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Tories denounce Bill C-11 while Bloc defends it
Media | 05/06/2022 4:08 pm EDT
Debate continued in the House of Commons Thursday on the Online Streaming Act, known as Bill C-11. Conservative and Bloc Québécois MPs were the speakers.They took opposite approaches to the bill. The Tories worry about censorship and government overreach while the...
Quebec and French Canadian artists will be the losers if social media is unregulated, conference hears
Media | 05/04/2022 6:15 pm EDT
A Canadian cultural policy that adopts a laissez-faire, unregulated, approach to social media algorithms and discoverability requirements will harm Quebec and French Canadian...
CPAC appoints new president, CEO
Media | 04/29/2022 1:02 pm EDT
The Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. (CPAC) named Christa Dickenson as its president and chief executive...
UPDATED: Gov. launches Online News Act, will mandate bargaining between outlets and web giants for compensation
Media | 04/05/2022 1:06 pm EDT
New legislation from the Government of Canada will...
Digital creators may still be subject to C-11, Heritage Committee told
Internet and Governance | 03/24/2022 5:26 pm EDT
Digital creators are wary of the government’s claim that amendments to...
Federal government spends $2.5m to battle disinformation
Internet and Governance | 03/16/2022 3:17 pm EDT
The Canadian government has allocated $2.5 million to help people identify...
Bill C-11 a new bill with no new ideas, and a ‘legal pretzel’ for censorship: CPC
Media | 03/01/2022 5:05 pm EST
For the second time in the span of a year, the Liberal government has introduced a new bill to update Canada’s broadcasting act but “what it doesn't bring is new ideas,”...
Telus, TLN, have a business dispute, not an actionable complaint: CRTC
telecom | 02/11/2022 2:41 pm EST
On Friday the CRTC dismissed a complaint by Telus Corp. against TLN Media...
Government, Telefilm, extend support for uninsured Canadian productions
Media | 02/11/2022 1:06 pm EST
The Government of Canada has extended its temporary emergency fund...
Opposition grills Libs over definitive date on suicide hotline implementation, Online Streaming Act
Media | 02/07/2022 5:19 pm EST
Conservative MP and Heritage Critic John Nater...
Few stakeholders fully support Heritage proposal for online harms: report
Internet and Governance | 02/03/2022 7:12 pm EST
The government needs to rethink its approach to regulating harmful content...
Gov. reintroduces Broadcasting Act update, with social media exemption
Media | 02/02/2022 7:32 pm EST
OTTAWA -- Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodríguez called previous...
New Broadcast Act update appears on order paper as Tories oppose move
Internet and Governance | 02/01/2022 6:05 pm EST
The government placed legislation to change the Broadcasting Act on the...
PIAC, Quebecor, music sector, all oppose Stingray financial relief proposal
Media | 02/01/2022 5:08 pm EST
Quebecor Inc., organizations supporting Canada music and radio sector, as...
CRTC approves community FM station on Salt Spring Island
Media | 01/24/2022 12:25 pm EST
On Monday the CRTC granted a licence to a new community FM station on Salt...
Hedy Fry new chair of Heritage committee
Media | 12/13/2021 5:43 pm EST
OTTAWA – Veteran Liberal MP Hedy Fry was elected chair of the House of Commons committee on Canadian Heritage Monday in an 11-1 vote, with Conservative MP Rachael Thomas as the only dissenting voice.
Fry, who has represented Vancouver Centre since 1993, will steer the...
No evidence suggests foreign streamers will enter into exclusivity with Rogers, incumbent tells CRTC
Media | 11/26/2021 5:08 pm EST
Rogers Communications Inc. executives told the...
Safeguards can’t justify Rogers-Shaw merger: Bell to CRTC
Media | 11/25/2021 6:35 pm EST
No amount of proposed remedies will undo the damage of Rogers...
OpenMedia denounces government plan to reintroduce C-10
Media | 11/24/2021 11:56 am EST
Lobby group OpenMedia is disappointed that Tuesday’s Speech from the...
Rogers-Shaw merger will result in content exclusivity, “force” consumer to switch services: Telus
Media | 11/23/2021 6:10 pm EST
Telus Corp. executives told the CTRC that if the...
