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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 Court

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...

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Competition Bureau asks Court to compel Google records disclosure in inquiry into YouTube ad sales

Media | 10/18/2021 6:47 pm EDT

Competition Bureau asks Court to compel Google records disclosure in inquiry into YouTube ad sales

The Competition Bureau has asked a Federal Court to require Alphabet Inc.'s Google to produce records it needs as part of an investigation the regulator is conducting into...

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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 claims

NDP MP Charlie Angus is calling on the incoming Liberal cabinet to...

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CRTC plans to monitor technical surveys for small BDUs, dismisses CCSA undue preference complaint against Bell

Media | 10/15/2021 5:42 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

The CRTC will be keeping an eye on technical...

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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 order

A Federal Court judge has granted intervenor status to the...

Broadcast Cable Piracy

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...

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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 a "low-power, ethnic specialty commercial"radio station in the Mennonite community of La Crête,...

CRTC Radio

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: ISED

The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) has...

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CRTC issues consultation for several broadcasting applications

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

CRTC issues consultation for several broadcasting applications

The CRTC is holding a consultation to determine a series of applications...

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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: CSE

The not-for-profit organization that manages Canada’s .CA domains says...

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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...

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

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

Canadians split between traditional, online viewing: MTM

A federal court judge has fined a pre-loaded set top box seller $40,000 for being in contempt of an...

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Rogers CFO leaving the company

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

Rogers requests extension for Wireless Code changes

Rogers Communications Inc. announced Wednesday evening that CFO Tony Staffieri has left his post after...

Rogers Shaw

Google seeks to appeal court decision on PIPEDA application

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

Google Canada

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

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

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

Hockey broadcasters seek injunction against pirate streamers

The site-blocking order that will block a rolling list of pirate streaming...

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Site-blocking in GoldTV case expanded again

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

Telecoms’ site-blocking court request ‘draconian,’ TekSavvy argues

A federal court judge has expanded the list of domains to be blocked under Canada's first-ever site blocking order, adding to a number of sites the court order requires third-party internet service providers to block in a case against a pirate-IPTV website known as GoldTV. ...

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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 laws

The Bloc Québécois is asking Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and NDP leader...

2021 election Bill C-10 C-10

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’: CMPA

According to an advocacy group opposing restrictions on the internet,...

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NDP’s platform includes millions for rural broadband

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

NDP’s platform includes millions for rural broadband

The New Democratic Party released its costed platform for next week’s...

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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...

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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 taxes

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is the first party leader to explicitly oppose the proposed acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. by Rogers Communications Inc., saying that telecommunication giants are already “exploiting people.” His comments came at a Friday morning...

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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 settlement

A federal appeal court judge has revived a proposed reverse class-action...

Ontario privacy watchdog says province should update privacy law, even without feds

Media | 09/07/2021 5:59 pm EDT

Home internet speeds nearly doubled year-over-year: CRTC

The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC)...

Privacy

Liberals promise to pressure spectrum-holders to connect rural and remote communities

Media | 09/01/2021 5:20 pm EDT

Liberals promise to pressure spectrum-holders to connect rural and remote communities

If re-elected come Sept. 20, Justin Trudeau’s...

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More than a dozen nearly-identical interventions filed with CRTC in favour of Rogers-Shaw broadcasting acquisition

Media | 08/30/2021 4:54 pm EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise division

A number of film groups and companies have...

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TekSavvy takes GoldTV site-blocking fight to Supreme Court

Media | 08/26/2021 6:11 pm EDT

Telecoms’ site-blocking court request ‘draconian,’ TekSavvy argues

After Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order survived an appeal from...

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Bloc Québécois proposing a regional replacement for the CRTC

Media | 08/24/2021 5:28 pm EDT

As party platforms make the rounds ahead of the Sept. 20 federal election, the Bloc Québécois has proposed the creation of a Quebec-based organization to replace the CRTC in its own slate of...

