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CRTC consulting on new consumer protection measures

| 11/22/2024 6:00 pm EST

CRTC consulting on new consumer protection measuresThe CRTC has launched three consultations it says are aimed at improving consumer protection measures to make sure Canadians have more flexibility to choose the mobile and internet services they need. The new measures being considered include improving customer...

CRTC defends regulatory policies in Senate, asserts lower prices for consumers

Internet and Governance | 05/28/2024 7:09 pm EDT

Net neutrality prevents CRTC from ordering ISPs verify age online: CRTC to SenateThe CRTC defended its telecommunications mandate before a skeptical Senate panel Tuesday, telling the transport and communications committee that past practices are leading to...

Senate committee passes internet service quality bill

Internet and Governance | 05/07/2024 2:01 pm EDT

Throne speech reiterates rural broadband, web giant promisesThe Senate Committee on Transport and Communications hastily adopted a private member’s bill on...

Net neutrality prevents CRTC from ordering ISPs verify age online: CRTC to Senate

Media | 03/03/2022 9:10 am EST

Net neutrality prevents CRTC from ordering ISPs verify age online: CRTC to SenateThe CRTC cannot direct internet service providers (ISPs) to implement age...

Half of spectrum licencees opted to use ISED’s COVID flexibility

telecom | 07/29/2020 5:21 pm EDT

Half of spectrum licencees opted to use ISED’s COVID flexibilityInnovation, Science and Economic Development Canada allowed companies to...

CRTC rejects request to hold contact-tracing inquiry

telecom | 05/13/2020 4:09 pm EDT

CRTC rejects request to hold contact-tracing inquiryThe CRTC has rejected a Public Interest Advocacy Centre request that it look into the involvement of...

Scott Hutton to take on newly-created role at the CRTC

telecom | 04/09/2019 5:30 pm EDT

Scott Hutton to take on newly-created role at the CRTCThe CRTC has created a new chief of consumer, research and communications position and named Scott Hutton, its current executive director of broadcasting, to the role. “Scott will lead the CRTC’s work as we engage in a conversation with Canadians, key stakeholders and...

Privacy commish ‘surprised’ by political ‘chill’ comments

telecom | 11/01/2018 4:28 pm EDT

Privacy commish ‘surprised’ by political ‘chill’ commentsOTTAWA — Canada’s privacy commissioner said Thursday that comments...

End of 2017 saw Stingray, Birch Hill reinvigorate lobby efforts

Media | 01/17/2018 4:39 pm EST

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....

Sidewalk Labs, civil liberties group register to lobby

Media | 01/08/2018 4:14 pm EST

Sidewalk Labs, civil liberties group register to lobbyAlphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs kicked off the new year by registering to...

BPF registers to lobby amidst consumer group funding concerns

Media | 12/14/2017 2:25 pm EST

Ian Scott ‘collegial’ choice for new CRTC chair: former colleaguesA few months after the emergence of a proposal asking the CRTC to shift...

Broadcast lobbying jumped ahead of Creative Canada release

Media | 10/24/2017 6:20 pm EDT

Broadcast lobbying jumped ahead of Creative Canada releaseCreative organizations stepped up and added to a surge in lobbying activity...

May-Cuconato no longer CRTC secretary general

telecom | 09/06/2017 3:48 pm EDT

May-Cuconato no longer CRTC secretary generalThe CRTC has another opening among its senior officials, following the departure of secretary general...

U.S. broadcasters look to resume retransmission row

Media | 07/21/2017 2:52 pm EDT

U.S. broadcasters look to resume retransmission rowA group of American TV stations seems to be renewing its efforts to put compensation for signals...

Heritage committee kicks off study on news media

Media | 02/23/2016 9:40 pm EST

OTTAWA — News quality came up as an issue at the first day of a study into the news media by the House of Commons heritage committee. Conservative MP Kevin Waugh, whose riding is in Saskatoon, brought up outsourcing of some...

Internet hasn’t killed the radio star: CRTC

Media | 03/27/2014 9:14 pm EDT

OTTAWA — The CRTC’s head of broadcasting says radio revenue does not appear to be suffering as a result of competition from Internet-based streaming services. Scott Hutton, the commission’s executive director of broadcasting, was speaking Thursday at a House of Commons heritage committee meeting, which is undertaking a review of the Canadian music industry. “Although the results are only preliminary at this point, it appears that the commercial radio industry maintained the course in 2013,” he told the committee. “These stations have reported total...

CBC at ‘forefront’ of digital media: CRTC’s Hutton

Media | 03/06/2014 3:21 am EST

OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada has been at the vanguard of changes the broadcasting industry has faced due to the emergence of digital media in recent years, Scott Hutton, the CRTC’s executive...

Canadians divided on TV system issues: CRTC report

Media | 01/29/2014 10:20 pm EST

Canadians who took part in a CRTC consultation “want more” from their television services, including more diverse and higher-quality programming, as well as more choice to subscribe to the individual channels they...