Major broadcasters think that there should be a flexible contribution regime for Canadian programming – just so long as they don’t have to pay into it. The CRTC is continuing its hearings into the ramifications of the Online Streaming Act.
Tuesday’s session began...
The government needs to set clear standards of transparency and accountability that all social media platforms should be required to meet, if it hopes to address concerns...
On a day in July, 2016, a man received eight long-distance collect calls...
Renewal of the Canadian broadcasting system should not rely on one rigid...
The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) on Friday called for the...
While the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and...
Representatives from several community radio stations emphasized their role as a third-pillar of the Canadian broadcasting system during the CRTC’s hearings on Thursday, urging the regulator to develop a new funding model that supports them.
As the regulator works out...
Canada will need to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) to protect workers while at the same time...
Canada’s news media are in crisis and the government is taking too long to respond, the House of...
The Indigenous Screen Office (ISO), newly certified as an independent...
BCE Inc. revealed more details on Tuesday on its proposal for how base contributions from online...
Canadians need to be educated about the dangers posed by foreign actors...
The long-awaited hearing on how the CRTC should...
The United Nations (UN) has created an advisory body on artificial intelligence (AI). Even though Canada...
BCE Inc. is asking the Federal Court of...
The CRTC has reopened a Part 1 application originally submitted by Rogers Communications Inc. back in 2019, asking the regulator to make changes to BCE Inc.’s billed number...
City Wide Communications Inc., Frontier Networks...
The major telecommunications companies in Canada oppose suggestions that they pay for pre-production...
Public safety networks in Canada need to be...
Quebecor Inc.’s Fizz will be available outside of Quebec in the “coming weeks”, CEO Pierre Karl...
Tuesday Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge issued the final policy direction to the CRTC that will implement the Online Streaming Act. The bill was passed last spring and the commission has been holding consultations on the policy directions this summer. Over 500...
Earlier this month, TerreStar Solutions Inc. announced it successfully...
by Paul Andersen, president and chair, The...
Canada should look to other jurisdictions when it comes to regulating...
Geoff White of the Competitive Network Operators of Canada will be stepping down as executive director,...
Quebecor Inc. president and CEO Pierre Karl...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri...
UPDATED: CTS regulatory blockbuster react to CRTC FTTP decision...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont.--Programs to bridge the digital divide experienced in...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is no longer up for sale, the independent telecom service provider confirmed to The Wire Report Tuesday.
In June it was reported that the ISP...
BCE Inc. has announced its decision to cut capital expenditures and reduce...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont.--There is a disconnect between telecom providers and...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont.— The CRTC is mandating large incumbent telephone...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont.--Although media articles of sustainability tend to focus...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont.— The Canadian telecommunications sector has contributed nearly $77 billion in direct GDP and the support of 724,000 jobs in 2022, according to a report...
Telus Corp. reported a 75 per cent drop in profits for the three months...
A quartet of civil society groups appeared before the House of Commons...
A coalition of civil society groups are calling on the government to make...
Cogeco Inc. does not plan to roll out its Canadian MVNO operations anytime soon, president and CEO...
In a Thursday quarterly earnings conference call, BCE Inc.'s president and...
Leading countries in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) –...
In response to growing concerns over the exhaustion of telephone numbers in Canada, the CRTC has...
Northern communities are being ill-served by Meta Platforms Inc.’s...
A host of problems led Corus Entertainment Inc. to post a difficult fourth quarter and year end results, the firm’s president and CEO told an analysts’ call.
“I would use the term double whammy to describe the twofold blow we’ve been dealt in fiscal 2023,” Doug Murphy said Friday. “The first blow has been the meaningful decline in advertising revenues. The second has been the significant increase in required spending on Canadian programming.”
The...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada and Northwestel have...
In an answer submitted to the CRTC last Thursday, Rogers Communications Inc. defended its multiple...
Interventions coming in from the CRTC show...
As the CRTC works out how it is going to wrangle streaming platforms and...
Iristel Inc. and two BCE Inc. properties have reached separate agreements with Iristel to suspend disconnection notices in an ongoing dispute that is before the CRTC.
