Toronto entertainment company WildBrain Ltd. has named Mark Trachuk as its general counsel. He will also serve as corporate secretary to the board of directors. He succeeds James Bishop, who has left the firm. Trachuk arrives from Norton Rose Fulbright, a global law firm....
Toronto wireless network manager Terago Inc. has appointed Rajneesh Sapra as its new CFO, effective the beginning of April. He replaces Parveen Mithra who was serving as interim CFO. "His strategic leadership, broad capital markets experience and strong M&A track record will add important value to the business,” CEO Daniel Vucinic said of Sapra in a statement. “Additionally, his strong operational focus will contribute significantly to our financial strategy, driving growth, improving cash flow generation, and...
The recent history of Rogers Communications Inc. has had more drama than anything broadcast on its CityTV network. The company poached its CEO Joe Natale from Telus Corp. only to ultimately dismiss...
Cogeco Inc. and Cogeco Communications Inc. announced Monday morning that president and CEO Philippe Jetté is retiring immediately from the companies and will be replaced by Frédéric Perron. Perron was most recently president of...
Beanfield Technologies Inc. has hired Chris Adamkowski as its new SVP of commercial services, the company announced Thursday. “I am thrilled to be joining Beanfield and contributing to the mission of connecting communities...
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The government has named Natalie Théberge as vice-chair at the CRTC, it was announced Thursday. Her five-year appointment begins on April 3. Théberge is currently CEO of the Copyright Board of Canada, having been appointed to that role in 2018. Before that, she held...
Beanfield Technologies Inc. has named Michael Massie as its new SVP, residential services, the firm announced Thursday. Massie is a veteran telecom executive, having done stints with BCE Inc. Cincinnati Bell Inc. (now known as...
Melinda Rogers-Hixon and Martha Rogers are retiring from the telecom...
The CRTC’s interim vice-chair of broadcasting and commissioner for Quebec, Alicia Barin, stepped down...
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Stéphanie Paquette has been named as a regional commissioner for Quebec on the CRTC, it was announced Tuesday. She begins her five-year term on Nov. 23. She comes to the commission from Quebecor...
by Paul Andersen, president and chair, The...
Geoff White of the Competitive Network Operators of Canada will be stepping down as executive director,...
Sean Cohan will take over as head of BCE Inc.’s Bell Media on Nov. 1, the...
Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. (CPAC) announced changes to its board of directors as it launches a new programming season under the theme "Watch for Democracy.” Jim Deane, a seasoned representative of Access Communications, based in Regina, Saskatchewan, is taking on the role of board chair. Deane served as Access CEO from 2000 until his recent retirement. He has also been a CPAC director for more than two decades. Joining Deane in this new leadership lineup is Pam Dinsmore, who assumes the role of vice-chair....
by Todd Hofley, vice-president, Policy and Communications, Beanfield Like many industries,...
Cogeco Inc. announced Valéry Zamuner will be taking over as senior vice-president and chief corporate affairs and legal officer, effective this coming Monday. “Zamuner is a seasoned executive with outstanding experience in...
Cogeco Inc. is appointing Tim Dinesen, experienced tech executive and telecommunications consultant, as its senior vice president and CTO. According to the company’s Thursday release, he will be taking up the new position at...
Xplore Inc. is promoting its president and chief commercial officer, Rizwan Jamal, to president and chief...
By Mark Buell and Phil Steinhauer-Mozejko, Connect Humanity Fund In its recently released five-year Spectrum Outlook 2023 to 2027, the Ministry of Innovation, Science, and...
The government has named Konrad von Finckenstein as the interim...
Canadian retail chain Peavey Mart has joined Stingray Group Inc.’s audio advertising network, according...
Philip Lind, one of the earliest hires at Rogers Communications Inc., has died at the age of 80, the...
by Matt Hatfield, campaigns director, OpenMedia It’s increasingly...
By Donna Hokiro, president, Local 1944, United Steelworkers Union By now,...
By Monica Auer, executive director, Forum for Research and Policy in Communications On May 12, the CRTC announced the first of a three-step process to implement Bill C-11,...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Charlene Gavel as its new president and CEO who...
By John Lawford, executive eirector and general counsel of the Public...
by Heather Wright, publisher of The Independent of Petrolia and Central Lambton and The Herald At every family gathering there is that kid who just wants to be seen....
By Robert Ghiz, president and CEO, Canadian...
by Natalie Campbell, Senior Director of North American Government and...
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Beanfield Technologies Inc. has named Lucie Laplante as chief financial officer. The telecom operates in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Ottawa. “I”ve always admired Beanfield’s commitment to the community and their values,” Laplante said in a Tuesday press release. “It’s obvious...
The government has extended the term of Catherine Tait as president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada. She will now stay on until Jan. 2, 2025. She has served in the role since July 2018, the first woman to do so in the history of the public broadcaster. In a news release...
Xplore Inc. Tuesday announced the appointment of Rizwan Jamal as president and chief commercial officer starting on May 1. Jamal will be responsible for sales, marketing, and product development functions, according to a...
