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 for the search of digital devices at border crossings would "weaponize the Customs Act in fresh and unintended ways," according to one Senator.
In remarks to the Senate Tuesday, Senator Paula...
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 Monday released a set of recommendations for the use and deployment of facial recognition technology...
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...
Hydro Ottawa is returning to the telecom market with the launch of Hiboo...
Telus Corp. is asking the CRTC to reclassify small incumbent local exchange carriers (SILECs)
as originating...
As the CRTC is considering the funding structures for the planned rollout of so-called next generation...
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh called once again for the government to disallow...
Conservative MP Todd Doherty carried on the fight for implementation of a...
BCE Inc. announced the launch of its partnership with Amazon Inc. to deploy what it touts as Canada’s first public multi-access edge computing (MEC) with Amazon Web...
Conservative MP Todd Doherty issued a news release on Monday marking the...
Friday, the governments of Canada and Ontario announced which projects will...
Incumbent telecoms are reacting strongly to a...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri declined to comment on what...
In replies to one of a number of disputes before the CRTC about access to in-building wires in multi-dwelling units (MDUs), the internet service provider Beanfield Technologies Inc. has asked the regulator to expand its inquiry to investigate why such exclusivity...
The governments of Canada and Ontario are jointly investing $56 million for...
Cogeco Inc. is preparing its entry into Canada’s mobile wireless market but has no definitive timeframe, as it is still contingent on the approval by the CRTC for the terms...
The cabinet has declined to overturn or send back...
A new Government-backed Senate bill now seeks to establish a new framework...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is investing approximately $337 million of capital in...
Shaw Communications Inc. announced a fall in revenues and earnings for the second quarter of 2022, the...
The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) is the only...
The Canadian Communication Systems Alliance (CCSA) is calling on the CRTC to reverse a planned service...
The CRTC is asking a number of internet service providers (ISPs) to confirm whether or not they are providing services in a Toronto multi-dwelling unit (MDU).
In a Friday letter to its distribution list, the CRTC asked a number of different ISPs to confirm whether or not they are providing any copper wire and fibre-based services to residents at the building in the Yorkville area of Toronto; detail how many customers the ISPs have in the building and whether they are residential or business customers. The regulator also...
The CRTC is ready to expedite a proceeding on...
Rogers Communications Inc. has told the...
In a federal government that is mostly targeted towards new spending on...
The CRTC mostly accepted the arguments of small wireless carriers against...
BCE Inc. Wednesday announced the launch of a new three gigabit service. The service boasts both download and upload speeds of three gigabit per second (Gbps), which the company is touting as the "fastest internet speeds of any major provider in Canada."
"We look forward to continuing to deliver the speed and reliability that our customers need so that they can do what they need to do online even faster," Bell's group president of consumer and small and medium business Blaik Kirby said in a Wednesday release.
The...
The CRTC issued a show cause proceeding and call...
Telecom complaints fell by 26 percent in six months while disclosure issues...
Tuesday the CRTC approved an application by Shaw Communications Inc. to...
Tuesday Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron was granted approval by the CRTC for...
New legislation from the Government of Canada will...
Facial recognition technology (FRT) needs human...
Xplornet Communications Inc. purchased the high-speed internet business of...
The federal government is providing low-income families and seniors with...
The CRTC is allowing the Government of the Northwest Territories to file late interventions in its proceeding on the implementation of a three-digit number for mental health...
In what it says is an effort to safeguard travellers' rights when entering...
GATINEAU, Que.--The CRTC came in for a drubbing at two panels Wednesday at the annual conference of the...
Distributel Ltd. is asking the CRTC to revise the interim rates for...
The CRTC has issued $19.5 million from the regulator's Broadband Fund for...
The CRTC has issued an administrative renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada's broadcasting license through Aug. 30 of this year, over a year after the regulator held hearings into the...
