BCE Inc. has responded to a commission staff letter regarding Rogers Communications Inc.’s 2019 Part 1 Application concerning Bell's Billed Number Screening (BNS) database...
The federal government made its three-digit suicide crisis helpline, 988, officially available across Canada on Thursday.
According to a press release, the helpline, is now available to call or text, in English and French, 24 hours per day, seven days a week.
”Suicide continues to be a serious public health issue impacting people of all ages and backgrounds, and more needs to be done to support those in crisis,” the release states.
The government provided $156...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight for a fund to help Canadian...
In a Friday statement, leaders from Canada and the European Union announced the creation of a new...
The deadline for interventions and replies to the CRTC proceedings into service in the Far North has been...
BCE Inc. has asked the CRTC for urgent relief in a dispute with a building...
In a House of Commons heritage committee meeting that was marked more by partisan feuding than for what it revealed about the CRTC, commission chair Vicky Eatrides sought to fend off suggestions that the CRTC and Heritage Canada were colluding on the rollout of the Online...
As part of what it says is an effort to reduce the cost of living for...
Quebecor Inc.’s Freedom Mobile announced its new roaming plan, Roam...
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce has jumped on the Artificial Intelligence bandwagon. On Nov. 20 it...
As the Federal Communications Commission in the United States announced it...
Quebecor Inc.'s Fizz went live in Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton, the...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. continues to roll out its 5G...
Rogers Communication Inc.’s 5G network is now available in all remaining...
BCE Inc. announced Tuesday that in Q1 of 2024 it will be launching new data...
Telesat Corp. announced Tuesday that it has entered into a 10-plus-year agreement with Aalyria Technologies, Inc., a U.S.-based networking and laser communications company. ...
Service was restored Friday to customers of Northwestel following a six-hour outage. The BCE Inc. company...
The largest telecom lobby group and the union that represents most telecom...
Stingray Group Inc. reported a 6.3 per cent increase in revenue during its...
Kid and family entertainment company WildBrain Ltd. released its Q1 2024 results Tuesday evening,...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- Cybersecurity and data privacy were the focus of the Canadian Telecom Summit’s second panel of the day, moderated by insurance company Marsh Canada's...
The Canadian Media Guild has settled a strike against public broadcaster TV Ontario. Workers had been on...
Telesat Corp. announced its financial performance for the three month period ended Sept. 30, posting a...
Quebecor Inc.’s TVA Group announced Thursday a series of changes to cut down on operating costs, resulting in the elimination of 547 positions or 31 per cent of the company’s current workforce....
A New Brunswick senator is alarmed by the lack of francophone presence among CRTC commissioners. René...
BCE Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. have enhanced...
Treasury Board President Anita Anand announced Monday that the federal government is banning WeChat and Kaspersky apps from government-issued mobile devices. The ban begins immediately.
Chief...
The CRTC has fined a Quebec man $40,000 for sending unwanted emails to thousands of phone numbers, it was...
Quebecor Inc. subsidiary Videotron will be locking out its unionized workers in Gatineau, Que., the...
BCE Inc. and Fox Entertainment Global have unveiled a strategic licensing and distribution partnership, aimed at bolstering Canadian original productions across Bell Media's platforms, including CTV and Crave, as well as expanding their reach in the United States through...
Rogers Communications Inc. has shuttered its all-news station in the...
The governments of Quebec and Canada are contributing more than $10 million in funding toward setting up non-profit organization Numana’s quantum communication test bed, which businesses and...
BCE Inc. is increasing its footprint in outdoor advertising by buying the...
Nokia Corp. has announced a series of layoffs to return it to profitability. The telecom equipment manufacturer said anywhere from 9,000 to 14,000 positions will be affected.
“Nokia targets to...
The efficacy of the Online News Act was called into question during the Senate’s Question Period Tuesday. A member of the Canadian Senators Group peppered the government representative in the chamber with queries.
“I see that measures taken by our government to force...
The CRTC has extended an olive branch to Iristel Inc. in its current...
The federal government is seeking public input on generative artificial...
The City of Calgary, on behalf of other stakeholders across the nation, is seeking a CRTC decision in...
Broadcasting arbitrator Monica Song has released her list of free time political broadcasting allocated to the federal parties. The last update was in March. Time is allocated according to a formula...
Conservative MP Rachael Thomas brought a motion before the House of Commons...
The CRTC is sending out requests for information on a pair of Part 1 applications brought to it by CIK Telecom Inc. The competitive carrier alleges it has been shut out of multi dwelling units (MDUs) in Richmond B.C. The company claims that Strata Corp., through its property management firm Rancho Management Services Ltd., has denied it access to...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced the purchase of a Northern Ontario telecom service...
CIK Telecom Inc. has settled an outstanding Part 1 application regarding access to two multi dwelling units in Richmond BC. The company alleged that Rancho Management Services Ltd., acting on behalf of Strata Corp. BCS 1060, had...
Striking members of the Canadian Media Guild (CMG) have voted to reject the latest offer from provincial educational network TV Ontario (TVO).
The union claims the suggested wage increase is not enough to counter inflation or the fact that provincial employees were...
All passengers on the Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) subway system now have access to 5G services...
