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TV revenues recover while radio continues decline: CRTC report

Media | 08/23/2022 5:03 pm EDT

44.5% of under-30 households don’t have TV: report

Television revenues are rebounding from the pandemic slump while revenues in radio continue to take a hit, the CRTC said Tuesday in its annual report on the broadcast industry. The greatest increase was for digital media broadcasting undertakings (DMBUs). The report...

CRTC Radio Television

OUTtv licence renewed, becomes must-offer in English Canada

Media | 08/18/2022 5:05 pm EDT

OUTtv

Thursday the CRTC renewed the licence of OUTtv Network Inc. for five years and said it should be on must-offer status in English Canada for four years. That wasn’t good enough for one commissioner. The LGBTQ+-themed network had asked for must-offer coverage across both...

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AG won’t fight CMPA’s application for leave to appeal CBC license

Media | 08/11/2022 3:22 pm EDT

CBC, CRTC still viewed as keepers of Canadian identity: study

The Attorney General of Canada will not make any representations for itself...

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CMPA files petition to cabinet on CBC license

Media | 08/08/2022 6:57 pm EDT

Broadcasters need mandated contributions: CMPA

The Canadian Media Producers Association, with support from parties across the television and film...

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PIAC, pensioners want cabinet to overturn CRTC’s CBC licence renewal

Media | 08/05/2022 3:45 pm EDT

CBC, CRTC still viewed as keepers of Canadian identity: study

The National Pensioners Federation and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre...

Cbc CRTC Television

VMedia purchase will sweeten Freedom deal for regulators: Quebecor’s PKP

Media | 08/04/2022 5:37 pm EDT

Videotron still actively pursuing Freedom Wireless, Péladeau says

Quebecor Inc.’s president and CEO has said the company’s recent...

Competition bureau Quarterly Reports Quebecor

Bell, Rogers and TV creators triumph over pirates

Media | 08/03/2022 5:25 pm EDT

44.5% of under-30 households don’t have TV: report

A consortium of broadcasters and rights-holders have won an opening salvo of a fight against a television pirate in the Federal Court. BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. were joined in the court action by Columbia Pictures Industries Inc., Disney Enterprises Inc.,...

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Rogers profit soars based off roaming and subscriber adds in second quarter

Media | 07/27/2022 4:59 pm EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise division

Rogers Communications Inc. reported a soaring profit margin for the...

Quarterly Reports Rogers

Sarnia, Ont., won’t see new radio stations for at least 2 years: CRTC

Media | 07/27/2022 2:32 pm EDT

Sarnia, Ont., won’t see new radio stations for at least 2 years: CRTC

The CRTC denied a request filed by Sarnia Media and Entertainment Inc....

CRTC Music streaming Radio

After outage, Rogers vows to separate wireless and wireline networks; critics not impressed with CRTC response

Media | 07/25/2022 7:45 pm EDT

After outage, Rogers vows to separate wireless and wireline networks; critics not impressed with CRTC response

The July 8 nationwide Rogers Communications Inc....

CRTC Internet Rogers

Gov. announced 11 projects, with $2.4M funding, to combat disinformation

Internet and Governance | 07/21/2022 4:11 pm EDT

Gov. announced 11 projects, with $2.4M funding, to combat disinformation

The ministers of Canadian Heritage and Intergovernmental Affairs,...

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CNOC supports proposed policy direction, with “minor changes”

Media | 07/19/2022 10:38 am EDT

STB data measurement complex task, group says

The Competitive Network Operators of Canada has lent its full-throated...

CRTC

SCC determines users shouldn’t pay for royalties twice under Copyright Act

Media | 07/15/2022 5:07 pm EDT

SCC determines users shouldn’t pay for royalties twice under Copyright Act

The Supreme Court of Canada says Canada’s Copyright Act “does not exist...

CBC says CRTC decision on French N-word threat to journalistic independence; issues apology to complainant

Media | 07/13/2022 4:28 pm EDT

CBC, CRTC still viewed as keepers of Canadian identity: study

Editor's note: for clarity, this story makes...

