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Combining AI & digital innovation portfolios a positive move, says expert about new cabinet ministry

Internet and Governance | 05/13/2025 10:54 am EDT

Combining AI & digital innovation portfolios a positive move, says expert about new cabinet ministryReporting by Hannah Daley, Phalen Tynes-MacDonald and Paul Park Digital researchers and advocacy groups are expressing initial support for the newly created federal...

Steelworkers accuse Telus of union busting in Turkey

Internet and Governance | 03/31/2025 11:31 am EDT

Roaming revenue not expected to fully recover until 2022: Telus CFOThe United Steelworkers Union (USW), which represents Canadian workers at Telus Corp., is alleging that the telecom’s international division is trying to bust a union drive at its content review centre in Turkey. The company disputes the claims. The story was first...

Heritage committee moves to table 2017 “Netflix deal”

Media | 06/14/2021 6:07 pm EDT

The Heritage Committee will be making the 2017 “Netflix deal” public after the NDP brought a motion to the committee compelling its disclosure. At Monday’s committee meeting -- the first...

Feds putting $14.6 million toward French-language network

Media | 08/12/2019 4:41 pm EDT

Future reviews to determine much of DigiCanCon strategy: expertsThe federal government last week announced that it would pour $14.6 million...

Sales tax regime for digital services outdated: auditor general

Media | 05/07/2019 6:06 pm EDT

Sales tax regime for digital services outdated: auditor generalOTTAWA — Canadian companies that sell digital products which are subject...

NDP MP says gov’t must clarify if Netflix deal had any French-language funds

telecom | 04/03/2019 3:48 pm EDT

Future reviews to determine much of DigiCanCon strategy: expertsOTTAWA — Quebec NDP MP François Choquette has filed a judicial review application with the Federal Court to contest the alleged premature closing of an investigation by the...

‘Milestone’ digital content meeting to take place next week: Heritage

Media | 02/01/2019 5:39 pm EST

'Milestone' digital content meeting to take place next week: HeritageThe federal government is organizing a working meeting next week in Ottawa...

CBC calls for site-blocking provisions for ‘manipulated content’

Media | 01/11/2019 4:09 pm EST

CBC president Catherine TaitCBC/Radio-Canada wants the federal government to grant the CRTC the ability...

New party, fresh faces on Heritage could shake up Parliament

Media | 09/14/2018 5:16 pm EDT

New party, fresh faces on Heritage could shake up ParliamentAs politicians file back into Parliament Hill’s Centre Block for the...

MPs Fillmore and Anandasangaree named Heritage parl secs

Media | 08/31/2018 11:43 am EDT

MPs Fillmore and Anandasangaree named Heritage parl secsAfter this summer’s cabinet shuffle, the Heritage minister will gain two...

NDP to lobby government on foreign digital sales, ad taxes

Media | 08/29/2018 6:10 pm EDT

NDP to lobby government on foreign digital sales, ad taxesThe federal NDP said it will enter the new parliamentary session with a focus on pressuring the government to right wrongs they say have been committed by allowing foreign internet companies to skirt...

Guylaine Roy leaves Heritage

Media | 08/10/2018 4:03 pm EDT

Guylaine Roy leaves HeritageGuylaine Roy, who was named associate deputy minister of Canadian Heritage last May, is leaving the department, according to a press release from the Prime Minister’s Office Friday. Effective Monday, Roy will become the...

Joly out at Heritage as Pablo Rodriguez named new minister

Media | 07/18/2018 5:00 pm EDT

Joly out at Heritage as Pablo Rodriguez named new ministerFormer chief government whip Pablo Rodriguez is the new heritage minister,...

Gov’t announces new $35M fund for cultural content exports

Media | 06/26/2018 6:49 pm EDT

Gov’t announces new $35M fund for cultural content exportsMONTREAL — Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly outlined Tuesday the...

OTT co-productions trending up: study

Media | 06/26/2018 12:41 pm EDT

OTT co-productions trending up: studyDomestic and international content producers and over-the-top (OTT) services are continuing to partner on original programming at an increasing pace, according to new data from Ampere Analysis released last Thursday. The Ampere study showed these original co-productions...

