Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has delivered a greatly expanded set of telecom and internet-related authorities to returning Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains in this year’s mandate letter.
The letter, released Friday, points to increased focus on the telecom sector,...
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 Office announced Thursday that MP Will Amos is now in as the parliamentary secretary for innovation and industry. Amos was his party’s point person on the rural broadband initiative known as M-208, and testified before the industry committee about the increasing importance of rural broadband back in June. For heritage, the new parliamentary secretaries are MPs...
When asked who should be most responsible for monitoring the spread of fake...
OTTAWA — Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien told reporters...
The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) is teaming up with an artificial intelligence platform that it hopes will produce insights, which would otherwise be missed, from a...
Defendants in a failed reverse class action certification motion brought by Voltage Pictures LLC are filing an appeal against part of the decision by the Federal Court to withhold legal fees they say...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron will argue in Federal Court later this month that a years-long legal battle over patent infringement levelled against its set-top box products is...
The work of the chairwoman heading the review of the broadcasting and telecom acts turned out to be more time-consuming and complicated than the government initially planned for, according to a memo obtained through Access to...
BCE Inc.’s proposed acquisition of French-language Groupe V Media...
At a Vancouver press conference Tuesday, the federal and British Columbia...
Voltage Pictures LLC and Rogers Communications Inc. have both agreed to drop their appeal and cross-appeal, respectively, against a decision by the Federal Court to award the telecom costs to dig up personal information of alleged...
Facebook Inc. has registered to lobby the federal government on “proposed...
OTTAWA — New Public Safety Minister Bill Blair indicated Wednesday he is...
A group representing independent broadcasters is telling the CRTC it should maintain the rules forcing BCE Inc. into a dispute resolution process over affiliation agreements for its FibeTV. The...
An Alberta court has sided with Corus Entertainment Inc. in banning the use...
Twitter Inc. has registered to lobby the federal government on its internet advertising policy, following the social media company’s ban on political ads on its platform globally. The registration, effective November 1, seeks to specifically address "the adoption of digital media and advertising by government." The new subject came two days after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said the company would not allow political advertising on the platform by blocking accounts from paying to promote messages. “A political message earns reach when people decide to follow an account or retweet,”...
In a precedent-setting decision, a Federal Court judge has ordered internet...
In a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic and foreign affairs teams, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and 14 other organizations have told the American government that they are concerned...
The movie studio that has for years sought to sue...
The country’s largest TV service providers are appealing an increase in the over-the-air distant signal...
Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc., and Quebecor Inc. have all told the CRTC that if the regulator allows Corus Entertainment Inc. to shift some of its CanCon requirements from one broadcast year into the next, then the regulator should let them do it to, according to interventions filed with the regulator this week. Canadian programming expenditure (CPE) obligations in Corus’s license require the broadcaster to spend 30 per cent of the previous year’s revenue on Canadian...
GATINEAU — Either Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc. is an essential part of...
Starting in February 2020, Donald Lizotte will take over as CBC/Radio-Canada’s general manager and...
Ahead of the CRTC’s wireless review early next year, and on the heels of...
The CRTC has granted a new broadcasting licence for an FM radio station in Saint-Raymond-de-Portneuf, Quebec. It said in the Friday decision an individual named Michael Lambert was the only party to express an interest in...
High demand among advertisers for premium content to be siloed in ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD)...
Despite Conservative leader Andrew Scheer indicating throughout this...
As the Canada Revenue Agency considers how to administer $595-million worth...
The Conservative Party has now specified its plan to make web giants “pay...
Federal party leaders agreed Thursday evening in the last debate of the election campaign on the need for big online companies to pay more in taxes, for the government to...
Organizations that represent important stakeholders in the field of Canadian content are staying...
The CRTC is within its jurisdiction to order companies to keep carrying each other’s TV signals even in the middle of a dispute, Telus Corp. told Federal Court, but the company also argued BCE Inc....
In 2012, the CRTC released a broadcasting decision that required Sirius XM Holdings Inc. to allocate, as a condition of licence, 20 per cent of some of its revenues to an English-language music fund...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is asking the CRTC if the broadcaster can spend...
During the first French-language debate of the federal election campaign, party leaders promised to take on digital giants, even as they dodged answering how they would do so without angering U.S. president Donald Trump.
Moderator Pierre Bruneau asked how the parties that...
