The Conservative Party launched attacks on CBC/Radio-Canada Wednesday after several days of the Bloc Québécois firing broadsides. The party used question period in both the House of Commons and the Senate to lambaste the public broadcaster.
Opposition leader Pierre...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Sunday that next week’s federal budget will include $2.4 billion to address artificial intelligence issues.
The vast majority of the funding will go to the AI Compute Access Fund. It will receive $2 billion as the government...
In the wake of recent controversy surrounding BCE Inc.’s restructuring...
Reaction has been swift and condemnatory to the announcement Thursday by...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight against cutbacks at CBC/Radio-Canada. Tuesday in Question...
OTTAWA–Nokia Corp. announced Monday that it is planning to expand its...
Canadian politicians were quick to condemn Russia’s move to close the CBC/Radio-Canada’s bureau in Moscow in retaliation for the removal of RT, the state-sponsored Russian...
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh called once again for the government to disallow...
Following the issuing of an order-in-council from the cabinet on Wednesday...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday afternoon that the...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez is...
The Bloc Québécois is asking Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and NDP leader...
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is the first party leader to explicitly oppose the proposed acquisition of Shaw...
GATINEAU, Que. -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is giving Canada’s...
With a federal election called for Sept. 20, parties have pledged to make Canadians’ lives better in a...
“Conservatives just don’t get it” when it comes to Bill C-10, according to Prime Minister Justin Turdeau who was grilled by the opposition over the revised Broadcasting...
More than a 100 Canadian tech CEOs have signed an open letter calling on the Liberal government to prioritize digital innovation as a key part of Canada’s recovery from COVID-19. Published by the Canadian Council of Innovators, the letter’s signatories come from a wide-ranging set of start-ups and established...
The federal government was told telecom companies...
The Liberal government is doubling the Canada Infrastructure Bank’s...
Given the precarious situation around the now-escalating COVID-19 pandemic, what will actually be...
With Tuesday's prorogation of Parliament, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has put the brakes on a number of telecom-related studies underway in various House of Commons committees.
The House industry committee had been working on a pair of reports, one about how to deal...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has cleared up uncertainty about...
Contact tracing apps aimed at assisting public health authorities in...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has again refused to put a timeframe on when...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that in developing the federal...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday the federal government isn’t...
Telecommunication providers are closing retail stores, offering complimentary TV channels and continuing to waive overage fees on home internet plans as they respond to COVID-19. Xplornet...
The Liberal government's minority mandate means it will have to move fast...
TORONTO — Smaller, wholesale-based internet service providers may be...
OTTAWA — NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said Wednesday that lowering wireless prices is on his list of priorities when Parliament resumes, though the first two issues the party plans to take on are pharmacare and the appeal of a ruling on First Nations compensation.
“We...
Federal party leaders agreed Thursday evening in the last debate of the...
During the first French-language debate of the federal election campaign,...
The Liberal Party platform, released Sunday, includes promises of new regulations for Canadian content on...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s launch of a wireless plan that won’t...
OTTAWA — Canadian companies that sell digital products which are subject to sales tax are “disadvantaged” by foreign companies who are exempt from the tax, according to one of the auditors behind a report released by the auditor general’s office Tuesday.
Audit...
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is putting cell phone and internet affordability...
OTTAWA — The Liberal government is announcing $1.7 billion in new rural...
The head of Telus Corp. says the company would be able to “adeptly”...
If the Canadian government eventually decides to ban Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from Canada’s 5G networks, the financial consequences suffered by Canada’s big telecom...
OTTAWA — Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People's Party of Canada and...
The Prime Minister’s Office has made public the mandate letter for the...
The Official Opposition may be gearing up to force a debate and vote in the House of Commons on a motion...
After the auditor general blasted the government for not having a clear...
Roughly half of Canadians support banning Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd from Canada’s 5G networks but more than a quarter have yet to make up their minds on the issue, according to a Globe and Mail/Nanos Research poll. Eighteen per cent said the United States, Australia and New Zealand are overreacting by banning the Chinese-based telecommunications equipment manufacturer from providing next generation network technology, and believe Canada should not follow their footsteps. Specifically, 53 per cent were in favour of a ban, 18 per cent voiced opposition to the notion and 28.9 per cent...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government will rely on expert...
The Opposition Conservatives are re-upping calls for a ban on Huawei...
Members of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee are prodding the Canadian government to block Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd from Canada’s next generation network infrastructure, warning it might...
The new trade pact forged by Canada, the U.S. and Mexico to replace the...
As cultural protection emerges as a last-stretch NAFTA sticking point, Canadian media unions say they’re concerned but hopeful because Canada’s negotiators have indicated...
Amir Bigloo, who has a history of successful spectrum purchases as CEO of...
GATINEAU — The CRTC is recommending the government undertake a bevy of...
