Telus calls for small cell attachment ruling to be postponed

telecom | 06/17/2020 5:45 pm EDT

The CRTC should not rule on a Quebecor Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. application for the regulator to compel BCE Inc. to allow small cell technologies to be attached to Bell’s poles at rates...

Bell to argue retroactivity of wholesale rate appeal is unconstitutional

telecom | 06/16/2020 5:17 pm EDT

BCE Inc. has signalled its intention to argue in the upcoming Federal Court of Appeal hearing on the CRTC's Wholesale internet rates that the CRTC's decision to apply the rates retroactively...

Gov’t to introduce web giant, CanCon, news legislation in fall: Guilbeault

Media | 06/16/2020 3:00 pm EDT

Legislation modernizing Canada’s Broadcasting Act is “pretty much...

CRTC considering changes to disaggregated wholesale regime

telecom | 06/11/2020 5:47 pm EDT

Five years after it announced a move to a new system for wholesale internet...

Bell partners with Western University for 5G research centre

telecom | 06/11/2020 5:08 pm EDT

Western University’s London campus will be transformed into a “living lab” as part of a partnership with BCE Inc. to test applications for the 5G network. Bell will spend $2.7 million on the advanced 5G research centre and deploy 5G infrastructure and equipment on the campus, with the hope the partnership will bolster drone security and shape smarter cities and communications systems. 5G applications set to be studied include industrial Internet of Things use, virtual and augmented reality technology, autonomous vehicles, multi-access edge computing, battery and small cell...

Indigenous communities will be left behind without funding overhaul: ISP

telecom | 06/11/2020 5:07 pm EDT

As the question of how to connect rural communities across Canada to increasingly essential high-speed broadband internet continues to occupy the minds of policy makers and telecom companies, one...

Xplornet says Stonepeak sale will lead to accelerated broadband investment

telecom | 06/11/2020 2:37 pm EDT

Xplornet Communications Inc.’s sale to U.S. based Stonepeak...

TekSavvy argues Rogers unfairly applying ITMP

telecom | 06/10/2020 4:12 pm EDT

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has asked the CRTC to force Rogers Communications Inc. to stop applying an...

Community ownership key to connectivity: Winnipeg Municipality Region

telecom | 06/09/2020 5:57 pm EDT

Winnipeg Municipality Region executive director Colleen Sklar says the...

CRTC approves Bell’s AI call-blocking application

telecom | 06/09/2020 1:19 pm EDT

The CRTC has told BCE Inc. it can go ahead and trial using artificial intelligence for call blocking fraudulent calls on its networks. It said the Tuesday decision would “will help ensure that the potential benefits of the...

Universal Broadband Fund applications to open in ‘coming days’: Monsef

telecom | 06/08/2020 7:18 pm EDT

The federal government will open applications for its $1.7 billion...

Monsef tight-lipped on rural broadband funding announcement

telecom | 06/05/2020 5:01 pm EDT

Rural Economic Development Minister Maryam Monsef says “precise...

U.S. threatens to re-assess intelligence-sharing over Huawei

telecom | 06/05/2020 1:54 pm EDT

The United States State Department said that if Canada doesn’t ban...

ISED delays 3500 MHz auction by six months

telecom | 06/05/2020 1:45 pm EDT

The 3500 MHz spectrum auction, originally scheduled for December of this year, will now take place in June 2021, the federal government said Friday.  Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada said in a press release Friday that the delay was to allow “the...

CRTC approves use of Bell’s deferral funds in accessibility consultation

telecom | 06/04/2020 1:43 pm EDT

The CRTC Thursday approved BCE Inc.'s request to use the $125,000 sitting in its deferral account to pay the costs of public interest and accessibility intervenors in an upcoming consultation on...

Day stands down from Telus board after racism comments

telecom | 06/03/2020 6:14 pm EDT

Telus Corp. announced Wednesday that it has accepted the resignation of former federal Conservative MP Stockwell Day from its board of directors, following his appearance on a CBC/Radio-Canada...

Competition Bureau, telecoms MVNO stance unchanged by COVID-19

telecom | 06/03/2020 6:00 pm EDT

The Competition Bureau says its advocacy for a temporary hybrid mobile...

