The Office of the Privacy Commissioner is the third best workplace in the federal public service, a new poll has found. The results of the 2022 Public Service Employment Survey were released earlier this month and published in The Wire Report's affiliated publication The...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s proposal to change its condition of licence (COL) by expanding the definition of programs of national interest (PNI) must be “dismissed...
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...
The Forum for Research and Policy in...
The CRTC is seeking comments on whether it should consolidate several...
Other governments and private sector companies are joining in the boycott of Meta Platforms Inc. after it announced plans to block Canadian news from Facebook and Instagram. Meta’s move came in response to the passage of the Online News Act.
Last week, the federal government announced it was halting all advertising on the platforms. Quebecor Inc. and Cogeco Inc. made similar announcements at the same time.
Since then, the government of Quebec and several cities...
APTN has applied to the CRTC to consolidate its four channels into two, one...
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...
The CBC is requesting the CRTC amend its conditions of licence (COL),...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has announced it will be removing Canadian news links from its websites.
The...
Local independent news stations want to exclude...
Meta Platforms Inc. said it will no longer provide news on social media...
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to amend the conditions of...
Quebecor Inc. has reversed itself and will not be suspending TVA’s newscasts in Quebec City on weekends...
The CRTC denied SiriusXM Canada Inc.’s request for relief from its Canadian content development (CCD) contributions on the grounds that in-person cultural events have “largely recovered” since Spring 2022, and, alternatively, it can make its discretionary contributions...
Quebecor Media Inc. is asking the CRTC to remove some of the conditions of...
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...
Several trade unions representing Canadian media...
The proposed financial threshold for exemption for online streaming...
Approximately 1,300 BCE Inc. employees will be left without a job, six radio stations closed and three sold due to “a challenging regulatory environment,” the company...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Meta Platforms Inc.’s move to block news content on its platform is...
Sunday in Banff saw the launch of Canadian Broadcasters for Sustainability, a consortium of 22...
In a Thursday ruling, the Federal Court of Appeal sided with Société...
The federal government is spending $5.5 million to create the Canadian Digital Media Research Network...
Revenues and subscriber growth featured prominently in Stingray Group Inc.’s quarterly report...
Tuesday the Senate Transport and Communications Committee continued its...
Spokespeople for Alphabet Inc.’s Google expressed further concerns they...
Monday Horizon Media Canada released a report that found TikTok is facing a crisis in trust due to the bad press it has been receiving of late. There are concerns that the Chinese-owned platform may be sharing users’ private...
The government has extended the term of Catherine Tait as president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada. She will now stay on until Jan. 2, 2025. She has served in the role since July 2018, the first woman to do so in the history of the public broadcaster.
In a news release...
A group of consumer advocacy organizations have received some support for...
Quebecor Inc. has won a copyright infringement case against a trio of...
Corus Entertainment Inc. has written to the CRTC asking whether or not that the company will be allowed...
CBC/Radio-Canada has received several letters of support in its attempt to delay a mandated consultation...
In a back-and-forth between CBC/Radio-Canada on when the broadcaster should have to launch a consultative process with Indigenous peoples as part of the CBC’s conditions of...
A coalition of 12 different public sector and public interest groups have...
A House of Commons committee is calling for the Minister of Canadian Heritage to ban Chinese state media...
A Federal Court of Appeal judge has dismissed an attempt by BCE Inc.,...
OTTAWA–Delegates to the International Institute of Communications...
OTTAWA–The CRTC is improving its process to be more responsive to its...
Now that the Online Streaming Act has become law, the CRTC is launching a...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) told the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications...
Wednesday the CRTC announced it had allowed new area code overlays for...
The Senate Committee on Transport and Communication continued its study of the Online News Act, Bill C-18, Tuesday with most participants endorsing the government’s bill and one witness vehemently opposed.
Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard, condemned...
Sir Nicholas Clegg’s reversal of an agreement to appear before the House...
OTTAWA–As the Liberal Party of Canada gathers in the capital for its...
A Part 1 application has officially been opened...
After months of contentious debate, Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, has become law. The Senate voted...
Rogers Communications Inc. released its first quarterly report since it was granted approval to take over Shaw Communications Inc.
The numbers, presented Wednesday, were robust and delighted market analysts. Later during the day, the company announced it would enter the...
