A past Competition Bureau Commissioner is calling on the federal government to loosen the restrictions on foreign investment in telecommunications. Others say a fundamental...
The Competition Bureau announced Thursday that it is seeking feedback from Canadians on artificial intelligence (AI). It has published a discussion paper on AI and competition to start the public consultation. The bureau said it wants to learn more about how competition...
The Competition Bureau announced...
The CRTC has forensic investigative tools but deploys them rarely, the...
Rogers Communications Inc. is responding vehemently to the Competition...
Sentiment among speakers at the 2023 Canada...
Rogers Communications Inc. has been awarded nearly $13 million in costs from the Competition Bureau over the bureau’s losing case against the takeover of Shaw Communications. The money reflects legal costs and reasonable disbursements from the two corporations, now merged....
A group of news organizations have filed an application with the...
Stakeholders who submitted responses to the federal government’s...
The Competition Bureau Wednesday released its recommendations regarding...
All eyes are on Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, who is the last line of defense for...
Tuesday afternoon the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed with costs the...
Former CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein has been appointed a member of the Order of Canada. The honour...
Canada’s Competition Tribunal is dismissing the Commissioner of...
As spectators await the release of a decision in the takeover of Shaw...
In the drama that has unfolded in front of the Competition Tribunal over the past month, as the tribunal hears arguments on whether or not it should approve Rogers...
The second week of the Competition Tribunal's hearing into whether or not...
Financial analysts reacting to Tuesday's announcement from Innovation...
Telus Corp. and BCE Inc. have accused Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
Rogers Communications Inc. wants competition commissioner Matthew Boswell...
Quebecor Inc.’s president and CEO has said the company’s recent purchase of VMedia Inc. will put it in a position to bundle services and convince the regulators that its...
In a Wednesday morning joint statement, Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
Lawson Hunter, a former Commissioner of the Competition Bureau and a one-time BCE Inc. executive, has...
The Federal Court has ordered Alphabet Inc.'s Google to turn over a number...
The Competition Bureau has asked a Federal Court...
The CRTC’s public hearing in its review of mobile wireless services, which was originally scheduled to be held in January, has now been pushed back to Feb. 18. The regulator said in a notice Monday that the Competition Bureau...
Despite being “impressed” by the competitive presence of...
The CRTC has told the Competition Bureau it won’t be compelling telecoms to turn over a slew of detailed information the bureau was asking for — though the telecoms will effectively have to...
A request from the Competition Bureau asking the CRTC to require telecoms...
Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy is refusing to comment on a media report that Shaw Communications Inc. is looking to sell its stake in Corus. “Our focus will be [to] continue to build a very highly tuned media company in Canada,” he told the Scotiabank TMT...
The Competition Bureau has an interim replacement for outgoing commissioner...
The Competition Bureau has confirmed in an email they will review a recent deal between Torstar Corp. and Postmedia, which saw the exchange of 41 commuter, local or community newspapers between the two Canadian media organizations...
The Competition Bureau is inviting comments on a white paper on big data. “Recent global developments in technology have allowed firms to harness data in ways that drive innovation and quality improvements across a range of...
Granting the Competition Bureau additional powers to compel businesses to provide information for market studies “could result in significant costs for Canadian businesses,” according to...
Amazon.com Inc. must pay a $1-million fine over the pricing practices on its Canadian website following a Competition Bureau investigation. The bureau said in a press release Wednesday that Amazon compared its prices to a regular or list price, which “created the impression that prices for items offered on www.amazon.ca were lower than prevailing market prices.” After examining pricing practices between May 2014 and May 2016, the bureau “determined that Amazon relied on its suppliers to provide list prices without verifying that those prices were...
The Competition Bureau said Friday it has discontinued an investigation into whether Apple Inc. engaged in anticompetitive practices related to sales of its iPhone. The bureau was looking at “contractual...
The Competition Bureau has wrapped up a sweep of online reviews and endorsements, as part of an annual initiative it conducts with other consumer protection agencies around the world. It said in a monthly...
