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O’Toole calls for deep CBC cuts
Media | 02/14/2020 5:54 pm EST
Conservative Party leadership hopeful Erin O’Toole has called for CBC/Radio-Canada’s funding for its digital and english-language television department to be slashed, declaring the national broadcaster is “stuck in the past”. In a video posted to his Twitter page, O’Toole says he wants to completely end funding for CBC Digital and cut funding for CBC English-language television by 50 per cent, CBC Radio and Radio-Canada funding untouched, including French-language television. The goal, O’Toole says in the video, is to “fully privatize” CBC funding by the end of his first mandate as Prime Minister. In the video, which features O’Toole standing outside CBC Ottawa’s Queen Street headquarters, the Conservative MP says the funding boost given to the CBC by the government of Justin Trudeau has “hurt local newspapers...
BTLR panelist ‘optimistic’ about CBC funding
Media | 01/30/2020 6:12 pm EST
OTTAWA — Whether or not CBC/Radio-Canada can move away from advertising revenue is a “political decision,” according to Monique Simard, a panelist on the blue-ribbon Broadcast and Telecommunication Legislative Review, known as BTLR.
Simard, a former director of...
Quebecor accuses Radio-Canada of undue preference over Tou.tv
Media | 01/17/2020 2:11 pm EST
Quebecor Inc. wants CBC/Radio-Canada to shut down its subscription streaming service ICI Tou.tv Extra, and has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC. In a Friday morning press release, Quebecor...
Broadcasters opposed to STB measurement system proposal
Media | 12/18/2019 6:12 pm EST
Several independent broadcasters have written to the CRTC to say the regulator shouldn’t grant a request by TV providers to change a rule forcing cable and IPTV services to hand over viewership...
Plurality of Canadians think CRTC should monitor fake news
Media | 12/11/2019 11:16 am EST
When asked who should be most responsible for monitoring the spread of fake...
Donald Lizotte moves to CBC from Quebecor
Media | 11/04/2019 12:25 pm EST
Starting in February 2020, Donald Lizotte will take over as CBC/Radio-Canada’s general manager and...
OECD seeks unified tax regime for web giants
telecom | 10/10/2019 5:49 pm EDT
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development will host a public consultation next month on its proposed “unified approach” to the taxation of the world’s biggest tech companies. A document released by the OECD Wednesday ahead of the planned consultations outlines skeletal plans for a new approach to tax in the digital economy that would have a significant impact on the web giants, often referred to by the acronym FAANG: Facebook Inc, Apple Inc., Amazon Inc., Netflix Inc., and Alphabet Inc.’s Google. The proposal, which flows out of a series of meetings amongst G20...
CanCon producers silent on CBC-Netflix rift
Media | 10/09/2019 7:14 pm EDT
Organizations that represent important stakeholders in the field of Canadian content are staying...
Broadcasters announce gender parity action plans after CRTC summit
Media | 10/01/2019 5:35 pm EDT
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...
1 in 7 Canadians have cut the cord
Media | 09/27/2019 3:52 pm EDT
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 --...
DHX rebranding as WildBrain
Media | 09/23/2019 4:22 pm EDT
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...
Unclear who owns set-top box data, broadcasters argue
telecom | 08/21/2019 5:48 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. hasn’t established that it actually owns the set-top box data at the centre of a new...
CRTC commissioning research on global public broadcasters
Media | 07/29/2019 12:54 pm EDT
Ahead of its renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada’s broadcasting licences, the...
Bell to buy French-language conventional TV network
Media | 07/24/2019 3:10 pm EDT
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...
Videotron must give data to STB working group: CRTC
Media | 07/02/2019 5:13 pm EDT
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...
Few surprises in BTLR ‘what we heard’ report
Media | 06/26/2019 10:30 am EDT
The blue ribbon panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s communications legislation has released its interim report, which — as expected — offers no indication of what policy positions the seven members might take in their final recommendations.
Earlier this month,...
Broadcast, TV service revenues down again: CRTC
Media | 06/20/2019 8:26 pm EDT
New data released by the CRTC Thursday shows the industry-wide trend of tumbling broadcast sector revenue...
Without independence, CBC would be ‘state broadcaster’: Tait
Media | 05/31/2019 2:36 pm EDT
OTTAWA — The spectre of past Conservative government cuts to...
No broadcaster compensation for 600 MHz move, ISED confirms
Media | 05/28/2019 1:48 pm EDT
Broadcasters have lobbied the government for years to reimburse them for...
