The CRTC has initiated a special consultation process regarding an application for amendments to the conditions of service for a French-language community radio station based...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) unveiled its Strategic Plan for 2024-2027, setting a roadmap for trust, innovation, and the protection of fundamental privacy...
The CRTC’s interim vice-chair of broadcasting and commissioner for Quebec, Alicia Barin, stepped down...
Canada must revise its election rules and the use of artificial...
The federal government released the details of the implementation of the...
A coalition of 30 individuals and civil society groups have released an...
The current and past Minister of Canadian Heritage were loath to endorse Catherine Tait’s leadership at CBC/Radio-Canada Tuesday. Before the day’s cabinet meeting, both...
Gatineau, Que. – Telus Corp. asked the CRTC to...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight against cutbacks at CBC/Radio-Canada. Tuesday in Question...
Gatineau, Que. - CBC/Radio-Canada's decision to slash 600 jobs and leave...
Foreign streamers must pay their fair share of contributions to the Canadian broadcasting system, but...
Those who stand to benefit from the Online...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google and the federal government have resolved their...
Major broadcasters think that there should be a flexible contribution...
The government needs to set clear standards of...
The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) on Friday called for the creation of a Services of Exceptional Importance Fund to support mandatory carriage broadcasters and other important services in the broadcasting system that meet critical policy mandates.
The...
In a Friday statement, leaders from Canada and the European Union announced the creation of a new...
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...
In a House of Commons heritage committee meeting that was marked more by partisan feuding than for what...
Canada will need to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) to protect workers while at the same time encouraging innovation, members of Parliament were told Wednesday. The House of Commons Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons...
As part of what it says is an effort to reduce the cost of living for...
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 Canadian Chamber of Commerce has jumped on the Artificial Intelligence bandwagon. On Nov. 20 it...
The United Nations (UN) has created an advisory body on artificial intelligence (AI). Even though Canada...
The CRTC has reopened a Part 1 application originally submitted by Rogers...
City Wide Communications Inc., Frontier Networks...
Tuesday Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge issued the final policy direction to the CRTC that...
Canada should look to other jurisdictions when it comes to regulating artificial intelligence, the House of Commons Industry Committee was told Thursday. The panel is...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- Cybersecurity and data privacy were the focus of the...
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...
Leading countries in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) –...
Northern communities are being ill-served by Meta Platforms Inc.’s decision to block news coverage on Facebook and Instagram, the Senate was told Tuesday. Marty Klyne of the...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada and Northwestel have...
The CRTC has denied an application brought forward...
A Parliamentary committee is calling for checks of artificial intelligence...
The CRTC has given the green light to BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel Inc....
The efficacy of the Online News Act was called into question during the Senate’s Question Period...
Sentiment among speakers at the 2023 Canada...
The federal government is seeking public input on generative artificial...
International communications trade association,...
The CRTC has determined that online services that offer podcasts and social media services must register with the commission under its new regime, but individual users who use...
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada is happy the government is open to altering the Digital Charter...
The United States has just chosen a new target in its ongoing campaign...
Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne...
Even though the Online News Act has become law, it is still the subject of debate in Parliament. Thursday...
The Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI) is urging the federal government to pick up the pace on AI regulation and ensure the rules will be clear and flexible.
In a report...
The Privacy Commissioner is warning that artificial intelligence (AI) could have an impact on...
Colin McKay, head of Canada public policy and government relations at...
The Online News Act standoff between the federal...
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault must unblock Rebel News founder Ezra...
Dissatisfaction with the Online Streaming Act and defunding the CBC are among the resolutions being...
Canadian Heritage announced its proposed regulations to implement the...
The Department of Industry Science and Economic Development (ISED) released its Spectrum Outlook...
A class action lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc. over age discrimination can move forward, after the...
Meta Platforms Inc. has not experienced any notable drop in Facebook usage despite banning news content from Canadian users, independent surveys have found. The story was initially reported by Reuters news agency.
Meta instituted the ban earlier this month in response to...
The CRTC announced its action plan to implement the Online News Act which...
The CRTC has launched a consultation for its...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale...
Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube is updating its medical misinformation policies, taking particular aim at false cancer treatments deemed harmful or ineffective by global health...
By Monica Auer, executive director, Forum for Research and Policy in Communications
On May 12, the CRTC announced the first of a three-step process to implement Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, which had entered into force two weeks earlier. The first step consists of a trifecta of CRTC public consultations – consultation notices 2023-138, -139 and -140 –...
Battles over money and how to allocate it are at the forefront as the CRTC...
OTTAWA–Pascale St-Onge vows to keep up the fight with tech giants over...
by Heather Wright, publisher of The Independent of Petrolia and Central...
The CRTC has published some of the interventions for its proceeding into the Broadband Fund. Most of the...
Streaming platforms are saying it is too early to be discussing...
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...
In an ongoing tug-of-war at the CRTC, tech giants are arguing that a level...
Canadian Heritage is proposing regulations under the Online News Act that...
by Natalie Campbell, Senior Director of North American Government and Regulatory Affairs, Internet Society
Ottawa’s successful passage of the Online Streaming Act and Online News Act marks a dark new chapter for the internet in Canada: fragmentation.
Canadians are...
The federal government, Quebecor Inc., and Cogeco Inc., are pulling all their advertising investments...
The CRTC has now received reply comments in its ongoing proceeding into how to implement the Online Streaming Act. As with the original interventions, proposals vary depending on the group submitting...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has announced it will be removing Canadian news links from its websites.
The...
Lobby group OpenMedia has been polling the public about what the major issues in broadcasting and telecom...
BCE Inc. says in order for it to be competitive the CRTC must amend its conditions of licence (COL) to cut Canadian content obligations.
In a Part 1 application published...
A Toronto condominium manager is arguing to the...
The rapid pace of change in the technology sector has led a group of Parliamentarians to form an emerging technology caucus where members of all parties can learn about the brave new world.
The...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) is fighting with two...
Social media companies are asking the CRTC to be added to the list of...
The proposed financial threshold for exemption for online streaming...
The CRTC has denied TerreStar Solutions Inc.’s...
CRTC Commissioner Nirmala Naidoo urged members of the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA) to participate in consultations...
The Competition Bureau, CRTC, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner...
The federal government is directing the CRTC to “ensure that individual users’ and social media creators’ content cannot be regulated” as the commission prepares to...
The federal government is spending $5.5 million to create the Canadian Digital Media Research Network...
Tuesday the Senate Transport and Communications Committee continued its...
Spokespeople for Alphabet Inc.’s Google expressed further concerns they...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is not impressed by Meta...
A collection of players from the Australian news industry appeared before the Senate Transport and Communications committee to lend their support to Bill C-18, also known as...
A group of consumer advocacy organizations have received some support for...
The editors and executives of Canada's largest newspapers were on...
The CRTC has given parties until Monday, May 29 to respond to a request from 12 groups to lengthen the timeline for the regulator's consultation...
Tuesday the CRTC announced it was beginning a proceeding into emergency...
The commission should not regulate the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) markets in the same...
The Montreal Economic Institute has released a paper finding that adoption...
OTTAWA–When the government finally gets around to introducing its online...
OTTAWA–The Federal Court of Appeal and the Competition Tribunal did not...
OTTAWA–The government’s cybersecurity legislation, Bill C-26, is necessary and timely, a panel told a conference Monday. The International Institute of Communications Canadian Chapter featured a session entitled “Bill C-26 and cybersecurity”.
Moderator Ian Scott,...
