The not-for-profit organization that manages Canada’s .CA domains says the government needs to step in and revamp its National Cyber Security Plan if Canadians intend to...
While the Canadian government is busy collecting $8.9 billion dollars from its recent 3500 MHz spectrum auction, Nunavut is still 100 per cent dependent on satellites for its...
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...
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. ...
The Bloc Québécois is asking Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and NDP leader...
According to an advocacy group opposing restrictions on the internet,...
The New Democratic Party released its costed platform for next week’s...
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...
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is the first party leader to explicitly oppose the proposed acquisition of Shaw...
A federal appeal court judge has revived a proposed reverse class-action...
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC)...
If re-elected come Sept. 20, Justin Trudeau’s...
A number of film groups and companies have submitted nearly identical letters to the CRTC in support of Rogers Communications Inc.’s plan to acquire Shaw Communication Inc....
After Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order survived an appeal from...
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...
In its response to a Rogers Communications Inc. request to the CRTC asking...
Unifor is calling on the government to introduce legislation that will...
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...
In a dispute between a trade organization representing wholesale-based...
The CRTC has decided it will not open proceedings into creating a...
The CRTC has denied a request made by the Canadian Association of...
The CRTC will hold hearings on whether Rogers Communications Inc. may...
A Federal Court judge ordered three pirate TV services to pay more than $29...
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...
Civil groups and Canadian telecoms companies agree that the CRTC should...
Quebecor Inc.’s president and CEO is renewing calls for the federal...
Canadian Heritage is seeking input on how best to compensate the news sector after a preliminary study showed there was consensus among stakeholders that government...
The CRTC has ruled that the CBC/Radio-Canada is not giving itself an...
The federal government intends to create a new Digital Safety Commissioner...
The return of the Toronto Blue Jays has caused Rogers Communications...
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,...
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...
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...
A court decision that Canada’s federal private...
Nearly six weeks after a Federal Court of Appeal upheld Canada's first-ever...
A Canadian radio broadcasting group operating in Southern Ontario will be...
An initiative explored this past month in a Senate...
In order to encourage more diverse content online, Heritage Minister Steven...
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....
With Parliament rising this week for its summer break, a number of bills of interest to the broadcasting...
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, CJML-FM Milton, and CKMO-FM Orangeville -- from My Broadcasting Corporation. According to the CRTC’s decision, My Broadcasting was looking to sell off those stations “to focus its strategy on rural Ontario undertakings.” “The Commission notes that the stations’ proximity to each other would enable Local Radio Lab to implement synergies and...
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...
Senators are looking beyond the free speech issues raised by critics of the revised Broadcasting Act and...
The revised Broadcasting Act is finally on its way to the Senate after the...
The ArriveCAN app -- which travellers into Canada must now use to submit...
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...
The CRTC has approved an application from CBC...
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Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc., and Quebecor Inc. are asking a...
A survey by the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting,...
The CRTC has denied an application from Amherstburg Broadcasting...
A federal court judge has ruled on motions from both sides of a court...
The Canadian Heritage Committee’s work during...
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...
Bidding opened Tuesday morning in what will be a weeks-long auction in some of the most coveted wireless assets -- spectrum along the 3,500 MHz band -- after a year-long...
Canada has laws that would hold companies...
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...
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,...
A debate which Canadian Heritage Committee chair Scott Simms has jokingly said was “so exciting we...
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...
Four months after the federal privacy watchdog declared that Clearview AI engaged in illegal mass...
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...
A group representing news outlets in Canada has put out a call to Premier...
A Canadian tax lobby group is criticizing the global tax deal announced this weekend by G7 Finance...
The Liberals and the Bloc Québécois cooperated to pass a motion in the...
Conservative MP Dan Mazier has introduced a private member’s bill that...
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...
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is opposing internet...
BCE Inc. subsidiary Cablevision du Nord has to finish upgrading its routers in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue of Quebec -- at its own expense -- by Sept. 1 to accommodate a higher capacity of users, as per a Tuesday decision from the CRTC.
The order is the result of a...
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...
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...
Rogers Communications Inc. is repeating its request that the CRTC help it...
As reaction continues to pour in following the CRTC's Thursday decision to...
“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...
The Federal Court of Appeal has allowed Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order to stand,...
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority...
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...
A Canadian educational technology company used by the York Region District...
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee resumed its work on the...
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...
The Conservative Party accused the Justice...
The majority of the broadcasting experts invited before the House of...
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault wants work on Bill C-10, the revision of the Broadcasting Act, to “resume as quickly as possible,” but the Conservative Party might...
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...
The Conservative Party Thursday accused the Liberals of “trying to hide...
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...
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...
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...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner needs to be able to decide what to...
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee is moving forward with a charter...
After saying it would address concerns around...
Acadia Broadcasting Ltd. is asking the CRTC for the authority to acquire the assets of multiple English radio stations in Atlantic Canada and Ontario as part of a corporate reorganization. In a notice of hearing from the CRTC...
The Asian Television Network International Limited is asking the CRTC to authorize the “Mirror Now” channel for distribution as programming. The network, which says on its website that it...
The CRTC granted a request by Shaw Cablesystems Ltd. to revoke its broadcasting licence for the Sault Ste. Marie area of Ontario on Wednesday. Shaw Communications Inc. said in its application its...
Cogeco Inc. and Xplornet Inc. are getting a combined $81.36 million to connect more than 18,000 households to high-speed internet in the Outaouais region of Quebec. The funding announcement from...
The Conservative party is “falsely accusing” the government of wanting...
An Alberta judge shot down a request from Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc. for an injunction against Best Buy Canada Ltd., Staples Canada ULC, Canada Computers Inc., and London Drugs Limited as part of its suit against the retailers whose employees allegedly recommended to customers that they pirate content using media boxes. In a decision released Friday, Justice Michael Lema of the province’s Court of Queen’s Bench denied Edmonton-based Allarco, the owner of the Super Channel television network, an injunction stopping the stores from selling “certain TV set-top boxes.” The...
