TORONTO — The idea of cross-subsidization of industries did not find many open arms on the final day of the ISP Summit on Wednesday, as former CRTC commissioners spoke in favour of maintaining the line between the role of broadcasting and telecommunications.
“If...
The federal government has named two new members to the Copyright Board of Canada, a move that fills the last vacancies on the board and comes alongside Ottawa introducing new board reform measures. Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains announced Wednesday that Katherine Braun and René Côté will serve on the board on as part-time members on four-year terms, starting immediately. Bains said in a statement the two will “help usher in a modernized Copyright Board of Canada.” Braun is an economist from St. Albert, Alberta, and has spent the last decade working with the United Nations on...
Facebook Inc.’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has declined a joint-request by...
OTTAWA — Consumer advocacy groups are cautioning MPs against proposals that would make site-blocking in Canada easier, after a push for those anti-piracy policies failed at the CRTC failed last...
CBC/Radio-Canada’s executive vice-president of English-language services, Heather Conway, is leaving the public broadcaster next month, the Crown corporation announced...
The comment period for the government-appointed, blue-ribbon panel that’s reviewing Canada’s communications laws is being extended into next year. It is being lengthened to January 11, 2019, the panel has confirmed to The...
CBC/Radio-Canada has named Jack Nagler its new English services ombudsman.
Nagler, who is currently CBC’s senior director of journalism, replaces Esther Enkin in the role.
“Our ombudsperson helps demonstrate the importance that we place on ensuring accuracy, integrity, balance, impartiality and fairness in our journalism,” CBC president and CEO Catherine Tait said in a press release Thursday.
“Jack’s experience and deep commitment to journalistic ethics make him the perfect person to uphold our commitment...
Cogeco Inc.’s implementation of a new customer management system, which...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) has made a change to its breach notification guidance to address wording that some lawyers warned could lead to multiple organizations sending out notices...
OTTAWA — Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy told an industry...
OTTAWA — Members of the panel tasked with providing recommendations to...
OTTAWA – Conservative senators doubled-down on a previously-raised...
MPs in Canada and the United Kingdom have stepped up their efforts to get the chance to grill Facebook Inc.’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a parliamentary committee hearing. The chairs of two...
OTTAWA — The billions of dollars Rogers Communications Inc. says it’s...
A year away from the next federal election, a majority of Canadians are...
OTTAWA — The head of Canada’s telecom regulator says clarity on where it stands when it comes to resolving disagreements over the rollout of 5G infrastructure is one...
VMedia Inc. has come to an agreement Tuesday to buy a small company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange in a move that will allow it to become publicly traded without having to go through an initial public offering (IPO). The...
The Supreme Court of British Columbia has ruled that Telus Corp. can’t stop a former employee from immediately joining Rogers Communications Inc. despite signing a contract that forbids him from...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s chief operating officer, Barbara Williams, will retire at the end of this...
GATINEAU — Consumer protection and seniors advocacy groups told the CRTC...
Colin McKay, head of public policy and government relations for Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada, faced critical questions about his parent company’s activities from MPs of all political stripes on Tuesday.
McKay was appearing at the House ethics committee, as part of...
The Canadian Communications Systems Alliance (CCSA) is asking the Senate...
Stingray Digital Group Inc.’s move to enter the Canadian radio market has...
GATINEAU— CRTC Chairman Ian Scott opened public...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s wild ride through the unpredictable TV ad...
A new report from the Angus Reid Institute indicates that the cost of services is the main driver behind...
OTTAWA -- BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. are asking the House heritage committee to amend parts of the copyright and telecommunications acts to compel a number of intermediaries to take down websites that make available...
Steve Ladurantaye is leaving CBC/Radio-Canada after two and a half years at...
Canada has been “pushing hard” to speed up development of a plan for...
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 operates in the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark. It provides in-store media, such as music, video and digital signage to locations including stores, bars, hotels and gyms.
Stingray CEO Eric Boyko said in the release the acquisition “will be at...
While services like Perform Group’s Dazn and Rogers Communications Inc.’s Sportsnet Now have been emerging in recent years, they “haven’t yet caught on in the Anglophone market,” Media...
CBC/Radio-Canada saw a nearly six per cent boost in its total ad revenue...
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...
