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Opposition grills Libs over definitive date on suicide hotline implementation, Online Streaming Act

Media | 02/07/2022 5:19 pm EST

Opposition grills Libs over definitive date on suicide hotline implementation, Online Streaming ActConservative MP and Heritage Critic John Nater accused the Liberals of “trying to use 20th-century rules to address the digital world of 2022” in its second attempt to...

Privacy Commissioner advocates update of Privacy Act before Ethics committee

Media | 02/07/2022 4:43 pm EST

Privacy Commissioner advocates update of Privacy Act before Ethics committeeCanada’s Privacy Act needs to be updated, Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien told the House of Commons Ethics Committee Monday, repeating a longstanding call the Privacy...

Few stakeholders fully support Heritage proposal for online harms: report

Internet and Governance | 02/03/2022 7:12 pm EST

Quebec judge approves Apple class action settlementThe government needs to rethink its approach to regulating harmful content...

Bell reports slight revenue uptick 

Media | 02/03/2022 4:36 pm EST

MVNO decision arrives at a ‘tipping point’: Bell CEOBCE Inc’s overall revenue crept up 1.8 per cent, up to $6.21 billion from $6.1 billion, from this time...

Gov. reintroduces Broadcasting Act update, with social media exemption

Media | 02/02/2022 7:32 pm EST

Gov. reintroduces Broadcasting Act update, with social media exemptionOTTAWA -- Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodríguez called previous...

Marla Boltman to head up Friends

Media | 02/02/2022 12:19 pm EST

Marla Boltman to head up FriendsFriends, formerly known as Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, announced Wednesday that Marla Boltman has been appointed as executive director and spokesperson, replacing Daniel Bernhard.  Bernhard left the organization shortly after the 2021 election. “With the imminent arrival of key pieces of legislation, Boltman will serve as a powerful advocate for Canadian voices at a critical time for the country’s cultural media policy,” Friends wrote in its press release.  Boltman will continue to engage Ottawa on...

New Broadcast Act update appears on order paper as Tories oppose move

Internet and Governance | 02/01/2022 6:05 pm EST

Big telecoms fight calls for an ‘ISP tax’, pitch new OTT rulesThe government placed legislation to change the Broadcasting Act on the...

PIAC, Quebecor, music sector, all oppose Stingray financial relief proposal

Media | 02/01/2022 5:08 pm EST

Stingray Music hits 2M downloadsQuebecor Inc., organizations supporting Canada music and radio sector, as...

Quebecor’s Vrai VOD service violates CRTC regs: Bell

Media | 02/01/2022 5:04 pm EST

44.5% of under-30 households don’t have TV: reportThe CRTC has opened a proceeding in response to a BCE Inc. November...

Wide support for new community ethnic station in Winnipeg

Media | 01/28/2022 2:47 pm EST

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPsThe CRTC has received widespread support for a new community ethnic FM...

Staffieri not pleased with cable, Rogers’ profit dip in first quarterly report as CEO

Media | 01/27/2022 5:58 pm EST

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionRogers Communications Inc. reported a 10 per cent...

Regulating internet will be difficult, online panel told

Internet and Governance | 01/26/2022 6:28 pm EST

ISED’s low-income internet program launchesCanada’s attempts to control internet content and online harms will be a...

CRTC approves migration of Atlantic stations from AM to FM

Media | 01/26/2022 3:33 pm EST

CBC, CRTC still viewed as keepers of Canadian identity: studyThe CRTC Wednesday approved the transfer of two English-language AM radio...

Clearview goes to B.C. Supreme Court to fight privacy order

Media | 01/25/2022 6:11 pm EST

OPC will ask court to force changes to Facebook privacy practicesA controversial artificial intelligence and facial recognition software...

CRTC approves community FM station on Salt Spring Island

Media | 01/24/2022 12:25 pm EST

CRTC approves community FM station on Salt Spring IslandOn Monday the CRTC granted a licence to a new community FM station on Salt Spring Island British Columbia. The station will broadcast at 107.9 on the dial with a rebroadcasting transmitter at 102.1. The station will be run by Gulf Islands Community Radio Society (GICRS),...

Cogeco more interested in MVNO than Freedom

Media | 01/14/2022 5:04 pm EST

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3The addition of Shaw Communications Inc.'s Freedom Mobile brand, should Shaw be forced to sell it off by...

CRTC CPE deferral will mean revenue in 2023: Corus CEO

Media | 01/13/2022 5:07 pm EST

CRTC CPE deferral will mean revenue in 2023: Corus CEOCorus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy reiterated a long-standing call...