Nantel accuses Joly of holding cultural sector ‘hostage’

Media | 06/07/2018 1:23 pm EDT

Nantel accuses Joly of holding cultural sector ‘hostage’NDP Heritage critic Pierre Nantel took Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly to...

Media sector, senator back change to ad tax exemption

Media | 06/06/2018 3:47 pm EDT

Media sector, senator back change to ad tax exemptionOTTAWA — A proposal to eliminate a tax exemption for advertising on foreign digital media received...

Shoan takes another legal swing over firing

Media | 06/06/2018 3:25 pm EDT

Former CRTC commissioner Raj Shoan filed an appeal on Tuesday of a May Federal Court decision which dismissed an application for a judicial review of his second firing from the communications regulator. Federal Court Judge...

Experts to ‘find solutions’ in broadcast, telecom review: Joly

Media | 06/05/2018 8:10 pm EDT

Experts to ‘find solutions’ in broadcast, telecom review: JolyOTTAWA — The expert panel appointed by the federal government to...

ISED won’t rule out using spectrum proceeds for CanCon: Bains

Media | 06/01/2018 4:47 pm EDT

5G project gets $400M for grants, infrastructure and research centresOTTAWA — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains and Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly had slightly different messages in response to the issue of new recommendations from the CRTC potentially increasing telecom and media service costs for Canadian consumers. The federal...

CRTC calls for ISPs to pay for CanCon, ‘equitable’ OTT contributions

Media | 05/31/2018 11:18 am EDT

CRTC calls for ISPs to pay for CanCon, ‘equitable’ OTT contributionsGATINEAU — 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

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

Shoan considering “options for appeal” after dismissal of second CRTC firing review

Media | 05/08/2018 6:55 pm EDT

Shoan considering "options for appeal" after dismissal of second CRTC firing reviewIn a decision on Monday, a Federal Court judge...

New CEO’s content background indicates shift at CBC: experts

Media | 04/03/2018 5:19 pm EDT

Marie-Philippe Bouchard to take over from Catherine Tait at CBCOTTAWA — Catherine Tait’s appointment as head of CBC/Radio-Canada 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...

Money for CanCon in budget stopgap measure: CMPA

Media | 03/01/2018 1:33 pm EST

Money for CanCon in budget stopgap measure: CMPAThe 2018 federal budget, released Tuesday, confirmed the Canadian Media Fund (CMF) will receive top ups...

Joly cites confidentiality for redactions in Netflix ATIP request

Media | 02/02/2018 2:32 pm EST

Joly cites confidentiality for redactions in Netflix ATIP requestHeritage Minister Mélanie Joly faced questions this week about why a...

Gov’t points to open internet for ‘legal content’ in FairPlay response

Media | 01/30/2018 4:25 pm EST

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains has released a statement on a call by a coalition of broadcasters, telecoms and creative groups to begin blocking websites hosting pirated content, in which he...

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. Birch Hill, an investment firm whose partners include Groupe Maskatel LP, which was acquired this month by BCE Inc., saw its first lobby activity in a year and a half, filing five communications reports with officials at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED). Representatives reached out to with Parvinder Sachdeva, policy advisor at Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains’ office, as...

Sidewalk Labs, civil liberties group register to lobby

Media | 01/08/2018 4:14 pm EST

Sidewalk Labs, civil liberties group register to lobbyAlphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs kicked off the new year by registering to...

Five new directors named to CBC board

Media | 12/19/2017 5:22 pm EST

Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly named five new members to the CBC/Radio-Canada board of directors for five-year terms, said a Tuesday press release. Harley Finkelstein, the chief of operations for Shopify Inc., René Légère,...

CMF launches export program for CanCon

Media | 12/01/2017 3:40 pm EST

CMF drives higher activity despite less fundingThe Canada Media Fund (CMF) has announced a new export project to help Canadian content reach global...

Fake news worries increasing ahead of 2019 election: PPF CEO

Media | 11/15/2017 7:16 pm EST

Fake news worries increasing ahead of 2019 election: PPF CEOOTTAWA — Policy makers in Canada have become more concerned about the...

Government needs to move quicker, do more on telecom issues: panel

Media | 11/08/2017 6:13 pm EST

Government needs to move quicker, do more on telecom issues: panelTORONTO — The federal government and the CRTC must pick up the pace and do more on critical telecom issues in order to make a much-needed impact when it comes to pricing and...

