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 (CDMRN), it was announced Wednesday. The organization will combat disinformation and will promote digital literacy in this country. It will be administered by the Media...
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...
A group of consumer advocacy organizations have received some support for their call for a restructuring of the Rogers Communications Inc. tangible benefits payment to shore...
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...
The federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner has filed notice that it intends to appeal last month's decision from the Federal Court striking down its challenge to Facebook's data collection practices.
In a notice of appeal filed with the court on Friday, the OPC...
OTTAWA–The CRTC is improving its process to be more responsive to its...
While calling it an "improvement" over both the current existing private-sector privacy law and a "step...
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 will shape how the regulator will implement the newly passed Online Streaming Act, Quebecor Inc....
Sir Nicholas Clegg’s reversal of an agreement to appear before the House...
With Bill C-18, the Government's plan to have news...
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 Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), Canada's private sector privacy law, in its data harvesting in the incident known as the Cambridge Analytica...
The Conservatives are keeping up their battle against the government’s...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) and TekSavvy Solutions...
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 industry representatives speaking for small players. The final day of the Canadian Association of Wireless Internet Service Providers (CanWISP) annual conference in Gatineau featured a panel titled...
Canadian carriers that offer fixed broadband...
Public broadcasting advocacy group Friends is “frustrated” that the...
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 on Bill C-11 that would, according to the senators, clarify that only professional music will be...
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...
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 Rodriguez to newly-appointed CRTC chair Vicky Eatrides contains some encouraging language about consumer protection and...
The federal government Wednesday announced that the department of Canadian...
MISSISSAUGA – Criticism of Telus Corp.’s...
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 Streaming Act will be a good opportunity to clear up "misinformation" circulated by opponents of the bill and dive into concerns...
The ministers of Canadian Heritage and Intergovernmental Affairs,...
The removal of problematic content online remains...
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 company – along with BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. – won through the federal courts in recent months can be used in the future application of the government's planned legislation aimed at combating online...
Representatives of Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms...
Digital creators are wary of the government’s claim that amendments to...
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 to call Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam and Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos to explain why...
The federal government intends to create a new Digital Safety Commissioner...
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An organization with the aim of keeping an open and affordable internet is...