Shaw reports $33M increase in profit for Q1 2022

Media | 01/12/2022 4:41 pm EST

Plan comes together for TV subs boost in Shaw Q3: MehrShaw Communications Inc. saw a 20.2 per cent increase in its net earnings this quarter, jumping from $163...

Canadian media company expands in States with $59M acquisition

Media | 01/07/2022 4:36 pm EST

Canadian media company expands in States with $59M acquisitionA Montreal-based media and entertainment company is expanding in the U.S....

CRTC revises deadline for CAV funding procedure

Media | 12/22/2021 3:13 pm EST

CRTC revises deadline for CAV funding procedureThe CRTC has changed the deadline for the Canadian Administrator of Video Relay Service Inc. (CAV) to file documents related to funding. This comes as a response to an intervention by the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Coalition (DHH Coalition) asking that CAV file material in...

CRTC denies French-language organization request to intervene late in Rogers-Shaw merger

Media | 12/15/2021 4:53 pm EST

STB data measurement complex task, group saysThe CRTC denied a Quebec organization representing...

CRTC calls for comments on radio licences in three provinces

Media | 12/15/2021 1:05 pm EST

CRTC calls for comments on radio licences in three provincesThe CRTC is calling for comments on the appropriateness of granting...

Interveners not swayed by Rogers-Shaw arguments at CRTC merger hearing

Media | 12/14/2021 6:04 pm EST

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionNumerous interveners of the CRTC's Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...

Hedy Fry new chair of Heritage committee

Media | 12/13/2021 5:43 pm EST

Hedy Fry new chair of Heritage committeeOTTAWA – Veteran Liberal MP Hedy Fry was elected chair of the House of Commons committee on Canadian...

Court rejects BCCLA request to intervene in OPC v. Facebook court case

Media | 12/10/2021 1:20 pm EST

Facebook to penalize false news disseminatorsA Federal Court judge has denied an application by the British Columbia...

MPs appointed to House Industry and Heritage committees

Media | 12/10/2021 12:17 pm EST

Groups diverge on handling of net neutrality in comms lawsParliament has established its committees for the new session, with the...

CRTC releases described video statistics

Media | 12/03/2021 4:58 pm EST

CRTC releases described video statisticsThe CRTC released figures on described video in 20 categories to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Friday. It broke the numbers down into all broadcast day and prime time (7 p.m. to 11 p.m.) and covered the months from September 2019 to February...

Broadcasting Accessibility Fund award $371k to four projects

Media | 12/03/2021 4:57 pm EST

CBC board postings extendedThe Broadcasting Accessibility Fund is awarding some $371,000 to four new...

Trudeau announces parliamentary secretaries

Media | 12/03/2021 4:32 pm EST

Groups diverge on handling of net neutrality in comms lawsPrime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the appointment of parliamentary secretaries Friday with Chris...

Dépatie in as new Rogers home COO

Media | 12/02/2021 5:22 pm EST

Dépatie in as new Rogers home COORogers Communications Inc. announced Thursday afternoon that Robert Dépatie is joining the company as...

Rogers keeps mum on post-ouster Natale consultation fee

Media | 11/30/2021 6:08 pm EST

Rogers needs Shaw to sell CanCon alongside OTT services Rogers Communications Inc.  has declined to adjust its calculation of the...

No evidence suggests foreign streamers will enter into exclusivity with Rogers, incumbent tells CRTC 

Media | 11/26/2021 5:08 pm EST

No evidence suggests foreign streamers will enter into exclusivity with Rogers, incumbent tells CRTC Rogers Communications Inc. executives told the CRTC that there is no evidence to suggest that its merger with Shaw Communications Inc. would result in content exclusivity with...

Safeguards can’t justify Rogers-Shaw merger: Bell to CRTC

Media | 11/25/2021 6:35 pm EST

Bell warns about some Apple Watch 911 capabilitiesNo amount of proposed remedies will undo the damage of Rogers...

At CRTC, Cogeco cites Rogers opposition to Bell-Astral merger

Media | 11/25/2021 10:05 am EST

At CRTC, Cogeco cites Rogers opposition to Bell-Astral mergerOn the third day of CRTC hearings into the proposed takeover of Shaw...

OpenMedia denounces government plan to reintroduce C-10

Media | 11/24/2021 11:56 am EST

Election 2019: watch for price caps, Netflix regs, Huawei banLobby group OpenMedia is disappointed that Tuesday’s Speech from the...