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Quebec hotel company asks CRTC to mandate negotiations with Bell

Media | 07/11/2022 5:43 pm EDT

Quebec hotel company asks CRTC to mandate negotiations with Bell

A Quebec-based hotel accused of copyright infringement is asking the CRTC...

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Quebec class-action goes after Google for $50 million

Media | 07/11/2022 5:25 pm EDT

Quebec class-action goes after Google for $50 million

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...

Privacy

SOCAN sues Quebecor for $1.44M

Media | 07/11/2022 12:59 pm EDT

SOCAN sues Quebecor for $1.44M

The Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is suing Quebecor Inc. for...

Competition Bureau not satisfied with Freedom divestiture to Quebecor

Media | 07/06/2022 9:55 am EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise division

In a Wednesday morning joint statement, Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...

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Rovi Guides infringement case against Bell, Ericsson companies will move ahead

Media | 07/05/2022 5:23 pm EDT

Rovi Guides infringement case against Bell, Ericsson companies will move ahead

A Federal Court judge has dismissed an attempt by BCE Inc. and Ericsson AB...

Bell

Radio-Canada personalities say mandated apology for using French N-word is censorship

Media | 07/04/2022 5:29 pm EDT

CBC, CRTC still viewed as keepers of Canadian identity: study

More than 50 personalities for CBC/...

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Corus revenue up, profit down

Media | 06/29/2022 5:18 pm EDT

Corus revenue up, profit down

For the three months that ended on May 31, Corus Entertainment Inc.'s overall revenue was up to $433.5 million from $403 million this time last year, according to the company's third quarter results released Wednesday. Television revenue was up to $404.1 million from $379.8 million a year ago. Radio revenues were also up to $29.3 million from $23.2 million at the close of the third quarter last year. Advertising revenue was up to just under $238 million from $233.2 million last year, while subscriber revenue climbed...

Corus Quarterly Reports

Court finds Videotron did not violate Rovi patents

Media | 06/27/2022 4:26 pm EDT

Videotron asks for extension on Unlimited Music finale

The Federal Court dismissed a digital entertainment company’s lawsuit alleging that Quebecor Inc.’s...

Quebecor Television

Advocates concerned about CBC licence renewal

Media | 06/23/2022 6:59 pm EDT

CBC board postings extended

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...

PIAC looking at legal options after Heritage says GIC has no jurisdiction in Rogers-Shaw petition

Media | 06/23/2022 6:56 pm EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise division

In a letter from the Deputy Minister of Canadian...

CRTC Rogers Shaw

Scott says platforms may be asked to ‘manipulate’ algorithms for Canadian discoverability

Media | 06/23/2022 10:49 am EDT

Intent of C-11 is to exclude digital creators: CRTC chair

The CRTC chair has said that social media...

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CRTC grants CBC flexibility for push to digital

Media | 06/22/2022 6:45 pm EDT

CBC, CRTC still viewed as keepers of Canadian identity: study

The CRTC has granted a sweeping flexibility that paves the way for CBC/Radio-Canada to shift toward a...

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C-11 heads to Senate, over Conservative objections, after passing third reading in the House of Commons

Media | 06/21/2022 6:15 pm EDT

44.5% of under-30 households don’t have TV: report

With the NDP and the Bloc Québécois supporting...

CRTC Internet

Rodriguez lashes out at Online Streaming Act critics, Senate begins study

Media | 06/17/2022 3:44 pm EDT

Rodriguez lashes out at Online Streaming Act critics, Senate begins study

Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked Conservative party...

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Gov. tables three-headed private sector privacy reform bill

Media | 06/16/2022 5:45 pm EDT

BREAKING: Feds ban Huawei from 5G networks

Touting it as a "historic day" at an afternoon press conference, Innovation...