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Tell us more about Rogers facilities in our building: MDU owner

Media | 08/24/2021 5:28 pm EDT

Rogers files another MDU access complaint

In its response to a Rogers Communications Inc. request to the CRTC asking...

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Bell layoffs highlight need for tougher regs for foreign broadcasters: Unifor

Media | 08/17/2021 5:15 pm EDT

Bell Media layoffs 'directly caused’ by the CRTC: Unifor

Unifor is calling on the government to introduce legislation that will...

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The Wire Report’s guide to the 2021 federal election

Media | 08/17/2021 2:35 pm EDT

The Wire Report's guide to the 2021 federal election

After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally called Sunday for a widely-expected election to take place on Sept. 20, the political machinery across Canada's parties has whirred into action, making promises and plans in the hopes of attracting voters. Here's your early guide...

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CRTC orders some incumbent disclosure to CNOC in disaggregated regime consultation

Media | 08/13/2021 11:13 am EDT

CNOC petitions gov on wholesale rates

In a dispute between a trade organization representing wholesale-based...

CRTC Internet

CRTC rejects PIAC/FRPC call for strengthened broadband participation fund

Media | 08/12/2021 5:24 pm EDT

CRTC rejects PIAC/FRPC call for strengthened broadband participation fund

The CRTC has decided it will not open proceedings into creating a...

CRTC

CRTC sides with creative sector in broadcasters’ CanCon relief proposal

Media | 08/12/2021 5:23 pm EDT

CRTC sides with creative sector in broadcasters’ CanCon relief proposal

The CRTC has denied a request made by the Canadian Association of...

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CRTC to hold hearing on Rogers-Shaw merger, opens consultation

Media | 08/12/2021 1:00 pm EDT

Rogers requests extension for Wireless Code changes

The CRTC will hold hearings on whether Rogers Communications Inc. may...

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Federal Court orders content pirates to pay millions to Bell, Rogers, Videotron

Media | 08/11/2021 5:14 pm EDT

Canadians split between traditional, online viewing: MTM

A Federal Court judge ordered three pirate TV services to pay more than $29 million in damages to major broadcasters which claimed the sellers were cutting into their business...

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Motion Picture Association Canada agrees digital media survey should wait for C-10

Media | 08/10/2021 5:28 pm EDT

The CRTC’s efforts to implement a digital media survey are premature, according to the Canadian affiliate of the Motion Picture Association, who argued that the commission should wait until the...

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Consensus on CRTC data collection for foreign outlets; disagreement on how

Media | 08/09/2021 5:32 pm EDT

Fast-track OTT review, clock ticking on CMF ‘top-up’: CMPA

Civil groups and Canadian telecoms companies agree that the CRTC should...

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Quebecor calls for swift news media compensation legislation

Media | 08/05/2021 6:14 pm EDT

Quebecor calls for swift news media compensation legislation

Quebecor Inc.’s president and CEO is renewing calls for the federal...

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Heritage launches consultation on digital platform revenue sharing for news sector

Media | 08/03/2021 6:03 pm EDT

Heritage launches consultation on digital platform revenue sharing for news sector

Canadian Heritage is seeking input on how best to compensate the news...

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CRTC dismisses Quebecor complaint of CBC undue preference

Media | 08/03/2021 5:22 pm EDT

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

The CRTC has ruled that the CBC/Radio-Canada is not giving itself an...

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Gov announces plans for Digital Safety Commissioner to combat online harms

Internet and Governance | 07/29/2021 6:11 pm EDT

Gov announces plans for Digital Safety Commissioner to combat online harms

The federal government intends to create a new Digital Safety Commissioner...

Privacy

Rogers reports spike in wireless subscribers and rise in profit for Q2

Media | 07/21/2021 6:52 pm EDT

Rogers requests extension for Wireless Code changes

The return of the Toronto Blue Jays has caused Rogers Communications...