Successor bill to C-10 “absolute priority”, Rodriguez says

Media | 11/23/2021 11:50 am EST

Election 2019: watch for price caps, Netflix regs, Huawei banCanadian Heritage minister Pablo Rodriguez says revisions to the...

Rogers needs Shaw to sell CanCon alongside OTT services 

Media | 11/22/2021 8:35 pm EST

Rogers needs Shaw to sell CanCon alongside OTT services Top brass from Shaw Communications Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc....

Telesat trading on TSX, NASDAQ

Media | 11/22/2021 4:05 pm EST

LEO providers aiming to meet gov’t connectivity goals within 3 yearsTelesat Corp. is now trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ, as it builds its network of...

Panelists call on government to rethink C-11

Media | 11/17/2021 4:59 pm EST

CNOC calls for gov’t funding to keep Canadians connectedThe Canadian government should broaden its consultation over its online harms bill, a Wednesday Canadian Internet Governance Forum (CIGF) panel hosted a 90-minute discussion on the topic of Regulating Online Harms in Canada. One year ago the Trudeau government introduced...

Rogers-Shaw CRTC hearing now has ‘extra element of intrigue’: analyst

Media | 11/17/2021 11:49 am EST

Rogers, Shaw execs mum on spectrum at Industry committee  The Tuesday night announcement of the departure of Rogers Communications...

Pattison Media reorganization approved by CRTC

Media | 11/15/2021 12:47 pm EST

CRTC sides with creative sector in broadcasters’ CanCon relief proposalThe CRTC has approved an application by Pattison Media Ltd. to acquire the broadcasting assets of Merritt...

CRTC denies request for delay in Roger-Shaw hearing

Media | 11/15/2021 9:56 am EST

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionThe CRTC has denied a request by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and the National Pensioners...

CRTC solicits comments on FM radio applications

Media | 11/12/2021 12:39 pm EST

CRTC solicits comments on FM radio applicationsThe CRTC is calling for comments on a series of FM radio applications in smaller markets across the...

Telus still wants CRTC to delay Rogers-Shaw hearing despite court decision on board control

Media | 11/11/2021 4:24 pm EST

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionOne of Canada’s telecom incumbents is urging the CRTC to delay Rogers Communications Inc.’s (RCI) hearing on its merger with Shaw Communications Inc., arguing that...

UPDATED: Rayes replaced by John Nater as Heritage shadow minister

Media | 11/09/2021 3:24 pm EST

UPDATED: Rayes replaced by John Nater as Heritage shadow ministerA Conservative MP who was outspoken on the revised Broadcasting Act, Bill...

Spam calls complaints high in September, CRTC finds

Media | 11/09/2021 12:13 pm EST

Federal gov’t looking to expand emergency alerts to online platforms, devicesThe CRTC released its semi-annual report on Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) on Tuesday. The...

Telus winding down copper network as it releases Q3 results

Media | 11/05/2021 3:41 pm EDT

Telus winding down copper network as it releases Q3 resultsTelus Corp. expects to have its legacy copper network out of commission...

John Raines joins Telus Agriculture as president

Media | 11/05/2021 3:31 pm EDT

Roaming revenue not expected to fully recover until 2022: Telus CFOJohn Raines will be joining Telus Corp.’s agriculture division as president effective Nov. 29, the...

CRTC lifts local expression conditions for Quebecor, Bragg on-demand services

Media | 11/04/2021 5:40 pm EDT

As CRTC rejects FairPlay, proposal could move to legislative reviewsThe CRTC approved applications by Quebecor Media Inc.’s Videotron and...

CRTC rejects EBox undue preference complaint against Oxio

Media | 11/04/2021 5:33 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPsThe 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...

Bell posts quarterly profits driven by wireless growth

Media | 11/04/2021 4:25 pm EDT

Bell posts quarterly profits driven by wireless growthBell reported a slight increase in overall revenue of $49 million or 0.8...

C-10 creates ‘false battle’ amongst broadcasters: former CRTC commissioner

Media | 11/03/2021 6:26 pm EDT

C-10 creates 'false battle' amongst broadcasters: former CRTC commissionerThe Canadian government is  “expanding the scope of licenced speech” as it updates Canada’s broadcasting policy even though its “has never even asked itself whether...

Please don’t delay merger hearing: Rogers to CRTC

Media | 11/03/2021 5:59 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPsRogers Communications Inc.'s regulatory team can present the company's...

