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...
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 response to the passage of the Online News Act.
Last week, the federal government announced it was halting all advertising on the platforms. Quebecor Inc. and Cogeco Inc. made similar announcements at the same time.
Since then, the government of Quebec and several cities...
Canada’s public broadcaster has hired Torstar Corp.’s Claude Galipeau as its executive vice-president of corporate development.
The chief revenue officer of Torstar will join CBC/Radio-Canada on Jan. 7, 2019, the...
In a release on Monday, the Quebec government announced $36.4 million over five years in new investments supporting the province’s print media moving to digital. Announcing the funding over a Facebook Inc. livestream, Quebec...
The Competition Bureau has confirmed in an email they will review a recent deal between Torstar Corp. and Postmedia, which saw the exchange of 41 commuter, local or community newspapers between the two Canadian media organizations...
In a press release on Wednesday, Pelmorex Corp. announced that Rory Capern will join the company as...
The managing director of Twitter Inc.’s Canada division has stepped down, a Twitter Canada spokesman confirmed in an email.
Rory Capern, who has been with Twitter Canada since January 2016, said on Twitter Wednesday that he was “grateful for the chance to lead” the division and that he is “looking forward to what’s next.”
The spokesman could not confirm when exactly Capern left the company.
In the meantime, he will be replaced on an interim basis by Twitter Canada’s head of agency development Leanne...
BCE Inc.'s Bell Media division announced Wednesday it has appointed Mark Finney to the newly created position of vice-president of strategic sales, and several other changes in the executive ranks...
