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Trudeau says Bell decision to cut jobs is “garbage”; CNOC not surprised
telecom | 02/09/2024 5:07 pm EST
Reaction has been swift and condemnatory to the announcement Thursday by BCE Inc. that it is laying off 4,800 workers, selling 45 radio stations and slashing news programming...
OpenMedia hopeful ahead of meeting with CRTC chair
Internet and Governance | 06/26/2023 2:11 pm EDT
Lobby group OpenMedia has been polling the public about what the major issues in broadcasting and telecom are. It wants to use that information when it sits down with CRTC chair Vicky Eatrides on Tuesday.
The campaigns director for the organization is excited for the...
CRTC chair Ian Scott: the exit interview
Media | 01/04/2023 4:52 pm EST
Ian Scott's tenure as chair of the CRTC comes to a close Thursday. The Wire Report sat down with Scott to...
Companies would ‘do well’ to read warning regarding unregulated services in Telus credit card decision: CRTC chair
telecom | 12/08/2022 4:45 pm EST
CRTC chair Ian Scott is firing a warning at...
CRTC officially releases its third call for Broadband Fund applications
telecom | 11/30/2022 5:12 pm EST
The CRTC is now accepting applications for eligible transport...
CRTC’s finances are ‘fine’ for new responsibilities: Scott
Media | 11/22/2022 2:20 pm EST
MISSISSAUGA – CRTC chair Ian Scott said he does not know what the state of the CRTC’s finances will look like in future but the commission is “fine” for the moment as it prepares to take on a...
Scott tells senators CRTC won’t regulate algorithms
Media | 11/17/2022 1:40 pm EST
CRTC chair Ian Scott told members of the Senate Committee on Transport and Communication that the commission has no intention of regulating algorithms under the terms of the Online Streaming Act. The legislation, Bill C-11, is currently before the Senate.
“What the bill...
Rodriguez, Scott, given rough ride on C-18 in appearance before Heritage committee
Internet and Governance | 10/21/2022 7:21 pm EDT
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and CRTC chair Ian Scott were...
Ethics commissioner finds no conflict of interest in TekSavvy complaint over Scott-Bibic beer
Media | 08/24/2022 5:29 pm EDT
Canada’s Conflict of Interest and Ethics...
TekSavvy wants concrete actions in CRTC policy direction, PIAC argues for directive language
Media | 07/20/2022 5:13 pm EDT
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) says...
CRTC demands answers on Rogers outage
telecom | 07/12/2022 4:57 pm EDT
In an uncommonly strongly worded letter, the CRTC has asked Rogers Communications Inc. to provide a broad...
Advocates concerned about CBC licence renewal
Media | 06/23/2022 6:59 pm EDT
Public interest advocacy groups and the union representing CBC/Radio-Canada workers are sounding the alarm about the level of programming discretion afforded to the public broadcaster under the five year licence renewal released...
Scott says platforms may be asked to ‘manipulate’ algorithms for Canadian discoverability
Media | 06/23/2022 10:49 am EDT
The CRTC chair has said that social media...
Intent of C-11 is to exclude digital creators: CRTC chair
Media | 06/01/2022 6:01 pm EDT
CRTC chair Ian Scott told the House of Commons Heritage Committee Tuesday...
Bill C-11 could be fully implemented within two years of receiving Royal Assent: CRTC chair
Media | 05/19/2022 5:19 pm EDT
The CRTC will take at least two years to fully...
Freedom of expression regulation concerns on C-11 are “silly”: CRTC’s Scott
Media | 05/16/2022 6:55 pm EDT
CRTC chair Ian Scott told conference attendees that his agency has the knowledge base to be able to regulate the streaming giants, after concern was raised that it would be...
Integrity Commissioner refers TekSavvy’s Scott complaint to Ethics Commissioner
Media | 05/05/2022 3:20 pm EDT
Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Joe Friday...
Scott says CRTC will never regulate user-generated content under current Bill C-11
Media | 04/05/2022 3:30 pm EDT
The CRTC is generally supportive of Bill C-11, the revised broadcasting...
CRTC acknowledges, shares CNOC concerns about delays
telecom | 03/23/2022 5:35 pm EDT
The CRTC has acknowledged the concern of certain stakeholders about the regulator's delay in resolving a...
CNOC makes appeal to CRTC chair personally
Media | 03/18/2022 3:36 pm EDT
The industry group Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) has sent a letter personally addressed...
TekSavvy asks for investigation by Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of CRTC comish
telecom | 03/02/2022 6:09 pm EST
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has asked the Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada to open an investigation into what the company has long alleged is a pattern...
Scott defends CRTC decisions, and himself, at Industry committee
telecom | 02/08/2022 6:44 pm EST
In an at-times testy exchange between CRTC chair Ian Scott and MPs on the...
