Members of Parliament from the Bloc Québécois and the NDP indicated that both parties will support the Liberal Government's new effort to overhaul the Broadcasting Act as it...
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 without reliable and accurate local news and information", while Quebecor Inc.’s CEO is saying the CRTC has to loosen its regulatory burdens on Canadian companies if it wants to...
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...
Conservative MP and Heritage Critic John Nater...
Canada’s Privacy Act needs to be updated, Privacy Commissioner Daniel...
A Supreme Court of British Columbia judge has...
The government needs to rethink its approach to regulating harmful content...
BCE Inc’s overall revenue crept up 1.8 per cent, up to $6.21 billion from $6.1 billion, from this time...
OTTAWA -- Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodríguez called previous...
Friends, formerly known as Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, announced Wednesday that Marla Boltman has...
The government placed legislation to change the Broadcasting Act on the...
Quebecor Inc., organizations supporting Canada music and radio sector, as well as the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) are all opposing a proposal by a Montreal-based...
The CRTC has opened a proceeding in response to a BCE Inc. November...
The CRTC has received widespread support for a new community ethnic FM...
Rogers Communications Inc. reported a 10 per cent...
Canada’s attempts to control internet content and online harms will be a...
The CRTC Wednesday approved the transfer of two English-language AM radio stations in the Atlantic provinces to the FM band.
In Campbellton, New Brunswick, CKNB will shift to the 100.7 frequency. Operated by Maritime Broadcasting System Ltd., the station follows an Adult...
A controversial artificial intelligence and facial recognition software...
On Monday the CRTC granted a licence to a new community FM station on Salt...
The addition of Shaw Communications Inc.'s Freedom Mobile brand, should Shaw be forced to sell it off by...
Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy reiterated a long-standing call...
Shaw Communications Inc. saw a 20.2 per cent increase in its net earnings this quarter, jumping from $163...
A Montreal-based media and entertainment company is expanding in the U.S....
The CRTC has changed the deadline for the Canadian Administrator of Video Relay Service Inc. (CAV) to...
The Court of Appeal for British Columbia upheld a...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez is expected to introduce news compensation legislation in early 2022, after he was directed to do so by Prime Minister Justin...
The CRTC denied a Quebec organization representing...
The CRTC is calling for comments on the appropriateness of granting...
Numerous interveners of the CRTC's Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
OTTAWA – Veteran Liberal MP Hedy Fry was elected chair of the House of Commons committee on Canadian...
A Federal Court judge has denied an application by the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association to intervene in an ongoing fight between the federal privacy watchdog and...
Parliament has established its committees for the new session, with the...
The CRTC released figures on described video in 20 categories to mark the International Day of Persons...
The Broadcasting Accessibility Fund is awarding some $371,000 to four new...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the appointment of parliamentary secretaries Friday with Chris...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Thursday afternoon that Robert Dépatie is joining the company as...
Rogers Communications Inc. has declined to adjust its calculation of the...
Rogers Communications Inc. executives told the...
No amount of proposed remedies will undo the damage of Rogers...
On the third day of CRTC hearings into the proposed takeover of Shaw Communications Inc. by Rogers Communications Inc., Cogeco Inc.’s Paul Beaudry quoted from a Rogers intervention during BCE Inc.’s application to take over Astral Media in 2012.
“The issue is market...
Lobby group OpenMedia is disappointed that Tuesday’s Speech from the...
Telus Corp. executives told the CTRC that if the...
Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. (CPAC) is...
Canadian Heritage minister Pablo Rodriguez says revisions to the...
Top brass from Shaw Communications Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. sought to convince CRTC officials that a merger of their two companies would be a boon for Canadian television programming in the face of increased competition from U.S.-based over-the-top streaming...
Telesat Corp. is now trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ, as it builds its network of...
The Canadian government should broaden its consultation over its online harms bill, a Wednesday Canadian...
The Tuesday night announcement of the departure of Rogers Communications...
