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Cogeco won’t be among bidders for 600 MHz spectrum
telecom | 12/06/2018 6:29 pm EST
Cogeco Inc. isn’t among the list of participants in the 600 MHz auction, released by Innovation Canada Thursday.
Companies that will be bidding in what is the last significant chance to snap up valuable low-band spectrum in the foreseeable future include the big three...
Wireless subs ‘on-track’ after Black Friday, but no winner: Barclays
telecom | 12/03/2018 2:19 pm EST
There doesn't appear to be a clear winner among Canadian telecoms after the intense sales period around Black Friday, according to Barclays Capital analyst Phillip Huang. “Deals for this year's Black Friday weekend once again focused on big bucket data plans, but are more amped up variations of the prior year,” he wrote in an analyst note. “We believe this round of big bucket data promos drove significant volumes during the Black Friday week. However, based on our checks, we believe...
Corus wants to shutter 44 TV rebroadcasting transmitters
Media | 11/13/2018 6:17 pm EST
Corus Entertainment Inc. is asking the CRTC for permission to shut down 44...
Telus posts wireline gains at expense of Shaw
telecom | 11/08/2018 5:51 pm EST
Telus Corp. ended its third quarter with 187,000 new customers, reporting growth that beat expectations...
Shaw proposes banning third-party door-to-door sales
telecom | 10/26/2018 12:10 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc. is proposing a ban on third-party door-to-door sales to curb aggressive and...
Shaw feels the competitive heat on wireline
telecom | 10/25/2018 6:04 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc. reported wireline results for the fourth quarter that analysts characterized as...
Barbara Williams retiring from Corus
Media | 10/24/2018 3:32 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s chief operating officer, Barbara Williams, will retire at the end of this month.
The company said in a press release Wednesday that it won’t be appointing anyone to replace her in the role, since Williams has “led and developed a strong...
Alberta court rules city bylaw lacks jurisdiction over telecom builds
telecom | 10/22/2018 5:00 pm EDT
Canada’s major telecoms have succeeded in getting an Alberta court to rule that a municipal access bylaw in Calgary can’t regulate the building of telecommunications networks. Until 2014,...
Freedom deploys 700 MHz spectrum
telecom | 10/09/2018 1:50 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile has begun deploying the 700 MHz spectrum it bought last year,...
CRTC should have oversight over utility poles: telecoms
telecom | 10/03/2018 5:35 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. are both asking the...
Telecom execs praise ‘healthier,’ ‘balanced’ regulatory environment
telecom | 09/26/2018 5:51 pm EDT
Representatives from BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. described a favourable relationship with regulators at a CIBC investors conference Wednesday, where they also addressed competition between...
Big 3 offer twice the data in new low-cost plan proposals
telecom | 09/11/2018 5:41 pm EDT
BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. have each proposed a set of new-and-improved low-cost wireless data plans to the CRTC that would be available through their flanker brands and...
CRTC requiring next-day status of service reports to TPIA subscribers
telecom | 09/10/2018 5:43 pm EDT
Five months after ushering the internet into the quality of service regime, the CRTC said Friday it is directing cable incumbents to provide status of service reports to customers of wholesale clients...
ISED OKs Shaw, Bell spectrum transfer in the North
telecom | 08/10/2018 12:41 pm EDT
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has approved a number of spectrum licence transfers between Shaw Communications Inc. and BCE Inc. ISED said in a pair of decisions that it has OKed the transfer of 11...
Freedom’s new ad campaign focuses on sharing, data overages
telecom | 08/01/2018 2:10 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile will highlight its lack of...
CRTC asks carriers for lower-priced data-only plan proposals
telecom | 07/25/2018 5:29 pm EDT
The CRTC wants the Big Three to submit options for lower-priced data plans than those they suggested themselves, and is asking for opinions about changing its policy on wireless retail rate regulation.
In March, the CRTC ordered Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc. and...
Union representing Shaw workers votes to strike
telecom | 07/20/2018 5:54 pm EDT
The members of a union at Shaw Communications Inc. in British Columbia have voted to strike due to issues...