Privacy Smartphones

Senate committee rejects Gov. threshold for border cell phone search bill

Media | 06/13/2022 5:56 pm EDT

Senate committee rejects Gov. threshold for border cell phone search bill

The Senate's National Security and Defence Committee has pushed back against the government's effort to establish a legally novel threshold for the search of personal digital...

Privacy

The border is a “perfect storm” for discrimination in cell phone search bill: Citizen Lab fellow

Media | 06/08/2022 4:55 pm EDT

Senators asked to champion net neutrality in comms laws review

The government's effort to convince...

Privacy Smartphones

CRTC looks at improving telecom services in Far North

Media | 06/08/2022 4:21 pm EDT

CRTC looks at improving telecom services in Far North

The CRTC announced it was initiating a proceeding to improve telecommunications services in Canada’s...

CRTC Indigenous Rural broadband

Rodriguez slams Tories for misinformation on Online Streaming Act

Media | 06/07/2022 3:45 pm EDT

Election 2019: watch for price caps, Netflix regs, Huawei ban

Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked the opposition for...

Bill C-11 Cancon

Punish hotel broadcaster who infringed on copyright: Bell tells CRTC

Media | 06/07/2022 3:31 pm EDT

44.5% of under-30 households don’t have TV: report

BCE Inc. is supporting a Quebecor Inc. application for the CRTC to revoke...

Bell Quebecor Television

ISED launches mmWave consultation

Media | 06/06/2022 5:21 pm EDT

ISED launches mmWave consultation

The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development has launched its consultation on the framework for the auction of mmWave spectrum bands, alongside proposed measures to "promote competition, foster innovation and ensure providers use their spectrum in a timely manner," the department announced in a Monday afternoon release. The auction is planned to take place in 2024 and submissions to the proposed framework are due Sep. 6, with reply comments due a month later on Oct. 7. “Our government...

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Foreign streamers wary of CRTC power under Online Streaming Act, CHPC told

Media | 06/02/2022 4:53 pm EDT

Foreign streamers wary of CRTC power under Online Streaming Act, CHPC told

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...

C-11 needs to incentivize a new era of foreign-domestic partnerships: Bell

Media | 06/02/2022 2:54 pm EDT

C-11 needs to incentivize a new era of foreign-domestic partnerships: Bell

BCE Inc. wants the government to incentivize foreign-domestic partnerships...

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Intent of C-11 is to exclude digital creators: CRTC chair

Media | 06/01/2022 6:01 pm EDT

Intent of C-11 is to exclude digital creators: CRTC chair

CRTC chair Ian Scott told the House of Commons Heritage Committee Tuesday...

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Tim Hortons app violated privacy laws: privacy watchdogs

Media | 06/01/2022 5:48 pm EDT

Tim Hortons app violated privacy laws: privacy watchdogs

Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons violated national privacy law because...

Internet Privacy Smartphones

Next CRTC chair must be bilingual: Rodriguez

Media | 05/31/2022 6:42 pm EDT

Election 2019: watch for price caps, Netflix regs, Huawei ban

The Minister of Canadian Heritage has assured the House of Commons that the next chair of the CRTC will...

CRTC

C-11 will “hang over the system until Supreme Court has spoken” over jurisdiction: Palmer

Media | 05/31/2022 6:29 pm EDT

C-11 will “hang over the system until Supreme Court has spoken” over jurisdiction: Palmer

A former senior general counsel at the Department...

CRTC Internet Netflix

Disney questions CanCon under Bill C-11, ACTRA says bill reduces foreign requirement to use Canadian talent

Media | 05/30/2022 6:15 pm EDT

Disney questions CanCon under Bill C-11, ACTRA says bill reduces foreign requirement to use Canadian talent

A Walt Disney Company executive is questioning...

Bill C-11 Cancon CRTC

Rogers-Shaw deal on hold until Competition Tribunal proceeding

Media | 05/30/2022 5:20 pm EDT

Rogers sued by Competition Bureau over alleged false advertising in ‘unlimited’ data plans

Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. have reached an...