Scott must recuse himself from all proceedings involving wholesale-incumbent relations: CNOC
telecom | 02/03/2022 6:34 pm EST
The trade group Competitive Network Operators of...
Quebecor sells its westward expansion
telecom | 11/16/2021 2:30 pm EST
MISSISSAUGA - On the second day of the Canadian Telecom Summit, Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau...
CRTC chair asserts personal preference for facilities-based competition
telecom | 05/20/2021 5:59 pm EDT
CRTC chair Ian Scott said he believes the commission’s pick of a...
CRTC Broadband Fund approves five transport projects
telecom | 02/04/2021 3:43 pm EST
The CRTC has awarded up to $26.7 million to five transport projects that will improve broadband connectivity in British Columbia, Ontario and Saskatchewan as part of the second funding call for its $750 million Broadband Fund. ...
COVID impact on CBC not as significant as expected, Tait says
Media | 01/11/2021 6:20 pm EST
The COVID-19 pandemic dropped CBC/Radio-Canada’s revenues by 11 per cent,...
CNOC, advocates push gov’t to be tougher on affordability
telecom | 11/27/2020 11:38 am EST
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) and advocacy group...
CRTC to release report on impact on online services on TV soon
Media | 11/17/2020 6:27 pm EST
The CRTC will release a report detailing the impact of online services on the state of video and television and video distribution in Canada and some nine other countries before the end of the year,...
CRTC process and delays take centre stage at CNOC ISP Summit
telecom | 11/05/2020 11:16 am EST
A day after CRTC chairman Ian Scott addressed the Competitive Network Operators of Canada's ISP Summit and gave no more details about when the regulator would give some finality to the issue of wholesale internet access rates, frustrations with the regulator's timelines and process seemed to boil over Wednesday. In remarks delivered by CNOC president Matt Stein, and in a later panel discussion on regulatory affairs, discontent with the slow speed of key CRTC proceedings seemed to be the order of the day. "We need to counterbalance the incumbents’ ability to drag things out,"...
Canadian internet users almost universally getting ISP’s advertised speeds
telecom | 09/08/2020 5:11 pm EDT
In almost all cases, Canadian internet consumers are receiving service at...
Bell bringing cabinet’s wholesale appeal response to Federal Court
telecom | 08/17/2020 7:56 pm EDT
Lawyers representing BCE Inc. have asked a Federal Court of Appeal judge to...
CRTC stepped back to allow telecoms to handle COVID-19
telecom | 08/13/2020 3:37 pm EDT
The CRTC largely played a hands-off role during the COVID-19 pandemic in a...
Rural broadband ‘public policy priority’ for CRTC, Scott says
telecom | 08/12/2020 8:08 pm EDT
As the CRTC announced the first recipients of its $750-million rural...
CRTC to hold online hearing
Media | 06/12/2020 4:46 pm EDT
The CRTC is switching to an online format for a radio broadcast licence hearing originally scheduled to be held in Gatineau, Que. last month. The virtual hearing will now take place on June 16 and look at five radio stations that “appear to be in serious non-compliance with their regulatory requirements, certain conditions of licence or mandatory orders issued by the Commission,” the CRTC said in a press release. Many CRTC proceedings were delayed, rescheduled or had their deadlines extended as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. CRTC chairman Ian Scott, vice-chair Caroline Simard, and commissioner Alicia Barin will preside over the three-day hearing involving the Parrsboro Radio Society, La radio communautaire du comté, CPAM Radio Union.com Inc., Groupe Médias Pam Inc. and a numbered company that holds the licence for CFOR-FM Maniwaki....
Rogers, Quebecor ask CRTC to intervene in small cell dispute with Bell
telecom | 05/21/2020 4:20 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc. have asked the CRTC to compel BCE Inc. to allow them to attach small cell technologies to Bell’s poles at rates set by the Support Structure Service...
CRTC delays launch of new proceedings due to COVID-19
Media | 04/09/2020 6:47 pm EDT
The CRTC has delayed the launch of new proceedings due to COVID-19, stating it’s aware the telecommunications industry’s primary focus is on delivering services to Canadians. In a statement...
Fraud, nuisance calls will ‘never go away’: CRTC chairman
Media | 03/10/2020 6:17 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Calls are only a part of the problem of nuisance and fraudulent...
CRTC chair, commish toured Rogers’ ‘piracy lab’
Media | 03/02/2020 1:23 pm EST
As part of their ongoing effort to fight content piracy, two of Canada’s largest media and telecom...
Broad MVNO access too risky, Competition Bureau tells CRTC
telecom | 02/18/2020 5:54 pm EST
GATINEAU, Que. — The CRTC’s two-week wireless policy review kicked off...