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CRTC approves Asian Television Network authorization for Indian news channel

Media | 07/19/2021 4:49 pm EDT

The CRTC Monday approved an application from Asian Television Network International Limited, authorizing its “Mirror Now” channel for distribution as non-Canadian programming. The network,...

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CRTC reports drop in broadcast revenue for 2020

Media | 07/16/2021 5:38 pm EDT

Fast-track OTT review, clock ticking on CMF ‘top-up’: CMPA

With advertising revenues battered by the pandemic -- particularly the second half of the year -- the CRTC Friday reported widespread drops in broadcast revenues for the 2019-2020 year, with total revenues coming in at over $15.7 billion. The commission’s report...

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StatCan looks to include digitization with new well-being measurements

Media | 07/12/2021 4:50 pm EDT

According to a Statistics Canada study, in order to better measure the well-being or quality of life and progress of nations, digitization needs to be taken into account, among other trends, in “a...

digital

Court decides PIPEDA applies to Google search, “right to be forgotten” debate kept alive

Media | 07/09/2021 5:39 pm EDT

Google Canada

A court decision that Canada’s federal private...

Privacy

Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor seek first-ever ‘dynamic’ site-blocking order

Media | 07/08/2021 6:22 pm EDT

Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor seek first-ever 'dynamic' site-blocking order

Nearly six weeks after a Federal Court of Appeal upheld Canada's first-ever...

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CRTC approves change of Vancouver station ownership to Durham Radio Inc.

Media | 07/08/2021 6:04 pm EDT

CRTC approves change of Vancouver station ownership to Durham Radio Inc.

A Canadian radio broadcasting group operating in Southern Ontario will be...

CRTC

BTLR’s Yale encouraged by Australian news compensation model; too reliant on big tech, says OpenMedia

Media | 07/06/2021 6:18 pm EDT

Gov’t should move on passive infrastructure ‘yesterday’: Yale

An initiative explored this past month in a Senate private member's bill effectively “hitched our wagon to the continued growth of these big companies” like Facebook Inc....

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Guilbeault setting guidelines for diverse content online

Media | 06/30/2021 4:17 pm EDT

Guilbeault setting guidelines for diverse content online

In order to encourage more diverse content online, Heritage Minister Steven...

Internet

C-10 “needs a stake through the heart”, says Senator as bill moves to committee

Media | 06/29/2021 6:52 pm EDT

Throne speech reiterates rural broadband, web giant promises

Senators are in no rush to push the revised Broadcasting Act into law after it moved to adopt it at second reading and referred it to the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications....

Summer recess: your parliament update

Media | 06/25/2021 6:30 pm EDT

ARIN asks Parliament to require ISPs to maintain Whois info

With Parliament rising this week for its summer break, a number of bills of interest to the broadcasting...

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Local Radio Lab acquiring three stations in Ontario

Media | 06/25/2021 1:27 pm EDT

Local Radio Lab Inc. will be picking up three stations near the Greater Toronto area following approval of its application Friday by the CRTC. The broadcaster is acquiring three English-language stations -- CIMA-FM Alliston,...

CRTC Radio

Google signs licensing deals with multiple Canadian news outlets

Media | 06/24/2021 4:23 pm EDT

Following a similar announcement from Facebook Inc. and promises from Heritage Minister Stephen Guilbeault to introduce legislation requiring compensation for news organizations’ content appearing on online platforms, Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced Thursday it has signed agreements with several Canadian news...

Senate begins C-10 analysis with broad debate

Media | 06/24/2021 10:41 am EDT

Throne speech reiterates rural broadband, web giant promises

Senators are looking beyond the free speech issues raised by critics of the revised Broadcasting Act and...

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House passes controversial Bill C-10 through limited debate

Media | 06/22/2021 2:02 pm EDT

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

The revised Broadcasting Act is finally on its way to the Senate after the...