Creative Canada ‘cultural policy, not tax policy’: Joly

Media | 11/02/2017 9:39 pm EDT

Creative Canada ‘cultural policy, not tax policy’: JolyOTTAWA — Opposition MPs continued their criticism of Heritage Minister...

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...

Government repeats no ISP tax in Heritage report review

Media | 10/18/2017 7:35 pm EDT

The federal government reiterated a previously held position that it will not implement taxes on internet service providers (ISP) in favour of Canadian content in a review of an earlier Heritage...

CRTC launches consultations for Heritage-commissioned report

Media | 10/12/2017 5:03 pm EDT

The CRTC is asking for comment as it puts together a report requested by Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly on future content distribution models. Last month, the federal government issued an...

Joly heading cultural trade mission to China in 2018

Media | 10/05/2017 6:36 pm EDT

Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly has announced plans to lead her first “creative industries trade mission” to Shanghai, China in April 2018. The mission will focus on film, gaming, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR),...

Joly’s cultural policy continues drawing mixed reaction

Media | 09/29/2017 5:20 pm EDT

Joly’s cultural policy continues drawing mixed reactionVarious groups praised the promised investment in production and promotion...

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...

Future reviews to determine much of DigiCanCon strategy: experts

Media | 09/28/2017 11:25 am EDT

Future reviews to determine much of DigiCanCon strategy: expertsOTTAWA — While the response to the long-awaited results of Heritage...

Quebec ready to tax Netflix: culture minister

Media | 09/22/2017 3:55 pm EDT

If the federal government isn’t willing to impose taxes on foreign over-the-top (OTT) services, Quebec is willing to do so itself, Le Devoir quoted Quebec culture minister Luc Fortin as saying Thursday. He said Quebec would be willing to impose its provincial sales tax on subscriptions to Netflix Inc.’s service, the newspaper said in a report Friday. A coalition of more than 30 cultural groups praised Fortin’s comments in a press release the same day, writing that it “shares the Minister's position that nations must apply a consistent regulatory framework for all parties,...

BQ criticizes Joly over OTT tax policy

Media | 09/19/2017 4:56 pm EDT

BQ criticizes Joly over OTT tax policyThe Bloc Québécois has accused Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly of favouritism toward the likes...

Mélanie Joly to unveil DigiCanCon details Sept. 28

Media | 09/19/2017 4:18 pm EDT

Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly will give a speech at the end of the month outlining her “vision for Canada’s cultural and creative industries in a digital world” following a year-and-a-half long consultation. Joly will...

Regulatory rejigs, cultural changes in store as Parliament resumes

Media | 09/18/2017 1:56 pm EDT

Regulatory rejigs, cultural changes in store as Parliament resumesEverything old is new again when it comes to telecom and media issues...

Joly discusses NAFTA with creative sector

Media | 09/15/2017 3:58 pm EDT

Joly discusses NAFTA with creative sectorHeritage Minister Mélanie Joly met Friday with representatives from Canada’s creative industries to...

Changes ahead for ‘use-it-or-lose-it’ as terms of trade expires

Media | 08/25/2017 5:06 pm EDT

While online discussion forums are rife with debate — and more often, complaints — about why Canadians can’t access popular American television shows legally online, Canadian content producers are navigating how to ensure their work continues to be seen on digital platforms. “In a world where Canadians are increasingly in control of what they watch, how and when they want, there is increasing consumer pressure to have unrestricted access to any program, at any time, and on any...

‘No compromise’ on NAFTA cultural exemptions: ministers

Media | 08/23/2017 5:27 pm EDT

‘No compromise’ on NAFTA cultural exemptions: ministersCanada’s heritage and culture ministers are of one mind when it comes to...

No immediate impact on Bell, Rogers from decision review: Desjardins

Media | 08/23/2017 3:02 pm EDT

No immediate impact on Bell, Rogers from decision review: DesjardinsThe government’s move to order the CRTC to reconsider its May licence...

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...

CBC board postings extended

Media | 08/15/2017 4:40 pm EDT

CBC board postings extendedProspective members of the CBC/Radio-Canada board of directors have more time to get their resumes in front of the government’s new advisory panel, as the deadline for...

