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Rogers saga goes from the page to the stage in December debut

| 04/22/2025 4:02 am EDT

Rogers saga goes from the page to the stage in December debutThe battle for control of the Rogers Communications Inc. empire was documented in a best-selling book. Now it is about to become a one-man play. The Globe and Mail reporter Alexandra Posadzki chronicled the inter-family squabble and the drama surrounding the Shaw...

Competition Bureau, Google accuse each other of ignoring ‘commercial reality’ in ad market suit

| 04/03/2025 6:59 pm EDT

Competition Bureau, Google accuse each other of ignoring ‘commercial reality’ in ad market suitThe Competition Bureau and Google are butting heads over how the online advertising market is structured, according to the watchdog’s recent filing to Canada’s Competition...

Rogers fights back in dispute with Competition Bureau over ‘Infinite’ data plans

| 02/06/2025 6:03 pm EST

Rogers fights back in dispute with Competition Bureau over ‘Infinite’ data plansIn response to a suit filed by Canada’s Competition Bureau with the...

SiriusXM to pay $3.3 million penalty for misleading ads 

Media | 06/05/2024 6:37 pm EDT

SiriusXM to pay $3.3 million penalty for misleading ads Sirius XM Canada Inc. agreed to pay a $3.3 million penalty to the...

INDU debates study of mobile plan price hikes

telecom | 01/15/2024 5:46 pm EST

Federal government launches consultation on AI and copyrightAfter almost two hours of deliberation last Thursday, the House industry and technology committee failed to decide on a motion put forward by Conservative MP Rick Perkins to conduct a study into Rogers Communications Inc. and BCE Inc.’s recently announced price hikes....

UPDATED: Rogers comes out victorious in competition challenge over Shaw buyout

Media | 12/30/2022 12:34 am EST

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionCanada’s Competition Tribunal is dismissing the Commissioner of...

Rogers wants more details on how Québecor-Freedom deal allegedly harms competition

Media | 09/09/2022 5:02 pm EDT

Rogers wants more details on how Québecor-Freedom deal allegedly harms competitionRogers Communications Inc. wants competition commissioner Matthew Boswell...

Gov. issues new CRTC policy direction with guidance for wholesale regime

telecom | 05/26/2022 4:02 pm EDT

Gov. issues new CRTC policy direction with guidance for wholesale regimeThe federal government is seeking to issue a new policy direction to the...

Facebook to pay $9 million to Competition Bureau after investigation

telecom | 05/19/2020 4:19 pm EDT

Facebook Inc. must pay a $9 million penalty to the Competition Bureau after making "false or misleading claims" about the privacy of personal information on the main Facebook platform and its...

Broad MVNO access too risky, Competition Bureau tells CRTC

telecom | 02/18/2020 5:54 pm EST

Broad MVNO access too risky, Competition Bureau tells CRTCGATINEAU, Que. — The CRTC’s two-week wireless policy review kicked off...

Telecoms must hand over more detailed info to Comp Bureau

telecom | 08/06/2019 7:23 pm EDT

‘Unlimited’ plans leading to 50% more data use, Rogers saysThe CRTC has directed telecom companies to disclose an additional set of...

Competition Bureau adds new digital enforcement officer post

telecom | 07/02/2019 4:22 pm EDT

The Competition Bureau has created a new chief digital enforcement officer position and has appointed George McDonald, currently a senior account leader at IBM Corp., to the role.  Effective...

Competition Bureau asks CRTC to reconsider requests for info

telecom | 05/06/2019 5:27 pm EDT

Competition commissioner Matthew Boswell has told the CRTC he needs more location-specific data about Canada’s wireless market to be able to contribute to the upcoming review of the CRTC’s mobile...

Comp Bureau investigating Bell sales practices, going to court for CCTS info

telecom | 04/10/2019 3:25 pm EDT

Comp Bureau investigating Bell sales practices, going to court for CCTS infoThe Competition Bureau is going to court to compel the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-Television Services (CCTS) to hand over information related to its investigation...

Competition Bureau doubles down on wireless carrier info requests

telecom | 04/05/2019 6:33 pm EDT

Competition Bureau doubles down on wireless carrier info requestsThe Competition Bureau is mostly standing firm on its request to the CRTC...

Boswell gets full term as Competition Bureau commissioner

Media | 03/05/2019 1:16 pm EST

Boswell gets full term as Competition Bureau commissionerThe Liberal government has appointed Matthew Boswell on a full five-year...

Competition Bureau warns streaming services to review marketing practices

Media | 09/25/2018 5:35 pm EDT

The Competition Bureau is calling for online video streaming services to review their marketing practices, terms and conditions after it found they’re sometimes unclear and hard to understand....

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...

Industry should know Canadians concerned about sales practices: Bains

telecom | 06/14/2018 1:35 pm EDT

5G project gets $400M for grants, infrastructure and research centresOTTAWA  — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said Thursday afternoon that he heard directly from both consumers who say they experienced aggressive sales tactics by telecoms...

Matthew Boswell to head Comp Bureau in 1 year interim term

telecom | 05/30/2018 2:26 pm EDT

Rogers sued by Competition Bureau over alleged false advertising in ‘unlimited’ data plansThe Competition Bureau has an interim replacement for outgoing commissioner...