Telus silent on Scotiabank claim it hasn’t ruled out Huawei as 5G vendor

telecom | 06/03/2020 5:53 pm EDT

A day after announcing it would partner with Nokia Corp. and Ericsson AB on...

Wholesale rates stay ‘forces’ Distributel to apply temporary surcharge

telecom | 06/03/2020 3:18 pm EDT

Distributel Communications Ltd. will charge a “very small” number of customers a $5 temporary surcharge on each internet bill, due to a legal challenge against last year’s wholesale rates decrease, the company has announced.  In a letter to affected customers dated June 2, Distributel said the Federal Court of Appeal’s granting of a stay until the appeal had been held meant it was “currently paying the rates that the CRTC found were too high” and had forced it to add the...

Questions remain about Huawei gear as Bell, Telus pick Ericsson, Nokia 

telecom | 06/02/2020 6:03 pm EDT

On Tuesday, BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. announced new partnerships with...

PIAC takes paper bills fight to cabinet

telecom | 06/02/2020 4:02 pm EDT

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre has asked the federal government to reverse a March CRTC decision allowing Telus Corp.'s Koodo Mobile flanker brand to stop issuing paper bills to those who request them.  In a petition to...

Bell selling 25 data centres for $1.04 billion

telecom | 06/01/2020 5:28 pm EDT

BCE Inc. is selling 25 data centres located at 13 sites to California-based Equinix Inc for $1.04 billion, the company announced Monday.  "Our strategic redeployment of capital further underscores Bell's commitment to champion...

CRTC consulting on wireless plans for people with disabilities

telecom | 06/01/2020 5:00 pm EDT

The CRTC  is asking for comments on how Canadian wireless providers are meeting the regulator’s requirement to provide service plans for Canadians with disabilities.  In a notice of...

Outdated privacy laws may hamper COVID-19 tracing: Therrien

telecom | 05/29/2020 7:00 pm EDT

The outdated state of Canadian privacy laws may harm efforts to launch a...

Rogers protests Bell’s toll-free trunk time extension

telecom | 05/29/2020 3:57 pm EDT

Rogers Communications Inc. is protesting the CRTC's decision to extend a deadline it had previously set for BCE Inc. to install trunk connections to carry toll-free traffic between their networks. ...

SaskTel to resume charging overage fees on June 9

telecom | 05/29/2020 2:13 pm EDT

Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. will become the second Canadian telecom to resume charging overage fees to home internet customers who go over their data caps, with the company announcing it will end the COVID-19...

Network performance supports light regulatory touch: Bibic

telecom | 05/27/2020 6:58 pm EDT

The performance of networks in other countries during the COVID-19 crisis...

Roam Mobility shutting down

telecom | 05/27/2020 5:25 pm EDT

Otono Networks Inc.’s Roam Mobility will cease operations on June 30, the company said Wednesday. Roam Mobility previously provided prepaid SIM cards for visitors to the United States and Canada. It shut down the Canadian service in January, though it continued to provide SIM cards and service for those travelling to the U.S. “To call COVID-19's impact on travel “severe” would be an understatement. As a business built on enabling communication for travellers, Roam Mobility has, unsurprisingly, been significantly affected,” the company said in a statement....

‘Public outreach’ needed for ‘progress’ on encryption backdoors: gov’t doc

telecom | 05/26/2020 11:42 am EDT

In order to make “progress” on the issue of access to encrypted...

Wholesale rate appeal to go ahead in June via video conference

telecom | 05/25/2020 6:05 pm EDT

A Federal Court of Appeal judge has rejected the argument made by the incumbent telecom companies last week that their appeal of the CRTC's wholesale broadband rates decision is too complicated to be...

Telecoms not obligated to give rights-of-way to Calgary: Alberta court

telecom | 05/25/2020 5:46 pm EDT

Telecom companies operating in Calgary will not have to abide by a...

IBW access is unnecessary if small ISPs can install their own: Bell

telecom | 05/25/2020 4:22 pm EDT

Two small internet service providers who install their own fibre...