Rogers Shaw

CRTC dismisses Bell complaint that Videotron Vrai HVOD service violates regulations

Media | 05/30/2022 4:53 pm EDT

CRTC dismisses Bell complaint that Videotron Vrai HVOD service violates regulations

The CRTC has found that Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron did not contravene its regulations or video-on-demand exemption order, after BCE Inc. filed a complaint that the company...

Bell CRTC Quebecor

New legislation needed to cover growing privacy issues: Therrien

Media | 05/26/2022 4:07 pm EDT

Privacy commish vows more ‘proactive enforcement’

Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien is calling for new legislation that...

OPC Privacy

On Rogers-Shaw, focus shifts to network sharing agreements

Media | 05/25/2022 6:12 pm EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise division

As the Competition Bureau takes Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...

Quebecor Rogers Shaw

Scott is wrong to think the CRTC can handle C-11: former CRTC vice-chair; Unifor wants local news fund added

Media | 05/24/2022 5:44 pm EDT

U.S. NAFTA consult targets CanCon, copyright, data rules

Former CRTC vice-chair Peter Menzies has claimed...

Music streaming Netflix

Bill C-11 could be fully implemented within two years of receiving Royal Assent: CRTC chair

Media | 05/19/2022 5:19 pm EDT

CRTC changes position on MVNOs, proposes mandated access

The CRTC will take at least two years to fully...

Bill C-11 Broadcast Cancon

Canadian politicians condemn Russian shuttering of CBC Moscow bureau

Media | 05/19/2022 4:13 pm EDT

Election 2019: watch for price caps, Netflix regs, Huawei ban

Canadian politicians were quick to condemn Russia’s move to close the CBC/Radio-Canada’s bureau in Moscow in retaliation for the removal of RT, the state-sponsored Russian...

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For Indigenous media, C-18 “totally useless” and C-11 needs more: Dadan Sivunivut CEO

Media | 05/18/2022 5:30 pm EDT

CCSA decries Shaw’s plan to cut satellite service

Former APTN and current Dadan Sivunivut CEO has...

c-18 News Compensation Unlock

Heritage committee calls for rejection of Rogers-Shaw deal

Media | 05/18/2022 4:34 pm EDT

ARIN asks Parliament to require ISPs to maintain Whois info

The House of Commons Heritage committee is arguing against the merger of...

CRTC Rogers Shaw

Court dismisses Telus challenge to Quebecor set-aside acquisitions in 3,500 MHz auction

Media | 05/18/2022 3:27 pm EDT

Court dismisses Telus challenge to Quebecor set-aside acquisitions in 3,500 MHz auction

A federal court judge has dismissed a challenge...

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News Forum granted licence, denied mandatory distribution

Media | 05/17/2022 5:09 pm EDT

As CRTC rejects FairPlay, proposal could move to legislative reviews

Tuesday the CRTC granted a broadcast licence for a discretionary service to...

CRTC

Comp. laws are too focused on price: Lawson Hunter

Media | 05/16/2022 7:21 pm EDT

Comp. laws are too focused on price: Lawson Hunter

Canada's competition laws have become too sensitive to price, particularly in mergers, and should instead...

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Freedom of expression regulation concerns on C-11 are “silly”: CRTC’s Scott

Media | 05/16/2022 6:55 pm EDT

Freedom of expression regulation concerns on C-11 are "silly": CRTC's Scott

CRTC chair Ian Scott told conference attendees...

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Tories put forward motion to kill Bill C-18, send “subject matter” to committee

Media | 05/13/2022 5:12 pm EDT

Tories put forward motion to kill Bill C-18, send “subject matter” to committee

Conservative MP John Nater wants the Liberal government to withdraw its...

c-18 Cancon CRTC

Liberal MPs say Tories faking outrage over Bill C-11, defend CRTC as regulator

Media | 05/12/2022 6:53 pm EDT

Liberal MPs say Tories faking outrage over Bill C-11, defend CRTC as regulator

Liberal MP Mark Gerretsen decried the fake outrage he said the...

