Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault must unblock Rebel News founder Ezra Levant on X Corp. (formerly Twitter), according to an order issued by a federal court justice.
According to the Tuesday order, the minister “shall not cause or permit anyone acting on his...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has said the Government is not backing down from its legislative effort to get companies like Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook and Twitter Inc. to compensate news outlets for their content, in the wake of comments from a Facebook official to...
Representatives of Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms...
Facebook Inc. has registered to lobby the federal government on “proposed...
Twitter Inc. has registered to lobby the federal government on its internet advertising policy, following the social media company’s ban on political ads on its platform globally. The registration, effective November 1, seeks...
In a joint resolution, passed in Prince Edward Island last month and announced in Gatineau last week, federal, provincial and territorial information and privacy commissioners are calling on their respective governments to...
The Green Party election platform includes promises to ensure only individuals whose identities have been verified can set up social media accounts and indicates a Green...
As major spectrum auctions considered important for 5G networks grow nearer, Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) wants to know more about how spectrum is used in Canada, and is looking at Victoria, B.C.-based...
Alex Benay, Canada’s chief information officer, is headed to the private sector after two and a half...
Artificial intelligence technology allowing videos to be seamlessly...
Ending several months of uncertainty and speculations, Twitter Inc. has declared that it will join Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine in not selling any political advertisements in Canada in the...
Cogeco Inc. is lobbying the government to help Canadian radio news...
Twitter Inc. has added a timely subject matter to its lobby files: educating federal officials on social media use during elections. The social media company updated its files last week to include...
The panel in charge of reviewing the broadcasting and telecom acts received...
OTTAWA — The Liberal government has set up a new alert protocol and...
Andre Leduc recalls introducing Microsoft Inc. Canada president Kevin Peesker to a Montreal-based astrophysicist with a social media analytics company.
The impromptu meeting at a cybersecurity event last year was intended to get Claude Théoret’s Nexalogy, which...
An industry group has created a code of conduct governing the content and application of beer...
OTTAWA — Efforts to stanch online misinformation campaigns will not eliminate the very real situation that may see Canadians fall victim to attempts to influence their political opinions, the...
Steve Ladurantaye is leaving CBC/Radio-Canada after two and a half years at...
In the three years since the last Canadian federal election, emerging...
The federal NDP said it will enter the new parliamentary session with a focus on pressuring the government to right wrongs they say have been committed by allowing foreign internet companies to skirt domestic taxes.
Federal leader of the party Jagmeet Singh, who does not currently sit in Parliament but plans to run in a B.C. by-election, pledged to apply “the same rules to all, no favour for friends or the privileged” when talking about the likes of Netflix Inc.,...
According to a recent report from the CBC/Radio-Canada Media Technology Monitor (MTM) project, 72 per cent of English-speaking Canadians have used a social networking service in the past month, with just over half of those using...
Despite the impact over-the-top (OTT) streaming services have had on the television market for sometime in Canada, a new report by Think TV suggests that linear is still dominating those services. The report said that,...
Twitter Inc. wants to make sure the government understands how online...
Corus Entertainment Inc. executives delivered a mapped-out vision for the...
Thousands of Canadians have signed separate petitions created by Democracy Watch, with one calling for a strengthening of the elections law body that could compel media sites to remove false ads....
Corus Entertainment Inc. is partnering with Twitter Inc. to bring...
OTTAWA — Testimony from Facebook Inc. representatives at the House ethics...
OTTAWA — Revelations over the weekend that Facebook Inc. data was used...
OTTAWA — Treating social media companies, such as Facebook Inc., as broadcasters could help keep them in line with election regulations and curb unwanted influences resulting from unbalanced perspectives, a law professor at the University of Ottawa argued Wednesday....
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada said Friday that a sender of a text...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is urging the CRTC to mandate service providers to unlock devices even if the customer doesn’t have an active account with the provider, in a Part 1...
In a press release on Wednesday, Pelmorex Corp. announced that Rory Capern will join the company as...
Despite the abundance of social media platforms in existence, Facebook Inc.’s popularity among...
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...
Despite recent calls to limit encryption by some government officials and intelligence heads worldwide,...
The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, launched in June by Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp., Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube, held its first meeting in San Francisco,...
Without an Edward Snowden-like scandal, exposing inappropriate government access of citizens’ personal...
A joint statement from G20 leaders stemming from their two-day meeting last...
Canada’s social network usage is projected to grow steadily over the next four years but growth will slow compared to previous years, according to a report by research company eMarketer Inc. The...
More than six dozen civil society organizations and individuals have come out to reiterate support for stronger data encryption in a letter addressed to a quintet of the world’s intelligence...
Representatives from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance have issued a statement lauding the creation of a coalition by some of the world’s biggest tech companies aimed at tackling terrorist content online. On...
Some of the world’s largest technology and social media companies are forming a coalition to counter terrorism. The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism is being formed with the help of Facebook Inc., Microsoft...