The CRTC has approved Cogeco Inc. to purchase 10 radio stations from RNC Media Inc., it said in a decision Thursday. “The Commission considers that the RNC stations integrated into Cogeco could...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) said it is gathering more information about whether the personal information of Canadians was implicated in a leak involving an Alphabet Inc. social network. “Google has contacted us regarding the incident and we will be following up to gather more information about this incident, including whether it affected any Canadian users,” OPC spokesman Corey Larocque confirmed in an email to The Wire Report. On Monday, a Wall Street Journal report revealed that the search engine behemoth had a software bug that possibly gave third-party developers access to the private data of up to 500,000 Google+ accounts via 438 applications. It’s unclear if Canadians were implicated in the leak. On the same day the Journal report was published, Google said in a blog post the bug gave third-party apps...
Blue Ant Media Inc. has named Julie Chang its new vice-president of...
A multi-million dollar class action claim has been filed in Ontario Superior Court against television content producer Cineflix Media Inc. and its affiliates, claiming workers were denied minimum...
A new online radio service from Quebecor Inc. indicates the company is...
Streaming video platforms in the European Union will have to ensure 30 per...
OTTAWA — Alphabet Inc.’s Google wants to see the Copyright Board of Canada tariff setting process...
OTTAWA — Two senators on the Senate transport and communications...
Nearly a dozen content producers have obtained a court order banning set-top box software developed by an individual in Canada that allows users to watch their content for free, according to court...
Internet traffic is “more encrypted than ever,” with a “conservative estimate” suggesting more than half of all internet traffic is encrypted, according to Sandvine Corp.’s 2018 Global...
The Federal Court of Appeal said in a Monday decision that the CRTC lacks the jurisdiction to implement its Wholesale Code -- governing the business relationships between TV service providers and broadcasters -- though overturning the CRTC’s order enforcing the code may not have much practical effect. That’s because the CRTC has already embedded many of those provisions in broadcaster and TV providers’ licenses, according to Canadian Communication Systems Alliance (CCSA) CEO Jay Thomson. “While disappointing, the court’s decision should have very little, if any, practical...
OTTAWA -- There is an “urgent need” for Canadian lawmakers to set out a new communications framework now that Canada has hammered out a new trilateral agreement on trade to replace the North...
The CRTC has no jurisdiction to implement a system to block websites...
OTTAWA -- Fraudulent copyright infringement claims made through Canada’s...
The new trade pact forged by Canada, the U.S. and Mexico to replace the...
The CRTC has opened up a comment period after it received applications from Vista Radio Ltd. for two new commercial radio stations in North Bay and Timmins, Ont. Vista radio currently operates 41 radio stations in Alberta, B.C., Ontario and the Northwest Territories, according to the company’s website. That includes two Moose FM stations in both those communities already: CHMT-FM in Timmins and CFXN-FM in North Bay. The CRTC’s notices opening comment periods on the “market capacity and the appropriateness of issuing a call for radio applications” for the two markets are both...
Netflix Inc. says it’s “on track to exceed” its $500 million pledge...
Some of the battles taking place before the CRTC related to site-blocking...
Quebecor Inc. is urging Quebec political parties to pledge that they’ll keep a provincial film and TV tax credit and support the province’s film industry, the company said in a press release...
The Competition Bureau is calling for online video streaming services to review their marketing practices, terms and conditions after it found they’re sometimes unclear and hard to understand....
OTTAWA — Canada’s private broadcasters are defending Canada’s existing copyright laws and tariff...
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...
Rogers Communications Inc. and the University of British Columbia are joining forces on a multi-million dollar venture to build out a 5G hub on the university’s campus over the next three years. The telecom said in a...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has met with creative groups in his first registered lobby...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. has appointed Ryan Fuss its new senior vice-president of advertising sales, effective Oct 1.
The company plans to “roll-out advertising across several of its multiplatform properties and introduce new products for advertisers” in the coming...
OTTAWA -- Lawmakers need to make net neutrality a major priority and...
Facebook Inc. will introduce a pilot project aimed at securing election campaigns for the United States midterm elections this fall. The company said in a blog post that past elections have shown that candidates, politicians...
OTTAWA -- Canadian rock legend Bryan Adams is asking Canadian lawmakers to...
Canada's federal, provincial and territorial privacy watchdogs collectively...
Facebook Inc. is facing another class action suit in Ontario over how it handles user privacy in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal – this time,...
Facebook Inc. is adding verification of photos and videos to its fact-checking of content on its social...
As politicians file back into Parliament Hill’s Centre Block for the...
OTTAWA --- In a decision that could serve as a deterrent to copyright...
The European Parliament passed its copyright directive Wednesday, with some amendments to the...
Former Blue Ant Media Inc. content executive Vanessa Case has joined the ranks of Vice Media Inc.'s...
Opposition Conservative leader Andrew Scheer has shuffled his caucus's shadow cabinet in the lead up to...
