture...
While providing closed captioning on all programming for the deaf and hard of hearing is a laudable goal, it is not achievable, several streaming companies have told the CRTC....
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has made slashing CBC/Radio-Canada’s...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB)...
Apple Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., and the Motion Picture Association-Canada...
Online streaming services generating over $25 million in annual Canadian...
Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne...
Gatineau, Que. – Telus Corp. asked the CRTC to...
As the CRTC works out how it is going to wrangle streaming platforms and...
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that WildBrain...
Battles over money and how to allocate it are at the forefront as the CRTC receives replies on the implementation of the Online Streaming Act, which was known as Bill C-11 in...
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...
Quebecor Inc.’s efforts to reach all wholesale and MVNO access agreements with BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. has proved to be difficult according to the company’s president and CEO.
Pierre Karl Péladeau made the comment Thursday on a fourth quarter conference call with...
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...
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 policy told MPs on Tuesday.
“Some believe we want to avoid all regulation,” YouTube's head of Canada government affairs and public policy Jeanette Patell told the House of...
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...
For the second time in the span of a year, the Liberal government has introduced a new bill to update Canada’s broadcasting act but “what it doesn't bring is new ideas,”...
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...
Senators are looking beyond the free speech issues raised by critics of the revised Broadcasting Act and instead are focusing on what some senators say are other problems arising from the bill, as C-10 crawls its way to the finish line.
“Despite what you may have read...
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,...
Cogeco Inc. has responded to a Part 1 from television company Wildbrain, calling the company’s attempts to invoke the CRTC’s standstill rule “a glaring abuse of the...
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...
A quarter of anglophone Canadian over-the-top (OTT) service subscribers opted in to a new platform during the COVID-19 pandemic, while a majority of subscribers increased their usage, according to a new survey from Media Technology Monitor (MTM), a project of...
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...
Former Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly’s much-touted 2017 deal with Netflix Inc. to spend $500 million in Canada should never have been referred to as an agreement, the federal government is arguing as part of its reasoning for why it shouldn’t have to publicly disclose...
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...
The country’s largest TV service providers are appealing an increase in the over-the-air distant signal retransmission tariff imposed by the Copyright Board in December, in part because they argue the decision doesn’t take into consideration the new realities of modern...
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...
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 OECD Wednesday ahead of the planned consultations outlines skeletal plans for a new approach to tax in the digital economy that would have a significant impact on the web giants, often referred to by the acronym FAANG: Facebook Inc, Apple Inc., Amazon Inc., Netflix Inc., and Alphabet Inc.’s Google. The proposal, which flows out of a series of meetings amongst G20...
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...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said in a social media post Wednesday that the Liberal government plans to force large online services to make and promote Canadian content on their platforms.
“Everyone has to contribute to our culture. That’s why we’ll require web...
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...
OTTAWA — Quebecor Inc. president and CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau said Monday that he would yank TVA Sports from BCE Inc.’s TV service over carriage fees — and denied that doing so would violate CRTC rules.
Péladeau was in Ottawa to give a lunchtime speech at the...
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...
Netflix Inc. is defending against calls to rope foreign over-the-top players into Canada’s broadcasting framework — which could require the company to abide by CanCon...