CRTC licence decision sent back to drawing board

Media | 08/14/2017 5:55 pm EDT

A controversial CRTC decision that creative groups said would negatively affect the production of Canadian content will be sent back to the CRTC for reconsideration by the federal cabinet, Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly...

Don’t reconsider CRTC licence decision: Bell, Corus, Rogers

Media | 08/02/2017 3:58 pm EDT

Don’t reconsider CRTC licence decision: Bell, Corus, RogersThe country’s biggest media companies are publicly firing back against...

Wawatay files appeal over radio licence decision

Media | 07/25/2017 2:08 pm EDT

Wawatay Native Communications Society has submitted a formal petition to Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly seeking to overturn a June decision by the CRTC that handed out licences for Indigenous radio stations. In the June 29...

U.S. broadcasters look to resume retransmission row

Media | 07/21/2017 2:52 pm EDT

U.S. broadcasters look to resume retransmission rowA group of American TV stations seems to be renewing its efforts to put compensation for signals...

How serious is the CRTC’s ‘unprecedented’ lack of commissioners?

Media | 07/10/2017 4:58 pm EDT

testAt the end of this week, following the departure of its vice-chairman of telecom, the CRTC will be left operating with only four commissioners and an interim chairwoman with...

CMF appoints two board members

Media | 07/06/2017 4:51 pm EDT

CMF appoints two board membersThe Canada Media Fund (CMF) has made two new appointments to its board of directors. Michael Schmalz...

More groups petition Joly to reverse CRTC licence decision

Media | 06/29/2017 1:52 pm EDT

More creative groups are stepping up formal efforts to get the CRTC to reverse its licence renewal decision, which they say will negatively affect the production of Canadian content. On Thursday,...

WGC asks Joly to reverse CRTC licence decision

Media | 06/27/2017 5:50 pm EDT

WGC asks Joly to reverse CRTC licence decisionThe Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) has formalized its complaint against the CRTC’s recent TV licence...

U.S. NAFTA consult targets CanCon, copyright, data rules

Media | 06/27/2017 4:11 pm EDT

U.S. NAFTA consult targets CanCon, copyright, data rulesAmerican companies and organizations took aim at Canadian cultural...

CCSA leads lobbying after Hill visit

Media | 06/26/2017 2:55 pm EDT

CCSA leads lobbying after Hill visitLast month’s deluge of Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) members on Parliament Hill for the group’s third annual lobby day pushed the organization to the top of the telecom lobbying list for the second month this year, logging 49 communication reports in May....

Wawatay seeking appeal of Aboriginal radio licence decision

Media | 06/21/2017 5:04 pm EDT

Wawatay seeking appeal of Aboriginal radio licence decisionOTTAWA — Wawatay Native Communications Society will ask for an appeal of...

Advisory group named to drive CBC board appointments

Media | 06/20/2017 5:45 pm EDT

Advisory group named to drive CBC board appointmentsOTTAWA — A nine-member panel has been charged with vetting potential appointees to the CBC/Radio-Canada...

Reconciliation to play role in new CRTC chair’s mandate: Joly

Media | 06/16/2017 3:03 pm EDT

Reconciliation to play role in new CRTC chair’s mandate: JolyOTTAWA — The next chair of the CRTC will have a more explicit focus on...

Opposition MPs say conflict of interest in Heritage office

Media | 06/15/2017 5:26 pm EDT

Opposition MPs say conflict of interest in Heritage officeAlphabet Inc.’s Google Canada lobbied Leslie Church, its former...

Committee’s ISP tax proposal a non-starter: PM

Media | 06/15/2017 4:29 pm EDT

Committee’s ISP tax proposal a non-starter: PMOTTAWA — A House of Commons committee recommendation to expand the five-per-cent contribution broadcast...

Aboriginal radio licence decision ‘major disappointment’: Wawatay

Media | 06/14/2017 6:06 pm EDT

The CRTC has approved five urban radio licences in markets across the country to serve Aboriginal peoples, a decision one Ontario Aboriginal radio station said will result in fewer hours, and less...

CBC, CRTC still viewed as keepers of Canadian identity: study

Media | 06/12/2017 3:04 pm EDT

CBC, CRTC still viewed as keepers of Canadian identity: studyCanadians rely heaviest on CBC/Radio-Canada and the CRTC to protect...

