Members of the federal standing committee on industry and technology (INDU) are frustrated with Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri for failing to appear at its...
After 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....
Lobbying commissioner Nancy Bélanger called for...
Former Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains has been appointed Rogers Communications Inc.'s chief corporate...
The affordability-focused initiatives Navdeep Bains put in place will...
When the federal government’s proposed new privacy legislation, Bill...
The House industry committee is calling on the federal government to review legislation covering fraudulent calls, and for the government and regulators to support industry-based solutions to the issue. The committee put out a report Friday following its study into the threat of fraud and scam calls, which it began before the COVID-19 pandemic. Among its recommendations is for the government to review legislation “to ensure that it adequately and explicitly prohibits fraud calls, including fraud calls initiated by robocalls, and further review criminal fines, penalties, and enforcement...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) and advocacy group...
The federal government has launched a consultation on a proposal to open up the 6 GHz spectrum band for...
The federal government introduced sweeping private-sector privacy law...
The federal government announced the launch of its long-awaited Universal Broadband Fund Monday morning,...
The Liberals' election commitment to drop wireless prices 25 per cent will...
The Liberal government is doubling the Canada Infrastructure Bank’s...
Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada announced the launch of its consultation process on the 3800 MHz spectrum auction. The band is widely seen as being one of the bands crucial for 5G deployment. The launch...
Lawyers representing BCE Inc. have asked a Federal Court of Appeal judge to...
The Liberal government has sided with Canada’s largest telecoms in their appeal of an August 2019 CRTC decision lowering wholesale rates, saying those rates may harm network investment, though it did not overturn the decision or send it back to the CRTC for...
Following on the Liberal election campaign promise to lower wireless prices by 25 per cent, the federal government released on Tuesday the first of its quarterly check-ins on wireless prices across the country. The data --...
A reported bid by Ottawa-headquartered satellite service provider Telesat Holdings Inc. to acquire competitor OneWeb has been unsuccessful, with a consortium including the U.K. government and Indian...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has again refused to put a timeframe on when...
Innovation, Science, and Economic Development announced on Monday the launch of what it is calling the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), as well as a research centre to be based in Monteal in cooperation with...
Health Canada has responded to an MPs’ query about what steps it is taking to monitor potential health effects of 5G networks, indicating it is treating 5G no differently than previous generations of wireless technology.
“It is Health Canada’s position that the...
BCE Inc. will be delivering its fixed wireless internet to some 137,000 more homes than it had planned to...
The federal government is looking at what other jurisdictions are doing...
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains says the...
The federal government should guarantee internet service providers payments...
Experts say Canada’s telecommunications networks are currently handling a...
Canada's wireless service providers will send out text messages to their...
Analysts have provided nuanced reactions to the government’s plan to...
Telus Corp. says it has already met and exceeded the Liberal Party’s goal...
If Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains wants to see a 25-per-cent reduction in wireless prices starting from December 2019 — as he clarified this week — the best way is to maintain a hands-off approach that has seen a reduction of 28 per cent in wireless prices since 2016,...
The new Liberal minority government repeated its promise to lower wireless...
OTTAWA — New Public Safety Minister Bill Blair indicated Wednesday he is...
The Canadian chapter of the Internet Society (ISCC) is looking to embark on...
Telus Corp. told the federal government that prohibiting Huawei...
The federal government announced on Monday the creation of the CyberSecure Canada program, a new certification program for Canadian businesses to further promote cyber security as a central tenet of commercial enterprise. In a release from Innovation, Science, and Economic Development, the department describes the program as “voluntary” and says it is designed for “small and medium-sized organizations [to] achieve a baseline level of cyber security.” Finance Minister Bill Morneau made the announcement on behalf of Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains at the University of New Brunswick's Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity, the release said. The program is a “collaboration” between ISED, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) and the Standards Council of Canada...
CRTC chairman Ian Scott said the new internet code will address many of the...
OTTAWA — As part of its strategy to tackle rural broadband in Canada,...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s launch of a wireless plan that won’t...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Innovation Canada will give existing holders of 3.5...
TORONTO — Executives from Canada’s biggest carriers defended the...
OTTAWA — The new rural economic development ministry will release the...
A consortium of data stewards launched an informal network last week that looks to promote the anonymization of personal information in Canada in the wake of data privacy concerns sweeping the...
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer said last week he was in favour of a ban...
Innovation Canada announced the creation Tuesday of a new advisory panel for artificial intelligence made up of members from across academia, the private sector, and government. The panel, announced as Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains attended a G7 meeting of Digital Ministers in Paris, will be chaired by Foteini Agrafioti from RBC and Yoshua Bengio, scientific director of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms. The council, according to the press release, will advise the “build on Canada’s AI strengths, identify opportunities to create economic growth that benefits all Canadians and ensure that AI advancements reflect Canadian values.” The government, the release continued, “is committed to promoting a human-centric approach” to artificial intelligence. The council’s first meeting will take place in the next...
More than two years after the deadline to apply for funding through the...
The expected focus by the country’s largest wireless service providers...