Successor bill to C-10 “absolute priority”, Rodriguez says
Media | 11/23/2021 11:50 am EST
Canadian Heritage minister Pablo Rodriguez says revisions to the Broadcasting Act will be reintroduced as soon as possible. Any new legislation would replace Bill C-10 from the last Parliament, which died on the order paper when the election was called.
Speaking in...
CRTC lifts local expression conditions for Quebecor, Bragg on-demand services
Media | 11/04/2021 5:40 pm EDT
The CRTC approved applications by Quebecor Media Inc.’s Videotron and...
CanCon rules need to be updated for new media landscape, conference hears
Media | 11/03/2021 6:35 pm EDT
Canadian content should be better defined as we advance to a greater...
C-10 creates ‘false battle’ amongst broadcasters: former CRTC commissioner
Media | 11/03/2021 6:26 pm EDT
The Canadian government is “expanding the...
Francophone music group loses CanCon case against CRTC
Media | 11/02/2021 4:12 pm EDT
A group representing Francophone and Acadian musicians outside Quebec has...
CRTC orders Sogetel, Comwave to pay Cancon shortfalls
Media | 11/02/2021 12:36 pm EDT
The CRTC is ordering two telecommunications companies to cough up Canadian programming contribution...
Delay Rogers-Shaw CRTC hearing until its clear who controls Rogers: PIAC
Media | 11/01/2021 5:35 pm EDT
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre has asked the CRTC to delay a hearing...
Google expands News Showcase program
Media | 10/27/2021 12:37 pm EDT
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is expanding its News Showcase program, announcing Wednesday that it has signed...
UPDATED – Rodriguez back as Heritage minister, Champagne remains in Innovation
Media | 10/26/2021 12:47 pm EDT
OTTAWA -- MP Pablo Rodriguez is back in familiar territory as he is once...
Rogers ordered to put employment and programming data on the public record for merger hearing
Media | 10/22/2021 6:21 pm EDT
The CRTC ordered Rogers Communications Inc. to submit a list of its original community programming, aggregate returns filed with the CRTC, and employment data on the public...
Corus says COVID-delayed CPE requirements will significantly increase production spending
Media | 10/22/2021 4:47 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc. expects to see a...
CRTC plans to monitor technical surveys for small BDUs, dismisses CCSA undue preference complaint against Bell
Media | 10/15/2021 5:42 pm EDT
The CRTC will be keeping an eye on technical...
CRTC issues consultation for several broadcasting applications
Media | 10/05/2021 4:06 pm EDT
The CRTC is holding a consultation to determine a series of applications...
Bell, Telus and PIAC want CRTC to deny Rogers’ acquisition of Shaw’s broadcasting interests
Media | 09/14/2021 7:50 pm EDT
BCE Inc. and Telus Corp., considered to be two of...
Broadcasting regulation debate at electoral standstill as advocates, industry react
Media | 09/14/2021 7:16 pm EDT
According to an advocacy group opposing restrictions on the internet, although the Conservative government has a better approach when it comes to the question on what to do...
More than a dozen nearly-identical interventions filed with CRTC in favour of Rogers-Shaw broadcasting acquisition
Media | 08/30/2021 4:54 pm EDT
A number of film groups and companies have...
Bell layoffs highlight need for tougher regs for foreign broadcasters: Unifor
Media | 08/17/2021 5:15 pm EDT
Unifor is calling on the government to introduce legislation that will...
CRTC sides with creative sector in broadcasters’ CanCon relief proposal
Media | 08/12/2021 5:23 pm EDT
The CRTC has denied a request made by the Canadian Association of...
CRTC to hold hearing on Rogers-Shaw merger, opens consultation
Media | 08/12/2021 1:00 pm EDT
The CRTC will hold hearings on whether Rogers Communications Inc. may...
Motion Picture Association Canada agrees digital media survey should wait for C-10
Media | 08/10/2021 5:28 pm EDT
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...
Consensus on CRTC data collection for foreign outlets; disagreement on how
Media | 08/09/2021 5:32 pm EDT
Civil groups and Canadian telecoms companies agree that the CRTC should...
Quebecor calls for swift news media compensation legislation
Media | 08/05/2021 6:14 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s president and CEO is renewing calls for the federal...
