Conservative MP Todd Doherty continued his fight for a national three-digit helpline for mental crises and suicide prevention. He proposed a motion which passed unanimously in the House of Commons back in 2020 but there has been little progress made since. Saturday the...
Xplornet Communications Inc.'s Xplore Mobile will shut down at the end of August, the company announced Friday afternoon.
In a statement, the company blamed regulatory...
The House of Commons Industry committee will launch hearings into the...
Cogeco Inc. president and CEO Philippe Jetté said...
BCE Inc. is claiming that “ongoing record...
In an uncommonly strongly worded letter, the CRTC has asked Rogers Communications Inc. to provide a broad...
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne has directed the nation's largest telecommunications companies to negotiate "mutual assistance" agreements during outages,...
A Quebec-based hotel accused of copyright infringement is asking the CRTC...
Quebecor Inc. is asking the Competition Tribunal for permission to...
Rogers Communications Inc. is in the midst of a...
The CRTC had decided to allow BCE Inc. to keep...
BCE Inc. is asking the CRTC to rescind its order to make seamless handoffs...
In 2021, consumer mobile wireless fell by as much...
In a Wednesday morning joint statement, Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
Telus Corp. unveiled a $23 billion investment in broadband and related technologies across Ontario...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) issued the rules for its next spectrum auction Thursday. The auction will begin on Oct. 24, 2023 and will feature spectrum in the 3800 MHz band.
A large section of the framework is aimed at promoting...
City Wide Communications Inc. is appealing the CRTC's decision not to force Bragg Communications Inc. to...
The CRTC is estimating that its telecommunications fees for the 2022-2023 fiscal year will total just...
For the three months that ended on May 31, Corus Entertainment Inc.'s overall revenue was up to $433.5...
The federal government and Quebec announced $8.2 million in joint funding...
There were nearly half a dozen cyber security incidents targeting federal institutions each day in the last fiscal year, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) revealed Wednesday in its annual report.
The data was taken from information from the agency’s Canadian Centre for Cyber Security division. The fiscal year ran from Apr. 1, 2021 to Mar. 31, 2022
“This fiscal year, the Cyber Centre opened 2,023 cyber security incident cases,” the report...
In response to a CRTC request for information from BCE Inc.-subsidiary NorthwesTel, the company detailed...
Monday the CRTC approved claim forms for four projects under the Broadband Fund. The payment orders went...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada has filed an intervention in...
In a letter from the Deputy Minister of Canadian...
In a Thursday decision, the CRTC announced it was implementing regulations...
Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne...
Late Monday night the Senate passed a reformed version of a bill that seeks...
The biggest piece of Friday night's blockbuster...
The federal government is putting nearly $500,000 into broadband infrastructure in West Bragg Creek, Alta., it was announced Monday.
Approximately 280 households will receive high-speed internet. High-speed is defined as 50 megabits per second (Mbps) to download and 10...
Conservative MP Dan Mazier introduced a private members bill to the House...
Touting it as a "historic day" at an afternoon press conference, Innovation...
Telus Corp. announced Thursday it is purchasing digital health company...
The two ministers responsible for the Act...
The CRTC has imposed an administrative monetary penalty (AMP) of $7.5 million on BCE Inc. for violating the Telecommunications Act and delaying the network deployment of its main competitor in Quebec.
According to its Wednesday decision, the incumbent was fined $2.5...
The government’s new cybersecurity bill, introduced on Tuesday, is taking a two-pronged approach. One...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic...
The Senate's National Security and Defence Committee has pushed back...
The CRTC is estimating that its telemarketing regulatory costs for the...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Cogeco Inc. are among competitors protesting proposed changes to the...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed Philippe Dufresne as Privacy Commissioner Wednesday. ...
The CRTC has denied a request from BCE Inc. to stay a 2021 commission order...
The government's effort to convince...
The CRTC announced it was initiating a proceeding to improve telecommunications services in Canada’s north.
The area covered includes the three territories, northern British Columbia and northern Alberta, it announced in a Wednesday press release.
The commission...