American companies and organizations took aim at Canadian cultural protections, the country’s copyright regime and expressed concern over any potential rules requiring domestic storage of data, when given the chance to provide feedback to their government on priorities to...
In their initial impressions of the government’s biggest attempt to...
Canadians rely heaviest on CBC/Radio-Canada and the CRTC to protect...
Facebook Inc. will live stream 20 Major League Baseball (MLB) games this season on its social media...
Twitter Inc. and Bloomberg LP have come to an agreement that will see the financial news outlet provide round-the-clock streaming content for the social media platform as part of 12 streaming deals...
OTTAWA — Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly said she found a receptive audience for her message of cultural diversity on digital platforms among the executives of the digital media giants she met on her recent trip to California. Joly’s week-long visit to Los Angeles and San Francisco ended Tuesday and included meetings with brass from Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and YouTube, Snap Inc. and Twitter Inc. “What I mean by cultural diversity is the presence of national content, national representation — in our case...
Twitter Inc. had to respond to 51 requests for Canadian user's information and 11 requests for account removal in the latter half of 2016, according to the social media company’s latest transparency report. Out of...
Following a year in which cord-cutting increased sharply, the trend seems to have levelled out somewhat in 2016, with Canada’s publicly traded telecoms losing 220,990 TV subscribers, compared to...
Twitter Inc. and the National Lacrosse League (NLL) have teamed up to live-stream games in the U.S. and Canada, the men’s indoor professional league announced Wednesday. In a press release, the league said its...
Facebook Inc. has updated its policies to state that developers cannot use data obtained from its social media networks “to provide tools that are used for surveillance.” While...
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada told members of Parliament Tuesday they don’t see themselves as “arbiters of truth” in...
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....
In November 2016, a group of Internet experts met in Toronto to discuss how to address the issue of Canadian Internet traffic travelling to the United States, which some say raises data privacy...
More than 1,700 people representing a variety of tech and telecom companies have signed on to an open letter opposing U.S. President Donald Trump’s weekend executive order blocking entry of...
Starting Monday, Twitter Inc.’s live-streaming app will host a nightly showing of a Canadian media program for the first time. The Agenda with Steve Paikin, a current affairs program produced by the publicly funded educational TV station TVO, will stream on Twitter’s Periscope, according to a Monday press release. It said the show would air Monday through Friday at 8 p.m. EST. “Streaming via Periscope on Twitter is a natural evolution to extend The Agenda experience to include more participative interaction,” the press...
Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp., Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube will begin sharing information to help curb the spread of terrorism-related content....
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....
Twitter Inc. announced that it is cutting nine per cent of its workforce globally in a restructuring that it estimates will make it profitable next year. The social media company announced the reduction, estimated at...
A Friday morning denial of service (DDoS) attack has taken down or slowed the websites of some of the Internet’s biggest companies, according to reports. The attack targeted Internet...
Twitter Inc. will partner with Buzzfeed Inc. to provide live coverage of the United States presidential election next month. The Nov. 8 election night special will be streamed exclusively on Twitter, the companies said in a press release Thursday. “On a night when millions are focused on the final chapter of the election cycle and campaign results, BuzzFeed News and Twitter will provide an alternative approach to coverage for a next-generation, highly engaged audience on the platform where the central political conversation is happening in real-time,” the...
Telus Corp. issued an apology Wednesday after a Tuesday night social media post linking the company to support for the federal government’s recently announced carbon-pricing plan generated backlash...
Facebook Inc.’s platform is by far the dominant social network among Canadian anglophones, with almost all — 92 per cent — of social networkers using the site, according to a new report...
After 13 weeks off from the Parliament Hill routine, MPs returned en masse to Ottawa Monday for the start of the House of Commons’ fall session, where the stage is set for forward...
Rogers Communications Inc. is taking to Twitter Inc.’s social media service to allow its customers to connect with its support representatives. The partnership, announced in a Thursday press...
Twitter Inc. has launched apps that allow viewers to access its live-streaming video through Apple Inc.’s Apple TV, Amazon.com Inc.’s Fire TV and Microsoft Corp.’s XBox One. The Xbox and Apple TV apps...
Telecom service providers should look towards improving video quality across their networks if they want to increase customer loyalty, according to a new joint report from Huawei Technologies Co....
Twitter Inc.’s Canadian division announced Monday it had hired Jennifer Hollett as the company’s new head of news and government. Hollett, who began her new role Monday, stepped into the...
While digital and mobile options for watching the Summer Olympics are gaining in popularity and engagement, television continues to own the podium for the Canadian outlet broadcasting the two-week...
Twitter Inc.’s vice-president of media in North America is leaving the company. Kirstine Stewart confirmed her departure in a blog post Friday. She didn’t specify where she will move next, writing that “though I’m right in the middle of some great conversations about some very exciting opportunities, I’m not sure which will choose me, or which I will choose.” In 2013, Stewart moved from CBC/Radio-Canada to Twitter to head its newly launched Canadian office....