Bill C-11 Cancon CRTC

“A very strong opening” to Shaw-Rogers Competition Tribunal proceeding: former Competition Bureau advisor

Media | 05/12/2022 5:49 pm EDT

Rogers sued by Competition Bureau over alleged false advertising in ‘unlimited’ data plans

The recent move by Canada's competition watchdog to block the pending acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc by Rogers Communications Inc. shows that the bureau is "aiming...

Quebecor Rogers Shaw

Tories attack C11, Grits compare it to CanCon regulations

Media | 05/11/2022 6:11 pm EDT

Tories attack C11, Grits compare it to CanCon regulations

The Conservatives continue to lambaste the government for the Online...

Cancon CRTC

Email spam and lack of consent top list for biggest spam complaints: report

Media | 05/11/2022 6:02 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

Canadians are sending approximately 6,459 complaints per week to the Spam...

CRTC

Telus and IBG row in behind NPF-PIAC petition against Rogers-Shaw CRTC approval

Media | 05/10/2022 4:53 pm EDT

Rogers requests extension for Wireless Code changes

A joint petition to cabinet from the National Pensioners Federation and the...

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CMPA enters fight for passage of Online Streaming Act

Media | 05/10/2022 3:13 pm EDT

CRTC releases described video statistics

The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) has entered the battle to pass Bill C-11, the Online...

Bill C-11 Cancon

Comp. Bureau moves to block Rogers-Shaw merger; Quebecor “has apparently entered the process”: analyst

Media | 05/09/2022 4:32 pm EDT

Rogers requests extension for Wireless Code changes

The Competition Bureau has filed an application with the Competition Tribunal seeking a "full block" of the proposed acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. by Rogers...

Quebecor Rogers Shaw

Tories denounce Bill C-11 while Bloc defends it

Media | 05/06/2022 4:08 pm EDT

Big telecoms fight calls for an ‘ISP tax’, pitch new OTT rules

Debate continued in the House of Commons Thursday on the Online Streaming Act, known as Bill C-11....

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Quebecor asks CRTC to punish hotel broadcasters

Media | 05/06/2022 2:53 pm EDT

44.5% of under-30 households don’t have TV: report

In the wake of a Federal Court ruling that determined a trio of companies that had established a private...

CRTC Quebecor Television

CRTC issues accessibility reporting timetables

Media | 05/05/2022 4:57 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

Thursday the CRTC released the schedule for broadcasters and telecommunications companies to report under...

CRTC

Tory MP attacks government for advertising on foreign media instead of local

Media | 05/05/2022 4:41 pm EDT

ARIN asks Parliament to require ISPs to maintain Whois info

Conservative MP Martin Shields castigated the government for advertising on...

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Rogers-Shaw merger benefiting wireless industry as a whole in 2022: Bell CEO

Media | 05/05/2022 4:35 pm EDT

MVNO decision arrives at a ‘tipping point’: Bell CEO

When it comes to Canada's wireless market this year, there are a number of...

Bell Television Wireless

Integrity Commissioner refers TekSavvy’s Scott complaint to Ethics Commissioner

Media | 05/05/2022 3:20 pm EDT

TekSavvy seeks permission to appeal CRTC rates decision, CNOC asks for public support

Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Joe Friday...

Bell CRTC ian

Quebec and French Canadian artists will be the losers if social media is unregulated, conference hears

Media | 05/04/2022 6:15 pm EDT

44.5% of under-30 households don’t have TV: report

A Canadian cultural policy that adopts a...

Cancon CRTC Internet

Telus hasn’t completely lived up to its broadcast license obligations: CRTC

Media | 04/29/2022 4:19 pm EDT

Roaming revenue not expected to fully recover until 2022: Telus CFO

The CRTC has admonished Telus Corp. for not entirely fulfilling its...

