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‘Complete capitulation’: Experts try to decipher reported Canada-U.S. ‘digital trade alignment’

| 08/19/2026 2:55 pm EDT

Trump’s trade rep targets Online Streaming Act, Online News Act, raising questions about future of Canada’s cultural exemption

Canada’s leading digital policy experts are breaking out their tarot cards and reading the tea leaves after U.S. President Donald Trump’s top trade representative...

Miller’s criticism of CRTC prompts questions of political interference

| 04/22/2026 3:30 pm EDT

Miller’s criticism of CRTC prompts questions of political interference

Canadian Identity Minister Marc Miller’s recent comments about the CRTC have renewed questions regarding political interference with the independent regulator. After...

Part 1 applications filed against Rogers’ OMNI production

Media | 10/17/2017 7:41 pm EDT

Union to challenge Rogers’ use of third party for OMNI newscasts

The union representing Chinese-speaking media workers at properties owned...

Union to challenge Rogers’ use of third party for OMNI newscasts

Media | 09/07/2017 4:15 pm EDT

Union to challenge Rogers’ use of third party for OMNI newscasts

A union representing the Chinese-speaking journalists and other media...

Rogers’ OMNI gets temporary mandatory distribution

Media | 05/15/2017 5:13 pm EDT

Rogers Communications Inc. will get a three-year window to run its new national ethnic channel before having to compete with other proposals for its mandatory carriage, the CRTC announced Monday. The regulator partially...

OMNI still profitable despite ‘financial crisis’: union

Media | 04/09/2014 7:21 pm EDT

Rogers Communications Inc.’s OMNI stations, which the company described as being in “financial crisis” during a CRTC hearing Tuesday, are making profits on its ethnic programming, two organizations said in information presented to review broadcasting licences for Rogers stations. Rogers Media president Keith Pelley said Tuesday that both Rogers’ City and OMNI stations are facing “very serious financial challenges” due to “rapidly” falling advertising on conventional television, and that OMNI is “not a viable business unless we can do something together to reverse its financial situation.” Among other requests, Rogers is asking the...