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CRTC demands answers on Rogers outage

telecom | 07/12/2022 4:57 pm EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionIn an uncommonly strongly worded letter, the CRTC has asked Rogers Communications Inc. to provide a broad swath of information about last Friday's outage.  Writing to Rogers' senior vice-president of regulatory affairs Ted Woodhead Tuesday, the CRTC's executive director...

Broadcasters’ association, Corus, add new lobby registrations

Media | 08/24/2018 11:33 am EDT

The Canadian Association of Broadcasters registered to lobby the federal government on its review of the Copyright Act in July, which was otherwise a sleepy month in telecom and media government relations. Graham McLaughlin and Mark Resnick of McMillan Vantage registered to communicate with “public office holders with respect to the potential impact on the broadcasting sector as a result of changes of the framework for copyright in Canada.” The Copyright Act review kicked off in December, with the House industry committee holding meetings to hear from various groups this spring....

Balsillie-led Centre for Digital Rights registers to lobby

Media | 05/25/2018 12:33 pm EDT

Balsillie-led Centre for Digital Rights registers to lobbyA new organization called the Centre for Digital Rights (CDR) that is...

Internet Society establishes lobby footing in Canada

Media | 03/27/2018 6:32 pm EDT

Internet Society establishes lobby footing in CanadaA decades-old organization that is pushing for a multilateral approach to decision-making on the future...

SWIFT takes fibre goals to the Hill

Media | 02/21/2018 5:57 pm EST

SWIFT takes fibre goals to the HillOver six years after it was established, a government-funded non-profit initiative seeking to deliver...

End of 2017 saw Stingray, Birch Hill reinvigorate lobby efforts

Media | 01/17/2018 4:39 pm EST

Stingray Digital Group Inc. and Birch Hill Equity Partners ramped up their lobbying in December, with both submitting their first communications reports for the year in the last weeks of 2017....

Broadcast lobbying jumped ahead of Creative Canada release

Media | 10/24/2017 6:20 pm EDT

Broadcast lobbying jumped ahead of Creative Canada releaseCreative organizations stepped up and added to a surge in lobbying activity in the broadcast sector leading up to the release of the results in the Heritage Minister’s review of Canadian content in the digital age last month. September saw 22 communications reports...

Telecom, broadcasting lobbying hits July lag

Media | 08/16/2017 3:41 pm EDT

Telecom, broadcasting lobbying hits July lagJuly lobbying activity was affected by the expected summer slowdown that comes with Parliament not...