ESPN is streaming live coverage of the Wimbledon tennis tournament on Twitter Inc.’s social media service. The website states the live feed is brought to viewers by Wimbeldon and ESPN. It appears to have been made...
Steve Ladurantaye, head of news and government partnerships at Twitter Inc.’s Canadian division, will be the new managing editor of digital news at CBC/Radio-Canada. The move is effective May 9, Ladurantaye said in a...
The National Football League (NFL) announced Tuesday a new deal with Twitter Inc. to stream NFL games on the social media platform, and though Canadians won’t have access,...
Major tech companies have filed documents with the U.S. courts in support of Apple Inc.'s position against creating a workaround for investigators to access encrypted information on an iPhone connected with the Dec. 2 attack...
CRTC Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais said Wednesday the CRTC will stick to the course of action it has set despite disapproval by those who feel the CRTC’s direction “upsets their entitlements and threatens their livelihoods.” According to a copy of his remarks at a speech delivered to the Canadian Club of Toronto, Blais said that while “many Canadians and companies approve of the course we at the CRTC are setting… [others] are just complaining. They’re forecasting doom and gloom: job cuts, revenue losses, station closures. They run off to court, they run off...
Audio and video traffic — or real-time entertainment — now accounts for more than 70 per cent of download traffic on fixed Internet networks during peak periods in North America, with Netflix Inc.'s share now 37.1 per cent, an increase from 36.5 per cent a year earlier, according to a report released Monday...
The use of live-streaming apps such as Periscope and Meerkat has helped journalists provide unfiltered, live as-it-happens moments for viewers, according to some proponents, though others claim such technology compromises the...
The Canadian government asked Twitter Inc. for users’ personal information 32 times in the last six months of 2014, the social network said on Monday in its latest transparency report. The requests covered 37 different...
Twitter Inc. and Google Inc. have reached a deal that will make posts on Twitter’s social media accounts easier to find through the Google search engine, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Quoting...
French bank Groupe BPCE announced Tuesday what it called a "world first in the payment-media field" in allowing payments to be made via Twitter. It said in a press release it has created, in partnership with its...
Twitter Inc. said Tuesday it has filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court to reveal more about the information requests it receives from the United States' government. The company said in a press...
Twitter Inc. said Monday it is testing a program that allows users on its social network to make purchases with the push of a new button that will be included in tweets. The company said in a blog post that a "small...
While singing competition reality shows have been a mainstay on network television for the past decade, their newest iteration could offer an indication of the direction in which social-TV strategies...
Twitter Inc. has acquired the online video platform SnappyTV, which allows “live clipping, editing and distribution,” Twitter said in a blog post Thursday. “As we continue to invest in video, it’s important for us to provide tools that make it easy for TV broadcasters, businesses, and event producers to share high-quality videos,” Baljeet Singh, Twitter’s director of product management, wrote in the blog post. Singh added that the companies have worked together in the past “with the biggest content partners in the world to inject the best video...
Twitter Inc.'s chief operating officer, Ali Rowghani, has resigned his position, a move that has been linked with slower-than-expected growth the company has seen lately. Rowghani posted on Twitter Thursday morning: "Goodbye Twitter. It's been an amazing ride, and I will cherish the memories." A story published a day earlier on...
The number of “interactions” about television on social networks operated by Facebook Inc. or Twitter Inc. increased 12 per cent in the past year, according to a report from social TV...
Twitter Inc. has entered into a two-year, $230 million mobile advertising deal with holding company Omnicom Media Group, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The deal will integrate Twitter’s mobile advertising...
Twitter Inc. reported a loss of $132 million US in the first quarter of 2014 despite more than doubling its revenue from a year earlier, the company announced on Tuesday. The majority of the social network’s $250 million US...
Twitter Inc. said Thursday it is opening up more opportunities for developers to promote their mobile applications to Twitter users, and up to a billion others not on the social network through a mobile-ad exchange. The company said in blog post Thursday that it can arrange for ad developers to have simultaneous access to its 241 million active users, as well as about a billion mobile devices connected to a mobile advertising exchange called MoPub Marketplace. Twitter said it has “developed a full suite of targeting, creative and measurement tools to enable Twitter advertisers to...
Twitter Inc. said Tuesday it is acquiring social media analytics provider Gnip Inc., a move one analyst said could cause trouble for other companies that analyze and monetize the social...
Facebook Inc. said Thursday that it is launching a trending feature that will highlight the most talked-about topics on the social network. The company said in a posting to its website that Facebook users will find the new...
Myriad Group AG, a Swiss-based developer of mobile technology, said Monday it reached an agreement with Twitter Inc. to provide mobile users in developing countries with a text-based, read-only...