Keep satellite OTA replacement program in place, CRTC hears
Media | 05/17/2019 11:47 am EDT
Users of a program that provides free access to conventional TV stations in areas where they’re not available over-the-air are asking the CRTC not to allow Shaw Communications Inc. to shut down the...
Re:Sound seeks to double CBC radio royalties to $3M a year
Media | 05/14/2019 5:54 pm EDT
An organization representing sound recording rights holders wants to more-than double the royalties it bills CBC/Radio-Canada to play music on traditional radio -- to the tune of $3 million per year.
Re:Sound is proposing to increase the tariff on music played by CBC...
Canadians want more money for CBC, don’t trust OTTs to support CanCon: Poll
Media | 05/13/2019 5:18 pm EDT
Almost 60 per cent of Canadians have “low trust and confidence” in Netflix Inc. to “protect Canadian culture and identity on television”; half of Canadians don't trust cable companies to do...
Facebook sets higher standards in guidelines than laws: Chan
Media | 05/10/2019 6:09 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc.’s head of public policy in Canada said Friday the platform’s community guidelines, “in many respects,” go above what is currently prescribed in Canadian law, as the...
Ahead of next alert test, cities group says texts lack specificity
telecom | 04/26/2019 5:13 pm EDT
Before a second wireless emergency alert test went out in November, a group...
OTT subs set to overtake traditional TV by 2020: report
Media | 04/23/2019 4:53 pm EDT
The number of Canadians who opt for over-the-top services is set to surpass the number of Canadians who subscribe to traditional television providers next year, according to a report released...
Court rejects Google motion to expand scope of deindexing case
Media | 04/17/2019 6:31 pm EDT
A chief Federal Court clerk has rejected Alphabet Inc.’s request to expand to constitutional questions the scope of a legal reference that seeks to determine whether Canada’s private sector...
Google would be regulating media under PIPEDA: counsel
Media | 03/21/2019 6:28 pm EDT
OTTAWA — If a court determines Google’s search engine falls under the country’s private sector privacy law, then that would effectively make the internet company a media regulator, counsel to...
Accessibility groups ask BTLR for legislative changes, new advisory office
Media | 03/07/2019 4:31 pm EST
Canada’s broadcasting and telecommunications legislation should be...
Distributors ask for Canadian film exhibition quotas on broadcast, OTT
Media | 03/01/2019 12:11 pm EST
Both over-the-top services and broadcasters should be required to show a certain amount of Canadian feature films, the Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters is asking the panel...
Monique Marcotte retiring from CBC
Media | 02/28/2019 2:25 pm EST
Marco Dubé will take over the vice-president of people and culture position at CBC/Radio-Canada when Monique Marcotte retires at the end of June.
Dubé has been with the CBC for 22 years in a variety of roles, including working on developing the public broadcaster’s...
OTT video revenues comparable to conventional TV in 2017: CMR
telecom | 02/27/2019 7:23 pm EST
Internet-based video services generated enough revenue in Canada in 2017 to rival the total revenues of private and CBC conventional television stations combined, according to the CRTC’s...
Double CBC funding, CMG tells communications review
Media | 02/22/2019 3:59 pm EST
The real value of the funding CBC/Radio-Canada receives has slipped significantly due to inflation, the...
OPC’s deindexing position ‘indirect attack’ on CBC, lawyer says
Media | 02/11/2019 6:33 pm EST
OTTAWA — A lawyer for CBC/Radio-Canada who is asking the Federal Court to...
Trish Williams joins CBC
Media | 02/11/2019 3:21 pm EST
Trish Williams is moving from Temple Street Productions to CBC/Radio-Canada, where she will be CBC’s new executive director of scripted content.
Starting this week, she...
Barbara Williams joins CBC
Media | 02/06/2019 4:46 pm EST
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s former chief operating officer, Barbara Williams, will be CBC/Radio-Canada’s new executive vice-president of CBC.
Williams, who retired from Corus last year, will start the Toronto-based job on May 1, CBC said in a press release Wednesday.
Michel Bissonnette, who has been in the role on an interim basis since Heather Conway left the public broadcaster in December, will continue as interim VP until May, CBC president Catherine Tait said in an internal message to staff Wednesday.
“A visionary leader, Barbara brings with her a wealth of experience with respect to developing future revenue streams and overall content strategies that have consistently resulted in audience growth,”...
Former CBC president Lacroix joins law firm
Media | 02/04/2019 12:59 pm EST
Former CBC/Radio-Canada president Hubert Lacroix has joined the business law firm Blake, Cassels &...
CBC president likens Netflix to colonialism
Media | 01/31/2019 4:27 pm EST
OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada’s president Catherine Tait compared Netflix Inc.’s worldwide presence to...
