OTTAWA–The CRTC is improving its process to be more responsive to its various stakeholders, the commission chair said Monday. Vicky Eatrides was the opening speaker at the annual conference of the International Institute of Communications Canadian Chapter.
“A key...
While calling it an "improvement" over both the current existing private-sector privacy law and a "step in the right direction", Canada's federal privacy watchdog has called for a number of changes to Bill C-27, or the Digital Charter Implementation Act.
Chief among the...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) told the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications...
The Senate Committee on Transport and Communication continued its study of...
On the day the CRTC released its timeline for the public consultations that...
Sir Nicholas Clegg’s reversal of an agreement to appear before the House...
With Bill C-18, the Government's plan to have news organizations negotiate rates of compensation with internet platforms, before the Senate for review, Alphabet Inc.'s Google...
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced Wednesday that the...
The chair of the Senate's Transport and Communications committee Tuesday expressed annoyance that as the...
Less than two months after the launch of an...
The government’s Online News Act will not regulate the media nor will it require internet users to pay...
Stakeholders who submitted responses to the federal government’s...
Senior executives of Alphabet Inc.’s Google appeared before the House of...
In a decision several years in the making, a Federal Court judge has rejected an application from Canada's federal privacy watchdog, which alleged that the social media giant had violated the Personal...
The Conservatives are keeping up their battle against the government’s...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) and TekSavvy Solutions Inc. have both rowed in behind Quebecor Inc. in a complaint the regional competitor filed against BCE...
Canada's federal privacy watchdog has opened an investigation into OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT...
Telus Corp. has gotten an extension -- though not as long as the company...
The new regime at the CRTC met with general approval Wednesday from...
Canadian carriers that offer fixed broadband...
Public broadcasting advocacy group Friends is “frustrated” that the federal government has left out the CBC/ Radio-Canada from its 2023 budget, released Tuesday....
Execulink Telecom Inc. has withdrawn a Part 1 application before the CRTC...
Auditor General Karen Hogan released a quartet of reports on the...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says he is not worried that...
The Competition Bureau Wednesday released its recommendations regarding...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google will stop limiting consumer access to news links...
The CRTC Wednesday made good on newly-minted chair...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is rejecting a Senate amendment...
A Toronto MP is looking to introduce legislation that will cover the use of...
The House of Commons Heritage committee voted Tuesday to summon top executives from Alphabet Inc.'s Google to appear before the committee on Mar. 6, days after the Canadian Press reported that the tech giant had begun blocking some news content in response to the...
The Online News Act, Bill C-18, will “fundamentally change the...
CRTC chair Vicky Eatrides announced in a Wednesday press release that the...
While the letter from Heritage Minister Pablo...
The federal government Wednesday announced that the department of Canadian...
MISSISSAUGA – Criticism of Telus Corp.’s location data program, used by the federal government during the COVID-19 pandemic, was fueled by misinformation because the media...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and CRTC chair Ian Scott were...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google was an island of defiance in a sea of praise for...
A survey commissioned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada found that most...
As the House of Commons Heritage committee Tuesday...
The government’s plan to force social media platforms to negotiate...
Senators should use privacy provisions in the Telecommunications Act as a template for protecting users of online content, the Privacy Commissioner said. Philippe Dufresne was speaking to the Senate...
The Senate’s upcoming review of the Online...
The ministers of Canadian Heritage and Intergovernmental Affairs,...
The removal of problematic content online remains a heavily debated issue for experts consulted on Canada’s controversial online harms bill.
Friday, the expert...
Incoming Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne vowed to stay the course,...
Canada’s online harms panelists are looking at...
Rogers Communications Inc. believes that the site-blocking remedy the...
Representatives of Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms...
Digital creators are wary of the government’s claim that amendments to the Broadcasting Act will not include them. The current legislation, Bill C-11, is too vague, the...
The Canadian government has allocated $2.5 million to help people identify...
Ontario’s former privacy commissioner called the Public Health Agency’s...
Internet and criminal justice experts sounded the alarm on a proposed...
The government needs to rethink its approach to regulating harmful content...
The government placed legislation to change the Broadcasting Act on the...
Canada’s attempts to control internet content and online harms will be a...
OTTAWA–The House of Commons Ethics committee voted unanimously Thursday...
The federal government intends to create a new Digital Safety Commissioner...
Editor’s note: This article contains descriptions of sexual assault.
The onus to protect individuals depicted in child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and non-consensual...
An organization with the aim of keeping an open and affordable internet is...