OTTAWA — Two “superclusters” involving BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. are...
Ian Morrison, the co-founder of Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, is handing over the reins of the...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the creation of a new National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians in a press release on Monday. This new body will “have the authority to review national security and intelligence activities carried out across the Government of Canada,” according to the...
Alphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs have won a City of Toronto request for proposals to create a development...
OTTAWA — While the response to the long-awaited results of Heritage...
OTTAWA — Canadians should be exercising a fair amount of caution when...
Everything old is new again when it comes to telecom and media issues percolating in Ottawa this fall, from reviews and renegotiations of old legislation and trade agreements,...
Facebook Inc. is opening an artificial intelligence (AI) centre in Montreal, the company...
July lobbying activity was affected by the expected summer slowdown that comes with Parliament not...
Opposition leader Andrew Scheer has added his voice to a campaign in Quebec...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada lobbied Leslie Church, its former...
OTTAWA — A House of Commons committee recommendation to expand the five-per-cent contribution broadcast distribution undertakings (BDUs) are required to make to the Canadian Media Fund to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) was dead on arrival Thursday, with both Prime...
Canadians rely heaviest on CBC/Radio-Canada and the CRTC to protect...
The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) led the telecom field for lobbying the federal government in March, logging 15 communication reports for the month, according to the federal lobbyists’ registry. Those...
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly will travel to California later this month to meet with representatives from Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc., her office has confirmed....
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with the CEO of Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube Thursday, and used the opportunity to express “his appreciation for Google and YouTube’s continued investment in Canada and...
Facebook Inc. is increasing its government relations presence in Ottawa, with three new registrations filed with the lobbying commissioner’s office last month. According to the federal lobbyists’...
The United States and Canada will continue co-operating on cyber security and the security of critical infrastructure, the two countries said in a joint statement Monday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Washington, D.C., for the first time since the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency. Given...
The Ministers of Canadian Heritage and Innovation, Science and Economic Development have new understudies. In a Thursday press release, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a makeover to his roster of parliamentary...
MONTREAL — Facebook Inc. is increasing opportunities for the news media to monetize content, the company’s Canadian head of public policy said Wednesday, citing initiatives...
Even though the CRTC is an arms-length organization, there is “a lot this government can do directly to support artists and creators across this country,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday, in response to a question about the CRTC’s recent changes to the certified independent production fund (CIPF) framework. Trudeau, via a video message posted on Twitter Inc.’s service, was answering a question from Clara Pasieka, vice-president of member services for Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA)’s Toronto branch, who said in a Tuesday tweet that she was supposed to pose the query to Trudeau directly but was usurped by protesters at an Ottawa event. “What can I tell the 1000s of young performers I represent (& others) across the country you will do to...
Minister of International Trade Chrystia Freeland told reporters Monday that the decision last week to end discussions with the European Union over the Canada-European Union...
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA)’s Toronto branch is asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly to “call on...
Shaw Communications Inc.'s acquisition of Wind Mobile has fulfilled the previous federal government's push for four national carriers, which means the new government has the chance to hit the...
The economics of entering Canada’s wireless market through the acquisition of Wind Mobile today are better than past opportunities Shaw Communications Inc. has had to enter the mobile sector,...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has directed Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains to increase “high-speed broadband coverage and work to support competition, choice and availability of services,” according to a mandate letter released Friday. He also said Bains should “foster a strong investment environment for telecommunications services to keep Canada at the leading edge of the digital economy.” Bains was named innovation minister on Nov. 4, a position that effectively replaces the industry minister. The government has also renamed...
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that he would provide $150 million in new annual funding for CBC/Radio-Canada if the Liberals win the federal election in October. That will reverse cuts made to CBC by the Conservative...
Telecommunications and media have not been prominent issues in this year's federal election campaign, taking a backseat to things such as the Mike Duffy trial, the deficit and Syrian refugees. The Wire Report has made...
Canadian customers of Netflix Inc. are theoretically obliged to pay sales taxes on this service, even though Netflix does not collect the tax up front, the Toronto Star quoted a federal official as...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Wednesday posted a video of himself on Twitter standing in front of a screen with a Netflix logo and criticizing calls for taxes on video-streaming services. In the video, Harper said he is a fan...
OTTAWA — NDP Leader Tom Mulcair on Wednesday denounced Heritage Minister Shelly Glover's statements that ruled out regulation for online video services such as Netflix and YouTube, which...
The federal government’s pursuit of a consumer-driven broadcasting policy instead of a more comprehensive digital strategy has left the CRTC in a difficult position when it comes to regulating Internet video services, says...
Heritage Minister Shelly Glover says the government will not allow new taxes or regulations on Internet-based television services. Glover, the federal minister responsible for the CRTC, said so in a statement sent Monday night...