Companies behind site-blocking order want interventions limited

telecom | 05/22/2020 5:05 pm EDT

In an ongoing appeal of Canada's first-ever site-blocking order, BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., and Quebecor Inc. are asking a judge to either throw out or limit the scope of submissions from a collection of organizations seeking to intervene in the proceeding.  In a motion filed with the Federal Court of Appeal on May 20, lawyers representing the three companies have asked the court to reject or limit motions for leave to intervene from the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) at the University of Ottawa,...

Google exec outlines privacy measures in new contact-tracing API

telecom | 05/22/2020 2:54 pm EDT

Colin McKay, head of public policy and government relations for Canada for...

Incumbents ask court for delay of wholesale rate appeal 

telecom | 05/21/2020 6:01 pm EDT

Incumbent cable companies have asked a Federal Court of Appeal judge to delay their appeal of the CRTC's wholesale rates decision until the proceeding can be conducted in person.  In a letter...

Rogers, Quebecor ask CRTC to intervene in small cell dispute with Bell

telecom | 05/21/2020 4:20 pm EDT

Rogers Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc. have asked the CRTC to compel BCE Inc. to allow them to attach small cell technologies to Bell’s poles at rates set by the Support Structure Service...

Fraudsters cashing in on pandemic, committee told

telecom | 05/20/2020 8:05 pm EDT

The Canadian Anti Fraud Centre has received almost 1000 complaints about fraud attempts related to...

Telus to share aggregate location data with government researchers

telecom | 05/20/2020 6:09 pm EDT

Telus Corp. said it will begin providing de-identified, aggregate location data to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to help combat COVID-19. It said in a...

Bell suggests using deferral account funds for accessibility consult costs

telecom | 05/19/2020 8:17 pm EDT

In an upcoming consultation on how the CRTC should require reporting by broadcasters and telecommunications providers under the Accessible Canada Act, BCE Inc. says the regulator could use money left...

Facebook to pay $9 million to Competition Bureau after investigation

telecom | 05/19/2020 4:19 pm EDT

Facebook Inc. must pay a $9 million penalty to the Competition Bureau after making "false or misleading claims" about the privacy of personal information on the main Facebook platform and its...

2025 offered as connectivity target as pressure to fast track rises

telecom | 05/19/2020 2:01 pm EDT

Universal connectivity at the CRTC’s universal service objective speeds...

Wholesale debate moves to transport in CRTC rural broadband consult

telecom | 05/15/2020 2:33 pm EDT

The familiar argument over wholesale access has made its way to a CRTC consultation on how to remove barriers to rural broadband rollouts, with smaller providers arguing the regulator should mandate and regulate access to transport networks.  The CRTC currently only requires incumbents to make the access portion of the network — the “last mile” that connects homes and businesses to an ISP — available for wholesale. The rest of the network, which connects telco central offices or...

Spectrum funds could achieve broadband targets before 2030: telecoms

telecom | 05/14/2020 9:35 pm EDT

An NDP plan for the federal government to add money raised from past and...

Quebecor cuts back capex plans for 2020

Media | 05/14/2020 8:27 pm EDT

Quebecor Inc. is dialing back its capital expenditure projections for the upcoming year, owing to the...

CRTC rejects request to hold contact-tracing inquiry

telecom | 05/13/2020 4:09 pm EDT

The CRTC has rejected a Public Interest Advocacy Centre request that it look into the involvement of...

Premier League and Dazn support site blocking order

telecom | 05/12/2020 7:48 pm EDT

A consortium of rights holders — including the top tier of English soccer, the Premier League, sports streaming service Dazn and industry trade groups for book publishers — wants the Federal Court of Appeal to uphold...

Complaints to CCTS decrease by 12 per cent

telecom | 05/12/2020 4:25 pm EDT

Consumers lodged 8,621 complaints with the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) in the six months leading up to Jan. 31, a 12 per cent decrease on the previous year. The decrease, detailed in the CCTS’ mid-year report released Tuesday, follows two years where the number of complaints had risen significantly, by 44 per cent in 2018-19, and 73 per cent in 2017-18. The result was hailed as a “step in the right direction” by CCTS commissioner Howard Maker in a press release, who said he was pleased customers were increasingly able to fix their problems...

