In a House of Commons heritage committee meeting that was marked more by partisan feuding than for what it revealed about the CRTC, commission chair Vicky Eatrides sought to fend off suggestions that the CRTC and Heritage Canada were colluding on the rollout of the Online...
Canadian Heritage is proposing regulations under the Online News Act that aim to clarify how the legislation will be interpreted and carried out, addressing some of the tech...
The federal government, Quebecor Inc., and Cogeco Inc., are pulling all their advertising investments...
The federal government is spending $5.5 million to create the Canadian Digital Media Research Network...
The government has extended the term of Catherine Tait as president and CEO...
OTTAWA–When the government finally gets around to introducing its online...
After months of contentious debate, Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, has become law. The Senate voted 52-16 on third reading Thursday. Shortly thereafter, Governor-General Mary Simon gave it Royal Assent.
The victory after the lengthy parliamentary process was...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says he is not worried that...
During Tuesday’s Question Period, two Conservative MPs from Quebec took...
While the letter from Heritage Minister Pablo...
OTTAWA– An Amazon Inc. Prime Video executive has...
The federal government Wednesday announced that the department of Canadian...
The ministers most responsible for telecom and broadcasting policy in Canada are pledging to follow...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and CRTC chair Ian Scott were...
The ministers of Canadian Heritage and Intergovernmental Affairs,...
The removal of problematic content online remains a heavily debated issue for experts consulted on Canada’s controversial online harms bill.
Friday, the expert...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked Conservative party...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked the opposition for...
The Minister of Canadian Heritage has assured the House of Commons that the next chair of the CRTC will...
Canadian politicians were quick to condemn Russia’s move to close the...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has said the Government is not backing down from its legislative effort to get companies like Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook and Twitter Inc. to compensate news outlets for their content, in the wake of comments from a Facebook official to...
Extremist groups are able to propagate their message and raise funds...
The Canadian government has allocated $2.5 million to help people identify...
Following the issuing of an order-in-council from the cabinet on Wednesday...
Community-owned television outlets “are not producing local news that...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday afternoon that the...
The Government of Canada has extended its temporary emergency fund...
OTTAWA -- Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodríguez called previous...
The government placed legislation to change the Broadcasting Act on the...
Canadian Heritage minister Pablo Rodriguez says revisions to the Broadcasting Act will be reintroduced as soon as possible. Any new legislation would replace Bill C-10 from the last Parliament, which died on the order paper when the election was called.
Speaking in...
OTTAWA -- MP Pablo Rodriguez is back in familiar territory as he is once...
The Liberal Party platform, released Sunday, includes promises of new regulations for Canadian content on...
Even before the federal election campaign officially kicked off, telecom...
Heritage Canada has commissioned seven working groups that are looking at...
The Liberal government plans to have the CRTC be the body in charge of developing and then enforcing telecom regulation related to future cybersecurity laws, according to a memo for Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez obtained through access to information law. In this year’s budget, the federal government outlined $144.9 million over five years to “help to protect Canada’s critical cyber systems including in the finance, telecommunications, energy and transport sectors.” The budget...
The independence of the panel that will determine which print news...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said in a social media post Wednesday that the Liberal government plans...
The federal government isn’t interested in helping ensure BCE Inc. sees a...
Corus Entertainment Inc., the only major Canadian broadcaster refusing to...
Cogeco Inc. is lobbying the government to help Canadian radio news...
Quebecor Inc. has stopped broadcasting its TVA Sports signal following...
OTTAWA — Quebecor Inc. president and CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau said...
OTTAWA — Quebec NDP MP François Choquette has filed a judicial review...
Increases in how long the CRTC takes to pay public interest groups to participate in proceedings not only represent an existential crisis for the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) but also a wider problem that could harm the involvement of other consumer organizations,...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has met with creative groups in his first registered lobby...
As politicians file back into Parliament Hill’s Centre Block for the...
Opposition Conservative leader Andrew Scheer has shuffled his caucus's shadow cabinet in the lead up to...
After this summer’s cabinet shuffle, the Heritage minister will gain two...
Former chief government whip Pablo Rodriguez is the new heritage minister, replacing the embattled Mélanie Joly, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffled his cabinet on Wednesday.
Rodriguez has “a lot” of previous experience with this portfolio, independent...