CRTC

ArriveCAN app usage needs information safeguards: OPC’s Therrien

Media | 06/21/2021 6:00 pm EDT

Privacy commish vows more ‘proactive enforcement’

The ArriveCAN app -- which travellers into Canada must now use to submit...

Privacy

Copyright reform not the best way forward for journalism remuneration: S-225 witnesses

Media | 06/18/2021 5:07 pm EDT

Experts in the journalism industry are not in agreement on an upcoming bill aimed at providing more financial support for news publishers vis-a-vis web giants through...

Cancon

CRTC approves station’s local content exemptions for Olympics and license revocation

Media | 06/18/2021 4:38 pm EDT

CRTC approves station’s local content exemptions for Olympics and license revocation

The CRTC has approved an application from CBC...

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Online platforms should be held liable for child porn uploads, non-consensual content: Ethics Committee “Pornhub report”

Internet and Governance | 06/17/2021 6:18 pm EDT

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

Editor’s note: This article contains...

Privacy

Hockey broadcasters seek injunction against pirate streamers

Media | 06/17/2021 6:11 pm EDT

Hockey broadcasters seek injunction against pirate streamers

Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc., and Quebecor Inc. are asking a...

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Majority of Canadians support subjecting foreign broadcasters to Canadian laws: survey

Media | 06/17/2021 6:05 pm EDT

Senate committee to look into issue of tax on foreign ads

A survey by the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting,...

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CRTC rejects Amherstburg FM station proposal, citing Windsor radio market impact

Media | 06/17/2021 5:53 pm EDT

CRTC rejects Amherstburg FM station proposal, citing Windsor radio market impact

The CRTC has denied an application from Amherstburg Broadcasting Corporation to operate a low-power FM station in Amherstburg, ON. In a decision released Thursday, the...

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Federal Court judge strikes elements of key-OPC affidavit in Facebook case

Media | 06/16/2021 5:02 pm EDT

International legislators flag regulatory options for data giants

A federal court judge has ruled on motions from both sides of a court...

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Speaker sides with Conservatives, ruling to delete 14 amendments from C-10 passed after ‘gag’ order

Media | 06/15/2021 7:00 pm EDT

ARIN asks Parliament to require ISPs to maintain Whois info

The Canadian Heritage Committee’s work during...

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CRTC upping Independent Local News Fund limit

Media | 06/15/2021 6:40 pm EDT

CRTC upping Independent Local News Fund limit

The CRTC has approved an application from the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) to increase the amount of proceeds from the “Independent Local News Fund” (ILNF) that can be given to any one station or group operated...

3500 MHz auction finally launches; valuable mid-band spectrum to come with new deployment requirements

Media | 06/15/2021 6:30 pm EDT

3500 MHz auction finally launches; valuable mid-band spectrum to come with new deployment requirements

Bidding opened Tuesday morning in what will be a...

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NDP, advocates, call for action against exploitative content on porn sites; report heading to parliament

Media | 06/15/2021 5:07 pm EDT

NDP, advocates, call for action against exploitative content on porn sites; report heading to parliament

Canada has laws that would hold companies...

Privacy

Heritage committee moves to table 2017 “Netflix deal”

Media | 06/14/2021 6:07 pm EDT

The Heritage Committee will be making the 2017 “Netflix deal” public after the NDP brought a motion to the committee compelling its disclosure. At Monday’s committee meeting -- the first...

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CRTC approves broadcasting licence for Mohawk station in Quebec

Media | 06/14/2021 5:40 pm EDT

The CRTC has approved a new broadcasting licence for Mohawk Multi Media Inc., allowing it to operate an English and Kanien’ke:ha (Mohawk) language Indigenous ration station in Kanesatake/Oka,...

CRTC Radio

C-10 headed to HoC; Bloc adds 5 year review of act

Media | 06/11/2021 6:10 pm EDT

As CRTC rejects FairPlay, proposal could move to legislative reviews

A debate which Canadian Heritage Committee chair Scott Simms has jokingly said was “so exciting we...

