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Bell, Telus push back on proposed public hearing into wireless fees

| 07/24/2026 1:20 pm EDT

Bell, Telus push back on proposed public hearing into wireless fees

Canada’s largest telecommunications companies have drawn battle lines ahead of an upcoming CRTC investigation into whether the companies are violating a new commission...

CRTC Wireless

Rogers called on carpet over extra billing for wireless service

| 06/24/2026 11:59 am EDT

The CRTC’s campaign against extra billing for wireless services continues, with Rogers Communications Inc. the latest target. On Tuesday commission vice-president for consumer, analytics and strategy Scott Hutton sent a letter to Howard Slawner, Rogers’...

CRTC Rogers Wireless

CRTC warns Bell and Telus about improper fees for wireless coverage

| 06/16/2026 5:00 am EDT

Staff reductions hit Telus and Bell Media

The CRTC has stepped up its battle with BCE Inc. subsidiary Bell Canada and...

Bell CRTC Telus

CRTC counsels Telus not to initiate purchase fee for SIM cards

| 06/11/2026 5:00 am EDT

CRTC counsels Telus not to initiate purchase fee for SIM cards

The CRTC is warning Telus Corp. that plans to impose a $15 SIM purchase fee...

CRTC Telus

CRTC scolds Bell for new $40 ‘device handling’ fee

| 05/06/2026 9:16 pm EDT

CRTC scolds Bell for new $40 ‘device handling’ fee

The CRTC is reprimanding BCE Inc. for its new one-time $40 charge applied...

Bell CRTC

Money for CanCon trickling from streamers despite court action, CRTC tells MPs

| 10/02/2025 3:18 pm EDT

Money for CanCon trickling from streamers despite court action, CRTC tells MPs

Even though foreign streamers are litigating provisions of the Online...

CRTC Online streaming act

Industry committee questions CRTC on Online News Act, decision timelines

| 09/25/2025 6:41 pm EDT

Industry committee questions CRTC on Online News Act, decision timelines

As three of the CRTC’s top brass appeared before the federal Standing Committee on Industry and Technology earlier this week, they were asked to run MPs through how it...

CRTC INDU Online news act

WATCH | Navigating telecom regulation: The Wire Report’s Hannah Daley in conversation with the CRTC

| 07/16/2025 4:53 pm EDT

The Wire Report's inaugural webinar saw our editor...

CRTC Feature telecom

CRTC consulting on new consumer protection measures

| 11/22/2024 6:00 pm EST

CRTC consulting on new consumer protection measures

The CRTC has launched three consultations it says are aimed at improving consumer protection measures to...

CRTC mobile

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 Senate

The CRTC defended its telecommunications mandate before a skeptical Senate...

CRTC Federal Budget Wireless

Senate committee passes internet service quality bill

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

Throne speech reiterates rural broadband, web giant promises

The Senate Committee on Transport and Communications hastily adopted a private member’s bill on...

CRTC Internet ISED

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 Senate

The CRTC cannot direct internet service providers (ISPs) to implement age...

CRTC Internet Net neutrality

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 flexibility

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada allowed companies to...

COVID-19 CRTC EXCLUSIVE

CRTC rejects request to hold contact-tracing inquiry

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

CRTC rejects request to hold contact-tracing inquiry

The CRTC has rejected a Public Interest Advocacy Centre request that it look into the involvement of...

BREAKING COVID-19 Privacy

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 CRTC

The CRTC has created a new chief of consumer, research and communications...

CRTC

Privacy commish ‘surprised’ by political ‘chill’ comments

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

Privacy commish ‘surprised’ by political ‘chill’ comments

OTTAWA — Canada’s privacy commissioner said Thursday that comments made by a Liberal party counsel suggesting the country’s private sector privacy laws would deter...

Privacy

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....

CRTC Music streaming

Sidewalk Labs, civil liberties group register to lobby

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

Sidewalk Labs, civil liberties group register to lobby

Alphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs kicked off the new year by registering to...

Bell Cogeco Copyright

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 colleagues

A few months after the emergence of a proposal asking the CRTC to shift...

Bell Cancon Copyright

Broadcast lobbying jumped ahead of Creative Canada release

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

Broadcast lobbying jumped ahead of Creative Canada release

Creative organizations stepped up and added to a surge in lobbying activity...

Bell Cancon Cbc

May-Cuconato no longer CRTC secretary general

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

May-Cuconato no longer CRTC secretary general

The CRTC has another opening among its senior officials, following the departure of secretary general Danielle May-Cuconato. In an email, CRTC spokeswoman Patricia Valladao said May-Cuconato “joined another department a week ago.” She added that “executive...

CRTC

U.S. broadcasters look to resume retransmission row

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

U.S. broadcasters look to resume retransmission row

A group of American TV stations seems to be renewing its efforts to put compensation for signals...

CRTC NAFTA Television

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...

Radio Television

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...

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...

Internet Sports content Television

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...

CRTC Television

TAGGED AS SCOTT HUTTON

Bell, Telus push back on proposed public hearing into wireless fees

| 07/24/2026 1:20 pm EDT

Rogers called on carpet over extra billing for wireless service

| 06/24/2026 11:59 am EDT

CRTC warns Bell and Telus about improper fees for wireless coverage

| 06/16/2026 5:00 am EDT

CRTC counsels Telus not to initiate purchase fee for SIM cards

| 06/11/2026 5:00 am EDT

CRTC scolds Bell for new $40 ‘device handling’ fee

| 05/06/2026 9:16 pm EDT

Money for CanCon trickling from streamers despite court action, CRTC tells MPs

| 10/02/2025 3:18 pm EDT

Industry committee questions CRTC on Online News Act, decision timelines

| 09/25/2025 6:41 pm EDT

WATCH | Navigating telecom regulation: The Wire Report’s Hannah Daley in conversation with the CRTC

| 07/16/2025 4:53 pm EDT

CRTC consulting on new consumer protection measures

| 11/22/2024 6:00 pm EST

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

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

Senate committee passes internet service quality bill

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

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

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

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

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

CRTC rejects request to hold contact-tracing inquiry

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

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

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

Privacy commish ‘surprised’ by political ‘chill’ comments

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

End of 2017 saw Stingray, Birch Hill reinvigorate lobby efforts

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

Sidewalk Labs, civil liberties group register to lobby

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

BPF registers to lobby amidst consumer group funding concerns

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

Broadcast lobbying jumped ahead of Creative Canada release

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

May-Cuconato no longer CRTC secretary general

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

U.S. broadcasters look to resume retransmission row

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

Heritage committee kicks off study on news media

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

Internet hasn’t killed the radio star: CRTC

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

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

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

Canadians divided on TV system issues: CRTC report

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

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