Ontario public broadcaster TVO is losing its longtime leader, after Lisa de Wilde announced yesterday that she would be stepping down as the broadcaster’s CEO after 14 years in the job. In a statement she posted on Twitter,...
The CRTC Tuesday released the results of its summit on gender parity in the Canadian broadcasting world, featuring “action plans” documents from some of Canada’s largest broadcasters. BCE...
The Liberal Party platform, released Sunday, includes promises of new regulations for Canadian content on...
According to a report out this week from Media Technology Monitor (MTM), one out of every seven Canadians has gotten rid of their paid traditional TV subscriptions. According to an MTM spokesperson, the one in seven figure --...
BCE Inc., Quebecor Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. are arguing in...
BCE Inc. and Stingray Group Inc. have launched a targeted advertising platform that allows ads to be placed on their radio stations, audio streaming apps and podcasts. The companies said in a press...
In asking the Federal Court to deny certifying a class of defendants in a copyright infringement case, an advocacy group is arguing that an IP address is insufficient in proving an individual has...
Three weeks after announcing a new CEO with a background in developing family-based entertainment products, DHX Media Ltd. announced Monday -- alongside its 2019 fourth quarter results -- that it would rebrand as WildBrain and reorganize itself around family-entertainment. On August 30, the...
In the event Federal Court allows a site-blocking application brought by three of the country’s largest broadcasters, Distributel Communications Ltd. wants to ensure...
The CRTC is objecting to a document-collection request Quebecor Inc. is...
Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc.’s Super Channel...
OTTAWA — On the second and final day of a potentially precedent-setting court hearing on site-blocking, a Federal Court judge gave the parties until Wednesday to negotiate a revised draft site...
Two local Quebec radio groups representing around 60 stations in the province are asking the provincial...
OTTAWA — Lawyers representing BCE Inc., Quebecor Inc.’s Groupe TVA, and Rogers Communications Inc. asked a Federal Court judge this morning for a court order that would force a number of internet service providers to block what they say are two “pirate” sites, GoldTV.ca and GoldTV.biz.
The court order would, lawyers for the telecom companies said, set a...
Whatever the outcome of next month’s federal election, there will be no...
Even before the federal election campaign officially kicked off, telecom...
The CRTC has served a web hosting provider with an order to produce a...
BCE Inc. has formally filed its appeal arguments challenging a CRTC decision that said a quarter of its Canadian content contributions toward two concerts were not eligible. In July, Bell filed...
Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal is lobbying both the Alberta and Ontario...
Quebecor Inc. announced in a release Tuesday that Patrick Jutras would take over as senior vice-president and chief advertising officer of Quebecor and its TVA Group subsidiary. Jutras was previously vice-president of digital...
DHX Media Ltd. announced Thursday night that Michael Donovan would step down as CEO of the Halifax-based...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is in talks with other telecom companies about...
Corus Entertainment Inc. registered to lobby the government to promote the eligibility of broadcasters for a new journalism tax initiative announced by the federal government late last year. The five-year, $595-million tax benefit for newspapers has irked broadcasters because it excludes them, while a report from the panel tasked with divvying up the credits noted the vulnerability of media outlets not covered by the program. The Canadian Association of Broadcasters, which includes Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc. and Corus, has been outspoken about its criticism of the decision,...
MONTREAL — Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron unveiled its new Helix platform...
Counsel to Voltage Pictures LLC and a number of movie studios is asking the Federal Court of Appeal to review a case that found Rogers Communications Inc. is owed $67.23 to disclose the personal...
Canadian Heritage will leave in place a CRTC decision that gave Rogers Communications Inc. the sole license to have its ethnic channel OMNI required on basic TV packages. An order-in-council, dated August 17, said Heritage is...
Shueisha Inc., a Japanese publisher of comic books, has filed an...
Walt Disney Co. announced Monday that it would be launching its Disney+ streaming service in Canada on November 12, entering what is an increasingly crowded marketplace for consumers.
The long-awaited service will be priced at $8.99 per month, or $89.99 per year,...
The Federal Court of Appeal has decided not to hear an appeal from Montreal-based Independent Community Television (ICTV) of a May CRTC decision which renewed a mandatory-carriage license for ethnic...
Quebecor Inc. filed its appeal Wednesday in the Federal Court of Appeal in Montreal asking to overturn an...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has endorsed a number of petitions to the Governor in Council, joining the call for the government to send the CRTC’s June decision granting a mandatory...
