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 changes to Canada’s lobbying rules during a House of Commons ethics committee meeting discussing the appointment of...
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...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) and advocacy group OpenMedia told MPs the federal government needs to demonstrate more political will to bring lower internet and wireless prices to Canada, two days after Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains told the same...
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...
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 -- which is based on advertised prices from January to June for post-paid, bring your own device (BYOD), unlimited talk and text 4G/LTE plans in the 2 to 6 GB range -- shows that only 2 GB plans on the three main flanker brands in Quebec are meeting the government's objective. BCE Inc.'s Virgin, Telus Corp.'s Koodo, and Rogers Communications Inc.'s Fido are all offered at...
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...
BCE Inc. will be delivering its fixed wireless internet to some 137,000 more homes than it had planned to by this point in its 2020 rollout, according to a Thursday release. The company said it was increasing the speed of the rollout because of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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...
The new Liberal minority government repeated its promise to lower wireless prices in the speech from the throne that kicked off the new Parliamentary session Thursday. It...
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...
CRTC chairman Ian Scott said the new internet code will address many of the underlying issues that have resulted in complaints about the industry's poor sales practices, which...
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...
More than two years after the deadline to apply for funding through the federal government’s Connect to Innovate rural broadband program, the majority of those who submitted applications have yet to find out whether they were successful. The government received 892...
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...
BCE Inc. walking away from the 600 MHz spectrum auction with no licences, and the amount the winning incumbents ended up paying for the spectrum, came as a surprise to some financial analysts. National Bank analyst Adam Shine said in a research note that while the...
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...
The federal government’s sweeping security review that’s examining whether to ban Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s equipment from the country’s next generation telecom networks will take much longer than a matter of weeks before it’s finished...
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...
OTTAWA — Innovation Canada deputy minister John Knubley said his department will do what it can to address a concern that a clawback of 3.5 GHz spectrum for a future auction...
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...
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 relations. Graham McLaughlin and Mark Resnick of McMillan Vantage registered to communicate with “public office holders with respect to the potential impact on the broadcasting sector as a result of changes of the framework for copyright in Canada.” The Copyright Act review kicked off in December, with the House industry committee holding meetings to hear from various groups this spring....
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....
OTTAWA — As the House of Commons rose for summer break Wednesday afternoon, Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith tabled a private member’s bill to give the privacy commissioner greater enforcement powers. “What we have right now is an ombudsman; what we need is a...
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...
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, we believe the CRTC struck a very supportive tone with respect to facilities-based competition and ensuring the wireless industry has continued regulatory certainty,” wrote RBC Capital Market analyst Drew McReynolds in a note late Thursday evening. Instead of mandating WiFi-based players, the CRTC directed large telecoms to offer low-cost data-only plans, in addition to setting new roaming...
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...
OTTAWA — Two “superclusters” involving BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. are among the five that will receive funding as part of the federal government’s $950 million initiative, according to an announcement Thursday at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa....
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...
Opposition leader Andrew Scheer isn’t going public with his position on the issue of net neutrality, even as two members of his caucus — both former Industry ministers — are publicly disagreeing on the question. On Saturday, Innovation critic Maxime Bernier tweeted...