OTTAWA — On the same day that a new report was released arguing the CRTC’s role and authority should be reduced in response to technological change, CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais defended the relevance of the...
The CRTC said Tuesday that it wants input on Manitoba Telecom Services Inc.’s application to transfer its broadcast distribution licences to BCE Inc. as part of the proposed acquisition of MTS by...
Paul Johnson has been named as the Competition Bureau’s leader of economic analysis, where he will play a key role in merger reviews, the competition commissioner said Monday. In a Monday press release,...
The Competition Bureau said in a press release Monday that customers signing up for sports streaming websites should make sure they understand what they’re getting when they subscribe...
Questions around telecoms’ usage of data caps should be at the centre of the CRTC’s proceeding on differential pricing practices, advocacy groups said in interventions, calling for the...
BCE Inc. and Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. have cleared yet another hurdle in their quest to combine, as the deal has now received court approval from the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench, according to...
The Competition Bureau said Friday it has reached an agreement with BCE Inc. in which the company will rebate customers up to $11.8 million for premium text messaging charges. It will also donate $800,000 to digital research media and awareness. The Competition Bureau said in a press release that the “amount of money available for consumer rebates is the most obtained to date under a Bureau agreement.” It reached an agreement with Telus Corp. on the same issue earlier this year, requiring that company to pay $7.3 million, following a deal...
In a submission to the Competition Bureau arguing that allowing BCE Inc. to acquire Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. would weaken wireless competition in the province, Carleton...
The Competition Bureau is asking for comment on BCE Inc.’s $3.9-billion bid to buy Manitoba Telecom Services Inc., it said in a press release Tuesday. It made a form available on its website that both consumers and...
The $3.9-billion acquisition of Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. by BCE Inc. would increase competition in Manitoba’s wireless market, according to the authors of a new report from the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI)....
BCE Inc. announced Monday morning that it will purchase Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. in a $3.9 billion transaction that, if approved, will see the number of players in Manitoba’s telecom...
The Competition Bureau has updated its Intellectual Property Enforcement Guidelines, as part of what it said in a Thursday press release would be an annual review. It said the updated guidelines clarify “the Bureau’s approach to conducting investigations of alleged anti‑competitive activities that relate to intellectual property, making it easier for stakeholders such as the legal community, the pharmaceutical industry and others with a stake in intellectual property matters to operate within the law.” It added the main revisions include “clarification on the...
The Competition Bureau said Wednesday that it had reached an agreement with Telus Corp. to end legal proceedings in relation to premium texting services that former and current customers have paid...
The Competition Bureau has filed applications in Federal Court seeking information from wireless carriers about how they set prices for Apple Inc.’s devices. The applications involve BCE Inc.,...
Glentel Inc., a retailer of mobile products and services, said Thursday that its fourth-quarter revenue was up 32.8 per cent from a year earlier to $533.1 million, though its quarterly profit declined to $830,000 from $8.3...
Rogers Communications Inc. and the Competition Bureau announced Monday that they had reached an agreement to end legal proceedings against the carrier in relation to so-called premium texting services...
The Municipality of Kincardine in southwestern Ontario is interested revisiting the issue of selling publicly owned Bruce Telecom to Eastlink-owner Bragg Communications Inc., according to a news...
A deal announced Christmas Eve to split the ownership of wireless retailer Glentel Inc. between BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. will help the incumbent carriers stave off competition from a...
Quebecor Inc.'s broadcasting unit TVA Group said last week that its purchase of TV production company Vision Globale has closed following approval from the federal Competition Bureau. TVA CEO Julie Tremblay said in a Dec. 30...
OTTAWA — Apple Inc.'s Canadian subsidiary has been ordered by the Federal Court to hand over records and other relevant information to help the Competition Bureau determine whether the...