CRTC Telus

Senator calls for greater broadband access to First Nations

Media | 04/29/2022 3:29 pm EDT

Throne speech reiterates rural broadband, web giant promises

A Saskatchewan senator called on the government to do more to ensure internet connectivity is extended to First Nations reserves. Senator Marty Klyne pointed out that current standards are for 50 megabits per second (Mbps) download and 10 Mbps upload. “Those upload...

Indigenous Rural broadband

Singh calls for halt of Rogers-Shaw merger, PIAC appeals to cabinet

Media | 04/27/2022 4:38 pm EDT

Singh calls for halt of Rogers-Shaw merger, PIAC appeals to cabinet

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh called once again for the government to disallow...

CRTC Rogers Shaw

Facebook lied in Security Committee: Rodriguez

Media | 04/27/2022 4:28 pm EDT

Election 2019: watch for price caps, Netflix regs, Huawei ban

Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has said the Government is not backing down from its legislative effort...

Internet Privacy

Facebook doesn’t rule out blocking news content if C-18 passes, docs reveal telecom opposition to online harms framework

Internet and Governance | 04/26/2022 5:43 pm EDT

Big telecoms fight calls for an ‘ISP tax’, pitch new OTT rules

Representatives of Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms...

c-18 Facebook Internet

CRTC approves new television rebroadcaster in British Columbia

Media | 04/22/2022 2:39 pm EDT

CRTC approves new television rebroadcaster in British Columbia

Friday the CRTC approved an application by the Burns Lake & District...

CRTC Radio

Rogers boss won’t confirm Xplornet ‘rumours’

Media | 04/20/2022 4:59 pm EDT

Rogers requests extension for Wireless Code changes

Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri declined to comment on what he called "rumours" that the company – alongside Shaw Communication Inc. – have presented a plan to the federal government that would see Xplornet Communications Inc. take over Shaw's Freedom...

Internet Rogers Wireless

Cogeco still waiting on MVNO terms and conditions, reports increase in Q2 revenue and profits

Media | 04/14/2022 4:45 pm EDT

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3

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...

UPDATED: Cabinet upholds CRTC MVNO decision; petitioner calls it an “easter egg” for Big Three

Media | 04/14/2022 3:03 pm EDT

UPDATED: Cabinet upholds CRTC MVNO decision; petitioner calls it an "easter egg" for Big Three

The cabinet has declined to overturn or send back...

CRTC MVNO Unlock

Corus profit margins lower, citing end of CEWS.

Media | 04/08/2022 5:01 pm EDT

Corus profit margins lower, citing end of CEWS.

Corus Entertainment Inc.'s profits were hit by the loss of approximately $12 million in wage subsidies...

Corus Radio Television

Budget devotes new funding to CRTC and to journalism initiatives

Media | 04/07/2022 4:07 pm EDT

Budget devotes new funding to CRTC and to journalism initiatives

In a federal government that is mostly targeted towards new spending on...

CRTC

Corus sells over 400 episodes of different series to Hulu

Media | 04/07/2022 3:31 pm EDT

CRTC releases described video statistics

Corus Entertainment Inc.’s Corus Studios announced Thursday it has sold...

Corus Streaming

Google says online age verification difficult to implement, up to content providers not search engines

Media | 04/06/2022 6:20 pm EDT

Google says online age verification difficult to implement, up to content providers not search engines

The implementation of age verification online is a...

Google Internet

Scott says CRTC will never regulate user-generated content under current Bill C-11

Media | 04/05/2022 3:30 pm EDT

Scott says CRTC will never regulate user-generated content under current Bill C-11

The CRTC is generally supportive of Bill C-11, the revised broadcasting...

CRTC

UPDATED: Gov. launches Online News Act, will mandate bargaining between outlets and web giants for compensation

Media | 04/05/2022 1:06 pm EDT

Photo via Pxhere showing laptop with fake news

New legislation from the Government of Canada will...

