Public interest advocacy groups and the union representing CBC/Radio-Canada workers are sounding the alarm about the level of programming discretion afforded to the public broadcaster under the five year licence renewal released by the CRTC Wednesday.
The licence, which allows the broadcaster to spread its expenditure requirements out across its digital and linear platforms and contains no minimum expenditure requirements on linear television, could have a...
In a letter from the Deputy Minister of Canadian Heritage Isabelle Mondou, the Governor in Council (GIC) has declined to intervene in the CRTC’s decision to allow the...
The CRTC chair has said that social media...
The CRTC has granted a sweeping flexibility that paves the way for CBC/Radio-Canada to shift toward a...
With the NDP and the Bloc Québécois supporting...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked Conservative party...
Touting it as a "historic day" at an afternoon press conference, Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne Thursday announced the launch of a suite of privacy reforms aimed at updating Canada's private sector privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and...
The Senate's National Security and Defence Committee has pushed back...
The government's effort to convince...
The CRTC announced it was initiating a proceeding to improve telecommunications services in Canada’s...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked the opposition for...
BCE Inc. is supporting a Quebecor Inc. application for the CRTC to revoke...
The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development has launched its consultation on the...
Alphabet Inc.'s YouTube believes the provisions of Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, give too much power to the CRTC to regulate content, the company’s head of government affairs and public...
BCE Inc. wants the government to incentivize foreign-domestic partnerships...
CRTC chair Ian Scott told the House of Commons Heritage Committee Tuesday that Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, is needed to modernize Canada’s broadcast sector. The Broadcasting Act from 1991 did a lot of good but stands out as a product of its time, he said.
“I...
Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons violated national privacy law because...
The Minister of Canadian Heritage has assured the House of Commons that the next chair of the CRTC will...
A former senior general counsel at the Department...
A Walt Disney Company executive is questioning...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. have reached an agreement with the Competition Bureau on a preliminary injunction for their proposed merger until the case is heard and decided by the Competition Tribunal.
The Competition Bureau announced the...
The CRTC has found that Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron did not contravene its...
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien is calling for new legislation that...
As the Competition Bureau takes Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
Former CRTC vice-chair Peter Menzies has claimed...
The CRTC will take at least two years to fully...
Canadian politicians were quick to condemn Russia’s move to close the...
Former APTN and current Dadan Sivunivut CEO has...
The House of Commons Heritage committee is arguing against the merger of...
A federal court judge has dismissed a challenge from BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. to Quebecor Inc.'s acquisitions of set-aside spectrum in British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba...
Tuesday the CRTC granted a broadcast licence for a discretionary service to...
Canada's competition laws have become too sensitive to price, particularly in mergers, and should instead...
CRTC chair Ian Scott told conference attendees...
Conservative MP John Nater wants the Liberal government to withdraw its...
Liberal MP Mark Gerretsen decried the fake outrage he said the Conservatives are invoking in opposing Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, as Liberals got a chance to defend...
The recent move by Canada's competition watchdog...
The Conservatives continue to lambaste the government for the Online...
Canadians are sending approximately 6,459 complaints per week to the Spam...
A joint petition to cabinet from the National Pensioners Federation and the...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) has entered the battle to pass Bill C-11, the Online...
The Competition Bureau has filed an application...
Debate continued in the House of Commons Thursday on the Online Streaming Act, known as Bill C-11....
In the wake of a Federal Court ruling that determined a trio of companies that had established a private...
Thursday the CRTC released the schedule for broadcasters and telecommunications companies to report under the Accessible Canada Act. The initial regulations were issued last July.
Eligible parties must file data on feedback processes and descriptions; accessibility plans;...
Conservative MP Martin Shields castigated the government for advertising on...
When it comes to Canada's wireless market this year, there are a number of...
Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Joe Friday...
A Canadian cultural policy that adopts a...
The CRTC has admonished Telus Corp. for not entirely fulfilling its broadcast programming obligations mandated by its 2018 license renewal.
In an April 25 letter to...