The police department of Kingston Ont. wants city council to pass a bylaw...
The governments of Canada and British Columbia have joined together to...
BCE Inc. continues to be plagued by thefts of copper wiring from its telephone structures. The most...
As the wildfire season continues to spread, Rogers Communications Inc. announced Thursday it has joined up with Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) to use satellites to locate fires.
The company will deploy satellite-connected sensors using SpaceX’s Swarm...
The CRTC will review the carriage of Fox News as a non-Canadian programming...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has rolled out its 5G network to the SaskTel Centre in...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has unveiled a new list of parliamentary secretaries as Parliament returns for its fall session.
Taleeb Noormohamed will serve as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage,...
Newfoundland and Labrador will finally be rolling out the 879 numbering...
Cogeco Inc. announced Valéry Zamuner will be taking over as senior vice-president and chief corporate affairs and legal officer, effective this coming Monday.
“Zamuner is a seasoned executive with outstanding experience in...
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault must unblock Rebel News founder Ezra...
The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)...
Telesat Holdings Inc. announced Monday that it has signed a deal with Space...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has settled a dispute over access to a building in Chatham Ont. The company filed a Part 1 application this summer alleging it had been trying to get into a multi dwelling unit operated by 2767456 Ontario Inc. since December 2021. Since all attempts...
The CRTC Friday granted an FM licence to Four Senses Entertainment Inc. to...
The CRTC announced Friday it will be granting additional funds to ATG Arrow...
The federal government is spending $1.2 million for high-speed internet service in Cape Breton in Nova...
Xplore Inc. is promoting its president and chief commercial officer, Rizwan Jamal, to president and chief...
The government has named Konrad von Finckenstein as the interim commissioner for conflict of interest and ethics. The appointment is for a six-month term.
Von Finckenstein has a long career in the public service. He has been chair of the CRTC, commissioner of the...
Canadian retail chain Peavey Mart has joined Stingray Group Inc.’s audio advertising network, according...
In a press release on Thursday, Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced the launch of mobile...
ICA Microsystems Inc. is once again a participant in the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-Television...
The CRTC’s Broadband Fund has granted $1.42 million in additional funding towards Telus Corp.’s...
Returning wildfires have once again knocked out service to BCE Inc. customers in the Northwest...
The Quebec Court of Appeal has denied an application for leave to appeal...
Rogers Communications Inc. has rolled out its 5G wireless service on some stations on the Toronto Transit...
Bragg Communication Inc.'s Eastlink and Nokia Corp. announced "a multi-year strategic, access network...
BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel is warning residents of the Northwest Territories to expect service outages as wildfires continue to rip through the landscape. Many areas have had to be evacuated because of the fires.
As of Wednesday, the telecom was announcing service...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development has added a...
Once again the CRTC has decided to issue a short term renewal licence to a...
Two radio stations in British Columbia have been granted short-term...
Blue Ant Media and Marblemedia have decided to merge their operations into one firm, the companies said...
WildBrain Ltd. is accusing BCE Inc. of breaching its regulatory obligations regarding its English-language services Family Channel, Family Jr., and WildBrain TV, and its French-language service Télémagino and as a result has given Corus Entertainment Inc. an unfair...
A group of news organizations have filed an application with the...
The Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear two appeals brought by Rebel News Network Ltd. against...
The governments of Canada and the Northwest Territories have earmarked $19.7 million for a fibre optic line between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk. This will be the start of high-speed internet service in the...
Cogeco Inc. had its fibre network in North Bay Ont, attacked by vandals Friday. The service outage affected only a small number of customers and was restored by day’s end, the telecom reports.
A similar outage occurred last...
Xplore Inc. anticipates connecting consumers to high-speed internet as early as this fall after...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner is the third best workplace in the...
The Canadian government is giving the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) $156 million over...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is adding itself to the list of industry players who are suspending advertising on Meta Platform Inc. after the tech giant announced it will block Canadian news content on Facebook and its other platforms...
Major telecommunications service providers were working to restore service to their customers following a tornado that blew through the Ottawa area and into Quebec.
BCE...
The federal and Ontario governments are together investing $54 million to roll out high-speed internet in the province. The project was announced Wednesday.
“Today’s announcement is a significant milestone for internet...
The Forum for Research and Policy in...
The federal and Alberta governments announced a $96 million plan to roll...
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Alphabet Inc.’s Google has announced it will be removing Canadian news links from its websites.
The company made the announcement Thursday, saying that as a result of Bill C-18, the Online News Act, the change will take place when the law goes into effect.
“We...
The CRTC rejected a request by BCE Inc. to...
The governments of Canada and Ontario have announced another shared...
Meta Platforms Inc. said it will no longer provide news on social media...
Quebecor Inc. has reversed itself and will not be suspending TVA’s newscasts in Quebec City on weekends...
A Toronto condominium manager is arguing to the...
The CRTC has sent a letter to BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada demanding to know why the telecom imposed an...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) is fighting with two...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Meta Platforms Inc.’s move to block news content on its platform is...
Sunday in Banff saw the launch of Canadian Broadcasters for Sustainability, a consortium of 22 organizations committed to working together for environmentally sustainable change.
The members pledged to meet four times per year to work on five common goals: collaboration...