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....
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...
Over six years after it was established, a government-funded non-profit initiative seeking to deliver...
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....
Alphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs kicked off the new year by registering to...
A few months after the emergence of a proposal asking the CRTC to shift...
Creative organizations stepped up and added to a surge in lobbying activity in the broadcast sector leading up to the release of the results in the Heritage Minister’s review of Canadian content in the digital age last month. September saw 22 communications reports...
Telus Corp. was far and away the busiest industry stakeholder when it came to...
July lobbying activity was affected by the expected summer slowdown that comes with Parliament not...
A group of American TV stations seems to be renewing its efforts to put compensation for signals...