Two Bloc Québécois MPs are calling on the government to assist private broadcasting in the wake of another round of layoffs at TVA. The issue was raised during Question...
Groups representing music labels and artists told a federal committee studying the effects of artificial intelligence on creative industries that it needs to consider how to...
Mila, an artificial intelligence research institute in Quebec, will be...
Profits at Stingray Group Inc. took a dive in the first quarter of fiscal...
The Government of Canada is supporting Canadian feature films and television productions by investing...
Canada’s pending news media compensation legislation is based on key...
The panel in charge of reviewing the broadcasting and telecom acts received comments from a number of non-industry parties, such as provincial governments and police services, while some of the biggest online companies in the world, including Amazon.com Inc., did not submit...
Marco Dubé will take over the vice-president of people and culture position at CBC/Radio-Canada when...
Organizations representing Canadian publishers are flagging the difficulty...
A group representing the Canadian community TV sector is asking the panel reviewing the broadcasting and...
Corus Entertainment Inc. has promoted Troy Reeb and Colin Bohm to its executive vice-president ranks,...
Netflix Inc. will expand its production presence in Canada by leasing space at two Toronto production...
Music in public establishments such as malls, bars and restaurants should...
OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada’s president Catherine Tait compared Netflix Inc.’s worldwide presence to...
A meeting with individuals leading the federal government’s review of...
Canada’s public broadcaster has hired Torstar Corp.’s Claude Galipeau as its executive vice-president of corporate development.
The chief revenue officer of Torstar will join CBC/Radio-Canada on Jan. 7, 2019, the broadcaster said Tuesday. In 2002, he was the CBC’s executive director of digital programming and business development, according to his LinkedIn profile, and has since held digital media roles at BCE Inc.-owned Astral Media between 2008 and 2009 and...
GATINEAU, QUE. -- Telus Corp. and Shaw Communications Inc. say...
An expert in copyright law is asking senators to nix a reform measure in...
Stingray Digital Group Inc.’s Stingray Business division, which provides background music and digital signage to businesses, is expanding in Europe.
It said Friday it has purchased Belgian company DJ-Matic, which also...
Blue Ant Media Inc. is acquiring Saloon Media, a Toronto production company “specializing in globally relevant factual television,” it said in a press release Thursday. Saloon Media’s shows include Mummies Alive and...
Streaming video platforms in the European Union will have to ensure 30 per cent of their catalogues are made up of European content, according to new preliminary rules...
OTTAWA — The expert panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s...
Hélène Laurendeau will be the new deputy minister at Canadian Heritage, the Prime Minister’s Office announced Friday afternoon. Laurendeau is currently deputy minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, a...
OTTAWA -- Lawmakers need to make net neutrality a major priority and...
OTTAWA -- Canadian rock legend Bryan Adams is asking Canadian lawmakers to...
As cultural protection emerges as a last-stretch NAFTA sticking point,...
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA)’s Toronto branch is asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly to “call on...
Heritage Canada’s announcement of an expert advisory panel for its review of Canadian content in a digital age, which includes representatives from a number of broadcasters, was met with both praise and...
Heritage Minister Melanie Joly is refusing to specify that the CBC will receive the $150 million in extra funding the Liberal government promised during last year’s election, despite receiving questions on the subject from...