No hexagons for UBF, Monsef confirms

telecom | 05/11/2020 9:28 pm EDT

The federal government’s upcoming $1.7 billion Universal Broadband Fund won’t use the...

COVID-19 accelerating rural/urban connectivity divide: CIRA

telecom | 05/08/2020 5:49 pm EDT

Rural home internet speeds during the first full month where Canadians shifted to working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic were almost 12 times slower than the median speed for urban Canadians,...

Canadians broadly supportive of COVID-19 tracing apps: survey

telecom | 05/08/2020 5:41 pm EDT

Some eight in 10 Canadians support the use of wireless data to track the spread of COVID-19, and 65 per cent of Canadians think it should be mandatory, according to a survey released by three federal...

Guilbeault details $500M relief for arts and culture

telecom | 05/08/2020 5:02 pm EDT

Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault Friday released more details on how a  previously-announced...

Telus withdraws guidance, records 19 per cent net income reduction

telecom | 05/07/2020 6:00 pm EDT

Telus Corp.’s net income for the first quarter of 2020 dropped 19 per...

Bell calls for delayed payments in 3.5 GHz spectrum auction

telecom | 05/07/2020 5:59 pm EDT

While BCE Inc.'s first quarter results showed a decline in profits and...

Google’s Sidewalk Labs pulls out of Toronto smart city project

telecom | 05/07/2020 3:43 pm EDT

Alphabet Inc.’s Google will no longer participate in the Sidewalk Labs...

Conservatives call for universal rural broadband by 2021

telecom | 05/06/2020 6:45 pm EDT

Under a rural broadband policy platform put out for public consultation by...

5G monitoring same as for all wireless tech: Health Canada

telecom | 05/06/2020 3:16 pm EDT

Health Canada has responded to an MPs’ query about what steps it is taking to monitor potential health effects of 5G networks, indicating it is treating 5G no differently than previous generations of wireless technology. “It is Health Canada’s position that the...

Conservatives and NDP united for enforcement of wholesale rates

telecom | 05/05/2020 5:27 pm EDT

Opposition parties that normally hold differing views on any given issue...

PIAC calls for providers to detail COVID-19 tracing involvement

telecom | 05/04/2020 6:14 pm EDT

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre is asking for all Canadian...

Shaw to lay off about 100 British Columbia field technicians

telecom | 05/01/2020 3:35 pm EDT

Shaw Communications Inc. plans to permanently lay off about 100 field technicians in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, stating the COVID-19 pandemic had “only accelerated” the company’s...

Provinces also looking at speeding up rural broadband rollouts

telecom | 05/01/2020 1:10 pm EDT

As the federal government and individual companies work on accelerating...

Cogeco appoints Frédéric Perron as president of cable division

telecom | 04/30/2020 5:27 pm EDT

Cogeco Inc. has appointed T-Mobile Polska S.A. chief commercial officer, Frédéric Perron, as the new president of its cable division, Cogeco Connexion, the company announced on Thursday. In a press release Cogeco said Perron, who has more than 20 years managerial experience in both the telecommunication and banking sectors, would begin in the role on Sep. 1. Cogeco chief executive Phillipe Jetté said he looked forward to Perron sharing his “breadth of experience” at Cogeco.  "His proven track record in developing high-performance teams as well as his extensive experience in marketing, branding, sales and customer service will be strong assets as Cogeco Connexion pursues its growth and continually innovates to deliver distinctive customer experiences,” Jetté said in the...

CRTC denies Bell’s request to suspend in-building wire consultation

telecom | 04/30/2020 4:01 pm EDT

A request by BCE Inc. to freeze the process to create an access regime for in-building wire in multi-dwelling units (MDUs) has been denied by the CRTC, in the latest development of Bell’s...

Cogeco to bring back overage fees as of May 1

telecom | 04/30/2020 2:10 pm EDT

Cogeco  Inc. will again start charging overage fees to its home internet customers who exceed their data limits as of Friday, with the company instead focusing on other measures it considers to “be more essential” to its...

Retroactive payments for wholesale rates are not a tax: CNOC

telecom | 04/29/2020 5:45 pm EDT

In a Tuesday filing with the Federal Court of Appeal, the Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) said that the appeal of the CRTC's August wholesale rate decision by some six companies should be...

