Canada’s decision to scrap its digital services tax (DST) has raised questions among political scientists and internet governance experts about the durability of the...
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,...
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 difficult for ISPs to present accurate info in future proceedings and to the panel reviewing Canada’s communications laws, according to companies and an academic. The Chatham-Ont.-based internet service provider (ISP) said in a Wednesday letter to the commission that information including internet resellers’ total share of communications revenues, wireline revenue market share, investments,...
The CRTC has chosen not to make changes to lower-cost data plans suggested...
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 opposition from academics and advocacy groups in Canada, as well as input from international players and unusually high engagement from the public.
Nearly 10,000 total comments, the vast majority...
While the total amount of advertising money flowing to Canadian media has...
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 University’s Dwayne Winseck and Ben Klass state the merger would also affect Rogers Communications Inc.’s competitive power. They said “it is likely that Rogers’ position as a viable competitive alternative and constraint on the market power of [Bell and Telus Corp.] would be significantly weakened following the merger.” That’s because Rogers relies on a...
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...
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...
