European Union becomes strategic partner of global telecom coalition

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The Global Coalition on Telecommunications (GCOT) announced on Monday that...

Opposition MPs say Rogers job cuts caused by Liberal approval of Shaw takeover

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Conservative and New Democrat parliamentarians are attributing recent job...

Canadian internet companies say their livelihood is dependent on changes to the Copyright Act — but Ottawa hasn’t taken action

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On its surface, the ISP Coalition is an unusual...

The ‘obvious candidate’: Jeanne Pratt favoured by lawyers, academics to take over as competition commissioner

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Acting competition commissioner Jeanne Pratt may...

TikTok, Ottawa settle national security dispute with data security, oversight deal

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The federal government has reached an agreement with TikTok that will allow the social media platform to continue its Canadian operations under new data security and oversight...

Global telecom coalition issues new 6G security principles focusing on quantum safety, AI integration

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Canada and its international partners in the Global Coalition on Telecommunications (GCOT) announced a new set of principles for 6G security and resilience at the Mobile World...

‘That’s the cost of doing business’: Joly says telcos won’t be compensated for complying with cybersecurity orders

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The telecom industry has expressed concerns that...

Industry minister to conduct new national security review of TikTok, Canadian business allowed to continue operating for now

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The Federal Court has overturned a government...

Warming Canada-China relations shouldn’t extend to Huawei ban, say security experts, parliamentarians

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After Prime Minister Mark Carney inked a new...

Manitoba premier calls for shortening of emergency service outage notification window

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Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has sent a letter to...

OPINION | Boswell woke up Canada’s competition watchdog. With his departure imminent, it must get to work.

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For decades, becoming Canada’s Commissioner of...

Ericsson and union fight battle over worker jurisdiction as jobs offshore to India

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Ericsson AB and the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1944 are locked in a...

Bill aimed at protecting telecom infrastructure against cyberattacks strikes at privacy rights, say civil society groups

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A federal bill that would give the industry...

Cogeco, Eastlink further their challenge of cabinet refusal to overrule CRTC wholesale decision

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As Cogeco Communications Inc. and Bragg Communications Inc. (Eastlink) continue to challenge the CRTC’s decision to grant Canada’s largest telecom companies wholesale...

Prime Minister appoints parliamentary secretaries

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Prime Minister Mark Carney (Nepean, Ont.) announced the appointment of parliamentary secretaries on...

Government hails telecom investment in AI 

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The federal government is congratulating Canadian telecom firms for investing in artificial intelligence...

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

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

Reporting by Hannah Daley, Phalen Tynes-MacDonald...

Steelworkers accuse Telus of union busting in Turkey

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

The United Steelworkers Union (USW), which represents Canadian workers at Telus Corp., is alleging that...

CBC, foreign ministry both deny considering ‘transfer’ of international broadcaster as outlined in department memo

Internet and Governance | 02/13/2025 6:26 pm EST

This article originally appeared on The Hill Times Although a recently released document says that Canada’s public broadcaster pitched a “reimagining” of its...

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

The 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

OTTAWA — 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

OTTAWA — Quebec NDP MP François Choquette has filed a judicial review...

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

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

The 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/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

As 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

After 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

The 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 domestic taxes. Federal leader of the party Jagmeet Singh, who does not currently sit in Parliament but plans to run in a B.C. by-election, pledged to apply “the same rules to all, no favour for friends or the privileged” when talking about the likes of Netflix Inc.,...

Guylaine Roy leaves Heritage

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

Guylaine 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

Former 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

MONTREAL — Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly outlined Tuesday the...

OTT co-productions trending up: study

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

Domestic and international content producers and over-the-top (OTT) services are continuing to partner...

Nantel accuses Joly of holding cultural sector ‘hostage’

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

NDP Heritage critic Pierre Nantel took Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly to task for launching another consultation Tuesday instead of proposing legislative change, during Joly’s appearance at the House heritage committee Thursday morning. “I think it is absolutely...

Media sector, senator back change to ad tax exemption

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

OTTAWA — 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

OTTAWA — 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

OTTAWA — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains and Heritage Minister Mélanie...

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...

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

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

In 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

OTTAWA — 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

A decades-old organization that is pushing for a multilateral approach to decision-making on the future of the internet has registered to lobby the government for the first time. The Feb. 20 registration under consultant Kathleen Monk of Earnscliffe Strategy Group is on...

Money for CanCon in budget stopgap measure: CMPA

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

The 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

Heritage 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....

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...

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

The 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

OTTAWA — 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

TORONTO — The federal government and the CRTC must pick up the pace and...

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

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

OTTAWA — Opposition MPs continued their criticism of Heritage Minister...

Broadcast lobbying jumped ahead of Creative Canada release

Media | 10/24/2017 6:20 pm EDT

Creative 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), performance art and museums, according to a press release. The release added the mission would focus on the creation of partnerships and business-to-business relationships, as part of an effort to promote “the discovery and distribution of Canadian creative content in global markets.” The initiative aims to expand the Canadian media industry access to the large...

Joly’s cultural policy continues drawing mixed reaction

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

Various 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

OTTAWA — 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...

BQ criticizes Joly over OTT tax policy

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

The Bloc Québécois has accused Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly of favouritism toward the likes of Netflix Inc. and Spotify AB for not imposing sales tax on foreign digital platforms. In question period Monday, BQ MP Monique Pauzé said that the minister “has...

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

Everything 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

Heritage 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...

‘No compromise’ on NAFTA cultural exemptions: ministers

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

Canada’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

The 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

July 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

Prospective 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 announced Monday. The May 15 decision that renewed licences of major French- and English-language ownership groups, among other things, standardized requirements for Canadian programming expenditures (CPEs) at 30 per cent and programs of national interest (PNIs) at five per cent for all groups, conventional stations and discretionary services. “We are asking the...

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

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

The 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

A 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

At the end of this week, following the departure of its vice-chairman of...

CMF appoints two board members

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

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has made two new appointments to its board of directors. Michael Schmalz and Lori DeGraw were appointed after the organization’s annual meeting in Montreal on Wednesday, a Thursday press release said. Schmalz, who was a practicing engineer, is currently president of development studio Digital Extremes. He has over 10 years of experience in the digital media industry with a focus on gaming, the release said. DeGraw, who is currently executive director of the Ontario Land Trust...

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

The 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

American companies and organizations took aim at Canadian cultural...

CCSA leads lobbying after Hill visit

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

Last month’s deluge of Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) members on Parliament Hill for the...

Wawatay seeking appeal of Aboriginal radio licence decision

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

OTTAWA — 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

OTTAWA — 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

OTTAWA — 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

Alphabet 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

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...

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

Canadians 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

Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly acknowledged the “anxiety” members of...

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 during question period in the House of Commons that celebrated film director Xavier Dolan had “openly criticized the CRTC” at the Gala Québec Cinema in Montreal on Sunday. “Its decision regarding the licence for Séries+ and Historia jeopardizes the future of Quebec television,” Barsalou-Duval said, according to a transcript, before asking Joly if she would “do something to support our...

Joly ‘studying’ CRTC licence decision after criticism

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

Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly told a parliamentary...

ISED PS Lametti hot property for April lobbying

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

The 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...

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 economic ties with Luxembourg,” said a statement from Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly issued Wednesday. Under the agreement, coproduced projects will be given national status in both countries, making producers eligible for benefits like funding and tax incentives in their own country, the statement added. The agreement comes as...