In...
The CRTC has denied an application brought forward...
A Parliamentary committee is calling for checks of artificial intelligence...
The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) published a comprehensive report on...
The CRTC has given the green light to BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel Inc....
The CRTC is proposing to loosen some of Corus Entertainment Inc.’s...
The debate over what the future of the wholesale high-speed-access (HSA)...
The Conservative Party continued its attack on CBC/Radio-Canada Tuesday...
A pilot project that will see community health workers dispatched to people...
BCE Inc. filed an application with the Federal Court of Appeal for leave to appeal a CRTC decision which renewed its television and specialty channel broadcast licences...
Sentiment among speakers at the 2023 Canada...
Iristel Inc. has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC against BCE Inc....
Both BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. have reacted to the CRTC’s decision that Bell Mobility's offer on...
BCE Inc. came out the winner in a dispute with Quebecor Inc. over mobile virtual network operator (MVNO)...
Canada is a founding member of the Global Coalition on Telecommunications (GCOT), it was announced Thursday. Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States are the other signatories to the agreement.
The bloc has four key objectives: to increase cooperation...
Those looking to predict the future of broadcasting and telecommunications...
International communications trade association,...
Digital transformation of Canadian businesses can play a fundamental role...
APTN says its proposal to shift the terms of its licence will be good for...
Telus Corp. says the CRTC should review its...
by Todd Hofley, vice-president, Policy and Communications, Beanfield
Like many industries,...
The CRTC has determined that online services that...
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada is happy the government is open to altering the Digital Charter...
BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. reiterated their concerns around the CRTC’s ongoing review of the wholesale high-speed access framework, warning regulators of the delicate balance...
The United States has just chosen a new target in its ongoing campaign...
Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne...
Beanfield Technologies Inc. has called out Rogers Communications Inc. over...
As the CRTC’s review of its broadband fund...
Even though the Online News Act has become law, it is still the subject of debate in Parliament. Thursday saw a back and forth between two Senators about the provisions of the legislation.
Conservative senator Leo Housakos, a fierce opponent of the bill when it was before...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC requesting that a real estate...
The province of British Columbia has filed a Part 1 application with the...
The CRTC denied an application by CBC/Radio-Canada to delay consultations...
The Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI) is urging the federal government...
The Privacy Commissioner is warning that artificial intelligence (AI) could have an impact on...
The CRTC denied an application brought forward by TekSavvy Solutions Inc....
Colin McKay, head of Canada public policy and government relations at...
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that WildBrain...
The Online News Act standoff between the federal government and tech-giant Meta Platforms Inc. is negatively impacting emergency communications in Chatham-Kent, Ont....
The CRTC denied Quebecor Inc.’s request for...
All passengers on the Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) subway system...
BCE Inc. is backing Rogers Communications Inc. in its appeal over a CRTC...
Cogeco Inc. is appointing Tim Dinesen, experienced tech executive and telecommunications consultant, as its senior vice president and CTO.
According to the company’s Thursday release, he will be taking up the new position at...
Animators at WildBrain Ltd.’s Vancouver studios are attempting to unionize. A drive by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) is currently underway. A union spokesman estimates that the company has anywhere from 600 to 1200 workers under contract,...
Dissatisfaction with the Online Streaming Act and defunding the CBC are among the resolutions being...
Rogers Communications Inc. is countersuing ex-CEO Joe Natale, arguing he should pay back the severance...
The CRTC denied an application by BCE Inc., Bragg Communication Inc.’s...
The CRTC said Tuesday that it was altering the rules for commercials on discretionary services. The...
By Mark Buell and Phil Steinhauer-Mozejko, Connect Humanity Fund
In its...
Canadian Heritage announced its proposed regulations to implement the...
The Department of Industry Science and Economic Development (ISED) released its Spectrum Outlook...
The CRTC added Natyf Inc., a Francophone station...
A class action lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc. over age discrimination can move forward, after the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear its leave to appeal Thursday. The motion to file the suit was initially dismissed in July 2021 but the Court of Appeal of Quebec...