Freedom launches its own low-cost data plans
telecom | 07/19/2018 4:32 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc. has launched low-cost wireless data plans that trump offers proposed by its competitors to the CRTC, after the telecoms told the regulator that it should accept no substitutes what they proposed. The...
CRTC to hold sales practices hearing in October
telecom | 07/16/2018 1:57 pm EDT
The CRTC will question telecoms about their sales practices at an October hearing in Gatineau, Que., the regulator said Monday as it launched a consultation. The proceeding is in response to an order by the federal government...
Shaw doubles top residential internet speed
telecom | 07/10/2018 5:07 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc. said Tuesday the company is offering a residential internet plan with 300 Mbps...
We have no obligation to offer paper bills: telecoms
telecom | 07/10/2018 4:54 pm EDT
There is no legal or regulatory obligation on telecoms to offer paper bills, BCE Inc. said in a filing to the CRTC, responding to an application asking the regulator to ensure companies must provide a paper bill to customers who ask for one. In a June Part 1 application, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) said that the intent of a 2014 Telecom Act amendment forbidding telecoms from charging customers to receive paper bills was to ensure subscribers could access paper copies at no charge. “It entirely defeats the purpose of the enactment if it can be circumvented by refusing...
Cogeco hires lobbyist with wireless spectrum expertise
telecom | 07/03/2018 11:54 am EDT
Amir Bigloo, who has a history of successful spectrum purchases as CEO of...
Christy Clark joins Shaw board of directors
telecom | 06/29/2018 4:13 pm EDT
Former British Columbia premier Christy Clark has joined Shaw Communications Inc.’s board of directors,...
Shaw cites broadband pricing, packaging as areas to improve
telecom | 06/28/2018 5:51 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc. blamed a third quarter of soft consumer internet...
Bell tops broadband speed tests, but falls in customer satisfaction survey
Media | 06/22/2018 5:06 pm EDT
In a pair of studies measuring home internet service this week, BCE Inc. was positioned at the two ends of the spectrum, topping out the list of fastest connections in Canada, but falling to near the...
Cogeco could opt for ‘hybrid’ arrangement with new spectrum: Canaccord
telecom | 06/22/2018 2:40 pm EDT
An announcement Thursday that Cogeco Inc. has bought more spectrum makes it clear the company is “exploring a viable economic model for a wireless service,” Canaccord Genuity analyst Aravinda...
Freedom expands WiFi calling availability
Media | 06/11/2018 3:34 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile said more phones with Apple Inc.’s iOS and Alphabet...
Solve repackaging tiff yourselves: CRTC to Bell, Shaw
Media | 05/28/2018 5:13 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc. can repackage BCE Inc.’s Investigation Discovery and there is no need for the...
Shaw touts 5G trial success
telecom | 05/22/2018 4:21 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc. said in a press release Tuesday that it has successfully completed its first 5G trial.
The company said the tests, conducted with partners...
New numbers emerge in mandatory carriage renewal consultation
Media | 05/15/2018 4:31 pm EDT
The CRTC has issued a call for comments after correcting the data it used to determine wholesale rates during the regulator’s look at mandatory carriage renewals, according to a Friday letter. Originally, the consultation which prompted a hearing on the matter used data indicating that the rate of subscription losses had declined in the 2015-2016 year, from the previous 2014-2015 period. But the letter said numbers supplied by Suzanne Blackwell of Giganomics Consulting Inc., on behalf of Cogeco Inc., Quebecor Inc., and Shaw Communications Inc., showed the subscription decline...
It’s not ‘notice-and-Norwich,’ SCC to hear in disclosure costs case
Media | 04/20/2018 11:33 am EDT
The notice-and-notice regime requires internet service providers (ISPs) to...
Freedom on new, ‘sustainable’ trajectory after record sub adds: Shaw
telecom | 04/12/2018 4:46 pm EDT
On the heels of record wireless subscriber growth in its second quarter,...