A Saskatchewan senator called on the government to do more to ensure...
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh called once again for the government to disallow...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has said the Government is not backing down from its legislative effort...
Representatives of Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms...
Friday the CRTC approved an application by the Burns Lake & District...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri declined to comment on what...
Cogeco Inc. is preparing its entry into Canada’s mobile wireless market but has no definitive timeframe, as it is still contingent on the approval by the CRTC for the terms...
The cabinet has declined to overturn or send back...
Corus Entertainment Inc.'s profits were hit by the loss of approximately $12 million in wage subsidies and regulatory fee relief that didn't recur in 2022, as the consolidated profit margin dropped to 24 per cent from 31 per cent a year ago.
Corus chief financial officer...
In a federal government that is mostly targeted towards new spending on...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s Corus Studios announced Thursday it has sold...
The implementation of age verification online is a...
The CRTC is generally supportive of Bill C-11, the revised broadcasting...
New legislation from the Government of Canada will mandate negotiations between news organizations and global web giants like Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google, in...
Facial recognition technology (FRT) needs human...
Extremist groups are able to propagate their message and raise funds...
GATINEAU, Que.--The CRTC came in for a drubbing at two panels Wednesday at the annual conference of the...
The CRTC has issued an administrative renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada's...
The CRTC approved two separate applications by Cogeco Inc. and Arsenal Media which would essentially see...
Digital creators are wary of the government’s claim that amendments to...
The CRTC has approved Rogers Communications Inc.'s acquisition of Shaw...
Updated with TekSavvy reaction.
The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday...
Cogeco Inc. has two different labour disputes brewing, according to the union representing two different sets of Cogeco employees.
According to a Monday release from the Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique, both the workers for Cogeco Media's 106.9 FM in...
The Canadian government should place a national...
The industry group Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) has sent a letter personally addressed...
Thursday the CRTC released its broadcasting licence fees for the 2022-2023 fiscal year.
The net...
Russian state-owned media outlets RT and RT France...
The Canadian government has allocated $2.5 million to help people identify misinformation and disinformation, it announced Wednesday. The government has the Digital Citizen Initiative (DCI) to build resilience against false data and to support a healthy digital information...
Rogers Communications Inc. and civil organizations...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri has said that last week's announcement from Innovation...
The commission is holding a hearing for two separate applications for a...
The Federal Court of Canada dismissed a motion for summary judgment brought...
Following the issuing of an order-in-council from the cabinet on Wednesday...
The CRTC cannot direct internet service providers (ISPs) to implement age...
Community-owned television outlets “are not producing local news that...
For the second time in the span of a year, the...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday afternoon that the Government is asking the CRTC to "begin the process" of reviewing the presence of the Russian-state funded Russia Today channel on Canadian broadcaster airwaves following last week's invasion of Ukraine by...
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau said that while his company is...
BCE Inc. has acquired Quebec-based internet, telephone and television provider Ebox Inc., the incumbent...
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that Quebecor Inc. provided no...
Canada’s pending news media compensation legislation is based on key...
After long consultation, the CRTC on Wednesday approved the establishment of an annual digital media survey. Under the regulations, all digital media broadcast undertakings (DMBUs) operating in whole or in part in Canada will be required to file information on their activities.
The regime had its genesis in 2018 when Cabinet asked the regulator for a report on future...
Interim Conservative leader Candice Bergen shuffled her shadow cabinet on Tuesday, moving some MPs into...
The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development announced...
Members of Parliament from the Bloc Québécois...
Not-for-profit community news associations are sounding the alarm over the Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. merger, with one stakeholder saying "democracy dies in the dark...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is...
Quebecor Inc. wants BCE Inc.’s request to mandate that Videotron...
The Government of Canada has extended its temporary emergency fund...
Internet and criminal justice experts sounded the alarm on a proposed...
In reviewing mergers and acquisitions Canada's Competition Act should do away with the so-called efficiencies exception, and should enact what are known as structural presumptions to shift the burden to merging parties to prove why a presumptive merger would not harm...