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Clock runs out on C-10 debate, Conservative motion requiring CRTC legal opinions on regs fails

Media | 06/10/2021 7:34 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

Time ran out on Bill C-10 debate -- after the Liberals and Bloc Québécois teamed up to pass a time allocation “gag order” in the House of Commons earlier this week -- as...

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RCMP violated Privacy Act: OPC; RCMP lied: Angus

Media | 06/10/2021 7:03 pm EDT

Experts say there is no road map for a Facebook-OPC court fight

Four months after the federal privacy watchdog declared that Clearview AI engaged in illegal mass...

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Musicians’ union demanding apology from Conservative Party MP for ‘defamatory comments’

Media | 06/09/2021 6:39 pm EDT

Canadian Federation of Musicians (CFM) is calling for a public apology from Conservative MP Rachael Harder after she made what it said are “derogatory comments lobbied...

CRTC

News advocacy group calls for action on content compensation legislation

Media | 06/09/2021 5:33 pm EDT

Facebook makes Watch video service available world-wide

A group representing news outlets in Canada has put out a call to Premier...

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New G7 tax agreement not good enough: tax lobby group

Media | 06/08/2021 6:40 pm EDT

New G7 tax agreement not good enough: tax lobby group

A Canadian tax lobby group is criticizing the global tax deal announced this weekend by G7 Finance...

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NDP says Libs are to blame for C-10 delays as HoC passes ‘gag order’

Media | 06/07/2021 6:26 pm EDT

Confusion over Guilbeault remarks on BTLR online news recs

The Liberals and the Bloc Québécois cooperated to pass a motion in the House of Commons Monday to limit the Heritage Committee to five hours to complete its work on Bill...

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Conservative MP introduces bill compelling ISPs to publicize service quality metrics

Media | 06/03/2021 5:37 pm EDT

Conservative MP introduces bill compelling ISPs to publicize service quality metrics

Conservative MP Dan Mazier has introduced a private member’s bill that...

CRTC Internet Unlock

Stingray gets French designation for HITS service

Media | 06/02/2021 5:28 pm EDT

The CRTC approved a request from broadcaster Stingray Group Inc. Wednesday, asking that it be allowed to change its English-language discretionary service, Stingray HITS, into a French service. According to the decision, the...

CRTC Radio

CIRA opposes ISP-level website blocking in “all but extreme” circumstances

Media | 06/01/2021 6:13 pm EDT

CIRA opposes ISP-level website blocking in “all but extreme” circumstances

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is opposing internet...

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CRTC orders Bell subsidiary to upgrade routers in Quebec

Media | 06/01/2021 5:52 pm EDT

CRTC orders Bell subsidiary to upgrade routers in Quebec

BCE Inc. subsidiary Cablevision du Nord has to finish upgrading its routers...

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Judge grants Facebook evidence request in proposed class action

Media | 05/31/2021 6:05 pm EDT

A Quebec judge has ruled that Facebook Inc. can bring forward evidence the company believes will assist it in challenging a proposed class-action lawsuit. Facebook has been accused by an...

Facebook

Conservative attempt to reintroduce C-10 social media exclusion fails

Media | 05/31/2021 5:48 pm EDT

The federal government’s Canadian Heritage Committee is holding firm on plans to subject social media to broadcasting regulations after it voted down a proposed amendment from the Conservative Party...

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Rogers renews request to CRTC for building access in N.B.

Media | 05/31/2021 2:40 pm EDT

Regional players shouldn’t qualify for spectrum set asides: Bell, Rogers

Rogers Communications Inc. is repeating its request that the CRTC help it...