Spike in complaints causing delays at CCTS, mid-year report outlines
Media | 04/10/2018 6:00 am EDT
Complaints by Canadians about their telecom services increased so much in...
ISP coalition stands up to proposed hydro pole price
Media | 03/22/2018 5:53 pm EDT
A coalition of internet service providers (ISPs) is taking the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) to task over a proposal to significantly raise the cost of hydro pole installation across the province, which they say will inevitably lead...
In telecoms’ year-end, cord-cutting slows, wireline grows
Media | 03/21/2018 12:14 pm EDT
Canada’s publicly-traded telecoms lost fewer TV subscribers in 2017 than in each of the previous two years, while they added enough wireless customers to beat last year’s record high of new wireless adds.
A Wire Report compilation of the subscriber numbers reported by...
Fibre backbone, last mile projects in rural B.C. getting $38M in funding
telecom | 03/14/2018 12:57 pm EDT
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Canada announced an additional $38 million of funding for rural broadband in British Columbia in a release on Tuesday. The funding is on top of...
CRTC starts next steps on disaggregated regime expansion
Media | 03/12/2018 4:47 pm EDT
The CRTC is asking telecoms to provide information about demand for high-speed internet as the next step toward implementing the disaggregated wholesale regime in regions outside Ontario and Quebec....
Telecoms point to growing WiFi, IoT spectrum demand in ISED consultation
telecom | 02/26/2018 7:46 pm EST
Canada’s telecoms are taking sides on how Innovation Canada should approach the release of more licence-exempt spectrum, including whether more should be allocated for WiFi use, as it prepares for...
ISED expands AWS-1 coverage requirements, licence terms
telecom | 02/16/2018 4:49 pm EST
Innovation Canada is extending both licence terms and coverage requirements following a consultation on AWS-1 spectrum renewals, it said in a decision Friday. In 2008, ISED — then Industry...
25% of Shaw workforce takes voluntary buyout, CFO leaving
telecom | 02/15/2018 2:13 pm EST
Shaw Communications Inc. has revealed that 3,300 employees, or a quarter of...
High fees, lack of understanding limit personal info access: Citizen Lab
telecom | 02/12/2018 5:38 pm EST
Financial barriers and complex responses still deter individuals from...
Shaw’s wireless ambitions will hit big three unevenly: Barclays
telecom | 02/09/2018 2:23 pm EST
Shaw Communications Inc.’s moves to take a larger share of Canada’s...
Bell, Telus report wireless sub gains from December promos
Media | 02/08/2018 6:27 pm EST
BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. both reported quarterly results for the three...
Shaw offering buyouts to 6,500 employees
telecom | 01/30/2018 5:55 pm EST
Shaw Communications Inc. said Tuesday it is offering voluntary buyouts to 6,500 of its employees and expects 10 per cent to take it up on the offer.
The company said in a press release it is making moves to “refocus Shaw's operations towards providing service more...
Cross-industry coalition calls for website-blocking
Media | 01/29/2018 6:21 pm EST
A broad coalition made up of Canada’s largest telecoms and broadcasters, as well as groups representing...
Bell, Telus sign on to Ericsson’s TV platform
Media | 01/19/2018 2:53 pm EST
BCE Inc. said Thursday it has signed a deal with Ericsson AB to use its TV platform, following a similar...
With the iPhone, Freedom like a ‘new business’: Mehr
telecom | 01/11/2018 5:47 pm EST
Shaw Communications Inc.’s wireless brand may see its strongest quarter...
As its TV ad revenue drops, Corus says ad tech is the future
Media | 01/10/2018 6:05 pm EST
Corus Entertainment Inc. executives emphasized their optimism about future...
Analysts expect Freedom subscriber boost in Q1
telecom | 01/08/2018 5:54 pm EST
After a rollicking December, analysts say Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile has potential to continue its 2017 momentum, though the full impact of its aggressive wireless offers may not be apparent in this week’s quarterly results.
Freedom announced overhauled...
