The Superior Court of Quebec has authorized a class-action lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.'s Google for allegedly failing to obtain "sufficient consent" from individuals who do not require the creation of a Google account to collect their personal information when they use its...
The Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is suing Quebecor Inc. for $1.44 million the group says it is owed in unpaid royalties for three months in 2018.
In a statement of claim filed in Federal Court on July 5, SOCAN argued that Quebecor's Vidéotron improperly withheld the royalty money for five months in 2018 in violation of an agreement signed that year between SOCAN and the broadcaster.
According to SOCAN's claim, Vidéotron withheld the money because the broadcaster said it...
In a Wednesday morning joint statement, Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
A Federal Court judge has dismissed an attempt by BCE Inc. and Ericsson AB...
More than 50 personalities for CBC/...
For the three months that ended on May 31, Corus Entertainment Inc.'s overall revenue was up to $433.5...
The Federal Court dismissed a digital entertainment company’s lawsuit alleging that Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron infringed on its interactive television program guide (IPG) patents because the technology is part of the common knowledge of a skilled person.
The court also...
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...
In a letter from the Deputy Minister of Canadian...
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...
The Senate's National Security and Defence Committee has pushed back...
The government's effort to convince parliamentarians to lower the threshold for the searching of cell phones and laptops at border crossings is based in "the fiction that data...
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 policy told MPs on Tuesday.
“Some believe we want to avoid all regulation,” YouTube's head of Canada government affairs and public policy Jeanette Patell told the House of...
BCE Inc. wants the government to incentivize foreign-domestic partnerships...
CRTC chair Ian Scott told the House of Commons Heritage Committee Tuesday...
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...
The CRTC has found that Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron did not contravene its...
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien is calling for new legislation that would cover consent issues, forbid widespread data collection, hold collectors accountable and permit audits by his office.
He laid out these prescriptions in a speech to the International...
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 said that two pieces of government legislation aimed at regulating online platforms to benefit Canadian media is not doing...
The House of Commons Heritage committee is arguing against the merger of...
A federal court judge has dismissed a challenge...
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...
The recent move by Canada's competition watchdog...
The Conservatives continue to lambaste the government for the Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11, while the Liberals maintain the Tories are misrepresenting the legislation and compare it to the Canadian Content regulations brought in 50 years ago. The Conservatives have vowed...
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. Conservative and Bloc Québécois MPs were the speakers.They took opposite approaches to the bill. The Tories worry about censorship and government overreach while the...
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...
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...
A Saskatchewan senator called on the government to do more to ensure...
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh called once again for the government to disallow the Rogers Communications Inc. takeover of Shaw Communications Inc., saying it is not in the public...
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 and conditions for the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service and the negotiation of reasonable rates with the incumbents.
CEO Philippe Jetté told analysts in a Thursday morning quarterly...
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...
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...
Facial recognition technology (FRT) needs human...
Extremist groups are able to propagate their message and raise funds because Canada does not have legislation that prevents it, the House Committee on Public Safety and...
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 Communications Inc.'s broadcasting assets, meaning that the companies have now cleared the first of three regulatory hurdles on the way to cementing the merger.
In a Thursday afternoon release after...
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...
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...
Rogers Communications Inc. and civil organizations...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri has said that last week's announcement from Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne, in which he said he would not allow the 'wholesale' transfer of Shaw Communications Inc.'s spectrum assets to Rogers as part of the...
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 meet high journalistic standards,” and the Online Streaming Act should be amended to ensure...
For the second time in the span of a year, the...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday afternoon that the...
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...
Interim Conservative leader Candice Bergen shuffled her shadow cabinet on Tuesday, moving some MPs into...
The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development announced Thursday that it would allocate some $80 million to the National Cybersecurity Consortium to establish the Cyber Security Innovation Network.
"In order to expand Canada's national cyber security...