Heritage launches consultation on digital platform revenue sharing for news sector
Media | 08/03/2021 6:03 pm EDT
Canadian Heritage is seeking input on how best to compensate the news...
BTLR’s Yale encouraged by Australian news compensation model; too reliant on big tech, says OpenMedia
Media | 07/06/2021 6:18 pm EDT
An initiative explored this past month in a Senate private member's bill effectively “hitched our wagon to the continued growth of these big companies” like Facebook Inc....
Summer recess: your parliament update
Media | 06/25/2021 6:30 pm EDT
With Parliament rising this week for its summer break, a number of bills of interest to the broadcasting...
Senate begins C-10 analysis with broad debate
Media | 06/24/2021 10:41 am EDT
Senators are looking beyond the free speech issues raised by critics of the revised Broadcasting Act and...
Copyright reform not the best way forward for journalism remuneration: S-225 witnesses
Media | 06/18/2021 5:07 pm EDT
Experts in the journalism industry are not in...
CRTC approves station’s local content exemptions for Olympics and license revocation
Media | 06/18/2021 4:38 pm EDT
The CRTC has approved an application from CBC...
Majority of Canadians support subjecting foreign broadcasters to Canadian laws: survey
Media | 06/17/2021 6:05 pm EDT
A survey by the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, an advocacy group for the broadcast industry, has found that 70 percent of Canadians surveyed support the idea of subjecting...
Speaker sides with Conservatives, ruling to delete 14 amendments from C-10 passed after ‘gag’ order
Media | 06/15/2021 7:00 pm EDT
The Canadian Heritage Committee’s work during...
Heritage committee moves to table 2017 “Netflix deal”
Media | 06/14/2021 6:07 pm EDT
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...
C-10 headed to HoC; Bloc adds 5 year review of act
Media | 06/11/2021 6:10 pm EDT
A debate which Canadian Heritage Committee chair Scott Simms has jokingly said was “so exciting we...
Clock runs out on C-10 debate, Conservative motion requiring CRTC legal opinions on regs fails
Media | 06/10/2021 7:34 pm EDT
Time ran out on Bill C-10 debate -- after the...
NDP says Libs are to blame for C-10 delays as HoC passes ‘gag order’
Media | 06/07/2021 6:26 pm EDT
The Liberals and the Bloc Québécois cooperated to pass a motion in the...
Conservative attempt to reintroduce C-10 social media exclusion fails
Media | 05/31/2021 5:48 pm EDT
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...
On C-10, Conservatives attacking Canadian, Quebec culture: Trudeau
Media | 05/26/2021 6:51 pm EDT
“Conservatives just don’t get it” when it comes to Bill C-10,...
Bill C-10 does not impact net neutrality: Guilbeault
Media | 05/25/2021 6:20 pm EDT
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...
CRTC chair asserts personal preference for facilities-based competition
telecom | 05/20/2021 5:59 pm EDT
CRTC chair Ian Scott said he believes the commission’s pick of a facilities-based model will result “in more robust and sustained competition,” as it faces criticism...
Heritage committee votes to limit CRTC social media regulatory powers
Media | 05/19/2021 5:52 pm EDT
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee resumed its work on the...
“I don’t have an obligation to give legal advice,” Lametti tells Heritage Committee
Media | 05/18/2021 6:09 pm EDT
The Conservative Party accused the Justice...
Freedom of expression safe from CRTC, says majority of C-10 expert panel
Media | 05/17/2021 6:16 pm EDT
The majority of the broadcasting experts invited before the House of...
Guilbeault calls for C-10 work to resume quickly, CP delays after no-show Justice Minister
Media | 05/14/2021 7:03 pm EDT
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault wants work on...
UPDATED: Conservatives reject new C-10 charter statement
Media | 05/13/2021 2:21 pm EDT
The Conservative Party Thursday accused the Liberals of “trying to hide behind a smoke screen,” calling the Justice Minister David Lametti’s new charter statement on Bill C-10, a revision to the Broadcasting Act, nothing more than a letter.
“Although the...
Heritage and Justice ministers to appear before CHPC to address charter concerns
Media | 05/10/2021 6:25 pm EDT
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee is moving forward with a charter...