CRTC launches tests, reporting rules after emergency alert glitches
telecom | 01/16/2020 4:41 pm EST
Complaints about the national emergency alert system have prompted the CRTC...
CRTC asks telecoms to implement new anti-spam call protocol
telecom | 12/09/2019 1:55 pm EST
The CRTC Monday announced that it will ask telecom companies to implement a...
Internet code will indirectly tackle poor sales practices, CRTC chairman says
telecom | 07/31/2019 11:01 am EDT
CRTC chairman Ian Scott said the new internet code will address many of the...
Media groups vow to fight CRTC’s OMNI decision
Media | 06/25/2019 7:35 pm EDT
Two media groups have filed formal petitions to the Governor in Council, asking the government to reverse a CRTC decision that gave Rogers Communications Inc. a second term to have its OMNI channel as required broadcasting on basic TV.
The decision from May rejected...
No issue with Canadian wireless pricing: telecom execs
telecom | 06/05/2019 8:45 am EDT
TORONTO — Executives from Canada’s biggest carriers defended the...
CRTC chairman fires warning shot about customer service issues
telecom | 06/03/2019 8:21 pm EDT
TORONTO — During a speech at an industry conference Monday, CRTC chairman...
‘Logical’ to start CRTC broadband fund focusing on North: Scott
telecom | 06/03/2019 7:33 pm EDT
TORONTO —The CRTC chose to initially target its long-awaited broadband...
CRTC issues mandatory order to keep TVA Sports available
Media | 04/18/2019 4:56 pm EDT
The CRTC will register a mandatory order with the Federal Court forbidding Quebecor Inc. from withholding the signal for TVA Sports from BCE Inc. subscribers — meaning that if Quebecor chooses to...
Bell calls for revocation of TVA Sports licence at tense CRTC hearing
Media | 04/17/2019 5:44 pm EDT
Gatineau, Que. — Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau was unrepentant as he justified his decision to pull the TVA Sports signal from BCE Inc. TV subscribers Wednesday,...
Scott Hutton to take on newly-created role at the CRTC
Media | 04/09/2019 5:30 pm EDT
The CRTC has created a new chief of consumer, research and communications...
Ottawa proposes new consumer-focused policy direction for CRTC
telecom | 02/26/2019 5:51 pm EST
The Liberal government is proposing a significant departure...
‘We did not cut it’: Scott defends broadband fund speed target to MPs
telecom | 02/21/2019 3:44 pm EST
CRTC Chairman Ian Scott defended the eligibility speeds for the...
Onus is on telecoms to fix misleading sales practices: CRTC chairman
telecom | 02/20/2019 11:00 am EST
Canada’s telecommunications industry suffers from an “unacceptable...
Groups diverge on handling of net neutrality in comms laws
Media | 01/18/2019 5:25 pm EST
Canada’s current laws implicitly protecting net neutrality are sufficient...
CRTC asks Ottawa for single regulator on passive infrastructure
Media | 01/10/2019 6:28 pm EST
The CRTC is formally asking the federal government to make one regulatory...
Rogers focuses on past shortcomings for ethnic must-carry licence
Media | 11/26/2018 5:55 pm EST
GATINEAU, QUE. -- Rogers Communications Inc. is taking what it learned a year ago and is proposing to rectify what a previous CRTC panel said were shortcomings to run its national ethnic channel for a...
CRTC rejects Bell’s ask to simsub Canadian Super Bowl ads in 2019
Media | 11/09/2018 12:16 pm EST
The CRTC has rejected a request by BCE Inc. to bring back simultaneous commercial substitution in time for next year’s Super Bowl, pending a ruling by Canada’s top court and implementation of the...
Former CRTC commissioners criticize Harnessing Change report
Media | 11/07/2018 7:15 pm EST
TORONTO — The idea of cross-subsidization of industries did not find many open arms on the final day of the ISP Summit on Wednesday, as former CRTC commissioners spoke in favour of maintaining the line between the role of broadcasting and telecommunications.
“If...
Privacy commish ‘surprised’ by political ‘chill’ comments
telecom | 11/01/2018 4:28 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Canada’s privacy commissioner said Thursday that comments...
Rogers’ network ‘our contribution’ to content ecosystem: VP
Media | 10/31/2018 7:24 pm EDT
OTTAWA — The billions of dollars Rogers Communications Inc. says it’s...
CRTC needs clarity over who can resolve 5G rollout disputes: Scott
Media | 10/30/2018 4:34 pm EDT
OTTAWA — The head of Canada’s telecom regulator says clarity on where...
Bell, Rogers defend sales practices to CRTC
telecom | 10/26/2018 8:00 pm EDT
GATINEAU –– BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. defended their sales tactics Friday after a week...
