OTTAWA — Quebec NDP MP François Choquette has filed a judicial review application with the Federal Court to contest the alleged premature closing of an investigation by the...
The House of Commons unanimously passed a motion Tuesday condemning Netflix Inc. for using footage of the Lac Mégantic, Que. train disaster in a TV show and a movie.
The motion, introduced by NDP heritage critic Pierre Nantel, condemns the use of the images, and demands...
As politicians file back into Parliament Hill’s Centre Block for the...
Former chief government whip Pablo Rodriguez is the new heritage minister,...
MONTREAL — Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly outlined Tuesday the...
NDP Heritage critic Pierre Nantel took Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly to...
OTTAWA — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains and Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly had slightly different messages in response to the issue of new recommendations from the CRTC potentially increasing telecom and media service costs for Canadian consumers.
The federal...
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...
OTTAWA — Opposition MPs continued their criticism of Heritage Minister...
OTTAWA — While the response to the long-awaited results of Heritage...
July lobbying activity was affected by the expected summer slowdown that comes with Parliament not...
Canada’s continued preservation of the provisions in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)...
The choice of Ian Scott as the new chairman of the CRTC was greeted...
The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) has formalized its complaint against the CRTC’s recent TV licence...
American companies and organizations took aim at Canadian cultural protections, the country’s copyright regime and expressed concern over any potential rules requiring domestic storage of data, when given the chance to provide feedback to their government on priorities to...
OTTAWA — Wawatay Native Communications Society will ask for an appeal of...
Canadians rely heaviest on CBC/Radio-Canada and the CRTC to protect...
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly acknowledged the “anxiety” members of...
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly told a parliamentary...
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. Yaghi drew on a May 3 column in Le Devoir by NDP MP and heritage critic Pierre Nantel, who argued that choosing not to tax foreign online players, such as Netflix Inc. and Facebook Inc., will have a harmful effect on Quebec culture, as more people migrate to those platforms and with them go revenues that contribute to Quebec production funds. “Potential anger resulting from the absence of...
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...
Facebook Inc. is increasing its government relations presence in Ottawa, with three new registrations filed with the lobbying commissioner’s office last month. According to the federal lobbyists’...
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada is leading the charge in pushing for the presence of “cultural diversity,” or domestic content, on foreign digital platforms like the over-the-top (OTT) service provided by Netflix Inc. — despite other countries already having regulations and tax...
The department of Canadian Heritage will have to disclose who sat down with Minister Mélanie Joly as she fleshed out the consultation plan for her Canadian content review, following a query by NDP MP Pierre Nantel....
The federal government will unveil a new consultation process for appointing members to the CBC/Radio-Canada board of directors “in the next few weeks,” Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly...
Heritage Minister Melanie Joly is refusing to specify that the CBC will receive the $150 million in extra funding the Liberal government promised during last year’s election, despite receiving questions on the subject from...
The federal government’s pursuit of a consumer-driven broadcasting policy instead of a more comprehensive digital strategy has left the CRTC in a difficult position when it comes to regulating Internet video services, says...