Sidewalk Labs, civil liberties group register to lobby
Media | 01/08/2018 4:14 pm EST
Alphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs kicked off the new year by registering to...
Jim Shaw, former Shaw CEO, dies at 60
Media | 01/04/2018 1:05 pm EST
Shaw Communications Inc. said on Wednesday evening that its former CEO, Jim Shaw, has died.
“Jim’s...
Rogers’ flinch potential source of the $60/10 GB plan standoff: analyst
telecom | 12/18/2017 5:31 pm EST
Rogers Communications Inc. appears to have blinked — which caused a cascade of $60 for 10 GB bring-your-own-device wireless plans — in its ongoing battle for Toronto-based wireless subscribers,...
BPF registers to lobby amidst consumer group funding concerns
Media | 12/14/2017 2:25 pm EST
A few months after the emergence of a proposal asking the CRTC to shift...
Scheer mum on net neutrality as CPC MPs take opposing sides
Media | 12/13/2017 4:39 pm EST
Opposition leader Andrew Scheer isn’t going public with his position on...
Shaw launches security video service for smaller businesses
Media | 12/11/2017 1:08 pm EST
Shaw Communications Inc. is now offering a video surveillance service aimed...
Millimetre wave spectrum set-asides harmful to 5G potential: telcos
telecom | 11/27/2017 5:51 pm EST
The issue of set-asides has resurfaced in replies to a consultation on...
Don’t count on Freedom’s $0 iPhone X offer for long: analyst
telecom | 11/22/2017 4:29 pm EST
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile announced in a press release...
Over 300 Mbps speed adoption ‘accelerating’ in Toronto: Barclays
telecom | 11/21/2017 6:08 pm EST
More customers in Toronto are adopting internet speeds over 300 Mbps, and the trend looks to be picking up pace as competition heats up in that market, according to Barclays Capital. With limited-time lower prices and increasing competition due to BCE Inc. getting fibre to more neighbourhoods, speeds above 300 Mbps “have increasingly become mainstream in the city,” Barclays analyst Phillip Huang said in a Monday note, and adoption of plans between 300 Mbps and 1 Gbps “appears to be...
Size of 600 MHz set-aside, licence areas points of contention
telecom | 11/21/2017 5:25 pm EST
While much of the debate around the upcoming 600 MHz spectrum auction has centered on implementing spectrum set-asides, issues like imposing a spectrum cap and the size of any set-aside, the ability...
Freedom set to support older iPhones with spectrum rejig, deployment
telecom | 10/26/2017 5:37 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc. announced Thursday that it would move to redeploy...
Broadcast lobbying jumped ahead of Creative Canada release
Media | 10/24/2017 6:20 pm EDT
Creative organizations stepped up and added to a surge in lobbying activity...
Rogers, Shaw indicate different plans for IPTV, internet bundling
Media | 10/20/2017 5:14 pm EDT
On the final day of the CRTC’s broadcast distribution licence hearing,...
Freedom Mobile launches 10 GB for $50 ‘intro offer’
telecom | 10/18/2017 8:22 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile has announced a new set of wireless offerings in what the company is dubbing a “Big Gig” marketing campaign to begin Oct. 19.
"Big Gig will be a loud and unprecedented, in-your-face campaign that makes it clear to Canadians...
Corus focuses on content over broadcast with Historia, Séries+ sale
Media | 10/18/2017 6:16 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc. announced Tuesday it is selling two...
Look at high cost of à la carte channels, PIAC tells CRTC
Media | 10/17/2017 8:16 pm EDT
GATINEAU, Que. — There are still some problems with the implementation...
NFL Sunday Ticket returns to broadcast TV with Dazn partnership
Media | 10/11/2017 6:16 pm EDT
Perform Group’s over-the-top (OTT) sports service Dazn is partnering with...
How big a threat are OTT sports services?
Media | 10/10/2017 5:55 pm EDT
Sports remains one of the last bastions of defence for traditional TV against a wave of over-the-top...
Telus leads in end-of-summer lobbying activity
Media | 09/25/2017 5:31 pm EDT
Telus Corp. was far and away the busiest industry stakeholder when it came to...
