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,...
The 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...
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 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which did not provide details about Staffieri’s departure, said his exit is effective immediately and that he has been replaced by interim CFO Paulina Molnar.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,”...
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...
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 suit by movie studio Voltage Pictures LLC looking to sue thousands of alleged Canadian copyright...
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...
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 promises to voters. In the party’s newly released platform, the Bloc -- led by Yves-François Blanchet -- proposes the creation of a Quebec-based organization to replace the CRTC as part of its promise to bring all power over cultural matters under the purview of the province, rather than a federal body. The party, which won 32 seats in the 2019 election, said people from Quebec value their...
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...
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 Government's update of the Broadcasting Act, known as Bill C-10 passes. The Motion Picture Association of Canada, which represents Walt Disney Studios, Netflix Inc., Sony, and Paramount among other global brands, told the CRTC in an intervention submitted Monday for the second round of...
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...
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 in its effort to combat online harms in five categories -- terrorist content, hate speech,...
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...
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 Guilbeault has released a guiding document with recommendations on how to foster diversity in cultural content, information and news.
Guilbeault put out the “Guiding Principles on Diversity of...
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,...
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 instead are focusing on what some senators say are other problems arising from the bill, as C-10 crawls its way to the finish line.
“Despite what you may have read...
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...
The CRTC has approved an application from CBC...
Editor’s note: This article contains...
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 battle between Facebook Inc. and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) stemming from a...
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...
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 since debate on Bill C-10 came to a conclusion -- NDP MP Heather McPherson brought forward a motion to have the Department of Canadian Heritage, along with the committee, table a copy of the initial agreement and any subsequent amendments between Canadian Heritage and Netflix Inc. signed in 2017 and entered into under the Investment Canada act. In September 2017, then-Heritage Minister Mélanie...
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...
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 would, if passed, require internet service providers (ISPs) to publicize information such as typical...
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...
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 that would have compensated for social media’s exemption from Bill C-10. During Monday’s meeting, Conservative MP Alain Rayes brought forward an amendment to the bill that, if passed, would have specified that the revised Broadcasting Act “does not apply in respect of programs that are...
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,...
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 application the two organizations filed on April 21. In the letter, the two organizations write that the posting of all Part 1 applications "is required by s. 23 of the Rules of Practice and Procedure, which reads: 'The Commission must post on its website all applications that comply with the requirements set out in section 22.' Our Application satisfied all...
The Conservative Party accused the Justice...
The majority of the broadcasting experts invited before the House of...
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault wants work on...
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 behind a smoke screen,” calling the Justice Minister David Lametti’s new charter statement on Bill C-10, a revision to the Broadcasting Act, nothing more than a letter.
“Although the...
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,...
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 terrestrial broadcasting distribution undertakings (BDU) serving Sault Ste. Marie had fewer than 20,000 subscribers as of the end of February. “Accordingly, Shaw requests that the Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario licence be revoked, at which time this system will fall under and be regulated pursuant to the BDU Exemption Order,” it said. The licence was last renewed in Sept 2018 and was set to...
