An announcement Thursday from Alphabet Inc.'s Google that it would put aside $1 billion to spend on news publishers around the world -- including two in Canada -- has not...
Legislation modernizing Canada’s Broadcasting Act is “pretty much ready” and will be tabled in Parliament in the fall, when the Liberal government also intends to...
Canada’s television advertising market has moved to a stage of “modest recovery” after chapters of...
OTTAWA — Any content levy on internet giants, as the telecom and...
In a phone interview with Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review panel chair Janet Yale,...
VMedia Inc. says a recommendation from the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review...
OTTAWA — On Monday Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault, with some help from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, walked back comments he made over the weekend to CTV News regarding licensing of online news, following the recommendations of an expert panel that news websites be...
OTTAWA — The reintroduction of an agreement governing contracts involving...
OTTAWA — Whether or not CBC/Radio-Canada can move away from advertising revenue is a “political...
OTTAWA — The recommendations on passive infrastructure from the expert...
OTTAWA — Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault says his government will introduce legislation to...
OTTAWA — A broadcasting and telecommunications legislative review report...
The blue-ribbon panel tasked with modernizing Canada’s communications...
The Liberal government's minority mandate means it will have to move fast...
The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) is teaming up with an artificial intelligence platform that it hopes will produce insights, which would otherwise be missed, from a...
The work of the chairwoman heading the review of the broadcasting and telecom acts turned out to be more time-consuming and complicated than the government initially planned for, according to a memo obtained through Access to Information. The initial terms and conditions of Janet Yale’s appointment provided compensation for the equivalent of two days a week of work. That proved to be insufficient, according to the secret memo to then-Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez in June 2019. “The Progression of the panel’s work has required the Chair to dedicate additional time over...
OTTAWA — On the second and final day of a potentially precedent-setting court hearing on site-blocking, a Federal Court judge gave the parties until Wednesday to negotiate a revised draft site...
Despite being “saddened” by the exit of one of its members, the panel reviewing Canada’s communications laws said it was forging ahead with its final recommendations, due in January 2020. Hank Intven, a lawyer and...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said in a social media post Wednesday that the Liberal government plans...
The blue ribbon panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s communications legislation has released its...
TORONTO — The interim report due at the end of this month from the expert panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s communications laws will only summarize the input the members have received so far, chairwoman Janet Yale said at a telecom industry conference.
“The...
Corus Entertainment Inc., the only major Canadian broadcaster refusing to...
The City of Calgary says the government should develop a “modernized” national digital strategy that addresses open access infrastructure policies, municipal rights-of-way, smart city urban design...
The panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s communications laws has hired...
There should be a mechanism in place to help resolve disputes between small ISPs and incumbents, an organization representing wireless internet service providers told the panel in charge of reviewing...
The British Columbia Broadband Association (BCBA) says a new legal framework for the telecom sector should simplify regulations and facilitate more regulatory participation by small operators....
A trade association for Canadian-based television and content distribution...
The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) took aim at mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in its submission to the ongoing review of Canada’s communications legislation....
The panel in charge of reviewing the broadcasting and telecom acts received...
Canada’s broadcasting and telecommunications legislation should be amended to include a number of references to accessibility for Canadians with disabilities, according to...
The government of Northwest Territories says the Telecommunications Act should aim to ensure telecom services of the same quality and at the same prices are available across the country. In its...
The Shaw Rocket Fund wants CBC/Radio-Canada to expand its focus on children’s content to reflect a broader age range and is asking for new communications legislation to ensure it has the funding...
Both over-the-top services and broadcasters should be required to show a certain amount of Canadian feature films, the Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters is asking the panel...
Organizations representing Canadian publishers are flagging the difficulty...
Rural broadband funding programs in Canada suffer from “significant” design flaws that have in some cases put investments by small providers on hold, a regional broadband group is warning -- one of a number of submissions to the ongoing review of Canada’s...
The real value of the funding CBC/Radio-Canada receives has slipped significantly due to inflation, the...
A group representing the Canadian community TV sector is asking the panel reviewing the broadcasting and...
The National NewsMedia Council wrote to the expert panel reviewing...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has filed a complaint with the CRTC flagging a concern that the regulator’s latest data report doesn’t provide a clear picture of the industry, which could make it more...
