Minister of Rural Economic Development Gudie Hutchings continued her tour doling out cash from the Universal Broadband Fund. Wednesday saw her in Thompson, Man. handing out $7.5 million for internet and mobile connectivity. The money will allow Broadband Communications...
The governments of Canada and Alberta announced Tuesday that they are jointly spending $112 million to roll out high-speed internet service to 22,500 households in 166 communities. Indigenous communities make up 3,400 of the total. Federal Minister of Rural Economic...
Monday the federal government and the government of British Columbia joined...
The Government of Canada announced Friday that it...
The crisis in competition when it comes to internet connectivity is...
To bring affordable internet and consumer choice to rural communities, the...
Cogeco Inc. announced Monday that Cogeco Connexion is acquiring an internet, telephone and television service provider serving the Niagara Region. Niagara Regional...
Ericsson AB and Telus Corp. have linked up to roll out a 5G standalone network, it was announced Monday....
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the...
Rogers Communications Inc. has divested itself of all of its shares in...
The government needs to set clear standards of...
While the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and...
Canada will need to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) to protect workers while at the same time...
Canada’s news media are in crisis and the government is taking too long to respond, the House of...
BCE Inc. revealed more details on Tuesday on its proposal for how base contributions from online...
As the Federal Communications Commission in the United States announced it was finally revising its internet connectivity speeds, the CRTC is playing coy about its future plans. At the beginning of November, the American regulator said it would take another look at...
City Wide Communications Inc., Frontier Networks...
Tuesday Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge issued the final policy direction to the CRTC that...
A quartet of civil society groups appeared before the House of Commons...
A coalition of civil society groups are calling on the government to make...
The CRTC has denied an application brought forward by a locally-owned internet service provider for multiple orders related to the installation of its facilities in Beckwith...
The CRTC has given the green light to BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel Inc....
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced the purchase of a Northern Ontario telecom service...
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault must unblock Rebel News founder Ezra...
The Department of Industry Science and Economic Development (ISED) released its Spectrum Outlook...
ICA Microsystems Inc. is once again a participant in the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-Television...
By John Lawford, executive eirector and general counsel of the Public...
The Commission for Complaints for Telecom-Television Service (CCTS) was...
The CRTC has published some of the interventions for its proceeding into the Broadband Fund. Most of the...
The Federal Court has issued a site-blocking order against several alleged unauthorized MLB live streams, continuing its crackdown on online piracy. The court order,...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) told the CRTC that...
BCE Inc. subsidiary Bell MTS has responded to a report criticizing how the telecom has operated since it...
Canadian Heritage is proposing regulations under the Online News Act that...
The federal and Alberta governments announced a $96 million plan to roll...
The governments of Canada and Ontario have announced another shared investment towards deploying high-speed internet in the province, this time providing over $4 million in funding to Mornington Communications and its infrastructure projects in southern Ontario. On...
Lobby group OpenMedia has been polling the public about what the major issues in broadcasting and telecom...
CIK Telecom Inc. has filed five new Part 1 applications with the CRTC...
A Toronto condominium manager is arguing to the...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) is fighting with two...
The federal government is directing the CRTC to...
The federal government is spending $5.5 million to create the Canadian Digital Media Research Network...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is not impressed by Meta...
The CRTC presented its public opinion research...
According to the CEO of one of Canada's largest regional internet service providers, the recent state of acquisitions in the telecom market has effectively inverted the wholesale model from what it was meant to be. “Through their acquisition of smaller players [BCE Inc....
The Montreal Economic Institute has released a paper finding that adoption...
OTTAWA–The government’s cybersecurity legislation, Bill C-26, is...
OTTAWA–The CRTC is improving its process to be more responsive to its...
Sir Nicholas Clegg’s reversal of an agreement to appear before the House...
OTTAWA–As the Liberal Party of Canada gathers in the capital for its policy convention, its youth group has put forward a resolution calling for changes to the...
With Bill C-18, the Government's plan to have news...
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced Wednesday that the...
The new regime at the CRTC met with general approval Wednesday from...
Execulink Telecom Inc. has withdrawn a Part 1 application before the CRTC...
The CRTC is looking for feedback on how it can improve its Broadband Fund,...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says he is not worried that...
Conservative MP Dan Mazier’s private member’s bill on internet service...
The governments of Canada and Ontario have announced two projects that will...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google will stop limiting consumer access to news links on Mar. 16, company executives told the House of Commons Canadian Heritage Committee Friday. Two...
Days before the CRTC announced that it would open...
The CRTC Wednesday made good on newly-minted chair...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is rejecting a Senate amendment...
A Toronto MP is looking to introduce legislation that will cover the use of...
A Conservative MP told the Industry Committee that the CRTCs' new policy direction does not go far enough when it comes to transparency regarding the typical upload and...
For the second time this week, Execulink Telecom Inc. has filed an...
Competitive local exchange carrier CIK Telecom Inc. has once again filed a...
Competitive local exchange carrier CIK Telecom Inc. has once again appealed...
The CRTC is inviting telecom stakeholders and Canadians to participate in a consultation for the development of a...
Cogeco Inc. announced it is acquiring independent internet service provider (ISP) Oxio. In a Tuesday...
There is a consensus forming that the CRTC should...
The Online News Act, Bill C-18, will “fundamentally change the...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Co. announced the retirement of its president and CEO Doug Burnett. Burnett will be leaving at the end of May to early June,...
Monday the federal government outlined new policy directions for the CRTC, with an emphasis on competition, affordability, consumer interests and innovation. Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne first declared his intention to bring in the new measures last May....
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 – The Senate officially adopted the Online Streaming Act, a year...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada has...
The purpose of the CRTC is to achieve policy outcomes rather than regulate the broadcasting sector and that financial interests come second, according to the CRTC's interim...
The CRTC has lifted a prohibition on service to a Toronto multi-dwelling unit (MDU) owned by Lixo...
The federal government Wednesday announced that the department of Canadian...
A wireless internet service provider serving Outaouais, Que., was found to have contravened the Telecommunications Act...
BCE Inc. filed an application with the commission to review and vary its...
The Superior Court of Quebec has ordered Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron to connect a number of different...
The CRTC approved an application by BCE Inc.’s...
The federal government’s Innovation Science and Economic Development...
Telus Corp. told the CRTC that it is not charging more for the services it...
The Senate committee studying the Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11, officially completed its work after spending a total of 65 hours in clause-by-clause review and passing 25 amendments. The Senate Committee of Transport and Communications spent Wednesday and Thursday in...
Indigenous telecommunications stakeholders are calling on the government to...
Senators voted to add a clause in Bill C-11, the...
The House of Commons Heritage committee passed an amendment to the...
The Senate committee currently engaged in a...
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee’s clause-by-clause review of the Online News Act on Tuesday picked up where it left off last week, bogged down with a stack of...
MISSISSAUGA — Beanfield Technologies...
The first day of the House of Commons’ Heritage...
Arguments began Thursday in a Federal Court case that would see pirated...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s profit fell 24 per cent for the three months...
Canada’s Online News Act could serve as a template for countries around...
Xplore Inc.’s residential and business customers...
Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, came out swinging against...
While Cogeco Inc. is pleased to finally see the terms and conditions of the MVNO framework from the CRTC,...
OTTAWA–Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, is so upset that it has not been called to testify about the Online News Act that it is considering halting the...