Dynamic site-blocking case gets Nov. 23 hearing date 

Media | 11/03/2021 5:51 pm EDT

Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor seek first-ever 'dynamic' site-blocking orderA test-case for Canada's first-ever "dynamic" site-blocking order is headed...

Quebec court moves ahead with proposed class-action against Google

Media | 11/02/2021 5:30 pm EDT

Google CanadaA Quebec Superior Court judge has rejected an application by Alphabet...

Francophone music group loses CanCon case against CRTC

Media | 11/02/2021 4:12 pm EDT

Francophone music group loses CanCon case against CRTCA group representing Francophone and Acadian musicians outside Quebec has...

CRTC orders Sogetel, Comwave to pay Cancon shortfalls

Media | 11/02/2021 12:36 pm EDT

CRTC orders Sogetel, Comwave to pay Cancon shortfallsThe CRTC is ordering two telecommunications companies to cough up Canadian programming contribution payments after both companies’ broadcasting distribution undertakings (BDUs) were found to be in non-compliance with commission regulations for the past several years. In...

UPDATED: Board can’t change “at the stroke of a pen”: RCI    

Media | 11/01/2021 5:25 pm EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionLawyers for Edward Rogers are arguing that the recently ousted chairman of...

Shaw closes out fiscal year with increase in revenue, wireless subs. 

Media | 10/29/2021 5:26 pm EDT

Shaw closes out fiscal year with increase in revenue, wireless subs. Shaw's overall revenue increased 2.1 per cent in the fourth quarter, up to...

Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor seek larger damages from set-top box seller

Media | 10/27/2021 5:13 pm EDT

Canadians split between traditional, online viewing: MTMBCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., and Quebecor Inc.  have turned to...

Google expands News Showcase program 

Media | 10/27/2021 12:37 pm EDT

Google expands News Showcase program Alphabet Inc.'s Google is expanding its News Showcase program, announcing Wednesday that it has signed...

Telesat announces new chief commercial officer, president of Government Solutions 

Media | 10/26/2021 1:00 pm EDT

Telesat announces new chief commercial officer, president of Government Solutions Satellite operator, Telesat Corp. appointed an executive in the...

UPDATED – Rodriguez back as Heritage minister, Champagne remains in Innovation

Media | 10/26/2021 12:47 pm EDT

Election 2019: watch for price caps, Netflix regs, Huawei banOTTAWA -- MP Pablo Rodriguez is back in familiar territory as he is once...

Bell, Rogers, Quebecor apply for extended site-blocking in GoldTV

Media | 10/26/2021 9:30 am EDT

Telecoms’ site-blocking court request ‘draconian,’ TekSavvy arguesA trio of Canada's biggest broadcasters has asked the Federal Court for a...

RCMP awards National Cybercrime Solution contract

Media | 10/25/2021 4:18 pm EDT

Increase transparency in RCMP stingray use: OPCPublic Works and Government Services Canada awarded the RCMP’s “national cybercrime solution” contract to Toronto-based FTI Consulting Canada Inc., after the government’s 2016 Cyber Review found that greater coordination was needed among law enforcement agencies to...

Court orders Google to turn over documents to Competition Bureau

Media | 10/22/2021 6:06 pm EDT

Court orders Google to turn over documents to Competition BureauThe Federal Court has ordered Alphabet Inc.'s Google to turn over a number...

Edward Rogers strikes back, seeks to remake Rogers board

Media | 10/22/2021 9:08 am EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionIn the latest twist in an increasingly public rift in one of Canada's largest telecommunications, Edward Rogers -- chair of the Rogers Communications Inc. Board of Directors until he was removed from the position Thursday -- has announced that he will seek to remake the...

Quebecor’s spectrum winnings an ‘unfair cost advantage,’ Telus tells Federal Court

Media | 10/19/2021 7:16 pm EDT

Quebecor's spectrum winnings an 'unfair cost advantage,' Telus tells Federal CourtA Federal Court injunction stopping the Department...

NDP MP wants Libs to take Facebook to task over whistleblower claims

Media | 10/18/2021 6:30 pm EDT

NDP MP wants Libs to take Facebook to task over whistleblower claimsNDP MP Charlie Angus is calling on the incoming Liberal cabinet to...

Court grants CIPPIC, Beanfield intervenor status in dynamic site-blocking case

Media | 10/14/2021 5:39 pm EDT

Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor seek first-ever 'dynamic' site-blocking orderA Federal Court judge has granted intervenor status to the...