Cancon CRTC Internet

Facial recognition technology needs human intervention, hand coding, experts tell Ethics committee

Media | 04/04/2022 6:00 pm EDT

Shaw poised for boost from new iPhones

Facial recognition technology (FRT) needs human oversight to avoid egregious errors in the legal system according to panelists who testified before the House of Commons’...

Artificial intelligence Privacy

Hate groups need legislative stops on fundraising, security committee hears

Media | 03/31/2022 7:50 pm EDT

Extremist groups are able to propagate their message and raise funds...

CRTC Internet

Panelists tell government to reform the CRTC

Media | 03/30/2022 7:14 pm EDT

50/10 Mbps standard just fine, CanWISP members say

GATINEAU, Que.--The CRTC came in for a drubbing at two panels Wednesday at the annual conference of the...

CRTC Internet Television

CBC license administratively renewed, full decision to come by late June

Media | 03/29/2022 3:56 pm EDT

CBC, CRTC still viewed as keepers of Canadian identity: study

The CRTC has issued an administrative renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada's...

Cbc CRTC Radio

CRTC approves Arsenal, Cogeco, radio swap

Media | 03/25/2022 2:42 pm EDT

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3

The CRTC approved two separate applications by Cogeco Inc. and Arsenal Media which would essentially see...

Cogeco CRTC Radio

Digital creators may still be subject to C-11, Heritage Committee told

Internet and Governance | 03/24/2022 5:26 pm EDT

ARIN asks Parliament to require ISPs to maintain Whois info

Digital creators are wary of the government’s claim that amendments to the Broadcasting Act will not include them. The current legislation, Bill C-11, is too vague, the...

Cancon CRTC

UPDATED: CRTC approves Rogers-Shaw broadcasting acquisition

Media | 03/24/2022 4:33 pm EDT

Rogers needs Shaw to sell CanCon alongside OTT services

The CRTC has approved Rogers Communications Inc.'s acquisition of Shaw...

BREAKING CRTC Rogers

Supreme Court dismisses TekSavvy appeal of GoldTV site-blocking order

Media | 03/24/2022 1:28 pm EDT

Supreme Court dismisses TekSavvy appeal of GoldTV site-blocking order

Updated with TekSavvy reaction. The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday...

Bell Rogers Television

Union files for mediation in talks with Cogeco

Media | 03/21/2022 5:44 pm EDT

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3

Cogeco Inc. has two different labour disputes brewing, according to the union representing two different...

Cogeco

Put national moratorium on facial recognition for law enforcement, lawyer tells HoC committee

Media | 03/21/2022 5:01 pm EDT

Shaw poised for boost from new iPhones

The Canadian government should place a national...

Privacy

CNOC makes appeal to CRTC chair personally

Media | 03/18/2022 3:36 pm EDT

Bell, Rogers defend sales practices to CRTC

The industry group Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) has sent a letter personally addressed...

cnoc CRTC

CRTC issues broadcasting licence fees

Media | 03/17/2022 3:23 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

Thursday the CRTC released its broadcasting licence fees for the 2022-2023 fiscal year. The net...

CRTC Television

CRTC removes RT from list of channels authorized for distribution, citing “abusive comment” provisions

Media | 03/16/2022 5:19 pm EDT

CRTC removes RT from list of channels authorized for distribution, citing "abusive comment" provisions

Russian state-owned media outlets RT and RT France...

CRTC Television

Federal government spends $2.5m to battle disinformation

Internet and Governance | 03/16/2022 3:17 pm EDT

Federal government spends $2.5m to battle disinformation

The Canadian government has allocated $2.5 million to help people identify...

Cancon Radio Television

Rogers, civil groups, say CRTC should remove Russian state-owned channels from airwaves

Media | 03/09/2022 4:27 pm EST

Rogers, civil groups, say CRTC should remove Russian state-owned channels from airwaves

Rogers Communications Inc. and civil organizations told the CRTC that in addition to Russia Today and Russia Today France (collectively, RT) it should remove all state-owned...

CRTC Television