Senior executives of Alphabet Inc.’s Google appeared before the House of...
Former Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains has been appointed Rogers Communications Inc.'s chief corporate...
CBC/Radio-Canada is asking the CRTC to give it more time before holding a required consultation with...
The Conservatives are keeping up their battle against the government’s...
A group of six consumer and public advocacy organizations is asking the CRTC to step in to restructure a Rogers Communications Inc. payment to...
Fiscal 2023 will be an "especially challenging" year for Corus...
The new regime at the CRTC met with general approval Wednesday from...
Public broadcasting advocacy group Friends is “frustrated” that the...
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) is calling for a boycott of six major retailers it accuses of using non-union actors in its commercials. One of the boycotted firms is Rogers Communications Inc.
Advertising agencies in this country...
The CRTC won’t force Quebecor Inc. into final...
The CRTC has adjusted how it considers the use of stock footage for the...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says he is not worried that...
The CRTC has issued the broadcasting licence fees for the 2023-2024 fiscal year. The estimated total...
Thursday the Supreme Court announced it was allowing an appeal by a group of media into the unsealing of information about the conviction of a police informer. In February 2022 the informant’s conviction appeal was allowed but details were not released in redacted form...
The CRTC Thursday approved a radio broadcasting license for Piikani Resource Development Ltd. on behalf...
Members of the Senate are calling on the CBC/Radio-Canada to maintain its...
Broadcasting arbitrator Monica Song has updated her list on the amount of...
The CRTC released two commissioned reports on the changing nature of the...
The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday it had dismissed a leave to...
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that it is...
The House of Commons Heritage committee voted Tuesday to summon top...
A New Democrat representing a border city wants the CRTC to review...
Quebecor Inc.’s efforts to reach all wholesale and MVNO access agreements with BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. has proved to be difficult according to the company’s president and CEO.
Pierre Karl Péladeau made the comment Thursday on a fourth quarter conference call with...
The CRTC is reopening its proceeding into whether or not BCE Inc., Cogeco Inc., Bragg Communications...
The Online News Act, Bill C-18, will “fundamentally change the...
The CRTC announced that it will publish the data collected in its Annual...
After years of consideration, the CRTC determined that Yellowknife, NWT...
During Tuesday’s Question Period, two Conservative MPs from Quebec took up the cause of mandatory consultation with the province for the Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11. The provincial government is seeking talks with its federal counterparts over provisions of the...
Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion has found that...
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne says...
Monday the federal government outlined new policy directions for the CRTC, with an emphasis on...
The battle over the government’s Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11,...
OTTAWA–Streaming is the way of the future, a panel told the Canadian...
OTTAWA– An Amazon Inc. Prime Video executive has...
In its first notable broadcasting decision under...
OTTAWA–Australia has followed a different path to film and television...
OTTAWA – The Senate officially adopted the Online Streaming Act, a year to the day since it was first introduced in the House of Commons.
The vote passed Thursday...
Rogers Communications Inc. will not need more financing from the capital...
OTTAWA — The Business Development Bank of Canada...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez Monday announced the appointment of...
All eyes are on Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, who is the last line of defense for...
Commissioner of Competition Matthew Boswell said Tuesday his agency will not take the fight against the takeover of Shaw Communications Inc. by Rogers Communications Inc. to the Supreme Court. The announcement came hours after the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) dismissed the Competition Bureau’s (CB) appeal of a Competition Tribunal ruling allowing the merger to proceed....
The purpose of the CRTC is to achieve policy...
Tuesday afternoon the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed with costs the...
Monday the CRTC opened up the radio market in Joliette, Que., calling for...
The CRTC Tuesday approved a proposal for an FM station serving La Crete, Alta. Two years ago the...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced late-Monday night the passing of...
Monday the CRTC approved an application by Malayalam Commercial Radio Inc. for a low-power commercial...
Corus Entertainment Inc. president and CEO Doug Murphy said an “advertising recession” is the cause...
Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, is a necessary tool to update...
BCE Inc. announced Friday that the company was partnering with Snap Inc. – the producer of Snapchat – to create what the companies are calling a "unique immersive experience" for fans of the Toronto Raptors.
For fans who attend Raptors home games in Scotiabank Arena...