New Broadcast Act should ‘unambiguously exclude’ OTT: Netflix
Media | 01/25/2019 4:51 pm EST
Netflix Inc. is defending against calls to rope foreign over-the-top...
Daniel Boudreau moves from TVA to CBC
Media | 01/21/2019 2:54 pm EST
Daniel Boudreau, previously vice-president of TVA productions, operations and technology, is leaving the Quebecor Inc. broadcasting division to become executive vice-president of media technology and infrastructure services at...
Fast-track OTT review, clock ticking on CMF ‘top-up’: CMPA
Media | 01/18/2019 10:41 am EST
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) wants the government to...
Big telecoms fight calls for an ‘ISP tax’, pitch new OTT rules
telecom | 01/16/2019 5:55 pm EST
Some of Canada’s biggest telecom companies rejected calls to force ISPs...
Platforms could pull out of Canadian market if regulated: Google
Media | 01/16/2019 2:17 pm EST
Alphabet Inc.’s Google already contributes to the Canadian creative...
CBC calls for site-blocking provisions for ‘manipulated content’
Media | 01/11/2019 4:09 pm EST
CBC/Radio-Canada wants the federal government to grant the CRTC the ability...
CRTC dismisses bias complaint against Bell Fund
Media | 01/08/2019 5:37 pm EST
The CRTC has dismissed in part a complaint lodged against BCE Inc.’s Bell Fund earlier this year by a coalition of media producers including CBC/Radio Canada and Blue Ant Media Inc., which alleged bias in how it decides on distributing funding.
The complainants had...
CBC’s head of sports Greg Stremlaw to leave
telecom | 01/08/2019 12:37 pm EST
CBC/Radio-Canada’s head of sports Greg Stremlaw is leaving the public broadcaster at the end of the...
CBC hires Torstar’s Claude Galipeau
Media | 12/18/2018 3:32 pm EST
Canada’s public broadcaster has hired Torstar Corp.’s Claude Galipeau as its executive vice-president of corporate development.
The chief revenue officer of Torstar will join CBC/Radio-Canada on Jan. 7, 2019, the...
Telecoms argue extending workplace safety to third-party locations ‘absurd’
telecom | 12/10/2018 3:14 pm EST
OTTAWA -- Two of Canada’s largest telecoms and CBC/Radio-Canada told the Supreme Court on Monday that it’s “absurd” and “illogical” for a court to force them to ensure the safety of an...
Michel Bissonnette to be interim CBC vice-president
Media | 11/28/2018 5:02 pm EST
Michel Bissonnette, the executive vice-president of Radio-Canada, has been named interim head of CBC,...
Bell emphasizes original, ‘boots on the ground’ content for ethnic licence
telecom | 11/27/2018 8:35 pm EST
GATINEAU, QUE. -- Seeking to differentiate itself from other applicants, BCE Inc. said it would not outsource, and commit to limit dubbing over, ethnic and third-language...
Most content pirates have TV subscriptions: MTM
Media | 11/15/2018 5:19 pm EST
More than half, or 59 per cent, of Canadians who pirate TV and movie content also have a TV subscription, according to a new report from Media Technology Monitor (MTM). “This likely indicates that pirating content has to do...
Broadcasters ‘perfectly positioned’ to leverage podcast boom
Media | 11/08/2018 6:43 pm EST
TORONTO — Broadcasters should think about renting out their own studios...
Heather Conway leaving CBC
Media | 11/05/2018 1:18 pm EST
CBC/Radio-Canada’s executive vice-president of English-language services, Heather Conway, is leaving the public broadcaster next month, the Crown corporation announced...
CBC names new ombudsman
Media | 11/02/2018 5:22 pm EDT
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...
Most Canadians concerned with ‘fake news’ in next election: MTM
Media | 10/30/2018 5:55 pm EDT
A year away from the next federal election, a majority of Canadians are...
Steve Ladurantaye leaving CBC for Scottish broadcaster STV
Media | 10/15/2018 12:52 pm EDT
Steve Ladurantaye is leaving CBC/Radio-Canada after two and a half years at...
Only 3% of anglophones subscribe to sports streaming: MTM
Media | 10/11/2018 5:42 pm EDT
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...
Ad sales up 6%, but CBC still wants out of ‘softening’ ad market
Media | 10/11/2018 4:14 pm EDT
CBC/Radio-Canada saw a nearly six per cent boost in its total ad revenue...
Court reversal of Wholesale Code to have little effect: CCSA
Media | 10/02/2018 5:09 pm EDT
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...