Alleged sales practices wouldn’t be ‘tolerated’ elsewhere: CRTC chairman
Media | 10/22/2018 6:23 pm EDT
GATINEAU— CRTC Chairman Ian Scott opened public hearings on aggressive and misleading telecom sales practices by saying the commission is "concerned" by the information...
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...
Cogeco hires lobbyist with wireless spectrum expertise
telecom | 07/03/2018 11:54 am EDT
Amir Bigloo, who has a history of successful spectrum purchases as CEO of...
Industry should know Canadians concerned about sales practices: Bains
telecom | 06/14/2018 1:35 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said Thursday afternoon that...
CRTC calls for ISPs to pay for CanCon, ‘equitable’ OTT contributions
Media | 05/31/2018 11:18 am EDT
GATINEAU — The CRTC is recommending the government undertake a bevy of...
Balsillie-led Centre for Digital Rights registers to lobby
Media | 05/25/2018 12:33 pm EDT
A new organization called the Centre for Digital Rights (CDR) that is...
Rogers, Bell add junk food bill concerns to lobby efforts
Media | 04/25/2018 2:54 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. and BCE Inc. have registered to lobby the...
Internet Society establishes lobby footing in Canada
Media | 03/27/2018 6:32 pm EDT
A decades-old organization that is pushing for a multilateral approach to decision-making on the future...
Low-cost data plans ‘superior alternative’ to WiFi-first MVNOs: Scott
telecom | 03/22/2018 4:23 pm EDT
Having facilities-based carriers offer low-cost data-only plans is a better way to fulfill the government’s goals of more affordable wireless options for consumers than mandating roaming access by...
SWIFT takes fibre goals to the Hill
Media | 02/21/2018 5:57 pm EST
Over six years after it was established, a government-funded non-profit initiative seeking to deliver fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) to about a quarter of Ontario’s — and 10 per cent of Canada’s — population is registered to lobby the government for the first time.
The...
CRTC abdicating responsibility by declining sales practices inquiry: PIAC
telecom | 02/14/2018 11:14 am EST
The CRTC has told the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) that Canadians have other outlets for complaints about telecom sales practices in response to a request from the consumer group to open an...
CRTC declines review request on internet affordability
telecom | 01/25/2018 5:14 pm EST
In a Thursday decision, the CRTC denied an effort by a collection of public...
Bell asks Supreme Court for stay, reversal of CRTC simsub decision
Media | 01/18/2018 4:12 pm EST
Weeks ahead of the 2018 Super Bowl, BCE Inc., along with the National...
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....
Sidewalk Labs, civil liberties group register to lobby
Media | 01/08/2018 4:14 pm EST
Alphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs kicked off the new year by registering to lobby the federal government, while telecom and broadcasting communications in November grew significantly from the month before.
Joshua Sirefman of Sirefman Ventures, Inc. registered in early...
BPF registers to lobby amidst consumer group funding concerns
Media | 12/14/2017 2:25 pm EST
A few months after the emergence of a proposal asking the CRTC to shift...
Look at high cost of à la carte channels, PIAC tells CRTC
Media | 10/17/2017 8:16 pm EDT
GATINEAU, Que. — There are still some problems with the implementation...
CanCon, affordability, competition in CRTC mandate letter
Media | 09/29/2017 1:01 pm EDT
Promoting Canadian content and supporting creators, service affordability and encouraging competition and investment by companies are among the priorities outlined in the federal government’s...
CRTC shouldn’t have ‘a particular slant,’ new chairman says
Media | 09/22/2017 2:34 pm EDT
As the head of an organization that must hear and decide on issues that...
Regulatory rejigs, cultural changes in store as Parliament resumes
Media | 09/18/2017 1:56 pm EDT
Everything old is new again when it comes to telecom and media issues...
CRTC role is to ‘regulate in the public interest’: new chairman
Media | 09/08/2017 11:55 am EDT
CRTC chairman Ian Scott has released his first statement since taking the...
Ex-CRTC vice-chair makes Super Bowl simsub reversal prediction
Media | 09/06/2017 1:07 pm EDT
Former CRTC vice-chairman of telecom Peter Menzies is predicting that new...
Bell files Part 1 against Super Bowl simsub order
Media | 08/01/2017 5:28 pm EDT
With six months until kick off, BCE Inc. and its supporters are asking the CRTC to put a freeze on its...
Ian Scott ‘collegial’ choice for new CRTC chair: former colleagues
Media | 07/18/2017 11:49 am EDT
The choice of Ian Scott as the new chairman of the CRTC was greeted positively by former colleagues who praised his experience and collegial style Tuesday, but his background...
New satellites to improve Internet access in North, companies say
telecom | 04/13/2016 9:21 pm EDT
As-yet-unlaunched satellites will make more Internet capacity available at a lower cost in rural and remote areas, satellite providers told the CRTC Wednesday, on the third day of its three-week...