Meta Platforms Inc.’s decision to end its fact-checking program and loosen the content moderation policies on its platforms is raising concern among Canadian digital policy...
A group of academics is warning that Starlink could be a trojan horse, providing internet connectivity to remote regions via satellite but seriously affecting Canadian...
By Sophall Duch
Canadian media outlets won’t likely see money from...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) told the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications...
A report issued by a Carleton University professor asserts that revenue from communications and internet access services and subscription services far surpass advertising revenues. They outstrip the...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has filed a complaint with the CRTC flagging a concern that the regulator’s latest data report doesn’t provide a clear picture of the industry, which could make it more...
The CRTC has chosen not to make changes to lower-cost data plans suggested by telecoms, accepting the plans as envisioned by the companies, in a decision that angered consumer advocates — whose proposals for cheaper alternatives went unheeded.
The regulator said on...
The government should combine the Heritage and Innovation ministries, and...
The CRTC has no jurisdiction to implement a system to block websites...
OTTAWA -- Lawmakers need to make net neutrality a major priority and...
The Senate transport and communications committee said Tuesday the...
The big three wireless providers doubled down on their proposed low-cost,...
The Competition Bureau is among those who are telling the CRTC that mandated low-cost, data-only plans should have more data on offer, in a move that raises the stakes of the regulator’s proceeding...
The Competition Bureau has blocked the $200 million sale of the Historia and Series+ channels from Corus...
A proposal to implement a website-blocking system to fight piracy has drawn...
While the total amount of advertising money flowing to Canadian media has largely sustained a flat trajectory over the years, internet giants Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. have increased their share of internet ads — and consequently the overall advertising...
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...
Adjusting the existing legislation governing the telecommunications and broadcasting industries and putting more power in the hands of the CRTC could help address issues in Canada’s concentrated...
The proposed $3.9-billion acquisition of Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. by BCE Inc. dominated question period in the Manitoba legislature this week, with the opposition NDP peppering the governing Conservatives...
In a submission to the Competition Bureau arguing that allowing BCE Inc. to acquire Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. would weaken wireless competition in the province, Carleton...
The notion that "content is king" is challenged in a new report that points out that connectivity services take in significantly more revenue than content providers in Canada and have seen more growth in recent decades. The Canadian Media Concentration Research Project, led by Carleton University communications professor Dwayne Winseck, released on Tuesday what it said was the first in a series of reports that analyzes trends in the entire "network media economy" in Canada between 1984 and 2014. It looks at everything from content such as TV, radio, newspapers and...
Three industry observers, including two academics, have released an open letter to senior government officials that seeks strong measures to temper the power of major players in the telecommunications industry. The letter comes...
When CRTC Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais faced off against Netflix Inc. in September, his ordering of the U.S.-based streaming service to give the CRTC information it had previously refused to provide...
A group of academics have written to Canada’s leading telecommunications-service providers to ask them about the sharing of customer information with government agencies. The academics sent...