Big telecoms ask MPs for beefed up anti-piracy measures
Media | 09/27/2018 12:37 pm EDT
Some of the battles taking place before the CRTC related to site-blocking...
Feds paid $190,000 in late-fees to telecoms: documents
telecom | 09/21/2018 6:31 pm EDT
The federal government spent at least $190,600 on late-payment fees and...
Senators asked to champion net neutrality in comms laws review
Media | 09/18/2018 6:38 pm EDT
OTTAWA -- Lawmakers need to make net neutrality a major priority and...
CBC appoints new OTT content director
Media | 08/24/2018 4:08 pm EDT
CBC/Radio-Canada has appointed Gave Lindo to lead the public broadcaster’s over-the-top (OTT) content...
A quarter of English-speaking Canadians listen to podcasts
Media | 08/21/2018 4:35 pm EDT
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 podcasting has been on the rise this year. The downloadable audio shows available on services like Apple Inc.’s iTunes, Alphabet Inc.’s Google Play Music and TuneIn Inc. have re-emerged as a key format of on-demand content. Canadian media companies like Rogers Communications Inc., Quebecor Inc., Corus Entertainment Inc., and BCE Inc. are looking to increase their presence in the podcasting...
Telecoms ask to intervene in SCC workplace safety case
telecom | 08/10/2018 4:56 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. and BCE Inc. are among a number of organizations...
OPC to look into face-scanning mall kiosks
telecom | 08/07/2018 2:27 pm EDT
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) will join Alberta’s provincial privacy watchdog...
CPC Heritage critic Van Loan leaving politics
Media | 07/30/2018 2:25 pm EDT
Heritage shadow minister Peter Van Loan will no longer be an MP as of Sept. 30, according to a statement...
Joly out at Heritage as Pablo Rodriguez named new minister
Media | 07/18/2018 5:00 pm EDT
Former chief government whip Pablo Rodriguez is the new heritage minister,...
Smart speaker adoption rate at 8% in Canada: MTM
telecom | 07/13/2018 2:12 pm EDT
Eight per cent of Canadians own a smart speaker, which is about in line with adoption of other early...
OTT co-productions trending up: study
Media | 06/26/2018 12:41 pm EDT
Domestic and international content producers and over-the-top (OTT) services are continuing to partner...
Industry should know Canadians concerned about sales practices: Bains
telecom | 06/14/2018 1:35 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said Thursday afternoon that...
Canadians using multiple devices, but adoption leveling off: MTM
Media | 06/08/2018 6:29 pm EDT
According to the latest data from CBC/Radio-Canada’s Media Technology Monitoring (MTM) project, 35 per cent of English-speaking internet users in Canada continue to own four types of electronic...
Nantel accuses Joly of holding cultural sector ‘hostage’
Media | 06/07/2018 1:23 pm EDT
NDP Heritage critic Pierre Nantel took Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly to task for launching another consultation Tuesday instead of proposing legislative change, during Joly’s appearance at the House heritage committee Thursday morning.
“I think it is absolutely...
Media sector, senator back change to ad tax exemption
Media | 06/06/2018 3:47 pm EDT
OTTAWA — A proposal to eliminate a tax exemption for advertising on foreign digital media received...
Luce Julien named executive director of Radio-Canada news
Media | 05/25/2018 3:24 pm EDT
Luce Julien, a 23-year veteran of CBC/Radio-Canada, will become...
Radio listening drops, very slightly: MTM
Media | 05/25/2018 2:45 pm EDT
A new Media Technology Monitor (MTM) report says 87 per cent of anglophone Canadians reported listening...
Change Bell Fund rules, media companies ask
Media | 05/15/2018 7:08 pm EDT
On Monday, the CRTC published a complaint from a group of media production companies including...
NFB, Bell Media, V Media content coming to Tou.tv OTT service
Media | 05/08/2018 1:49 pm EDT
Three French-language broadcasters will make their content available on the CBC/Radio-Canada-run Ici Tou.tv Extra over-the-top (OTT) platform, according to a release on Tuesday.
BCE Inc., Groupe V Media Inc., and the provincial public broadcaster Tele-Quebec, along with...
AggregateIQ denies whistleblower claims to ethics committee
telecom | 04/24/2018 5:39 pm EDT
OTTAWA — The heads of West Coast-based software developer AggregateIQ...
Hey Siri, 39% of Canadians are talking to their electronics: MTM
telecom | 04/19/2018 6:14 pm EDT
Virtual assistants are beginning to take hold in Canada, with almost 40 per...
New CEO’s content background indicates shift at CBC: experts
Media | 04/03/2018 5:19 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Catherine Tait’s appointment as head of CBC/Radio-Canada is...
