The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) says the province should move ahead with its own private sector privacy law, despite federal reforms...
If re-elected come Sept. 20, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party says it would employ a “use it or lose it” approach requiring national carriers that have purchased the...
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...
In its response to a Rogers Communications Inc. request to the CRTC asking...
Unifor is calling on the government to introduce legislation that will level the playing field between Canadian and international broadcasters after BCE Inc. announced Tuesday...
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...
Civil groups and Canadian telecoms companies agree that the CRTC should...
Quebecor Inc.’s president and CEO is renewing calls for the federal government to implement a news media compensation strategy, to “ensure the sustainability of advertising revenue, and the vitality of competitiveness” and for the CRTC to ensure swift negotiations...
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...
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, which says on its website that it operates with 54 specialty digital television channels as well as a radio service, said in a Part 1 application filed with the CRTC in May that the Mirror Now channel offers 24/7 English-language general interest and news programming from India. “The Service...
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...
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 and telecom sectors (both tabled and untabled) sit in various stages along the legislative process.
Whether the bills have a chance of proceeding any further depends...
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...
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 COVID-19 related information upon arrival, according to a Monday announcement from the Public Health...
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...
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 by the same licensee in a given market.
In its decision Tuesday, the CRTC said it will increase the maximum amount of distributable proceeds from the fund to 12 per cent in any given year, up from the 10 per cent cap set when the fund was...
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...
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 could sell the rights to Netflix” has finally come to an end.
The committee completed its clause-by-clause review of Bill C-10 Friday afternoon, days after the House...
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...
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 service providers (ISPs) being allowed to unilaterally block websites from users in the name of...
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...
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 finalize wholesale internet access rates at 2016 levels and effectively reverse a 2019 decision that...
“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...
The Conservative Party accused the Justice...
The majority of the broadcasting experts invited before the House of Commons Heritage Committee Monday say they endorse the government’s move to include social media in the...
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...
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 per week, of which 30 per cent (54 minutes) must be devoted to local news. The CRTC released its decision for the English-language commercial radio station CFLZ-FM in Fort Erie, Ont., on Tuesday. “The licensee stated that the challenges it faces in meeting the above-noted condition of licence arise during statutory holidays and other unique situations such as staff illnesses or a global...
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...
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 to regulate free speech online, according to Liberal Party MP Julie Dabrusin, as debate over the...
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...
Investment management firm Apollo Global Management Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire Verizon Media for $5 billion. Under the terms of the agreement announced Monday, Verizon Communications Inc. will receive $4.25...
Canada should establish a centralized expert regulator for...
Professional networking platform LinkedIn will have its applications for a summary trial heard in the...
Quebecor Inc. executive Jean-François Pruneau announced Tuesday morning that he would be stepping down from his position as president and CEO of Videotron in order to "leave active professional life and devote himself to personal investment projects," according to a release.
"I am turning a page in my professional life with a sense of accomplishment," Pruneau said in the release. "I am leaving the organization in a good position and with a first-class team to...
The Supreme Court of Canada has decided it will hear an appeal from Music Canada and the Society of...
The House of Commons Heritage committee has moved...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the Forum for Research and...
“Canada is first world in its input and third world in its output”, according to the chair of the Council of Canadian Innovators Jim Balsillie told the House of Commons...
The House of Commons Heritage committee has reinstated language protecting...
As the House of Commons Ethics committee considers the protection and privacy of individuals online, advocates criticized its lack of consideration for sex workers Monday and...
The federal government has launched a consultation document to solicit feedback on whether or not it...
Cogeco Inc. announced another increase in revenue with its second-quarter results Tuesday as it awaits...
Internet speeds for rural Canadians continue to remain “well below” the recommended CRTC speeds, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, when people “are counting more than ever on reliable broadband service” according to a report from the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA). A report released by the CIRA on Tuesday revealed that during the year of the pandemic, the gap in rural versus urban internet performance has grown with urban speeds reaching a median speed of 51.09 Mbps compared to 9.74 Mbps for rural areas. In 2016, the CRTC established a Universal Service...