Indigenous Screen Office coming to Canada

Media | 06/12/2017 2:06 pm EDT

A new office to support indigenous creators will open its doors, Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly announced Monday at the Banff World Media Festival. The Indigenous Screen Office is a collaboration between the Aboriginal Peoples...

Joly notes creator ‘anxiety’ over CRTC licence renewal decision

Media | 06/09/2017 4:52 pm EDT

Joly notes creator ‘anxiety’ over CRTC licence renewal decisionHeritage Minister Mélanie Joly acknowledged the “anxiety” members of the creative community are experiencing following the CRTC’s licence renewal decision, but didn’t...

Bloc MPs push heritage minister on CRTC licence decision

Media | 06/06/2017 12:07 pm EDT

Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly is facing more calls to order the CRTC to review its licence renewal decision, this time from the Bloc Québécois. On Monday, Bloc MP Xavier Barsalou-Duval noted...

Joly ‘studying’ CRTC licence decision after criticism

Media | 05/30/2017 1:36 pm EDT

Joly ‘studying’ CRTC licence decision after criticismHeritage Minister Mélanie Joly told a parliamentary...

ISED PS Lametti hot property for April lobbying

Media | 05/23/2017 3:30 pm EDT

ISED PS Lametti hot property for April lobbyingThe parliamentary secretary to the innovation minister was a popular target for lobbyists last month, as...

Joly could reconsider OTT regs over Quebec: Desjardins

Media | 05/23/2017 2:27 pm EDT

Pressure from Quebec could lead Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly to consider imposing taxes on foreign over-the-top (OTT) services, according to Desjardins Capital Markets analyst Maher Yaghi....

Shoan vows court challenge of second dismissal from CRTC

Media | 05/05/2017 2:41 am EDT

Raj Shoan, the CRTC’s regional commissioner for Ontario who was fired again just four days after a return to his post, said he will be heading back to court to challenge the second order-in-council removing him from the regulatory body. In a statement issued Friday, Shoan said he was informed late Thursday that his governor-in-council (GIC) appointment, which he regained after 10 months following an April 28 Federal Court decision, would again be terminated as of midnight Friday. Justice Cecily Strickland’s decision — stemming from...

Cultural exemptions at risk in NAFTA renegotiations: Nantel

Media | 05/04/2017 8:42 pm EDT

NDP heritage critic Pierre Nantel is raising the alarm that cultural protection could be on the chopping block if a wholesale renegotiation of the country’s trade agreement with the United States and Mexico occurs, and is asking the heritage minister to take a stand. In an opinion piece published in French-language...

Shoan wins appeal of CRTC dismissal; judge sends decision for reconsideration

Media | 04/29/2017 12:23 am EDT

Raj Shoan was denied procedural fairness when he was fired from his job as the CRTC’s regional commissioner for Ontario last summer, three years into a five-year term, a Federal Court justice...

Digital platforms open to cultural diversity message: Joly

Media | 04/28/2017 8:29 pm EDT

OTTAWA — Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly said she found a receptive audience for her message of cultural diversity on digital platforms among the executives of the digital media giants she...

CCSA leads March lobbying pack

Media | 04/21/2017 8:39 pm EDT

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...

Canada signs coproduction agreement with Luxembourg

Media | 04/19/2017 2:52 pm EDT

The federal government has signed an audiovisual coproduction treaty with Luxembourg. “This treaty will further position Canada as a partner of choice in audiovisual coproductions, and strengthen our cultural and...

Joly to discuss promoting CanCon with Google, Facebook

Media | 04/11/2017 8:41 pm EDT

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....

Letter to Joly urges media-production reps in new CRTC posts

Media | 04/05/2017 5:14 pm EDT

Nearly two-dozen representatives from the screen-based media industry, such as the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA), Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA), and...

Canada’s VR industry is nascent, but set for growth

Media | 03/31/2017 8:57 pm EDT

Though virtual reality is still in its early days, it holds promise for Canada’s media industry — including for broadcasters as a new way to draw eyes to live events, such as sports, according to...