Federal government to accelerate rural broadband funds: Monsef

telecom | 04/29/2020 3:49 pm EDT

The federal government will speed up its rural broadband funding in...

Quebecor claims Bell’s Super Écran rates caused it undue disadvantage

telecom | 04/28/2020 5:59 pm EDT

Quebecor Inc. has lodged another complaint with the CRTC in its long-running fight against BCE Inc., alleging Bell placed it at an undue disadvantage by unreasonably increasing the rate for its Super...

Facebook targets procedural fairness at OPC in court filing

Media | 04/27/2020 5:16 pm EDT

Facebook Inc.'s request that Federal Court throw out a report from the...

Deadline for Broadband Fund applications extended again

telecom | 04/27/2020 4:53 pm EDT

The CRTC has again extended the deadline for telecommunication service providers to apply to the regulator’s $750 million Broadband Fund in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, pushing back the deadline...

Cogeco acquires southern Quebec telecom

telecom | 04/23/2020 4:06 pm EDT

Cogeco  Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire telecommunications service provider iTéract Inc., the...

Bell speeding up rural broadband rollout

telecom | 04/23/2020 3:30 pm EDT

BCE Inc. will be delivering its fixed wireless internet to some 137,000 more homes than it had planned to by this point in its 2020 rollout, according to a Thursday release.  The company said it was increasing the speed of the rollout because of the COVID-19 pandemic,...

‘Work together,’ CRTC tells wholesale-based ISPs, incumbents

telecom | 04/23/2020 1:21 pm EDT

The CRTC has responded to a letter from The Canadian Network Operators...

Rogers revenue drops 5%, withdraws guidance due to COVID-19

Media | 04/22/2020 3:44 pm EDT

Rogers Communications Inc. recorded a five per cent drop in revenue in the...

Ontario prisons waive phone fees for inmates

telecom | 04/21/2020 6:30 pm EDT

Ontario prisons are now allowing prisoners to call cell phones as well as landlines for free in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.  According to a letter Ontario attorney general Sylvia Jones sent Monday to signatories of an...

Alberta privacy commish investigating Telus Health app

telecom | 04/21/2020 6:01 pm EDT

Alberta’s information and privacy commissioner will launch two separate...

2020 a ‘lost year’ for telecom growth: analyst

telecom | 04/20/2020 5:35 pm EDT

The telecommunications sector will have an "irrelevant" first quarter and will "write off" the second quarter, according to a preview note published Monday by RBC Capital Markets analyst Drew McReynolds.  Investors will be focused on an anticipated recovery in the second...

Quebecor hits out at Bell’s ‘unfounded’ IBW extension request

telecom | 04/20/2020 4:36 pm EDT

Quebecor Inc. has urged the CRTC to deny a BCE Inc. request to indefinitely...

Gov’t in ‘early stages’ of using cellphone data for COVID-19 tracking: Bains

telecom | 04/20/2020 3:40 pm EDT

The federal government is looking at what other jurisdictions are doing...

Bell donating 1.5 million masks to provinces, federal gov’t

Media | 04/17/2020 2:01 pm EDT

BCE Inc. announced Friday that it has acquired 1.5 million N95 and KN95...

Bell calls for new in-building wire tariff to be put on ice

telecom | 04/16/2020 5:47 pm EDT

A process to create a tariff for access to in-building wire in...

Wholesale appeal is on shaky legal footing, TekSavvy argues

telecom | 04/16/2020 5:39 pm EDT

The ongoing appeal by incumbent telecoms of the CRTC's wholesale internet rates decision from August should be dismissed because the appeal argues that the regulator made errors in fact, rather than...

CRTC approves Bell’s ‘urgent’ Wangiri-blocking request

telecom | 04/16/2020 5:17 pm EDT

After BCE Inc. asked it to grant an "urgent" approval to block the one-ring...

Consider cost applications on Accessibility Canada Act regulations, CRTC urged

Media | 04/16/2020 4:58 pm EDT

The CRTC is under criticism for saying it may not award costs to groups who participate in a public consultation on regulations under the Accessibility Canada Act, with stakeholder groups arguing such...