The federal government plans to issue its decision on whether to ban equipment from Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from Canada’s 5G networks before this year’s federal election. “We understand...
Residents of a New Brunswick town are asking the Federal Court to review...
Canada’s four largest wireless providers are asking the government to incorporate references to “investment” and the previous, market-focused policy direction in its proposed new directive, meant to foster affordability and consumer interests.
“Now is not the time...
BCE Inc. walking away from the 600 MHz spectrum auction with no licences,...
OTTAWA — A Federal Court judge has granted an application by the...
BCE Inc. was among three prospective applicants who didn’t grab licenses for the coveted 600 MHz spectrum, widely considered to be the last chance to get valuable low-band frequencies. The...
Amid security reviews of Canada’s 5G infrastructure lays an...
The Liberal government should expect some amount of industry opposition...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner and the Attorney General of Canada (AGC) have filed appeals challenging Alphabet Inc.’s application to expand the scope of a deindexing case to include questions about whether forcing it to...
As the CRTC signals it’s ready to make an about-face on its approach to...
The Liberal government is proposing a significant departure...
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains weighed sending back the CRTC’s decision not to mandate wholesale access by WiFi-based mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) for a second time, according to a letter from BCE Inc.
“Your office has informed us that the government is...
The federal government’s sweeping security review that’s examining whether to ban Chinese telecom...
The Prime Minister’s Office has made public the mandate letter for the...
Increases in how long the CRTC takes to pay public interest groups to...
NDP MP Brian Masse is asking Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains to force the CRTC to extend the deadline...
The federal privacy watchdog is warning the Liberal government against approaching its national data consultations as if privacy protection is “at odds” with innovation.
Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien’s office released a letter Wednesday that he sent to...
OTTAWA — Innovation Canada deputy minister John Knubley said his...
OTTAWA — The federal government has been lagging behind on rural...
New Brunswick-based internet provider Xplornet Communications Inc. started...
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains announced the federal government has signed a funding agreement with the group constituting its “advanced manufacturing” supercluster Tuesday, showing that Ottawa...
Last week, ministers of innovation and economic development from three...
GATINEAU –– BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. defended their sales tactics Friday after a week...
Just over a year after a critical internal report raised questions about the technological readiness of millimetre wave frequencies in the wake of a government consultation on using the spectrum for...
GATINEAU— CRTC Chairman Ian Scott opened public...
OTTAWA — Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien says he plans to ask the Federal Court for a reference on whether the private sector’s privacy law applies to search engine de-indexing.
In the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s (OPC) annual report...
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...
Amir Bigloo, who has a history of successful spectrum purchases as CEO of...
The federal government is affirming its commitment to enforcing the...
The government has responded to a House industry committee report that, among other recommendations, said the government should tackle the problem of rural broadband access in Canada and called for...
A newly-minted data rights group spearheaded by former BlackBerry Ltd. co-CEO Jim Balsillie met with privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien in late May, according to the federal lobbying registry. The Centre for Digital Rights asked to meet with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, where the two discussed the group’s goals and its views on data privacy issues, OPC spokeswoman Tobi Cohen said in an email. “We shared perspectives on a number of privacy issues as this new group wishes to actively promote privacy rights,” Cohen said, adding the OPC regularly meets with a range of...
OTTAWA — As the House of Commons rose for summer break Wednesday...
OTTAWA — The federal government said Tuesday it will hold consultations to look at the issue of data...
OTTAWA — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said Thursday afternoon that...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) is seeking comments, during a consultation on the 3.5 Ghz spectrum, about timelines related to the deployment of the spectrum, including the...
TORONTO — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains announced Wednesday the...
OTTAWA — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains and Heritage Minister Mélanie...
OTTAWA — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains wouldn’t say Thursday...
A motion asking the government to consider enshrining the concept of net...
Rogers Communications Inc. and BCE Inc. have registered to lobby the government on proposed Senate legislation, now moving through the House, to quell the impact of junk food advertising on children, joining critics who lobbied heavily in March about the bill they say will...
The CRTC decision Thursday not to mandate roaming for WiFi-first mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) brings predictability for large telecoms, financial analysts said. “At the highest level,...
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...
The issue of whether a Chinese telecom equipment maker poses a security threat by operating in Canada is...
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains called reports of internet service price hikes by two large telecoms...
OTTAWA — The 2018 federal budget, released Tuesday afternoon, includes half a billion dollars in funding for cybersecurity initiatives, in addition to smaller investments in...
OTTAWA — Two “superclusters” involving BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. are...
OTTAWA — Representatives from Canada’s biggest telecoms argued that...
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...
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....
The NDP says silicon valley giant Apple Inc. should speak to a...
MONTREAL — Cogeco Inc. is feeling more optimistic about the possibility...
Alphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs kicked off the new year by registering to...
The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-2...
A few months after the emergence of a proposal asking the CRTC to shift funding away from the Broadcast Participation Fund (BPF), the organization that helps bring consumer interests in front of the commission has filed its first registrations to lobby the regulator and the...