The Competition Bureau filed an application on Tuesday in federal court to compel Apple Inc. to turn over records related to an investigation into whether the company used anti-competitive language in its contracts with wireless carriers. Competition Bureau spokesman Greg Scott said in an email that there is no “conclusion of wrongdoing” by Apple at this time and that the Competition Tribunal hasn’t received a formal complaint on the issue. The bureau did not list the source...
Quebecor Inc.'s broadcasting operation TVA Group said Thursday it has reached an agreement to purchase film- and TV-production company Vision Globale for about $118 million. TVA said the transaction is subject to approval by...
New legislation proposed by the federal government will expand the powers of the CRTC, giving it the ability to fine offenders, share information with the Competition Bureau and exert control over companies that operate telecom...
The CRTC faces another major policy hearing next month, and this one has the potential to affect independent Internet service providers that depend on major telecom companies to connect them to customers. In September, the...
The budget implementation bill introduced by the federal government in the House of Commons Thursday would forbid telecommunications companies for charging customers for paper bills. The bill would “prohibit providers of...
Quebecor Inc. says there is no connection between the $316-million proposed sale of its English-language newspapers to Postmedia Network Canada Corp. and its intention of expanding its mobile services across Canada. The company also said Monday that it is evaluating the “long-term viability” of its Sun News Network television channel, which is not part of the sale that includes its Sun-branded newspapers. Postmedia and Quebecor announced in news releases Monday that 175 of Sun Media's publications will become the property of Postmedia in exchange for a cash payment of $316...
The Competition Bureau said Wednesday that Bell Aliant Inc. has responded to the bureau's concerns surrounding its purchase of an Ontario-government-owned telecommunications provider. The bureau said in a press release Bell...
Bragg Communications Inc., which operates Eastlink, won’t be buying Bruce Telecom, the Competition Bureau said Friday. The bureau said in a press release that it reviewed the proposed acquisition and concluded that had...
TORONTO — Ongoing interventions by Industry Canada, the Competition Bureau and the CRTC into Canada’s wireless industry are likely to harm future investments by telecom companies, Brookings Institute economist Robert...
The federal Competition Bureau said Monday it will not appeal a court decision that hit Rogers Communications Inc. with a much lighter penalty than it had sought in relation to Rogers’ claims that its Chatr wireless service...
The Competition Bureau said high roaming rates charged to domestic wireless competitors are “likely” hurting the level of wireless competition in Canada. On Wednesday, the bureau said in...
The Competition Bureau said Thursday that Canadians have identified telecommunications as an area the office should target in advocating for increased competition. The bureau said in a news release...
Last month's deal for more cooperation between the Competition Bureau and the CRTC is “a first step, baby step,” Commissioner of Competition John Pecman said Thursday at a conference in Ottawa. “What really...
The CRTC and the federal Competition Bureau reached a deal to encourage more cooperation between the two organizations, the CRTC said. In a release Wednesday, the commission said the deal will mean the two regulatory bodies share...
John Pecman was named to a five-year term as new commissioner of the Competition Bureau, Industry Canada said Wednesday. Pecman has served as interim commissioner since former commissioner Melanie Aitken stepped down last year, three years into her five-year term. He has been with the bureau for nearly 30 years, having worked "in every enforcement branch of the Bureau and held a variety of increasingly senior investigative and managerial positions,” a release said. The commissioner is appointed on the advice of the federal cabinet. Pecman’s “proven commitment to...
The Ontario Superior Court wrapped up hearings in Toronto last week on the Competition Bureau's lawsuit against Rogers Communications Inc. for alleged "misleading advertising" related to its discount Chatr wireless brand. Final arguments finished last week for the Competition...
The CRTC should introduce rules to prevent wireless carriers from hindering customers who want to switch providers and require carriers to provide clearer service and pricing...
TORONTO—Rogers Communications Inc. conducted industry standard tests to support its “fewer dropped calls” advertisements in 2010 that proved the ads to be true and now provide a...
The federal Competition Bureau is investigating whether BCE Inc. is using its stable of “high-demand television” channels to place “anti-competitive” restrictions on competing...