CRTC OK’s dropping dual OMNI obligation ahead of Sept. 1 launch
Media | 08/31/2017 12:59 pm EDT
Applications by Shaw Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron...
Telecoms at odds on mandatory-roaming licence conditions
telecom | 08/22/2017 2:15 pm EDT
The CRTC’s 2015 decision to regulate wholesale wireless roaming has made...
BlueSky patent infringement suit dropped
telecom | 08/21/2017 4:08 pm EDT
A Swiss corporation and its subsidiaries have dropped a patent infringement case against Shaw...
New OTT offerings pose threat to BDUs, opportunity for producers
Media | 08/17/2017 4:47 pm EDT
A proliferation of new streaming TV competition in Canada is set to benefit content producers even as it causes problems for the country’s broadcasters and TV service providers through fragmented audiences and higher content costs — though it doesn’t yet signal an...
Telecom, broadcasting lobbying hits July lag
Media | 08/16/2017 3:41 pm EDT
July lobbying activity was affected by the expected summer slowdown that comes with Parliament not...
Cord-cutting trend slows in first half of year: Boon Dog
telecom | 08/14/2017 2:23 pm EDT
Fewer people cut their TV subscriptions in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year, according to new research by research and consulting firm Boon Dog Professional Services...
Quebecor, Shaw to benefit from 600 MHz set-asides: analysts
telecom | 08/08/2017 3:27 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron and Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile will be the big winners if Innovation Canada goes ahead with its plans to set aside spectrum for smaller players in the...
Shaw adds unlimited option to most-popular internet plan
telecom | 08/01/2017 3:58 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc. is adding an unlimited usage option to its...
Transparency reporting in Canada: still opaque?
telecom | 07/31/2017 4:15 pm EDT
Without an Edward Snowden-like scandal, exposing inappropriate government access of citizens’ personal information, the current landscape may be as good as it gets for transparency reporting in Canada, a privacy expert says.
As of Monday, only two of the country’s...
Videotron-Freedom spectrum sale complete
telecom | 07/24/2017 4:24 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron has closed its spectrum sale to Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile, the company announced Monday. The $430-million transaction of seven 2500MHz and 700MHz licences in southern Ontario,...
ISED approves Videotron spectrum transfer to Freedom
telecom | 07/11/2017 11:30 am EDT
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has approved the transfer of spectrum licences from Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron to Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile. ISED said in a Monday release that the...
Iristel brings another traffic pumping dispute to CRTC
telecom | 07/04/2017 5:49 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile is refusing to pay Iristel Inc. for some services in a move that relates to an ongoing proceeding in front of the CRTC over traffic stimulation, Iristel...
No wholesale obligations for new broadband fund projects: telcos
telecom | 07/04/2017 5:17 pm EDT
Mandating wholesale access as a condition of funding for projects under the CRTC’s new broadband funding regime will increase costs while effectively discouraging investment, two of the country’s...
Shaw, Quebecor OMNI applications expedited
Media | 07/04/2017 12:03 pm EDT
The deadline for interventions in a pair of Part 1 applications to the CRTC from Shaw Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc. has been changed from July 31 to July 14. In late June, the two companies applied for...
STB data measurement complex task, group says
Media | 06/30/2017 2:23 pm EDT
Activity by a working group tasked with studying the implementation of an audience measurement system via...
Shaw, Quebecor ask CRTC to drop dual OMNI obligation
Media | 06/29/2017 5:28 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to allow it to take OMNI’s over-the-air (OTA) station out...
Plan comes together for TV subs boost in Shaw Q3: Mehr
telecom | 06/28/2017 2:26 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc.’s increased TV and Internet subscription numbers...
Wireless promos up compared to last year: Barclays
telecom | 06/26/2017 4:58 pm EDT
Leading up to Canada’s 150th anniversary, wireless promotions from incumbents and their flanker brands have increased noticeably compared to last year, according to Barclays Capital analyst Phillip Huang. Promotions in the quarter encompassing April, May and June included Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. offering two extra gigabytes of data on top of certain data plans in most regions, while BCE Inc. began offering $270 off certain phones in Manitoba, Huang said in a Monday note. “While we do not believe any of these new plans were particularly disruptive to the...