Bell CRTC MDU

Wholesale rates decision signals shift at CRTC: wholesale ISPs, analysts

Media | 05/28/2021 6:11 pm EDT

Wholesale rates decision signals shift at CRTC: wholesale ISPs, analysts

As reaction continues to pour in following the CRTC's Thursday decision to...

CRTC Internet Unlock

On C-10, Conservatives attacking Canadian, Quebec culture: Trudeau

Media | 05/26/2021 6:51 pm EDT

Privacy commissioner hasn't approved new gov't contact tracing app

“Conservatives just don’t get it” when it comes to Bill C-10, according to Prime Minister Justin Turdeau who was grilled by the opposition over the revised Broadcasting...

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GoldTV blocking order survives TekSavvy appeal

Media | 05/26/2021 6:41 pm EDT

Telecoms’ site-blocking court request ‘draconian,’ TekSavvy argues

The Federal Court of Appeal has allowed Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order to stand,...

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CIRA poll finds Canadians support new privacy laws and cyber attack prevention measures

Media | 05/26/2021 6:19 pm EDT

Quebec judge approves Apple class action settlement

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority...

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Bill C-10 does not impact net neutrality: Guilbeault

Media | 05/25/2021 6:20 pm EDT

Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault says Bill C-10 -- the Liberal government's update of the Broadcasting Act, which now allows for the regulation of content on social media platforms -- will have no...

Cancon CRTC

OPC finds privacy protections of EdTech company lacking

Media | 05/21/2021 5:17 pm EDT

Privacy sweep finds issues with some educational apps: OPC

A Canadian educational technology company used by the York Region District...

OPC pipeda Privacy

Heritage committee votes to limit CRTC social media regulatory powers

Media | 05/19/2021 5:52 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee resumed its work on the government's update to the Broadcasting Act by narrowly voting to restrict the CRTC’s regulatory powers in...

Cancon CRTC

PIAC, FRPC call on CRTC to post Part 1 application

Media | 05/19/2021 5:34 pm EDT

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and Canada’s Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) have sent a joint letter to the CRTC admonishing the regulator for failing to publicly post to its website a Part 1...

CRTC

“I don’t have an obligation to give legal advice,” Lametti tells Heritage Committee

Media | 05/18/2021 6:09 pm EDT

“I don’t have an obligation to give legal advice,” Lametti tells Heritage Committee

The Conservative Party accused the Justice...

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Freedom of expression safe from CRTC, says majority of C-10 expert panel

Media | 05/17/2021 6:16 pm EDT

Freedom of expression safe from CRTC, says majority of C-10 expert panel

The majority of the broadcasting experts invited before the House of...

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Guilbeault calls for C-10 work to resume quickly, CP delays after no-show Justice Minister

Media | 05/14/2021 7:03 pm EDT

Guilbeault calls for C-10 work to resume quickly, CP delays after no-show Justice Minister

Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault wants work on...

Cancon CRTC

CRTC awards Bell’s deferral funds to accessibility orgs

Media | 05/13/2021 6:14 pm EDT

Six organizations for people with disabilities are receiving a total of $61,562 from BCE Inc.’s deferral account, after the CRTC approved a proposal from the company to fund public interest and...

CRTC

UPDATED: Conservatives reject new C-10 charter statement

Media | 05/13/2021 2:21 pm EDT

ISED PS Lametti hot property for April lobbying

The Conservative Party Thursday accused the Liberals of “trying to hide...

Cancon CRTC

Consent-related spam complaints rising: CRTC

Media | 05/12/2021 4:46 pm EDT

The number of Canadians sending the Spam Reporting Centre complaints about consent issues is on the rise, according to a Tuesday CRTC release. In the past six months, the centre received thousands of complaints about spam...

CRTC

Fort Erie radio station must keep 3 hours of news per week: CRTC

Media | 05/11/2021 5:36 pm EDT

The CRTC has denied Byrnes Communications Inc.’s request to amend its broadcasting licence so that its Fort Erie station is no longer bound to broadcast a minimum of three hours of news programming...

