Prime Minister Mark Carney (Nepean, Ont.) announced the appointment of parliamentary secretaries on Thursday, June 5.
Parliamentary secretaries assist the ministers they are assigned to and sit as government representatives on relevant committees. Carney appointed his...
The government of Quebec has introduced a bill that would allow for the creation of quotas for French content on streaming services’ platforms. But the question arises if it...
Reporting by Hannah Daley, Phalen Tynes-MacDonald...
Four Canadian cultural broadcasting groups are signatories to an...
The Liberals managed to re-elect all of their key...
Multiple federal parties have released their 2025 election platforms ahead...
Prime Minister Mark Carney said he plans to increase CBC/Radio-Canada’s funding by $150 million and enshrine its funding into law if the Liberals win the federal election. ...
OTTAWA -- MP Pablo Rodriguez is back in familiar territory as he is once...
Canada wants to hear from stakeholders on how to modernize the Copyright Act to better include protections for new innovations and investments as new technologies develop. Friday, Heritage Canada...
In order to encourage more diverse content online, Heritage Minister Steven...
The Canadian Heritage Committee’s work during...
The Liberals and the Bloc Québécois cooperated to pass a motion in the...
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault says Bill C-10 -- the Liberal government's update of the Broadcasting Act, which now allows for the regulation of content on social media platforms -- will have no...
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee resumed its work on the...
The Conservative Party accused the Justice...
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee is moving forward with a charter review on Bill C-10, the revision to the Broadcasting Act, and will get answers from Heritage...
A House of Commons Heritage committee debate on whether or not to have the Government's update to the broadcasting Broadcasting Act sent back to the Minister of Justice for charter compliance review -- after it removed a clause...
The Conservatives “continue to oppose” Bill...
In order for the federal government to best deal with sexual exploitation...
Panelists reflecting Wednesday on Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s...
As the House of Commons Heritage committee hearings on the government's proposed update to the Broadcasting Act carries on, BCE Inc. told the committee in a Monday meeting that while it supports the bill, it needs a carve-out of funding for local news broadcasters.
Even...
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau told MPs at a Friday meeting of the House of Commons Heritage committee that the government initiative to overhaul the Broadcasting Act, known as Bill C-10, should focus more on deregulating existing traditional Canadian media. "For traditional broadcasters -- those that showcase...
Stakeholders from across the broadcasting sector will have a chance to comment on a draft of the policy direction that will shape how the CRTC applies the forthcoming update to the Broadcast Act,...
MPs on the House of Commons Heritage Committee...
The day after Facebook Inc. made good on its threat to block all news from...
The Bloc Québécois is pushing the federal government to take “urgent” action to support local media by imposing new taxes on web giants such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. In the House of Commons...
In a preliminary study on the government's overhaul of the Broadcasting Act...
The government’s draft legislation to reform Canada’s Broadcasting Act must be amended to explicitly include official language minority communities, stakeholders told the House of Commons heritage committee Monday, during its first hearing into Bill C-10. Representatives of the Fédération culturelle...
Impatient with the progress of a month-old Part 1...
BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic praised the updates to the Broadcasting Act proposed earlier this week by Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault, saying the legislative changes fulfill...
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault isn’t concerned about potential...
The Liberal government’s proposed updates to the Broadcasting Act have...
The Liberal government’s long-awaited update to the Broadcasting Act...
An announcement Thursday from Alphabet Inc.'s Google that it would put...
Independent producers will be able to access a $50 million insurance backstop to help get TV and film productions off the ground despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault said Friday.
The Short-Term Compensation Fund for Canadian Audiovisual...
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault Wednesday denounced what he called...
With Tuesday's prorogation of Parliament, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has...
An Ontario-based ethnic broadcaster lobbying the government for funding to...
COVID-19 has made privacy rights even more important, the federal privacy commissioner’s office told Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault in May. A presentation prepared by the Office of the...
The financial impacts of COVID-19 induced lockdowns led to a “very tough quarter” for Corus...
Legislation modernizing Canada’s Broadcasting Act is “pretty much...
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault Friday released more details on how a previously-announced...
Canadian radio and TV broadcasters won’t have to pay licence fees for 2020-21 in a bid to help them navigate declines in advertising revenue caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault announced the...
OTTAWA — On Monday Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault, with some help from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, walked back comments he made over the weekend to CTV News regarding licensing of online news, following the recommendations of an expert panel that news websites be...
The Liberal government's minority mandate means it will have to move fast...
As the new Parliament gets up and running following the election of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals to a minority government, there are also some changes to the ranks of parliamentary secretaries as well. The Prime Minister’s...
