A source familiar with government deliberations expects Ottawa will move forward with a review later this year, while stakeholders wait impatiently for the mandate’s first...
Marc Miller was appointed as the new minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, and minister responsible for official languages Monday afternoon, Dec. 1.
The cabinet...
Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture Steven...
The new federal budget, framed by the government...
The heritage minister is defending the Online...
The minister of Canadian Identity and Culture has decried claims of a toxic...
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...
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...
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 Guilbeault has released a guiding document with recommendations on how to foster diversity in cultural content, information and news.
Guilbeault put out the “Guiding Principles on Diversity of...
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 Minister Tuesday of skirting questions on whether or not the inclusion of social media platforms in the government's update to the...
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee is moving forward with a charter...
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...
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 said Friday they want to see the first draft of the directions the CRTC is going to get from Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault...
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 application at the CRTC, a group of some 500 current and former CBC/Radio-Canada employees have authored an "Open Letter to...
BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic praised the updates to the Broadcasting Act...
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...
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 create a multilingual news channel to help Canadians access health information says it’s too early...
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 move, which he said had been made following consultations between the government and the CRTC, on Monday. The CRTC will simply not issue letters requesting payment for Part 1 licence fees for the 2020-21 year, saving broadcasters more than $30 million, according to the statement. "Canadian broadcasters are working hard to fulfill the mission of sharing credible...
OTTAWA — On Monday Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault, with some help...
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...