The federal government last week announced that it would pour $14.6 million...
The CRTC wants to know more about the potential for the Canadian...
The Federal Court is setting at $35 the hourly rate that Rogers...
Alyson Walker, vice-president of brand partnerships and client strategy at BCE Inc.’s media division,...
The Canadian Media Fund has announced it is hiring former Heritage Canada strategist Kelly Wilhelm to a newly created role of chief strategy officer. According to a release, Wilhelm will be “tasked with contributing to setting the future trajectory of the CMF, with a specific focus on...
Just as it allowed Corus Entertainment Inc. to do last month, the CRTC has given approval to BCE Inc. to shut down some 28 broadcasting towers in rural parts of the country.
In its original application in March, Bell said the 28 transmitters -- which are located in...
Heritage Canada has commissioned seven working groups that are looking at...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s media division has appointed Jordan Banks as president, effective September 9, according to a Monday press release. Banks will replace Rick Brace, who was president since 2015 and will retire from Rogers at the end of this year. “Banks’s mandate will include overseeing the current $2 billion Rogers Media...
Ahead of its renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada’s broadcasting licences, the...
Rogers Communications Inc. has filed a response in a court case challenging...
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau is vowing to oppose BCE Inc.’s acquisition of a French-language conventional TV network, announced earlier this week.
“As a shareholder in V through Investissement Québec, the government of Québec must intervene to block this...
BCE Inc. will purchase Groupe V Media Inc.’s conventional TV network V, Bell said in a press release Wednesday. The deal, which must still be approved by the CRTC, also includes “related digital assets including the...
Three of the nation’s largest broadcasters are suing the owners of a service that is allegedly selling...
As facial recognition becomes increasingly accessible to police and other...
Despite being “saddened” by the exit of one of its members, the panel reviewing Canada’s communications laws said it was forging ahead with its final recommendations, due in January 2020. Hank Intven, a lawyer and...
The CRTC has approved an acquisition by Stingray Group Inc. of the radio station CHOO-FM in Drumheller,...
The average Canadian household spent $233 a month on communication services in 2017, a $10.17 or 4.6 per cent increase from a year earlier, according to data from Statistics Canada released late last...
BCE Inc.’s media division is asking the Federal Court of Appeal to look...
Cogeco Inc. will launch its new IPTV service in its entire Canadian footprint by the end of the calendar...
Artificial intelligence technology allowing videos to be seamlessly manipulated for political purposes could potentially meet a national public interest threshold designated...
The CRTC has filled the last of its open commissioner slots, as Yukon lawyer Claire Anderson has been named to the vacant seat representing British Columbia and the Yukon. Anderson, who practices law at the Whitehorse firm...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron will challenge a recent CRTC decision ordering it to turn over information collected from TV set-top boxes to a working group. The CRTC issued that decision earlier this...
The independence of the panel that will determine which print news...
The CRTC has ruled that Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron must continue to participate in an industry-wide working group charged with creating a set-top box (STB) data measurement system. In April, Videotron walked away from the group, saying it didn’t want to provide any of its data to the STB working group. In an April letter to the CRTC, Shaw...
The CRTC has released digital media revenue and expense information compiled from the twenty private broadcasters. Digital media services collectively amassed more than $412 million in revenue for 2018, a 25 per cent rise on the $330 million they made in 2017, according to a letter published Friday that includes responses to a request for information issued in March to twenty broadcasters, which covered the period from 2016 to 2018. The 25 per cent revenue growth in 2018 represents a...
The imminent departure of BCE Inc. CEO George Cope, announced Friday...
Executives at Corus Entertainment Inc., historically proud of not being in...
Music Canada, the trade organization which represents the Canadian divisions of some of the world’s largest record labels, has declared that the gap between what artists create and what they are...
Ending several months of uncertainty and speculations, Twitter Inc. has declared that it will join Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine in not selling any political advertisements in Canada in the...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said in a social media post Wednesday that the Liberal government plans...
The blue ribbon panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s communications legislation has released its...
Two media groups have filed formal petitions to the Governor in Council, asking the government to...
Long-standing Quebecor Inc. executive Serge Sasseville has announced he will retire from his position as...
A bill aimed at improving children’s health by limiting the advertising of unhealthy foods to them, which was opposed by major Canadian broadcasters, has been left for dead on the order paper as the Senate adjourned for the summer last week.
The Child Health...