CRTC Radio

Indigenous non-profit takes over Quebec station after 3 year radio silence

Media | 05/11/2021 5:09 pm EDT

Mohawk Multi Media Inc. was given the green light by the CRTC to acquire the assets of CKHQ-FM, a low-power English and Mohawk language Indigenous radio station broadcasting in Kanesatake and Oka, QC. The commission released the application approval on Tuesday which also allows Mohawk Multi Media -- a non-profit corporation controlled by a board of directors -- to obtain a new broadcasting licence to continue the operation of the station. The organization filed an application to...

CRTC Radio

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

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

Competition Bureau asks Court to compel Google records disclosure in inquiry into YouTube ad sales

Media | 10/18/2021 6:47 pm EDT

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

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

CRTC plans to monitor technical surveys for small BDUs, dismisses CCSA ​​undue preference complaint against Bell

Media | 10/15/2021 5:42 pm EDT

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

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

CRTC to allow CPAC to participate in Rogers-Shaw hearing

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

CRTC denies license for low-power Alberta Mennonite radio station

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

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

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

CRTC issues consultation for several broadcasting applications

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

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

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

Indigenous economic reconciliation needs path toward spectrum sovereignty: experts

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

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

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

Rogers CFO leaving the company

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

Google seeks to appeal court decision on PIPEDA application

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

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

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

Site-blocking in GoldTV case expanded again

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

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

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

Broadcasting regulation debate at electoral standstill as advocates, industry react

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

NDP’s platform includes millions for rural broadband

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

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

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

Singh says he’ll oppose Rogers-Shaw merger

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

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

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

Ontario privacy watchdog says province should update privacy law, even without feds

Media | 09/07/2021 5:59 pm EDT

Liberals promise to pressure spectrum-holders to connect rural and remote communities

Media | 09/01/2021 5:20 pm EDT

More than a dozen nearly-identical interventions filed with CRTC in favour of Rogers-Shaw broadcasting acquisition

Media | 08/30/2021 4:54 pm EDT

TekSavvy takes GoldTV site-blocking fight to Supreme Court

Media | 08/26/2021 6:11 pm EDT

Bloc Québécois proposing a regional replacement for the CRTC

Media | 08/24/2021 5:28 pm EDT

Tell us more about Rogers facilities in our building: MDU owner

Media | 08/24/2021 5:28 pm EDT

Bell layoffs highlight need for tougher regs for foreign broadcasters: Unifor

Media | 08/17/2021 5:15 pm EDT

The Wire Report’s guide to the 2021 federal election

Media | 08/17/2021 2:35 pm EDT

CRTC orders some incumbent disclosure to CNOC in disaggregated regime consultation

Media | 08/13/2021 11:13 am EDT

CRTC rejects PIAC/FRPC call for strengthened broadband participation fund

Media | 08/12/2021 5:24 pm EDT

CRTC sides with creative sector in broadcasters’ CanCon relief proposal

Media | 08/12/2021 5:23 pm EDT

CRTC to hold hearing on Rogers-Shaw merger, opens consultation

Media | 08/12/2021 1:00 pm EDT

Federal Court orders content pirates to pay millions to Bell, Rogers, Videotron

Media | 08/11/2021 5:14 pm EDT

Motion Picture Association Canada agrees digital media survey should wait for C-10

Media | 08/10/2021 5:28 pm EDT

Consensus on CRTC data collection for foreign outlets; disagreement on how

Media | 08/09/2021 5:32 pm EDT

Quebecor calls for swift news media compensation legislation

Media | 08/05/2021 6:14 pm EDT

Heritage launches consultation on digital platform revenue sharing for news sector

Media | 08/03/2021 6:03 pm EDT

CRTC dismisses Quebecor complaint of CBC undue preference

CRTC plans to monitor technical surveys for small BDUs, dismisses CCSA undue preference complaint against Bell