The Indigenous Screen Office (ISO) will receive permanent government funding to support Indigenous-led audiovisual storytelling, Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge announced on Thursday. The support includes $65 million spread out over the next five years,...
BCE Inc. announced Thursday that it will be restructuring by eliminating 4,800 positions, divesting more than 40 per cent of its radio stations, cutting CTV newscasts, and...
OTTAWA–Foreign streamers will be a prickly problem for mainstream...
Gatineau, Que. – Telus Corp. asked the CRTC to...
Gatineau, Que. - CBC/Radio-Canada's decision to slash 600 jobs and leave...
Foreign streamers must pay their fair share of contributions to the Canadian broadcasting system, but...
Netflix Services Canada ULC says it has invested large amounts of money into Canada's broadcasting sector and should not have to pay into contribution funds. The streaming...
Those who stand to benefit from the Online...
Major broadcasters think that there should be a flexible contribution...
Renewal of the Canadian broadcasting system should not rely on one rigid...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight for a fund to help Canadian...
Representatives from several community radio stations emphasized their role as a third-pillar of the...
Canada’s news media are in crisis and the government is taking too long to respond, the House of...
The Indigenous Screen Office (ISO), newly certified as an independent...
BCE Inc. revealed more details on Tuesday on its proposal for how base contributions from online...
The long-awaited hearing on how the CRTC should implement the Online Streaming Act, particularly if online streaming services should make a base financial contribution to...
As the CRTC works out how it is going to wrangle streaming platforms and...
The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) published a comprehensive report on...
The CRTC is proposing to loosen some of Corus Entertainment Inc.’s...
BCE Inc. filed an application with the Federal Court of Appeal for leave to...
The CRTC added Natyf Inc., a Francophone station serving racialized communities, to Quebec’s basic package and issued a mandatory order for terrestrial and direct-to-home...
The CRTC has denied a request from Rogers Communications Inc. to delete the...
Blue Ant Media and Marblemedia have decided to merge their operations into one firm, the companies said...
The public broadcasting advocacy group Friends...
The CBC is requesting the CRTC amend its conditions of licence (COL),...
Lobby group OpenMedia has been polling the public about what the major issues in broadcasting and telecom...
BCE Inc. says in order for it to be competitive the CRTC must amend its...
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to amend the conditions of...
Quebecor Media Inc. is asking the CRTC to remove some of the conditions of...
Several trade unions representing Canadian media members, artists, and producers are opposed to Corus Entertainment Inc.’s and other Canadian broadcasters’ calls for the...
Friday the CRTC extended the deadlines for interventions on its consultation on a modernized framework...
Corus Entertainment Inc. has written to the CRTC asking whether or not that the company will be allowed...
OTTAWA–Delegates to the International Institute of Communications...
Now that the Online Streaming Act has become law, the CRTC is launching a...
After months of contentious debate, Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, has become law. The Senate voted 52-16 on third reading Thursday. Shortly thereafter, Governor-General Mary Simon gave it Royal Assent. The victory after the lengthy parliamentary process was...
The CRTC has adjusted how it considers the use of stock footage for the...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says he is not worried that...
Quebecor Inc.’s efforts to reach all wholesale and MVNO access agreements...
The CRTC announced that it will publish the data collected in its Annual...
The battle over the government’s Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11,...
OTTAWA–Streaming is the way of the future, a panel told the Canadian...
OTTAWA– An Amazon Inc. Prime Video executive has...
OTTAWA–Australia has followed a different path to film and television...
OTTAWA – The Senate officially adopted the Online Streaming Act, a year to the day since it was first introduced in the House of Commons. The vote passed Thursday...
OTTAWA — The Business Development Bank of Canada...
The purpose of the CRTC is to achieve policy...
The CRTC Tuesday approved a proposal for an FM station serving La Crete, Alta. Two years ago the...
The CRTC has revised its rules for Canadian content in commercial radio. In...
Senators voted to add a clause in Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, to state that Canada’s broadcasting policy goals must “reflect and be responsive to the preferences...
The House of Commons Heritage committee passed an amendment to the...
The committee studying the Online News Act...
Supporters and opponents of the Online Streaming Act alike have their eyes...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and members of his department were the final witnesses as the...
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee’s clause-by-clause review of...
The first day of the House of Commons’ Heritage...
CRTC chair Ian Scott told members of the Senate Committee on Transport and Communication that the...
Canada’s Online News Act could serve as a template for countries around...
Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, came out swinging against Bill C-18, the Online News Act, on Friday. The firm finally appeared before the House of Commons...
Hopes that the government’s Online Streaming Act would receive quick...
The organization representing independent companies providing cable TV and...
OTTAWA–Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, is so upset that...
Whether or not enough content is produced in...
Corus Entertainment Inc. revealed a $367.1 million loss this quarter blaming goodwill impairment charges, an advertising recession, and the CRTC’s Canadian programming...
The chair of the Senate Transport and...
A survey commissioned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada found that most...
New Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre...
The question over the place of algorithms and...
Executives from the French-language music group...
An Alberta Senator is claiming his privileges as a parliamentarian were...
Netflix Inc., and the Motion Picture Association - Canada (MPA-Canada), of...
The executive director of Digital First Canada...
A Prince Edward Island senator told his colleagues he wants to bring in a trio of amendments to the Online Streaming Act to deal with deficiencies he sees at CBC/Radio-Canada. Senator Percy Downe of the Canadian Senators Group was speaking Tuesday during debate on C-11....
As the House of Commons Heritage committee Tuesday...
The Senate Committee on Transportation and Communications continued its...
The government’s plan to force social media platforms to negotiate...
The federal government is sending the CRTC's renewal of...
Canadian broadcasting executives, from companies both big and small, told Senators studying the government’s efforts to update the Broadcasting Act that they would like to...
The idea that the CRTC is capable of handling the...
In a Sept. 6 letter, the CRTC has accepted a request from Rogers Communications Inc. for final offer...
The Senate’s upcoming review of the Online...
The CBC/ Radio-Canada’s English services may have a target on its back, depending on who wins the...
Thursday the CRTC renewed the licence of OUTtv Network Inc. for five years...
Several broadcast industry stakeholders are...
The Attorney General of Canada will not make any representations for itself...
The Canadian Media Producers Association, with support from parties across the television and film...
Editor's note: for clarity, this story makes reference to the title of a book containing a racial slur in the French language. CBC/ Radio-Canada has issued a public...
The removal of problematic content online remains...
More than 50 personalities for CBC/...
The CRTC chair has said that social media...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked Conservative party...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked the opposition for spreading misinformation about the provisions of Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act. The minister...
BCE Inc. wants the government to incentivize foreign-domestic partnerships...
CRTC chair Ian Scott told the House of Commons Heritage Committee Tuesday...
A Walt Disney Company executive is questioning...
The CRTC will take at least two years to fully...
CRTC chair Ian Scott told conference attendees...
Conservative MP John Nater wants the Liberal government to withdraw its...
Liberal MP Mark Gerretsen decried the fake outrage he said the...
The Conservatives continue to lambaste the government for the Online...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) has entered the battle to pass Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act currently before Parliament. The group is operating a website, running an advertising campaign and employing social media to get its message out that the...