The CRTC has approved an application by Pattison Media Ltd. to acquire the broadcasting assets of Merritt...
The CRTC has denied a request by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and the National Pensioners...
The CRTC is calling for comments on a series of FM radio applications in smaller markets across the...
One of Canada’s telecom incumbents is urging the...
A Conservative MP who was outspoken on the revised Broadcasting Act, Bill...
The CRTC released its semi-annual report on Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) on Tuesday. The commission had over 154,406 complaints from Apr. 1 to Sept. 30 this year. That works out to an average of 5,939 per week.
Looking at the submissions, the regulator found...
Formerly ousted and now-reinstated Rogers...
Telus Corp. expects to have its legacy copper network out of commission...
John Raines will be joining Telus Corp.’s agriculture division as president effective Nov. 29, the...
The CRTC approved applications by Quebecor Media Inc.’s Videotron and...
The CRTC found that a Quebec-based independent broadcasting company is in compliance with its broadcasting exemption order despite taking several months to distribute some required local channels and to provide relevant information to consumers.
Thursday, the commission released a decision in which it found that 9303-4338 Québec Inc. (Oxio) is in compliance with the broadcasting distribution undertaking (BDU) exemption order -- which sets out the terms and conditions...
Bell reported a slight increase in overall revenue of $49 million or 0.8...
The Canadian government is “expanding the...
Rogers Communications Inc.'s regulatory team can present the company's...
A test-case for Canada's first-ever "dynamic" site-blocking order is headed...
A Quebec Superior Court judge has rejected an application by Alphabet...
A group representing Francophone and Acadian musicians outside Quebec has...
The CRTC is ordering two telecommunications companies to cough up Canadian programming contribution...
Lawyers for Edward Rogers are arguing that the recently ousted chairman of...
Shaw's overall revenue increased 2.1 per cent in the fourth quarter, up to $1.38 billion from 1.35 billion a year ago, while its profit rose by 44 per cent, up to $252 million...
Two new faces will be stepping into critic roles...
BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., and Quebecor Inc. have turned to...
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is expanding its News Showcase program, announcing Wednesday that it has signed...
Satellite operator, Telesat Corp. appointed an executive in the...
OTTAWA -- MP Pablo Rodriguez is back in familiar territory as he is once again appointed the Minister of Canadian Heritage.
The news came in a Tuesday press release a few...
A trio of Canada's biggest broadcasters has asked the Federal Court for a...
Public Works and Government Services Canada awarded the RCMP’s “national cybercrime solution”...
The CRTC ordered Rogers Communications Inc. to...
The CRTC approved an application by Telus Corp. to...
The Federal Court has ordered Alphabet Inc.'s Google to turn over a number...
Corus Entertainment Inc. expects to see a...
In the latest twist in an increasingly public rift in one of Canada's...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Joe Natale said...
A Federal Court injunction stopping the Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) from issuing licenses for set-aside spectrum won by Quebecor Inc. in...
The Competition Bureau has asked a Federal Court...
NDP MP Charlie Angus is calling on the incoming Liberal cabinet to...
The CRTC will be keeping an eye on technical...
A Federal Court judge has granted intervenor status to the...
The CRTC has granted Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. -- more widely known as CPAC -- the right to appear at the regulator's hearings into the proposed merger between Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc., scheduled for Nov. 22.
In an Oct. 7 letter to...
The CRTC Friday rejected an application for a broadcast license to operate...
The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) has...
The CRTC is holding a consultation to determine a series of applications...
The not-for-profit organization that manages Canada’s .CA domains says...
While the Canadian government is busy collecting $8.9 billion dollars from...
A federal court judge has fined a pre-loaded set top box seller $40,000 for being in contempt of an...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Wednesday evening that CFO Tony Staffieri has left his post after...
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is appealing a July court decision that determined...
The site-blocking order that will block a rolling list of pirate streaming sites during NHL games sought by a trio of hockey broadcasters requires new legal safeguards, given...
