Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne says he will not be forced into a decision on the takeover of Shaw Communications Inc. by Rogers...
Monday the federal government outlined new policy directions for the CRTC, with an emphasis on competition, affordability, consumer interests and innovation. Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne first declared his intention to bring in the new measures last May....
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 production that could be a lesson for Canadian producers. That message was delivered at the Canadian...
OTTAWA – The Senate officially adopted the Online Streaming Act, a year...
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...
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 applications for a new FM station in the region. The process was spurred on by a 2021 request from Arsenal Media Inc. seeking a second FM station in the city.
Arsenal currently operates CJLM-FM in...
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 Canada’s broadcasting laws, the CRTC commissioner for Manitoba and Saskatchewan told a conference on...
BCE Inc. announced Friday that the company was partnering with Snap Inc....
Former CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein has been appointed a member of the Order of Canada. The honour...
Ian Scott's tenure as chair of the CRTC comes to a close Thursday. The Wire Report sat down with Scott to...
The CRTC has denied Quebecor Inc.’s request to sanction Coopérative de...
Canada’s Competition Tribunal is dismissing the Commissioner of...
As spectators await the release of a decision in the takeover of Shaw...
In a dispute between Rogers Communications Inc....
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez Monday morning announced the...
In the drama that has unfolded in front of the Competition Tribunal over the past month, as the tribunal hears arguments on whether or not it should approve Rogers...
The ministers most responsible for telecom and broadcasting policy in Canada are pledging to follow...
A report issued by a Carleton University professor asserts that revenue from communications and internet access services and subscription services far surpass advertising revenues. They outstrip the...
An application by four companies to hike the price of basic television...
The CRTC has revised its rules for Canadian content in commercial radio. In...
The Senate Transport and Communications Committee defeated two amendments on Tuesday that would have struck the “exemption to the exemption” on user generated content (UGC) in the Online Streaming Act. The committee is currently undertaking clause-by-clause study of C-11.
The controversy surrounding the proposed updates to the Broadcasting Act regards Section 4.1 of...
The CRTC announced Monday that it will hold proceedings in February to consider six applications before...
The committee studying the Online News Act...
Supporters and opponents of the Online Streaming Act alike have their eyes...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and members of his department were the final witnesses as the...
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee’s clause-by-clause review of...
MISSISSAUGA – CRTC chair Ian Scott said he does not know what the state of the CRTC’s finances will look like in future but the commission is “fine” for the moment as it prepares to take on a...
The first day of the House of Commons’ Heritage...
CRTC chair Ian Scott told members of the Senate Committee on Transport and Communication that the...
Canadians have been sending slightly fewer complaints per week to the Spam Reporting Centre (SRC), according to a bi-annual report issued by the CRTC.
Thursday, the CRTC released its Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) “snapshot” for the six-month period ending...
Indigenous broadcasting stakeholders proposed amendments to the Online...
The CRTC has extended the deadline for interventions on a consultation...
The second week of the Competition Tribunal's hearing into whether or not...
Arguments began Thursday in a Federal Court case that would see pirated...
Service and sales improved when Shaw Communications Inc. bought Wind Mobile in 2016 and rebranded it as Freedom Mobile, but they went into decline over uncertainty about Shaw’s takeover by Rogers Communications Inc.
Sudeep Verma, who once owned 19 Freedom shops in the...
Canada’s Online News Act could serve as a template for countries around...
Telus Corp. reported a 9.9 per cent increase in its overall revenues for the three months that ended on...
BCE Inc. reported what it said were record subscriber additions in the third quarter of 2022, according...
Quebecor Inc. released its third quarter figures...
Legislation that would force digital giants like...
A collection of labour unions appeared before the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications...
Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, came out swinging against...
Hopes that the government’s Online Streaming Act would receive quick...
Tandy Yull is returning to the Canadian Association of Broadcasters as Vice President, Policy and Regulatory Affairs. She arrives from the CRTC, where she was Senior Manager of Alternative Dispute Resolution. Yull was the CAB’s Manager of Television Policy and Social...
The CRTC announced Thursday it was extending the deadline for interventions...
The organization representing independent companies providing cable TV and...
Financial analysts reacting to Tuesday's announcement from Innovation...
OTTAWA–Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, is so upset that...
Whether or not enough content is produced in Canada by the likes of Netflix Inc., Walt Disney Co., or Amazon.com Inc. is a less important question than whether that content --...
The emerging ad-hoc regime of site-blocking in...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and CRTC chair Ian Scott were...
Corus Entertainment Inc. revealed a $367.1 million...
The chair of the Senate Transport and...
The former Vice Chairperson of the CRTC and a media company president...
Telus Corp. and BCE Inc. have accused Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
A survey commissioned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada found that most...
CRTC chair Ian Scott issued a statement on Thursday over the controversy...
New Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre revealed a revamped shadow cabinet on Wednesday, shuffling many MPs into new positions.
Alberta MP Rachael Thomas is the new...
The question over the place of algorithms and...
The CRTC is seeking comments on whether or not it should allow Quebecor...
Executives from the French-language music group...
An Alberta Senator is claiming his privileges as a parliamentarian were...
Netflix Inc., and the Motion Picture Association - Canada (MPA-Canada), of which it is a member, told the Senate committee studying the Online Streaming Act, that it must be...
by Jenna Cocullo
At the frontier of the future...
The executive director of Digital First Canada...
A Prince Edward Island senator told his colleagues he wants to bring in a...
As the House of Commons Heritage committee Tuesday...
The Senate Committee on Transportation and Communications continued its...
The government’s plan to force social media platforms to negotiate...
The federal government is sending the CRTC's renewal of...
The Rouyn-Noranda market cannot support another...
Multinational streaming platforms continue to decry the influence of the CRTC in the Online Streaming Act, calling for two amendments, while representatives of the Canadian music industry say Bill C-11 is needed as written to protect local content producers. The Senate Committee on Transportation and Communications continued to hold hearings into the bill Wednesday night....
While both support the Online Streaming Act and would like to see it passed, executives from APTN and OutTV would like to see more added to the bill to strengthen their...
BCE Inc. has once more gone to the federal court seeking an injunction against a number of unidentified, John Doe pirate streamers.
In a statement of claim filed with the court on Thursday, Bell...
Canadian broadcasting executives, from companies...
The idea that the CRTC is capable of handling the...
Rogers Communications Inc. wants competition commissioner Matthew Boswell to explain exactly what "difficulties" Québecor Inc.’s Vidéotron will allegedly face with the...
Rogers Communications Inc. is arguing to the CRTC...
The Federal Court of Appeal found that the CRTC...
In a Sept. 6 letter, the CRTC has accepted a request from Rogers Communications Inc. for final offer...
Broadcasting arbitrator Monica Song has released the schedule for free-time...
The CRTC has opened a Part 1 proceeding after BCE...
The Senate’s upcoming review of the Online...
The CBC/ Radio-Canada’s English services may have a target on its back, depending on who wins the...
CRTC Thursday launched a website where Canadians can participate in a newly designed, streamlined version...
Canada’s Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner will not be opening an investigation into CRTC chair Ian Scott’s 2019 beer with BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic having found...