The federal government has quietly been testing the security of communications equipment used by Chinese-owned telecommunications company Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., The Globe and Mail reported...
As cultural protection emerges as a last-stretch NAFTA sticking point,...
The CRTC said Thursday it is considering taking action on potential changes it outlined in a May report looking at programming distribution models. The Harnessing Change report recommended a number of changes to the Canadian content system, including a new approach to funding content that would include contributions from telecom service providers and see online services make “equitable” contributions. In its forecast for 2019-2020, released Thursday, the CRTC confirmed it will consider implementing some of the changes identified in that report over that time frame. That includes...
Long-time Liberal insider and Bluesky Strategy Group principal Tim Barber has registered formally to...
The CRTC should focus its efforts on taking action against telecoms that have been directly accused of unethical sales practices instead of applying blanket rules on the entire industry, smaller...
After this summer’s cabinet shuffle, the Heritage minister will gain two...
The CRTC published its reassessed baseline spending requirements for programs of national interest (PNI)...
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has confirmed that its vice-president of industry and public affairs, Stéphane Cardin, will be leaving to join Netflix Inc. as its director of public policy for Canada, according to a release on Thursday.
The release comes after a La Presse...
In a blog post on Wednesday, Facebook Inc. announced the global launch of...
In the three years since the last Canadian federal election, emerging...
According to the latest numbers from Statistics Canada, 67 per cent of adult Canadians purchased a digital product, such as a subscription to a streaming service, ebooks or online newspapers, between...
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) released its 2017-2018 annual report on Monday,...
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) has...
The CRTC outlined Monday the details of an online public opinion survey concerning the regulator’s efforts to look into the allegedly unethical sales practises of the country’s telecoms. The information the Commission...
CBC/Radio-Canada has appointed Gave Lindo to lead the public broadcaster’s over-the-top (OTT) content...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters registered to lobby the federal government on its review of the Copyright Act in July, which was otherwise a sleepy month in telecom and media government...
Conservative MP Maxime Bernier announced Thursday that Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) analyst Martin Masse will be joining him as he attempts to form a new national...
Canadian Heritage has posted the job application for the CRTC’s regional commissioner for Quebec, a year before the incumbent’s term is up. Yves Dupras, a Quebec lawyer, began a five-year term as the current commissioner...
Media organizations owned by Quebecor Inc. have gone to court to push back against judgements made by a press oversight group in Quebec, according to a release on Wednesday. Le Journal de Montréal, Le Journal de Québec, 24...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. (SaskTel) announced the launch of a new TV service using Ericsson AB’s MediaFirst-powered IPTV platform in a press release on Wednesday. Dubbed the maxTV Stream, according to the...
More than a dozen movie studios have sued Canadians in recent months in a...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. has named its first chief revenue officer, appointing David Purdy — who previously worked at Rogers Communications Inc. and Vice Media Inc. — to the role.
“David’s experience in driving growth and revenue generation within the television and media industries will be a huge benefit to Stingray,” the company’s president and CEO, Eric Boyko, said in a press release Wednesday.
Purdy will be responsible for all of Stingray’s revenue expansion, including advertising and sales. The company said in the release that the “creation of a position of chief revenue officer reflects the accelerated growth of Stingray’s operations and the diversification of its revenue streams.”...
The latest report from CBC/Radio-Canada’s Media Technology Monitor (MTM) project outlined 24 per cent of anglophone Canadians said they have listened to a podcast in the last month. Interest in...
The Senate transport and communications committee said Tuesday the...
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) announced a new financing program to encourage television co-developments by Canadian and South African producers on Tuesday. The total amount of funds being allocated is $120,000, with individual...
Canadian households spent an average of $222.83 a month on communications services in 2016, the CRTC said...
BCE Inc. and Vice Media Inc. have reached a deal that will see new and previously produced content from...
There is no need to set thresholds for jitter as part of the basic service standard, telecoms said in interventions to a CRTC consultation Monday. The regulator launched the consultation in July, when it issued...
The Jim Pattison Group of Companies is adding to its stable of radio...
The CRTC has approved the sale of a Fort McMurray, Alta. radio station and granted an exemption to the requirement to pay tangible benefits. It approved an application by United Christian...
Guylaine Roy, who was named associate deputy minister of Canadian Heritage last May, is leaving the department, according to a press release from the Prime Minister’s Office Friday.
Effective Monday, Roy will become the deputy minister of tourism, official languages and La Francophonie.
The move follows a cabinet shuffle that saw former Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly become minister for tourism, official languages and La Francophonie....