Radio-Canada asks broadcasters ‘to pool our strengths’ on OTT, content
Media | 03/16/2018 10:02 am EDT
CBC/Radio-Canada is in negotiations over opening up its French-language...
UofO teases consumer tools for wireless services
telecom | 03/07/2018 8:06 pm EST
OTTAWA — Tools to better inform consumers of their rights when purchasing wireless services are under...
Olympic audiences slightly down from 2014, CBC stats show
Media | 03/01/2018 2:46 pm EST
CBC/Radio-Canada’s coverage of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Games drew 31...
Don’t allow white space devices above 608 MHz, ISED hears
telecom | 02/22/2018 5:59 pm EST
Innovation Canada (ISED) is hearing from both telecoms and broadcasters that it should go ahead with its proposal to limit white space devices to bands below 608 MHz, though for very different...
Bell asking employees to support FairPlay at CRTC: report
Media | 02/21/2018 12:53 pm EST
BCE Inc. is allegedly encouraging its employees to submit comments to the...
Ian Morrison steps down from watchdog Friends
Media | 02/12/2018 1:27 pm EST
Ian Morrison, the co-founder of Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, is handing over the reins of the organization after 32 years leading the watchdog.
He’ll remain on the board of directors as Daniel Bernhard takes over as executive director and spokesman of the group,...
Cross-industry coalition calls for website-blocking
Media | 01/29/2018 6:21 pm EST
A broad coalition made up of Canada’s largest telecoms and broadcasters, as well as groups representing...
31% of Canadians ‘extremely concerned’ about fake news: MTM
Media | 01/12/2018 2:51 pm EST
Nearly half of Canadians are concerned to some degree about the consequences of the phenomenon of fake news, with 31 per cent saying they are “extremely concerned,” according to a new report from...
As its TV ad revenue drops, Corus says ad tech is the future
Media | 01/10/2018 6:05 pm EST
Corus Entertainment Inc. executives emphasized their optimism about future...
PIAC asks CRTC to investigate telecom sales practices
telecom | 01/08/2018 5:26 pm EST
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has written to CRTC chairman Ian Scott asking him to launch an inquiry into telecom companies’ sales practices. PIAC asked the CRTC in a Jan. 8 letter to look into “the revelations...
Rogers, CBC ink 7-year deal for HNIC NHL broadcast
Media | 12/19/2017 6:31 pm EST
Rogers Communications Inc. and CBC/Radio-Canada signed a seven-year sub-licensing deal for the broadcasting rights of Hockey Night in Canada’s Saturday night hockey game and the Stanley Cup playoffs, Rogers said in a press release on Tuesday.
This follows the one-year...
Five new directors named to CBC board
Media | 12/19/2017 5:22 pm EST
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly named five new members to the CBC/Radio-Canada board of directors for five-year terms, said a Tuesday press release. Harley Finkelstein, the chief of operations for Shopify Inc., René Légère,...
BPF registers to lobby amidst consumer group funding concerns
Media | 12/14/2017 2:25 pm EST
A few months after the emergence of a proposal asking the CRTC to shift...
CBC digital expansion ahead of schedule
Media | 12/11/2017 2:58 pm EST
CBC/Radio-Canada has achieved its goal of doubling its digital reach more than two years early, the...
CSE activities under C-59 may weaken encryption tools: CCLA
telecom | 12/07/2017 5:24 pm EST
OTTAWA — Parliamentarians debating Bill C-59 will have to come to grips...
CBC launches $5 a month premium OTT service
Media | 12/05/2017 4:20 pm EST
In a memo to its employees on Monday, CBC/Radio-Canada announced it has improved its over-the-top (OTT)...
CSE ‘actively working’ with telecoms on SS7
telecom | 11/28/2017 5:45 pm EST
The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) has been providing “advice and guidance” to telecoms on a security vulnerability found on mobile network infrastructure known as signalling system...
Goodale offers telecoms a hand in network security, SS7
telecom | 11/24/2017 5:53 pm EST
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said the country’s telecoms can...
Cell phone only households predict modern behaviour: MTM
telecom | 11/03/2017 4:21 pm EDT
Cell phone only households, meaning those that use only mobile phones and no landline, are growing across Canada and are a good indication of a series of modern habits, said a report published...
Broadcast lobbying jumped ahead of Creative Canada release
Media | 10/24/2017 6:20 pm EDT
Creative organizations stepped up and added to a surge in lobbying activity in the broadcast sector leading up to the release of the results in the Heritage Minister’s review of Canadian content in the digital age last month.
September saw 22 communications reports...