The CRTC gave Rogers Communications Inc. permission Wednesday to access a...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked the opposition for...
The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development has launched its consultation on the...
The Federal Court of Appeal has sided with the attorney general of Canada...
When it comes to the government's plan to lower the threshold governing the search of personal digital devices at Canadian border crossings, lawyers from the federal privacy watchdog are reiterating a call they made some three years ago.
The standard for the search of...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. are asking the CRTC to deny a...
If the government reintroduces its online privacy bill, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) will...
Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons violated national privacy law because...
Given that the data contained on personal digital...
OTTAWA–Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron service is still eager to buy Freedom...
The Minister of Canadian Heritage has assured the House of Commons that the next chair of the CRTC will...
The government's attempt to create a brand new...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. have reached an...
Amongst those independent internet service providers (ISPs) who had been pleading with the federal government to overturn the CRTC's 2021 reversal of a 2019 decision that drastically lowered the rates those ISPs paid for access to incumbent networks, reaction to Thursday's...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Mobility Inc. has lost an application before the CRTC about Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron...
The governments of Canada and of Quebec are each investing $199,305 in...
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien is calling for new legislation that...
The federal government is seeking to issue a new policy direction to the...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers Association (ITPA) is suggesting to the CRTC that it establish a single low national next-generation 911 (NG911) rate for all...
As the Competition Bureau takes Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
A consortium of regional wireless competitors have filed an application...
The reported network sharing deal inked between Freedom Mobile-hopeful...
The CRTC will take at least two years to fully...
The federal government Thursday announced that it would be banning equipment from "high risk vendors",...
After Rogers Communications Inc. complained to the CRTC that it had...
The House of Commons Heritage committee is arguing against the merger of...
A federal court judge has dismissed a challenge...
Canada's competition laws have become too sensitive to price, particularly in mergers, and should instead focus more on the role of innovation and change, according to a Canadian competition and regulatory lawyer.
Lawson Hunter, a former senior civil servant involved in...
Players in the low-earth orbit satellite (LEOs) space are casting doubt...
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to review and vary a costs...
The Conservatives kept up their pressure on the government to implement a...
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau said “there's no reason at this...
The recent move by Canada's competition watchdog to block the pending acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc by Rogers Communications Inc. shows that the bureau is "aiming...
Canadians are sending approximately 6,459 complaints per week to the Spam...
The Competition Bureau has presented its case to the Competition Bureau that any divestiture of Shaw Communications Inc.'s wireless assets will not be an adequate remedy for...
A joint petition to cabinet from the National Pensioners Federation and the...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) has entered the battle to pass Bill C-11, the Online...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) will replace radio licences with...
The Competition Bureau has filed an application...
According to Telus Corp. executive vice-president...
The CRTC has approved Telus Corp.’s revisions to next-generation 911 (NG911) Local Government Service Agreement template.
In June 2017 the commission mandated incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) and small incumbent local exchange carriers (SILECs) to provide...
Distributel Ltd.’s request to revise interim...
Thursday the CRTC released the schedule for broadcasters and telecommunications companies to report under...
When it comes to Canada's wireless market this year, there are a number of...
Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Joe Friday...
The fight for a dedicated three-digit emergency number for suicide prevention continued to gather steam Tuesday as both a Government and an Opposition MP called for the implementation of the 988 number in Canada.
Conservative MP Kyle Seeback picked up the campaign started...
A Government bill in the Senate that seeks to codify the legal threshold...
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has welcomed the report on collection...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is asking the CRTC to speed up the regulatory...
The 911 committee for the Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique au...
Iristel Inc. filed a petition to the governor in council to vary a decision...
Along with counterparts from the provinces, the federal privacy watchdog...
The CRTC has admonished Telus Corp. for not entirely fulfilling its...
A Saskatchewan senator called on the government to do more to ensure...
The Toronto Police Service’s chief information officer said the department is not planning to put a moratorium on its use of facial recognition technology despite calls by experts to implement one until the technology is better analyzed.
Colin Stairs made the comments Thursday before the House of Commons’ Ethics committee as it studies the impacts of the use of...