GATINEAU, Que. – The federal government's stated objective to reach connectivity speeds of 50 Mbps for downloads and 10 Mbps for uploads is good enough and does need to be increased by much, according to members of the Canadian...
Monday Rogers Communications Inc. announced it was partnering with Ericsson AB on rolling out Canada’s first standalone 5G network. The Toronto-based telecom had earlier deployed the country’s first standalone 5G core and...
The CRTC has pushed back deadlines for comments on next generation 911 (NG911) service following a...
The CRTC has added a dozen additional routes to its list of interexchange...
The commission denied an application by City Wide Communications Inc....
The CRTC has approved Rogers Communications Inc.'s acquisition of Shaw...
On the heels of its announcement this week of a...
The CRTC has acknowledged the concern of certain stakeholders about the regulator's delay in resolving a...
TeraGo Inc. announced Tuesday that it is launching 5G millimeter wave service in connected multi-dwelling units (MDUs) in the province of Ontario.
"We are excited to partner with and empower companies to provide high-speed internet services to previously difficult to service buildings and residences," chief revenue officer Blake Wetzel said in a release.
"With this positive step to leverage our advanced services in Ontario, we hope to continue to expand these...
Cogeco Inc. has two different labour disputes brewing, according to the union representing two different...
The Canadian government should place a national...
The industry group Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) has sent a letter personally addressed...
Cogeco Inc.'s ability to participate in the...
The CRTC approved a BCE Inc. subsidiary’s request to implement its plan for local competition in the low-density market of Upton, Que. within five months, despite pushback...
Asked if the odds of Quebecor Inc. purchasing Shaw Communications Inc.'s...
The federal government is investing $41 million to deliver high-speed...
The CRTC issued an updated notice of consultation on video relay service...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development...
An Alaskan company has unveiled a billion-dollar project to run fibre from...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has approved a transfer...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is rolling out 5G in the City...
Conservative MP James Bezan has written to Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien asking for a probe into the breach of data of those who participated in or financially supported the recent “Freedom...
The federal government is earmarking $240 million in matching funds to deploy high-speed internet in Alberta, it was announced Wednesday. Last week Premier Jason Kenney...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri has said that last week's announcement from Innovation...
The Federal Court of Appeal rejected an application by Iristel Inc. to...
The CRTC is seeking comments on funding for the rollout of next-generation 911 (NG911) service, according...
The federal government has partnered with the government of British...
The CRTC has issued a call for comments and a show cause proceeding on a telecommunications service provider that failed to participate in the Commission for Complaints for...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED)...
The Industry committee – from the last...
The House of Commons Industry committee has said...
Updated on March 3 at 5:46 p.m.
Innovation...
The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed an application by Iristel Inc. to...
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has followed...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has a “simple”...
The CRTC cannot direct internet service providers (ISPs) to implement age...
Community-owned television outlets “are not producing local news that meet high journalistic standards,” and the Online Streaming Act should be amended to ensure...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has asked the Office of...
The province of Alberta will spend $390 million over four years to provide...
The gathering of mobility cellphone data by the Public Health Agency of...
Several Canadian telecom companies have responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by temporarily...
On Friday, the CRTC approved recommendations from the Emergency Services Working Group (ESWG) on handset-based location technology implementation for 911 service. Because of...
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau said that while his company is...
BCE Inc. has acquired Quebec-based internet, telephone and television provider Ebox Inc., the incumbent...
When it assessed Quebecor Inc. as eligible to bid...
Interim Conservative leader Candice Bergen shuffled her shadow cabinet on Tuesday, moving some MPs into...
It would be impossible for the government to re-identify mobility data of...
The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development announced...
The Canadian government is investing nearly $6.6 million in rural Saskatchewan in its effort to connect...
The CRTC is calling for comments on proposed amendments to the Telecommunications Fees Regulations, it...
The CRTC has decided that it will not consider a request from the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) for commission chair Ian Scott to recuse himself from all matters before the regulator related to the relationship of wholesale-based internet service providers...