The government should create a “sustainability component” to rural broadband funding projects so they don’t dwindle in quality or eventually fail, according to an association representing...
Better representation at the CRTC of official language minority communities is a concern a number of...
Canada’s private radio broadcasters are fighting against a push to keep...
Music in public establishments such as malls, bars and restaurants should...
BCE Inc. wants to inject the Canada Media Fund (CMF) with a potentially significant influx of cash by forcing foreign over-the-top (OTT) services to fork over 20 per cent of...
A meeting with individuals leading the federal government’s review of...
Netflix Inc. is defending against calls to rope foreign over-the-top...
Cogeco Inc. is raising caution about the negative impact the government's...
Shaw Communications Inc. is asking the government to drop the five per cent revenue contribution TV service providers make to Canadian content, but says if CanCon needs a subsidy then it should be a direct one from government...
While online misinformation needs to be taken seriously, that doesn’t mean the government should begin regulating speech online, Facebook Inc. is telling the panel leading the government’s review of the broadcasting and telecom acts.
It said there are three types of...
The CEO of an independent specialty TV channel is raising concerns that a lack of regulation could let foreign-based digital companies operating in Canada de-monetize or discriminate against types of...
As a rule, when Canadians search keywords on the internet, they should be presented with Canadian content...
Canada’s current laws implicitly protecting net neutrality are sufficient...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) wants the government to...
Small, wholesale-based internet service providers could be forced out of...
Some of Canada’s biggest telecom companies rejected calls to force ISPs...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google already contributes to the Canadian creative...
Electrical utilities and municipalities have arched their backs over...
CBC/Radio-Canada wants the federal government to grant the CRTC the ability to issue orders requiring ISPs to block websites sharing “manipulated content, including news,”...
The CRTC is formally asking the federal government to make one regulatory...
As the new year begins, the months ahead promise a new spectrum auction, new CRTC announcements on...
TORONTO — The idea of cross-subsidization of industries did not find...
The comment period for the government-appointed, blue-ribbon panel that’s reviewing Canada’s communications laws is being extended into next year. It is being lengthened to January 11, 2019, the panel has confirmed to The...
OTTAWA — Members of the panel tasked with providing recommendations to bring Canada’s communications laws into the digital era are urging public submissions be “concrete” and “practical” to hasten the resulting report’s ability to pass government scrutiny. ...
OTTAWA – Conservative senators doubled-down on a previously-raised...
OTTAWA — The billions of dollars Rogers Communications Inc. says it’s...
OTTAWA — The head of Canada’s telecom regulator says clarity on where...
The Canadian Communications Systems Alliance (CCSA) is asking the Senate...
The government should combine the Heritage and Innovation ministries, and...
OTTAWA — Canada’s federal privacy watchdog asked a Senate committee...
OTTAWA — Two senators on the Senate transport and communications...
OTTAWA -- There is an “urgent need” for Canadian lawmakers to set out a new communications framework now that Canada has hammered out a new trilateral agreement on trade to replace the North...
The CRTC has no jurisdiction to implement a system to block websites allegedly engaging in piracy, it said in a highly-anticipated decision Tuesday, cracking open another...
OTTAWA — The expert panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s...
OTTAWA -- Lawmakers need to make net neutrality a major priority and...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) has launched a Canada-wide...
Former chief government whip Pablo Rodriguez is the new heritage minister,...
The panel appointed to lead the review of the Broadcasting Act and Telecommunications Act has met for the first time this week, and will continue to meet regularly over the summer, the federal government said in a press release Thursday. “As a first priority, the Review Panel identified the development of a consultation plan as well as its approach to meeting its research needs. The Review Panel expects to launch this process of consultation and outreach in September 2018,” it added....
OTTAWA — The expert panel appointed by the federal government to...
GATINEAU — The CRTC is recommending the government undertake a bevy of...
TORONTO — The federal government and the CRTC must pick up the pace and...
OTTAWA — Opposition MPs continued their criticism of Heritage Minister...
OTTAWA — While the response to the long-awaited results of Heritage...
For all the focus on the digital economy, there was little in Wednesday’s budget for digital content creators, broadband infrastructure enthusiasts or fans of long-term planning, according to...