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UPDATED – Rodriguez back as Heritage minister, Champagne remains in Innovation
Media | 10/26/2021 12:47 pm EDT
OTTAWA -- MP Pablo Rodriguez is back in familiar territory as he is once again appointed the Minister of Canadian Heritage.
The news came in a Tuesday press release a few...
Feds launch copyright framework consultation for AI and IoT
Media | 07/16/2021 6:17 pm EDT
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 and Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) launched its consultation to update the copyright framework for artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) to ensure the act “remains responsive to modern realities and that Canada's copyright framework continues to be...
Guilbeault setting guidelines for diverse content online
Media | 06/30/2021 4:17 pm EDT
In order to encourage more diverse content online, Heritage Minister Steven...
Speaker sides with Conservatives, ruling to delete 14 amendments from C-10 passed after ‘gag’ order
Media | 06/15/2021 7:00 pm EDT
The Canadian Heritage Committee’s work during...
NDP says Libs are to blame for C-10 delays as HoC passes ‘gag order’
Media | 06/07/2021 6:26 pm EDT
The Liberals and the Bloc Québécois cooperated to pass a motion in the...
Bill C-10 does not impact net neutrality: Guilbeault
Media | 05/25/2021 6:20 pm EDT
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...
Heritage committee votes to limit CRTC social media regulatory powers
Media | 05/19/2021 5:52 pm EDT
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee resumed its work on the government's update to the Broadcasting Act by narrowly voting to restrict the CRTC’s regulatory powers in...
“I don’t have an obligation to give legal advice,” Lametti tells Heritage Committee
Media | 05/18/2021 6:09 pm EDT
The Conservative Party accused the Justice...
Heritage and Justice ministers to appear before CHPC to address charter concerns
Media | 05/10/2021 6:25 pm EDT
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee is moving forward with a charter...
Liberals pause move for new charter analysis of C-10
Media | 04/30/2021 7:09 pm EDT
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...
Conservatives oppose C-10; watchdog Friends says criticism of exemption removal ‘overblown’
Media | 04/27/2021 2:56 pm EDT
The Conservatives “continue to oppose” Bill...
International cooperation needed in dealing with online exploitation: Lametti
Media | 04/12/2021 5:59 pm EDT
In order for the federal government to best deal with sexual exploitation...
Experts question effectiveness of online harm regulator
Media | 03/31/2021 6:03 pm EDT
Panelists reflecting Wednesday on Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s...
Local news funding needed in C-10: Bell
Media | 03/22/2021 6:07 pm EDT
As the House of Commons Heritage committee hearings on the government's proposed update to the...
C-10 regulations ‘Kafkaesque’: Quebecor’s PKP
Media | 03/12/2021 5:42 pm EST
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...
C-10 policy direction draft will be subject to public scrutiny before being issued
Media | 03/08/2021 6:15 pm EST
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, officials from the Department of Canadian Heritage have said. Under the government’s proposed update to the Broadcasting Act, known as Bill C-10, foreign streaming platforms like Netflix, Inc. would be brought under the regulatory framework of the CRTC, though it will be up to the CRTC to...
Heritage committee to ask Guilbeault for draft policy directive for CRTC, summon Zuckerberg
Media | 02/26/2021 5:39 pm EST
MPs on the House of Commons Heritage Committee...
Facebook’s Australian news blockade won’t deter us: Guilbeault
Media | 02/18/2021 4:50 pm EST
The day after Facebook Inc. made good on its threat to block all news from...
Bloc pushes for web giants to support Canadian media
Media | 02/17/2021 5:10 pm EST
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...
Bill C-10 only a ‘temporary approach’ to regulating online services: Friends
Media | 02/05/2021 5:39 pm EST
In a preliminary study on the government's overhaul of the Broadcasting Act...
Official language minority groups ask to be included in Broadcasting Act overhaul
Media | 02/01/2021 5:44 pm EST
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 canadienne-française and the Quebec English-language Production Council both told the committee that the Bill should be amended to specifically reference the communities, which consist of Anglophones in Quebec and Francophones in the rest of Canada. QEPC co-chair Kenneth Hirsch said the legislation reforming the broadcasting sector was “more desperately needed than anything...
CBC employees pen open letter, petition gov. seeking CRTC investigation of branded content
Media | 12/09/2020 5:38 pm EST
Impatient with the progress of a month-old Part 1...
Bell’s Bibic gives a ‘tip of the hat’ on Broadcast Act update
Media | 11/05/2020 6:26 pm EST
BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic praised the updates to the Broadcasting Act...
Digital platforms won’t fight or flee new regulations, Guilbeault says
Media | 11/04/2020 5:46 pm EST
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault isn’t concerned about potential...
Broadcast Act updates not comprehensive enough: NDP, Conservatives
Media | 11/03/2020 6:44 pm EST
The Liberal government’s proposed updates to the Broadcasting Act have...
CRTC to have ‘roughly nine months’ to act on Broadcasting Act update
Media | 11/03/2020 11:11 am EST
The Liberal government’s long-awaited update to the Broadcasting Act...
Google $1B news initiative won’t stop new legislation, gov’t says
Media | 10/01/2020 7:34 pm EDT
An announcement Thursday from Alphabet Inc.'s Google that it would put...
Production sector to receive $50M in gov’t insurance support
Media | 09/25/2020 4:52 pm EDT
Independent producers will be able to access a $50 million insurance...
Guilbeault doubles down on web giant legislation plans
Media | 09/03/2020 5:06 pm EDT
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault Wednesday denounced what he called...
Committee studies, reports on hold as Parliament prorogued
telecom | 08/18/2020 6:38 pm EDT
With Tuesday's prorogation of Parliament, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has put the brakes on a number of telecom-related studies underway in various House of Commons committees.
The House industry committee had been working on a pair of reports, one about how to deal...
Broadcaster pushes for new multilingual channel as COVID lobbying continues
Media | 07/14/2020 3:33 pm EDT
An Ontario-based ethnic broadcaster lobbying the government for funding to...
Pandemic has increased need for privacy rights, OPC told Guilbealt
Media | 06/30/2020 5:08 pm EDT
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...
Q3 ‘very tough’ for Corus as ad revenues plummet
Media | 06/26/2020 3:27 pm EDT
The financial impacts of COVID-19 induced lockdowns led to a “very tough quarter” for Corus...
Gov’t to introduce web giant, CanCon, news legislation in fall: Guilbeault
Media | 06/16/2020 3:00 pm EDT
Legislation modernizing Canada’s Broadcasting Act is “pretty much...
Guilbeault details $500M relief for arts and culture
telecom | 05/08/2020 5:02 pm EDT
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault Friday released more details on how a previously-announced $500-million aid package to support the cultural sector will work.
The program, officially known as the COVID-19 Emergency Support Fund for Cultural, Heritage and Sport...
Government waives licence fees for broadcasters
Media | 03/30/2020 6:04 pm EDT
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...
Confusion over Guilbeault remarks on BTLR online news recs
Media | 02/03/2020 1:27 pm EST
OTTAWA — On Monday Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault, with some help...
‘Clock ticking’ on new content rules for web giants, Guilbeault says
Media | 01/13/2020 2:30 pm EST
The Liberal government's minority mandate means it will have to move fast...
Amos, Dabrusin, van Koesverden in as new parlsecs
Media | 12/12/2019 3:23 pm EST
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...