Pump the brakes on COVID data tracking, advocacy groups warn

telecom | 04/15/2020 5:35 pm EDT

Despite the extraordinary desire to stop the spread of COVID-19, there is still no justification for mass unwarranted surveillance of identifiable people, according to a joint statement of principles...

OPC reprimanded Bell over repeated delays in 2018: doc

telecom | 04/15/2020 2:30 pm EDT

BCE Inc.’s delays and incomplete responses to multiple information access requests drew the ire of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner in 2018, according to a document obtained through Access to Information. The OPC settled the access complaint in February 2018,...

TekSavvy also calls for lower, emergency wholesale rates

telecom | 04/14/2020 6:42 pm EDT

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is joining a call made last week by Conservative...

Shaw lays off ten per cent of workforce due to COVID-19

telecom | 04/14/2020 6:04 pm EDT

Shaw Communications Inc. will temporarily lay off about ten per cent of its...

38% of Canadians say COVID-19 slowed internet service: CIRA survey

telecom | 04/14/2020 5:15 pm EDT

Almost four in ten Canadians say their home internet speeds are slower than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey conducted for the Canadian Internet Registration Authority...

CRTC seeks feedback on Accessible Canada Act reporting requirements

Media | 04/14/2020 3:08 pm EDT

The CRTC has put out a call for public comment about how new reporting requirements for broadcasters and telecommunications providers should look under the Accessible Canada Act.  The Act came...

Provinces collaborating on cellphone tracking: Tam

telecom | 04/14/2020 2:19 pm EDT

Canadian authorities are “pulling together a group amongst the provinces and territories to gauge interest” in using cellphone data to track the spread of COVID-19, Canada’s chief public health officer, Theresa Tam, said Friday. “I think that is an area of great interest to every jurisdiction,” she said at a news conference. The Wire Report first reported in late March that a number of different apps were in development that would use location data to track exposure to COVID-19, and that several of Canada’s cities and provinces, as well as the federal government, were in...

Freedom ‘less vulnerable’ to COVID than incumbents: McAleese

telecom | 04/09/2020 8:53 pm EDT

While it’s too early to tell what impact COVID-19 will have on Shaw...

Incumbents using COVID-19 to tamper with procedures, CNOC, TekSavvy claim

telecom | 04/09/2020 8:07 pm EDT

The Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) and TekSavvy Solutions Inc. are alleging that the incumbent telecoms from whom they purchase wholesale high-speed internet access are making changes to...

CRTC delays launch of new proceedings due to COVID-19 

Media | 04/09/2020 6:47 pm EDT

The CRTC has delayed the launch of new proceedings due to COVID-19, stating it’s aware the telecommunications industry’s primary focus is on delivering services to Canadians.  In a statement...

Rempel Garner calls on Bains, CRTC to enforce wholesale rates

telecom | 04/09/2020 5:15 pm EDT

Conservative industry critic Michelle Rempel Garner has called on...

COVID-19 delays next-gen 911 network roll-out

telecom | 04/09/2020 3:38 pm EDT

The CRTC has pushed back a series of deadlines around the implementation of next-generation 911 (NG911) services, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  In a letter published to the CRTC’s website on Thursday, the regulator said the...

ISPs using Bell’s in-building wire ordered to identify customers

telecom | 04/09/2020 3:12 pm EDT

All internet service providers who were accessing BCE Inc.’s in-building wire as of Dec. 16, 2019 must give Bell a list of all buildings in which they were accessing Bell's wires to provide service...

Cogeco pre-COVID Q2 revs steady, adjusts share buyback

telecom | 04/08/2020 6:57 pm EDT

Amid the financial uncertainty and upheaval of the COVID-19 global...

Bains says he’s in ‘constant contact’ with telecoms over network capacity

telecom | 04/08/2020 4:24 pm EDT

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains says the...

CRTC postpones CBC licence renewal, sets new deadlines in other proceedings

telecom | 04/08/2020 2:50 pm EDT

The CRTC said Wednesday that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it is postponing CBC/Radio-Canada’s licence renewal hearing to an undetermined later date. The hearing...