Former Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains has been appointed Rogers Communications Inc.'s chief corporate...
Jay Thomson will be stepping down as CEO of the Canadian Communications Systems Alliance (CCSA) following the group’s annual conference in September. Thomson, who has led the CCSA since 2017, is a lawyer with past experience at the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA), the Canadian...
Julie Roy is leaving the National Film Board to become executive director at Telefilm Canada, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez announced Monday. She begins her five-year term on Apr. 3. “With Julie Roy’s...
Ericsson Canada announced Tuesday that Jeanette Irekvist has been appointed president of the telecom manufacturer. The appointment is effective immediately. She will remain as VP and head of customer unit Canada. She succeeds...
Xplore Inc. has announced that the company's CEO Allison Lenehan will be...
CRTC chair Vicky Eatrides announced in a Wednesday press release that 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,...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez Monday announced the appointment of telecom and technology lawyer Bram Abramson as the regional commissioner for Ontario at the CRTC. Abramson's five-year term will begin on Feb. 15. The lawyer comes to the commission after a...
The purpose of the CRTC is to achieve policy...
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Rogers Communications Inc. announced late-Monday night the passing of...
Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, is a necessary tool to update...
Former CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein has been appointed a member of the Order of Canada. The honour was announced in late December by Rideau Hall. Von Finckenstein was also Commissioner of the Competition Bureau for seven years. He served at the CRTC from 2007 to...
Ian Scott's tenure as chair of the CRTC comes to a close Thursday. The Wire Report sat down with Scott to...
Tandy Yull is returning to the Canadian Association of Broadcasters as Vice President, Policy and...
Rogers Communication Inc. has appointed Ron McKenzie, the company’s former president of Rogers for...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed Philippe Dufresne as Privacy Commissioner Wednesday. ...
The Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. (CPAC) named Christa Dickenson as its president and chief executive...
Friends, formerly known as Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, announced Wednesday that Marla Boltman has...
Cogeco Communications Inc. has appointed a new senior vice-president and chief human resources officer, the company was announced Tuesday in a press release. Linda Gillespie will begin her duties at the Montreal head office effective April 4, 2022. The Queen's University alumna spent the...
Tony Staffieri had been appointed as President and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc., the company...
Lawson Hunter, a former Commissioner of the Competition Bureau and a one-time BCE Inc. executive, has been made a member of the Order of Canada, the Governor-General’s office announced in late December. Hunter, now a counsel at Stikeman Elliot, was honoured for “his...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Thursday afternoon that Robert Dépatie is joining the company as...
John Raines will be joining Telus Corp.’s agriculture division as president effective Nov. 29, the...
Bryson Masse is the new Regulatory and Communications Advisor at Competitive Network Operators of...
Satellite operator, Telesat Corp. appointed an executive in the...
Telus Corp.’s executive vice-president François Gratton will be transferring into a new role as the non-executive chair of the board of directors of Telus Health and Telus Agriculture at the end of the year. The company made the transition announcement in a Friday press release. “François has contributed significantly to the progression of our diversified and...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Wednesday evening that CFO Tony Staffieri has left his post after...
The Canadian Communication Systems Alliance (CCSA) Friday announced four new members have been elected to its board of directors. Hearst Connect general manager Tania Cossette, Novus Entertainment Inc. co-president and chief...
The data services company TeraGo Inc. announced Monday that it has appointed Andy Ramsey, the company's...
The data services company TeraGo Inc. has announced it is looking for a new chief financial officer as its current CFO David Charron is stepping down "to pursue other...
Redline Communications Group Inc., a Markham-Ont.-based manufacturer of...
Cogeco Inc. cable subsidiary Cogeco Connexion has signed on Fido Mobile VP Nancy Audette as its own vice...
Quebecor Inc. executive Jean-François Pruneau announced Tuesday morning that he would be stepping down from his position as president and CEO of Videotron in order to "leave active professional life and devote himself to personal...
Cogeco Inc. Monday announced the appointment of John Hargrave as its vice-president of products. "I am very excited that John is joining the Cogeco family. He will be an undeniable asset to our growth strategy, especially in...
James Moore, who served as industry minister in Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, has joined the board of directors at Xplornet Communications Inc. The company said in a late-December press release the appointment came into effect on Jan. 1. Moore served as industry minister from 2013 to 2015, and chose not to run in the 2015 federal election. He is currently a senior business advisor at Dentons and a public policy advisor at the public relations and...
President of Cogeco Inc.'s media division Michel Lorrain has stepped down from the position, the company...
Paul Beaudry is to become the new vice-president for regulatory affairs at Cogeco Inc., taking over from Nathalie Dorval. Beaudry announced the news on Twitter Thursday morning. “It’s an exciting time to be in the...
President of BCE Inc.'s Bell Media Randy Lennox will step down on Jan. 4,...
The federal government has appointed Federal Court judge Luc Martineau as...
