On Dec. 17, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Canadian cultural laws 'discriminate against U.S. tech and media firms.' But Canadian cultural groups insist both the...
Groups representing music labels and artists told a federal committee studying the effects of artificial intelligence on creative industries that it needs to consider how to...
A talent manager is calling on the CRTC to establish time limits on what is...
TORONTO–Several streaming companies kicked off a hearing at the Federal...
As the CRTC works on revising how it defines Canadian and Indigenous audio...
Groups representing music labels and creators have...
The CRTC has received a joint application from the Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings (FACTOR) and the Community Radio Fund of Canada (CRFC) warning about...
Gatineau, Que. – Telus Corp. asked the CRTC to...
Those who stand to benefit from the Online...
The Indigenous Screen Office (ISO), newly certified as an independent...
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...
A Canadian cultural policy that adopts a...
The CRTC is generally supportive of Bill C-11, the revised broadcasting...
For the second time in the span of a year, the...
OTTAWA -- Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodríguez called previous concerns over social media broadcasting regulations “legitimate questions” Wednesday as he introduced...
The CRTC needs to do away with restrictive regulations, argue multiple...
A new survey suggests that just over half of Canadians believe that...
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...
Canadian content programming relief from the CRTC would allow BCE Inc.'s...
The Liberal government’s proposed updates to the Broadcasting Act have received sharp criticism from opposition parties, while some advocates for Canadian content makers...
With the Liberal Party’s victory in the federal election Monday, its...
The House heritage committee says the government should do more to fight...
The panel in charge of reviewing the broadcasting and telecom acts received...
Canada’s private radio broadcasters are fighting against a push to keep...
Music in public establishments such as malls, bars and restaurants should...
As part of its government-ordered proceeding on future content distribution models, the CRTC is asking a number of companies — including Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Netflix Inc. — for information...
The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is estimating that it has broken...
A broad coalition made up of Canada’s largest telecoms and broadcasters, as well as groups representing...
If the federal government isn’t willing to impose taxes on foreign over-the-top (OTT) services, Quebec is willing to do so itself, Le Devoir quoted Quebec culture minister Luc Fortin as saying Thursday. He said Quebec would be willing to impose its provincial sales tax on subscriptions to Netflix Inc.’s service, the newspaper said in a report Friday. A coalition of more than 30 cultural groups praised Fortin’s comments in a press release the same day, writing that it “shares the Minister's position that nations must apply a consistent regulatory framework for all parties,...
The Bloc Québécois has accused Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly of favouritism toward the likes...
The popularity of music streaming platforms among anglophone Canadians has grown over the past year, with 32 per cent reporting using a music streaming service in the past month when surveyed in the spring of 2017. That’s...
On Wednesday, major internet and tech companies teamed up to rally against...
Major internet-based companies and organizations are preparing to participate in a Wednesday campaign...
As the CRTC banned most forms of differential pricing practices Thursday — including declaring that telecoms can’t pick and chose Internet content to zero-rate and ordering Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron to stop offering its Unlimited Music service — Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais suggested the move levels the playing field between small and large telecoms and content providers and their customers. While noting that though there were Unlimited Music subscribers who...
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly is meeting this week with digital platforms, telling a CBC morning radio show Friday that she was in the Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., region Thursday meeting...
OTTAWA — When talking about CBC/Radio-Canada’s role in the media landscape, the public broadcaster is a “pygmy amongst giants,” and more focus should be aimed at large...
Almost 100 tech companies in the United States have filed a brief in a court case against U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking entry of citizens from seven countries and all refugees into the United States....
Among Canadians who stream music, such services are very much a part of daily life, according to the latest Media Technology Monitor (MTM) report. Thursday’s report from MTM, a project of CBC/Radio-Canada, is a companion to the one released last week on broader trends in music streaming habits. In this report, it noted that just...
An organization representing four-dozen major online-based companies has reached out to president-elect Donald Trump, congratulating him on his victory while proposing digital policy planks for his administration to consider....
GATINEAU, Que. — Those who innovate shouldn’t be penalized because their competitors can’t keep up, the CRTC heard Friday from representatives of the telecom company...
GATINEAU — The CRTC shouldn’t take the non-participation in this week’s hearing by content providers who might eventually benefit from zero-rating and other differential pricing practices as non-interest, a...
The Association québécoise de l'industrie du disque, du spectacle et de la video (ADISQ) is asking for regulatory action to help support the music industry as it deals with the...
The use of data analytics to build a global audience steered much of the discussion around content discoverability at an event hosted by the CRTC in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). The panel of experts at Tuesday's event in Vancouver, held as part of the lead-up to the CRTC's Discoverability Summit, said industry should look at discoverability from a global perspective rather than focusing only on Canada. “Companies should start reaching out to audiences globally. Don’t just think about driving people into your own flagship store...
The CRTC has merged two complaints against a service by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron that exempts some music streaming services from counting against mobile customers’ data caps. Videotron...
Another application has been submitted to the CRTC that protests an offer by Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron to not count data used by its mobile customers for certain music-streaming applications. Vaxination Informatique, a telecommunication consulting company, has launched its own undue-preference complaint about...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is asking the CRTC to direct Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron to change the price structure of its new music service, which exempts data consumed through some...
MONTREAL — Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is giving itself an undue preference with a new service that allows its mobile customers to listen to music streaming without it counting against their...
Google Inc. announced in a blog post Tuesday it will be adding to its current Google Play Music offering a free, ad-supported music streaming service. It will give users “a new way to find just the right music and ... artists another way to earn revenue,” said the post. The free, ad-supported version will initially launch in the U.S. and was to be available on the Internet Tuesday, and later this week on Google’s own Android operating system and Apple Inc.’s iOS, Google said. No information was provided on when or if it would be available in Canada. Google Play Music...
In North America, Netflix Inc. now accounts for 36.5 per cent of peak period, downloaded network traffic, a new report from network management provider Sandvine Inc. said, up from 34.9 per cent...
Music streaming provider Spotify AB said Wednesday that it has added video to its offerings, along with several other features. "We know there are times in the day you want to switch between music to catch up on the latest news, listen to your favourite podcast or simply watch something...
Media Technology Monitor (MTM), a project of CBC/Radio-Canada, said in report released Wednesday that the percentage of anglophones using "personalized" audio streaming services over the last year or so has been...
Customers of Rogers Communications Inc.’s Fido subsidiary will receive free access to Spotify AB’s premium music-streaming service for two years, the company said Monday. “Plug in and escape, anytime, anywhere,...
In the past six months, Canadians’ usage of streaming music services seems to have jumped, in a trend that’s not only good news for streaming services, but wireless companies as well. Nielsen Co. only began...
OTTAWA — Canada needs more online music streaming providers, though the regulatory environment here keeps them away, the president of Nettwerk Music Group told a parliamentary committee...
OTTAWA — Canada’s regulatory environment doesn’t promote technological innovation in the music industry, and that’s part of the reason why streaming services here are lagging...