Libs now seek to restrict CRTC social media powers, Bloc says enough with filibustering
Media | 05/07/2021 6:39 pm EDT
After saying it would address concerns around...
Acadia Broadcasting reorganizing operations
Media | 05/07/2021 5:26 pm EDT
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...
Conservatives oppose C-10; watchdog Friends says criticism of exemption removal ‘overblown’
Media | 04/27/2021 2:56 pm EDT
The Conservatives “continue to oppose” Bill...
Supreme Court to hear making available right dispute
Media | 04/26/2021 5:55 pm EDT
The Supreme Court of Canada has decided it will hear an appeal from Music Canada and the Society of...
Heritage Committee strikes social media exemption from C-10; moves away from 7 year licence terms
Media | 04/23/2021 8:56 pm EDT
The House of Commons Heritage committee has moved...
Numerous groups urge CRTC not to cut CanCon quotas for radio
Media | 04/01/2021 4:39 pm EDT
Numerous advocacy groups and smaller broadcasters are recommending that the...
Canadian radio broadcasters ask CRTC for space to compete with streamers
Media | 03/30/2021 5:35 pm EDT
The CRTC needs to do away with restrictive regulations, argue multiple...
Heritage committee wants Zuckerberg’s answers
Media | 03/29/2021 7:53 pm EDT
During a hearing on Facebook, Inc.’s relationship with the federal government Monday, multiple members of the House of Commons Heritage committee questioned the social media giant’s Canadian boss, Kevin Chan, on why CEO Mark Zuckerberg has so far declined to appear....
Federal court dismisses telecom carriers attempt to get SOCAN royalties back
Media | 03/22/2021 7:03 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc., and Quebecor Inc.’s collective bid to get back millions in royalties they say they paid to the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada...
Local news funding needed in C-10: Bell
Media | 03/22/2021 6:07 pm EDT
As the House of Commons Heritage committee hearings on the government's proposed update to the...
Heritage committee to ask Guilbeault for draft policy directive for CRTC, summon Zuckerberg
Media | 02/26/2021 5:39 pm EST
MPs on the House of Commons Heritage Committee...
Half of Canadians want CanCon regs for music streaming services: CRTC survey
Media | 02/23/2021 5:19 pm EST
A new survey suggests that just over half of Canadians believe that...
Bloc pushes for web giants to support Canadian media
Media | 02/17/2021 5:10 pm EST
The Bloc Québécois is pushing the federal government to take “urgent” action to support local media by imposing new taxes on web giants such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. In the House of Commons Wednesday, Bloc Heritage critic Martin Champoux sought unanimous consent on a motion for the government to act. The motion, translated from French, asked that the House to “recognize the inequity between web giants and our media when it comes to advertising income on various digital platforms and that it asks the government to take action urgently in order to create a...
Tait again calls for digital flexibility
Media | 02/09/2021 4:30 pm EST
CBC/Radio-Canada president Catherine Tait doubled down on its request for greater flexibility to spend on...
Big changes at Bell Media as six execs depart their jobs
Media | 01/06/2021 5:46 pm EST
BCE Inc.’s Bell Media division is starting off the year with significant changes to its executive roster, including the departures of its vice-president of regulatory affairs Kevin Goldstein,...
Court won’t hear appeal over CRTC’s radio licence denial
Media | 01/04/2021 4:52 pm EST
The Federal Court of Appeal has rejected an application for leave to appeal by a broadcaster whose radio licence was denied renewal by the CRTC. The CRTC denied the licence renewal for Groupe...
CanCon relief will help commercial radio compete with Spotify: Bell Media
Media | 11/19/2020 5:40 pm EST
Canadian content programming relief from the CRTC would allow BCE Inc.'s...
Broadcast Act updates not comprehensive enough: NDP, Conservatives
Media | 11/03/2020 6:44 pm EST
The Liberal government’s proposed updates to the Broadcasting Act have...
CRTC says Bell ‘misallocated’ $35.9M of community TV funds
Media | 10/23/2020 5:43 pm EDT
BCE Inc. misclassified a number of self-promotional productions as community programming, and misallocated $35.9 million to its CTV networks, the CRTC said Thursday. In its decision renewing a...
TV advertising declines slow down for Corus in Q4
Media | 10/22/2020 5:32 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc. continues to feel the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the rate of decline...