CRTC to allow CPAC to participate in Rogers-Shaw hearing 

Media | 10/13/2021 6:28 pm EDT

CRTC to allow CPAC to participate in Rogers-Shaw hearing The CRTC has granted Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. -- more widely known...

CRTC denies license for low-power Alberta Mennonite radio station 

Media | 10/08/2021 6:27 pm EDT

CRTC denies license for low-power Alberta Mennonite radio station The CRTC Friday rejected an application for a broadcast license to operate...

Court order blocking Quebecor 3500 MHz acquisition would harm competition: ISED

Media | 10/06/2021 6:33 pm EDT

Court order blocking Quebecor 3500 MHz acquisition would harm competition: ISEDThe Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) has told the Federal Court that if the court were to grant the order requested by BCE Inc. and Telus...

CRTC issues consultation for several broadcasting applications

Media | 10/05/2021 4:06 pm EDT

CRTC issues consultation for several broadcasting applicationsThe CRTC is holding a consultation to determine a series of applications...

Update to National Cyber Security Plan needed to combat ransomware attacks: CIRA

Media | 10/04/2021 5:49 pm EDT

Public Health Agency among most targeted for cyber threats: CSEThe not-for-profit organization that manages Canada’s .CA domains says...

Indigenous economic reconciliation needs path toward spectrum sovereignty: experts

Media | 09/30/2021 5:03 pm EDT

A cell tower with a blue sky in the background.While the Canadian government is busy collecting $8.9 billion dollars from...

Man fined $40,000 for selling set-top boxes

Media | 09/30/2021 4:49 pm EDT

Canadians split between traditional, online viewing: MTMA federal court judge has fined a pre-loaded set top box seller $40,000 for being in contempt of an...

Rogers CFO leaving the company

Media | 09/30/2021 10:27 am EDT

Rogers requests extension for Wireless Code changesRogers Communications Inc. announced Wednesday evening that CFO Tony Staffieri has left his post after about a decade with the company.  Rogers, which did not provide details about Staffieri’s departure, said his exit is effective immediately and that he has been replaced by interim CFO Paulina Molnar.  “On behalf of the Rogers team, I thank Tony for the many contributions he made to our company including ensuring the integrity of our financial reporting over the nearly ten years he served as our CFO,”...

Google seeks to appeal court decision on PIPEDA application 

Media | 09/29/2021 4:47 pm EDT

Google CanadaAlphabet Inc.'s Google is appealing a July court decision that determined...

New ‘dynamic’ site-blocking needs new safeguards: CIPPIC 

Media | 09/22/2021 5:56 pm EDT

Hockey broadcasters seek injunction against pirate streamersThe site-blocking order that will block a rolling list of pirate streaming...

Site-blocking in GoldTV case expanded again

Media | 09/15/2021 5:22 pm EDT

Telecoms’ site-blocking court request ‘draconian,’ TekSavvy arguesA federal court judge has expanded the list of domains to be blocked under Canada's first-ever site...

Bloc wants to work with Libs, NDP to pass bill like C-10 in minority government

Media | 09/15/2021 2:51 pm EDT

Groups diverge on handling of net neutrality in comms lawsThe Bloc Québécois is asking Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and NDP leader...

Broadcasting regulation debate at electoral standstill as advocates, industry react

Media | 09/14/2021 7:16 pm EDT

Fast-track OTT review, clock ticking on CMF ‘top-up’: CMPAAccording to an advocacy group opposing restrictions on the internet,...

NDP’s platform includes millions for rural broadband

Media | 09/13/2021 6:05 pm EDT

NDP’s platform includes millions for rural broadbandThe New Democratic Party released its costed platform for next week’s...

Election outcome won’t stop Rogers-Shaw deal: Rogers CFO

Media | 09/13/2021 6:05 pm EDT

Whatever the outcome of the vote after polls close in the Sept. 20 federal election, it won't have much of an effect on regulatory approval of the proposed acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. by...

Singh says he’ll oppose Rogers-Shaw merger

Media | 09/10/2021 2:46 pm EDT

NDP to lobby government on foreign digital sales, ad taxesNDP leader Jagmeet Singh is the first party leader to explicitly oppose the proposed acquisition of Shaw...

Appeal court revives reverse class-action suit by Voltage Pictures LLC

Media | 09/09/2021 6:16 pm EDT

Quebec judge approves Apple class action settlementA federal appeal court judge has revived a proposed reverse class-action suit by movie studio Voltage Pictures LLC looking to sue thousands of alleged Canadian copyright...