Affordable Internet carrot, legislation review in federal budget

Media | 03/22/2017 8:54 pm EDT

OTTAWA — With a focus on the digital economy, the federal government will start looking beyond geography to bridge the digital divide in Canada, adding new funding to encourage Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to offer affordable Internet packages, to improve digital literacy, and by announcing its intention to modernize the Telecom and Broadcasting Acts in Budget 2017. “Access to the Internet opens up a world of opportunities — from social connections with friends and family to new ways to learn and work. Most Canadians are already online, but many low-income families face...

Facebook beefs up lobbying squad

Media | 03/21/2017 3:04 pm EDT

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’...

Notice-and-notice effect on piracy unclear ahead of copyright review

Media | 03/13/2017 8:39 pm EDT

As the federal government gears up to review the Copyright Act later this year, information about the rate of piracy in Canada remains elusive, two full years since the implementation of the...

Joly sitting down with foreign digital companies

Media | 03/03/2017 4:05 pm EST

Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly is meeting this week with digital platforms, telling a CBC morning radio show Friday that she was in the Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., region Thursday meeting...

Most Canadians oppose ISP tax for CanCon: survey

Media | 02/07/2017 7:28 pm EST

According to a new survey commissioned by Internet advocacy group OpenMedia, while half of Canadians support creating a new revenue source for Canadian content, there is strong opposition to taxing Internet service and more...

Joly says Canada leading international ‘conversation’ on OTT

Media | 02/06/2017 5:03 pm EST

Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada is leading the charge in pushing for the presence of “cultural diversity,” or domestic content, on foreign digital platforms like the over-the-top (OTT) service provided by Netflix Inc. — despite other countries already having regulations and tax structures in place. “As a government, the most important thing we want to do is make sure we can continue to support and promote our national content and this is exactly what I’m saying at the international level and this is exactly the concern of other states. And that’s why we’ll be leading this conversation,” Joly told reporters Thursday afternoon, following an on-stage appearance answering questions from Canadian...

Joly not afraid of change following cultural review

Media | 02/03/2017 1:36 am EST

OTTAWA — If Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly was clear about anything during a Thursday afternoon appearance at the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) Prime Time in Ottawa conference, it was that the...

Blais calls out demands for ‘political interference’ with CRTC

Media | 02/02/2017 9:04 pm EST

OTTAWA — CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais used his opening remarks at a panel discussion Thursday to criticize individuals who are calling for “political interference” in the...

Lametti, Casey take on Heritage, ISED roles

Media | 01/26/2017 8:23 pm EST

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...

CRTC jobs, vacant or not, posted

Media | 01/24/2017 10:50 pm EST

Heritage Canada has issued a series of help-wanted ads for the CRTC — including for the not-yet vacant position of chair. Four new job openings are now on the government’s appointments website for the roles of chair,...

Telus rolls out welcome mat to lead Dec. lobbying numbers

Media | 01/23/2017 9:28 pm EST

Telus Corp. led the telecom pack in December for government relations activity, according to the federal lobbyists’ registry, logging 14 monthly communication reports. In addition to...

Address diversity gaps when filling CRTC roles, minister told

Media | 01/17/2017 9:52 pm EST

Filling all 13 spots allotted to CRTC commissioners could go a long way in addressing what some are calling decades of ongoing disparity between the demographics of those who make decisions about the...

Unifor asks for suspension of SimSub ban

Media | 01/12/2017 5:12 pm EST

The union representing members of the television and media sectors is asking the CRTC to reverse or suspend its decision banning simultaneous substitution for the Super Bowl in order for its impact to be fully considered. In...

ISP tax a good idea, former CRTC chair says

Media | 01/06/2017 4:24 pm EST

A former chairman of the CRTC is backing the concept of levying a new tax on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as the heritage minister mulls ways to rejig the country’s cultural institutions. In a memo...

U.S. politicians asking Canadian gov’t to reverse SimSub ban

Media | 12/08/2016 10:38 pm EST

Canada is violating its trade obligations by banning simultaneous substitution for the National Football League’s (NFL) Super Bowl, four United States politicians said in a letter to the Canadian government Thursday, which follows another letter by the NFL condemning the decision. The CRTC first said it would ban the practice in January 2015, and made the ban official in August. BCE Inc., which has the rights to the game, was backed by the NFL in opposing the move, in court and during the CRTC process. The court case is still ongoing. Congressmen from both the Republican and...