CCSA leads lobbying after Hill visit
Media | 06/26/2017 2:55 pm EDT
Last month’s deluge of Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) members on Parliament Hill for the...
CRTC eliminates locked phones in Canada by December
telecom | 06/15/2017 11:00 am EDT
As part of a decision on its review of the Wireless Code, the CRTC has eliminated unlocking fees for smartphones and mandated that all newly purchased devices must be provided unlocked as of Dec. 1, 2017. “Based on the...
Spectrum buy to improve Shaw network, but benefits will take time: analysts
telecom | 06/13/2017 5:40 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc. announced Tuesday that it has purchased 700MHz and 2500MHz spectrum from Quebecor Inc. for $430 million, in what Shaw described as “a significant milestone towards...
AWS-1 sale unlikely to set precedent for 700MHz: Canaccord
telecom | 06/12/2017 1:53 pm EDT
The sale last week of Videotron’s AWS-1 spectrum by Quebecor Inc. to Rogers Communications Inc. isn’t likely to have implications for the company’s 700MHz spectrum, according to Canaccord...
Incumbents defend wireless prices after Bains criticism
telecom | 06/06/2017 7:59 pm EDT
TORONTO — Representatives from the big three were on the defense a day after the innovation minister publicly took issue with wireless prices, pointing to investments they’ve made in their networks and the quality of service that’s available to Canadians.
“Nowhere...
Shaw selling fleet management branch
telecom | 06/02/2017 11:45 am EDT
Shaw Communications Inc. is selling its fleet management arm to an American company looking to increase its Canadian presence, it said in a Friday press release. The Dallas, Texas-based Omnitracs LLC will acquire Shaw Tracking...
Telecoms pooh-pooh affordability fund
telecom | 05/26/2017 2:31 pm EDT
Establishing a dedicated fund to tackle service affordability for low-income Canadians as part of the...
CBC, Netflix jump in brand trust ranking
Media | 05/25/2017 5:19 pm EDT
Both CBC/Radio-Canada and Netflix Inc. saw dramatic improvements in how Canadians view their brands over the past year, according to the latest edition of the Gustavson Brand Trust Index. The annual University of Victoria...
ISED PS Lametti hot property for April lobbying
Media | 05/23/2017 3:30 pm EDT
The parliamentary secretary to the innovation minister was a popular target for lobbyists last month, as...
CRTC to review pick-and-pay rollout in Oct.
Media | 05/18/2017 5:07 pm EDT
The CRTC will hold a hearing on a number of broadcast distribution undertakings’ [BDUs] licence renewal...
Bell touts good relationship with PMO: Barclays
telecom | 05/08/2017 7:58 pm EDT
BCE Inc. believes the company currently has a “good working relationship” with the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), according to a note from Barclays Capital analyst Phillip Huang, written following meetings...
Partial sale would bring benefits to SaskTel: Desjardins
telecom | 05/08/2017 6:53 pm EDT
The sale of a stake in Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. would help the crown corporation when it comes to adopting new technologies, according to Desjardins Capital Markets...
Shaw looking to sell ViaWest: report
telecom | 05/01/2017 7:31 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc. wants to sell its ViaWest data centre division, according to a Reuters report, a move analysts had been predicting would help it focus on its wireless business. Shaw bought the...
Shaw, Corus closing 3 community TV stations, shifting to Global
Media | 04/26/2017 6:06 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc. and Corus Entertainment Inc. will close three Shaw local TV stations in Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary, and redistribute the annual funding to Global News stations in the same cities, the companies announced Wednesday. About $10 million per year will go to Global News, the companies said in a press release, as of Sept. 1. “Global News will use these resources to protect and support the organization’s capacity for relevant and locally-focused community newsgathering,” the release said. The changes will “affect”...