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CRTC defends regulatory policies in Senate, asserts lower prices for consumers
Internet and Governance | 05/28/2024 7:09 pm EDT
The 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
The Senate Committee on Transport and Communications hastily adopted a private member’s bill on internet service quality Tuesday. The legislation, Bill C-288, had previously passed the House of Commons unanimously.
In its second day of consideration of the bill, the...
Net neutrality prevents CRTC from ordering ISPs verify age online: CRTC to Senate
Media | 03/03/2022 9:10 am EST
The 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
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada allowed companies to...
CRTC rejects request to hold contact-tracing inquiry
telecom | 05/13/2020 4:09 pm EDT
The 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
The CRTC has created a new chief of consumer, research and communications...
Privacy commish ‘surprised’ by political ‘chill’ comments
telecom | 11/01/2018 4:28 pm EDT
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...
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
Alphabet 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
A 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
Creative 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
The 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
A 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...
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 director of broadcasting, told a Senate committee on Wednesday night. “They are trying and they are exploring, and they are actually putting some level of their own budgets behind developing content for all platforms and actually exploring new things on new platforms, so they certainly have been at the forefront of … digital media,” Hutton said. He made the comments in...
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...