Quebecor Inc. has promoted Peggy Tabet, previously vice-president of broadcasting regulatory affairs, to the job of vice-president of regulatory and public affairs. In the new position, Tabet will oversee regulatory matters for both broadcasting and telecom, Quebecor said in a French-language press release Thursday. Tabet has been with the company for 22 years, the release said. ...
Telus Corp. has hired Jacob Glick to be its vice-president of public policy. Glick was most recently the general counsel for North, a wearable technology eyewear company based in Kitchener-Waterloo. That company was acquired by...
BCE Inc. Wednesday announced that Jean-Philippe Pineault will lead up the news division at Groupe V Media Inc., the Francophone broadcaster Bell was approved to purchase in April. The position -- general manager, news and information -- is a new one, and will be created June 27. "The...
The federal government has appointed two individuals to the board of directors of CBC/Radio-Canada. Sandra Mason and Bill Tam will join the board for five-year terms, according to a Thursday press release from Canadian...
Telus Corp. announced Wednesday that it has accepted the resignation of former federal Conservative MP Stockwell Day from its board of directors, following his appearance on a CBC/Radio-Canada...
Music Canada CEO Graham Henderson will step down from the role he’s held for more than 15 years, the organization announced in a Thursday press release. In the statement, Henderson said working at Music Canada had been a...
Cogeco Inc. has appointed T-Mobile Polska S.A. chief commercial officer, Frédéric Perron, as the new president of its cable division, Cogeco Connexion, the company announced on Thursday. In a press release Cogeco said Perron, who has more than 20 years managerial experience in both the telecommunication and banking...
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...
Shaw Communications Inc. founder JR Shaw has passed away at the age of 85, the company said Tuesday....
Shaw Communications Inc.'s president Jay Mehr will retire in April after four years in the role and be replaced by Paul McAleese, currently the president of the company’s wireless division. In announcing the moves on Thursday, Shaw CEO Brad Shaw said in a statement that...
Ken Smithard, the president of Cogeco Inc.’s Canadian telecom division, is leaving the company after 20...
Satellite service provider Telesat Holdings Inc. has named Andrew Browne as its new chief financial officer on Thursday, following the retirement of Michel Cayouette. ...
Starting in February 2020, Donald Lizotte will take over as CBC/Radio-Canada’s general manager and...
BCE Inc.’s Quebec vice-chair, Martine Turcotte, will retire in January 2020, the company announced...
Ontario public broadcaster TVO is losing its longtime leader, after Lisa de Wilde announced yesterday that she would be stepping down as the broadcaster’s CEO after 14 years in the job. In a statement she posted on Twitter, she thanked former Ontario Premier William Davis “for his unwavering vision and support” in the founding and funding of the network. “I am proud to say that we have transformed TVO from an analog Ontario-based public broadcaster to a borderless, multi-platform digital publisher focused on learning and current affairs,” de Wilde wrote. De Wilde’s term will end on October 20...
Quebecor Inc. announced in a release Tuesday that Patrick Jutras would take over as senior vice-president and chief advertising officer of Quebecor and its TVA Group subsidiary. Jutras was previously vice-president of digital...
DHX Media Ltd. announced Thursday night that Michael Donovan would step down as CEO of the Halifax-based...
The Office of the Prime Minister announced late last week that Simon Kennedy would become deputy minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development starting September 3. Kennedy will be replacing John Knubley, who retired in June after seven years at ISED and 39 years in public service. Kennedy has been deputy minister of health since...
Alyson Walker, vice-president of brand partnerships and client strategy at BCE Inc.’s media division,...
Alex Benay, Canada’s chief information officer, is headed to the private sector after two and a half...
The Canadian Media Fund has announced it is hiring former Heritage Canada strategist Kelly Wilhelm to a newly created role of chief strategy officer. According to a release, Wilhelm will be “tasked with contributing to setting the future trajectory of the CMF, with a specific focus on...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s media division has appointed Jordan Banks as president, effective September 9, according to a Monday press release. Banks will replace Rick Brace, who was president since 2015 and will retire from Rogers at the end of this year. “Banks’s mandate will include overseeing the current $2 billion Rogers Media...
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains’ chief of staff Gianluca Cairo is leaving Parliament Hill to work for human resources software company Ceridian HCH Inc. “My time at Innovation, Science and Economic Development under Minister Bains has been particularly special for a couple of reasons. First, having a chance to play an integral role in developing and implementing economic policies to spur innovation and growth in...
The CRTC has filled the last of its open commissioner slots, as Yukon lawyer Claire Anderson has been named to the vacant seat representing British Columbia and the Yukon. Anderson, who practices law at the Whitehorse firm Lackowicz & Hoffman, will begin her term on Aug. 26, according to a press release. She is also a member of Taku River Tlingit First Nation, and will be the sole Indigenous commissioner, and only the second Indigenous person appointed to the CRTC since 1968. There have long been calls for increased Indigenous representation at the CRTC. The appointment of...