The House of Commons Industry Committee continued its clause-by-clause study of Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Act Wednesday. Discussion centred around whether or not a...
The House of Commons industry committee continued its clause-by-clause study of Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Act, Wednesday. The MPs were looking at the preface of the legislation.
The afternoon session began with Liberal MP Ryan Turnbull, the parliamentary secretary to...
After almost two hours of deliberation last Thursday, the House industry and technology committee failed...
While the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and...
The rapid pace of change in the technology sector has led a group of Parliamentarians to form an emerging technology caucus where members of all parties can learn about the brave new world.
The...
A New Democrat representing a border city wants the CRTC to review...
The House of Commons Heritage committee is arguing against the merger of Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. Such a move will have grave consequences for media concentration and diversity, the politicians argue.
In a 32-page report tabled Tuesday in...
Two new faces will be stepping into critic roles...
The association representing Canada’s...
On the opening day Monday of hearings into Roger's proposed acquisition of...
Spectrum auction revenues should be reinvested in rural broadband initiatives and the multiple broadband...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) and advocacy group...
Government officials have indicated that the newly-launched Universal Broadband Fund will seek to allow for affordable internet pricing across Canada, although it will not impose many firm or fixed affordability requirements on...
An NDP plan for the federal government to add money raised from past and...
Under a rural broadband policy platform put out for public consultation by...
Opposition parties that normally hold differing views on any given issue are finding themselves agreeing on some telecom-adjacent files in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with both the Conservatives and NDP calling for the government to support lower wholesale internet...
The New Democratic Party has unveiled Monday a plan to make telecommunications services more affordable,...
OTTAWA — Liberal MP William Amos, the MP who brought forward a motion compelling the House industry committee to study the issue of rural broadband, said Thursday that he's "very disappointed" with...
OTTAWA — A Federal Court judge has granted an application by the...
The Competition Bureau is going to court to compel the Commission for...
OTTAWA — NDP industry critic Brian Masse says the new broadband strategy allocated in the 2019 federal budget is a cobbled-together “Frankenstein” approach to boosting internet connections that falls short on funding and comes with an “outlandish” speed target...
The Liberal government has appointed Matthew Boswell on a full five-year...
NDP MP Brian Masse is asking Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains to force the CRTC to extend the deadline...
Amir Bigloo, who has a history of successful spectrum purchases as CEO of...
OTTAWA — The House of Commons standing committee on industry, science and...
OTTAWA — Members of the federal NDP introduced a sweeping motion...
OTTAWA — Revelations over the weekend that Facebook Inc. data was used...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) is looking into reports data of 50 million Facebook Inc....
OTTAWA — Representatives from Apple Inc. faced down members of the House committee on industry, science...
OTTAWA — Representatives from Canada’s biggest telecoms argued that flexibility in Canada’s net neutrality framework will be necessary with the advent of 5G, as they...
The House of Commons standing committee on industry, science and technology has approved a motion to launch a study looking into the slowing down of Apple Inc.’s older mobile devices. NDP MP Brian Masse, who is the vice-chairman of the committee, asked it to look into a change to Apple’s mobile operating system that...
The NDP says silicon valley giant Apple Inc. should speak to a...
A group of American TV stations seems to be renewing its efforts to put compensation for signals...
The federal government shouldn’t stand idly by, awaiting the looming...
Three movie studios have gone through the Canadian court system to identify alleged copyright infringers subscribed to 13 Internet service providers (ISPs), but TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is challenging the disclosure on the grounds that the copyright notices weren’t sent in...
NDP MPs pushed the innovation minister to closely scrutinize BCE Inc.’s proposed $3.9-billion acquisition of Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. in the House of Commons Wednesday. Manitoba MP Niki Ashton...