Production sector to receive $50M in gov’t insurance support
Media | 09/25/2020 4:52 pm EDT
Independent producers will be able to access a $50 million insurance...
Throne speech reiterates rural broadband, web giant promises
Media | 09/23/2020 2:54 pm EDT
In Wednesday’s throne speech kicking off Parliament’s return, the Liberal government repeated previous commitments to introduce new rules for large foreign digital companies and accelerate rural broadband builds.
“Web giants are taking Canadians’ money while...
Back to Parliament: your (pandemic) preview
Media | 09/22/2020 12:43 pm EDT
Given the precarious situation around the now-escalating COVID-19 pandemic, what will actually be...
$1B of production at risk due to lack of insurance: CMPA, AQPM
Media | 09/18/2020 4:34 pm EDT
Some 214 "camera-ready" film and television projects, employing 19,500...
CRTC consulting on broadcasters’ request for emergency relief
Media | 09/17/2020 4:58 pm EDT
The CRTC Thursday launched a consultation on a request submitted by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters in mid-July that asked for emergency regulatory relief to address the impacts of the...
COVID has created a CanCon crisis, and Corus won’t waste it: CEO
Media | 09/15/2020 5:37 pm EDT
The production slowdown stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns has created a crisis for Corus Entertainment Inc. in terms of meeting its CRTC-mandated Canadian programming expenditures (CPE),...
Iqaluit radio stations licences renewed despite non-compliance
Media | 08/25/2020 5:23 pm EDT
Two Nunavut radio stations owned by Northern Lights Entertainment Inc. have had their broadcasting licences extended for just two years after the CRTC found they had failed to comply with a series of licence conditions. In a Tuesday decision, the CRTC extended the licences for CKGC-FM Iqaluit and CKIQ-FM Iqaluit until Aug. 31, 2022, ruling a shorter extension was necessary due to “the seriousness of the various instances of non-compliance,” as well as instances of non-compliance during the previous licence term. Both stations failed to complete annual returns for the new and...
CRTC shares proposed monitoring scheme for community programming
Media | 07/16/2020 4:35 pm EDT
The CRTC is asking for feedback about how to best monitor linear and on-demand community programming. The regulator opened a public consultation on Thursday into the tools and processes it intends...
Gov’t to introduce web giant, CanCon, news legislation in fall: Guilbeault
Media | 06/16/2020 3:00 pm EDT
Legislation modernizing Canada’s Broadcasting Act is “pretty much...
Change CAVCO system to highlight Canadian culture, former CBC VP says
Media | 05/28/2020 5:22 pm EDT
Canada should follow Britain’s lead and change the system it uses to classify productions as Canadian content, Richard Stursberg, former head of CBC/Radio-Canada’s English services, said at a...
SOCAN CEO leaves
Media | 04/14/2020 5:10 pm EDT
Eric Baptiste, CEO of the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) has left the organization, effective immediately. “With the end of the current CEO contract approaching, Eric thought it was time to move on and a mutual decision was reached with the Board to end his...
Government waives licence fees for broadcasters
Media | 03/30/2020 6:04 pm EDT
Canadian radio and TV broadcasters won’t have to pay licence fees for 2020-21 in a bid to help them navigate declines in advertising revenue caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault announced the...
Cabinet lets CRTC renewal of Sirius XM stand
Media | 03/18/2020 7:06 pm EDT
Following the recommendation of Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault, the governor-in-council has rejected a request for the cabinet to reexamine or send back the CRTC's decision to renew the Canadian licenses of Sirius XM Canada...
There was never a Netflix deal: federal government
Media | 02/25/2020 5:27 pm EST
Former Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly’s much-touted 2017 deal with Netflix Inc. to spend $500 million...
CanCon producers praise BTLR terms of trade recommendation
Media | 01/31/2020 5:01 pm EST
OTTAWA — The reintroduction of an agreement governing contracts involving...
BTLR reaction mixed, no clarity on gov’t implementation
Media | 01/29/2020 5:32 pm EST
OTTAWA — A broadcasting and telecommunications legislative review report recommendation that would task a renamed CRTC with regulating online news sites is the “ok, boomer” approach to the internet, according to Conservative industry critic Michelle Rempel Garner. ...