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 him. It battled the Competition Bureau in order to be allowed to take over Shaw Communications. Then there was the internecine squabble between chair Edward Rogers and his...
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 Cogeco Connexion, the firms’ broadband subsidiary. In addition to being president and CEO, he will serve as a director of both companies. Perron has been with the Quebec company since 2020. Before signing on to Cogeco, he worked for...
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...
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 company’s board of directors, announced Rogers Communications Inc. on Wednesday. The two sisters are stepping down as part of a private settlement in the family feud that has rocked the company since...
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...
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 sectors ranging from financial and professional services to media and retail. During her career, she has held positions with ever-increasing responsibility, led key legal functions, piloted landmark mergers and acquisitions, and helped shape the...
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...
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 to a Thursday press release. Stingray announced that the new deal will bring over 90 hardware store locations in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba,...
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...
By Robert Ghiz, president and CEO, Canadian...
by Natalie Campbell, Senior Director of North American Government and Regulatory Affairs, Internet Society Ottawa’s successful passage of the Online Streaming Act and Online News Act marks a dark new chapter for the internet in Canada: fragmentation. Canadians are...
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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...
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 affairs officer as part of a larger executive level shakeup at the company in the wake of receiving final approval from the department of Innovation, Science, and...
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...
The purpose of the CRTC is to achieve policy...
The CRTC is starting a fresh chapter with new chair Vicky Eatrides who will be making it her top priority to modernize the commission’s internet framework as it has not...
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...
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 Regulatory Affairs. She arrives from the CRTC, where she was Senior Manager of Alternative Dispute Resolution. Yull was the CAB’s Manager of Television Policy and Social...
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...
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 telecom announced Wednesday. A 20-year veteran of the sector, he led the largest digital agriculture platform, and multi-million dollar mergers, in North America, South...
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...
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 financial officer Chris Marett, Cooptel executive director Marie-Eve Rocheleau, and Total TV president Matt Stein have joined the board for a two-year term. Outgoing members include Novus co-president and chief legal officer Donna Robertson, the former chair who will be replaced by Angela Lawrence, general manager of Hay Communications. Steve Scott of Cross Country...
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...
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 telecom/broadcasting space, and I couldn’t be happier to be a part of this iconic Quebec-based company,” he wrote. Dorval occupied the role for about seven years, moving to Cogeco from a regulatory role at BCE Inc.'s Astral Media. According to a Cogeco spokesperson, Dorval is retiring. Beaudry leaves his role as director of broadband policy and regulatory...
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...
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 relaunch of a newsroom is a rare occurrence, and I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to provide Québecers with news and information from a distinctive and credible new voice in the province,” Pineault said in a release. “At V we are looking forward to contributing as a major player in Quebec’s television and digital news landscape.” According to the release, V Media's new programming will launch in 2021. Pineault comes to the position from Cogeco Inc.'s media division, where he was director of news. The news comes on the heels of a...
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...
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. Browne has financial experience in the satellite industry going as far back as at least 1995, according to a press release. That includes executive positions at SES most recently, as well as previously-held positions at O3b Networks, Intelsat, and New Skies Satellites, where he worked alongside Telesat’s current CEO, Dan Goldberg. “His vast...
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,...
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 media company, and Eric Ellenbogen will take over the role. Donovan will continue on as founding chair on the company’s board. “Michael has played a significant role in building the Company into the global entertainment force it is today. We are pleased that he will remain on the Board,” DHX said in a statement. Ellenbogen comes to DHX after some 30 years in the entertainment sector, according to the...
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...
John Knubley, who has been deputy minister at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) for seven years, announced his retirement last week. Knubley has been at ISED since 2012, and before that was deputy...
Cogeco Inc. said it has hired Marie Ginette Lepage as its new vice-president of wireless solutions and innovation, a newly-created position in which she will take on the responsibility for Cogeco’s wireless service strategy. Lepage is leaving her role at Stingray Group...