Friends, formerly known as Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, announced Wednesday that Marla Boltman has been appointed as executive director and spokesperson, replacing Daniel Bernhard.
Bernhard left the organization shortly after the 2021 election.
“With the imminent arrival of key pieces of legislation, Boltman will serve as a powerful advocate for Canadian voices at a critical time for the country’s cultural media policy,” Friends wrote in its press release.
Boltman will continue to engage Ottawa on...
The Conservatives “continue to oppose” Bill C-10, the revision of the Broadcasting Act, saying in a Monday statement that “Liberals are targeting ordinary Canadians,”...
As the House of Commons Heritage committee hearings on the government's proposed update to the...
In a preliminary study on the government's overhaul of the Broadcasting Act...
The advocacy group Friends of Canadian Broadcasting has called on the CRTC...
An announcement Thursday from Alphabet Inc.'s Google that it would put...
The election of Erin O'Toole as federal opposition leader late Sunday night makes "the threat of CBC privatization more real," according to Friends of Canadian Broadcasting executive director Daniel Bernhard.
During his campaign for the Conservative party leadership,...
CBC/Radio-Canada has temporarily suspended its English-language local TV newscasts in all locations bar the North, as it opts to consolidate programming into one national news program during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a...
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...
The Senate transport and communications committee said Tuesday the...
OTTAWA — A media advocacy group calling for changes that would upend the...
Rogers Communications Inc. and BCE Inc. have registered to lobby the...
OTTAWA — The chairman of the Senate transport and communications...
Ian Morrison, the co-founder of Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, is handing over the reins of the...
