TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is now offering IPTV in Chatham, Ont., and the service will become available in other communities over the coming months, the company said Friday.
TekSavvy is offering the service with its affiliate Hastings Cable Vision Ltd., which the company partnered with in 2014.
It said in a press release that TekSavvy TV is currently available as an app for Apple Inc.’s Apple TV, Alphabet Inc.’s Android TV, and Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Fire Stick. It requires a subscription to TekSavvy’s internet...
Music in public establishments such as malls, bars and restaurants should be required to include Canadian content, resulting in additional revenue for homegrown artists, Stingray Group Inc. is suggesting.
The recommendation asks the government to amend current...
OTTAWA — Debate about whether or not to ban Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from Canada’s future 5G networks has focused largely on backbone infrastructure, but a professor of...
OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada’s president Catherine Tait compared Netflix Inc.’s worldwide presence to...
OTTAWA — The Liberal government has set up a new alert protocol and...
The House of Commons unanimously passed a motion Tuesday condemning Netflix...
The CRTC has launched consultations on the radio market capacity of Vernon, B.C., Grande Prairie, Alta., and Scarborough, Ont. It said in the notices of consultation published Tuesday that it had received applications for new stations in those areas, and asked for input on whether those markets can support additional stations. Vernon Community Radio Society applied for a licence for a community station, Vista Radio Ltd. for a commercial station in Grande Prairie, and the International Harvesters for Christ Evangelistic Association applied for a Christian music station in Scarborough....
BCE Inc. wants to inject the Canada Media Fund (CMF) with a potentially...
The CRTC has denied a requested licence amendment by Telus Corp., citing...
Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube says it plans to tamp down on the spread of misleading, fake or conspiratorial video content that gets recommended for its users to watch by limiting the promotion of...
A meeting with individuals leading the federal government’s review of...
Netflix Inc. is defending against calls to rope foreign over-the-top...
The Federal Court has set a spring date to determine how much Voltage Pictures LLC must pay Rogers Communications Inc. to hand over personal subscriber information after the Supreme Court found the telecom was entitled to...
Rogers Communications Inc. is pointing to higher data availability...
Cogeco Inc. is raising caution about the negative impact the government's...
BCE Inc. urged the federal government to make virtual private networks (VPNs) used to circumvent copyright illegal, ahead of the renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
VPN services, normally offered at a monthly rate, mask users' real IP...
Shaw Communications Inc. is asking the government to drop the five per cent revenue contribution TV service providers make to Canadian content, but says if CanCon needs a subsidy then it should be a direct one from government...
While online misinformation needs to be taken seriously, that doesn’t...
The CEO of an independent specialty TV channel is raising concerns that a lack of regulation could let foreign-based digital companies operating in Canada de-monetize or discriminate against types of...
Daniel Boudreau, previously vice-president of TVA productions, operations and technology, is leaving the Quebecor Inc. broadcasting division to become executive vice-president of media technology and infrastructure services at...
As a rule, when Canadians search keywords on the internet, they should be presented with Canadian content related to those searches, argues the Forum for Research and Policy in Communications.
“New communications legislation must require online programming services to...
Canada’s current laws implicitly protecting net neutrality are sufficient...
The number of Canadians who consume their video content mostly through...
Iristel Inc. is becoming a provider of cybersecurity services, the company said in a press release...
BCE Inc. is now selling one-day subscriptions to its TSN and RDS streaming service for $5, the company...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) wants the government to...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google already contributes to the Canadian creative...
The CRTC has approved Quebecor Inc.'s purchase of Groupe Serdy and its Évasion and Zeste specialty channels. The regulator said in a decision Monday Quebecor will have to pay $1.8 million in tangible benefits over the next...
Karine Moses has been named president of the Quebec division of BCE Inc.’s media subsidiary, the...
One-in-8 Canadians have suspended their TV or paid video streaming service while planning to re-subscribe to it later, according to survey information released to media this week by CBC/Radio-Canada‘s Media Technology Monitor (MTM). MTM calls the phenomenon ‘cord jumping’, where consumers leave services only to return later. It said main reasons for ‘jumping’ off of a service for a time are: to save money, their favourite programs aren’t on right now, they don’t currently have time to watch the content, travelling and summertime. MTM points out that content service...
CBC/Radio-Canada wants the federal government to grant the CRTC the ability...
The CRTC is formally asking the federal government to make one regulatory...
Toronto mayor John Tory said he has been in discussion with Netflix Inc. about setting up a production...
The CRTC has dismissed in part a complaint lodged against BCE Inc.’s Bell Fund earlier this year by a...
BCE Inc. is rolling out to more services a pre-existing program that asks its subscribers to consider giving the company their personal information to better target relevant ads to them. The program is an expansion of a marketing initiative that Bell launched for its wireless customers in 2016 -- now available to TV, internet and phone customers, spokesman Marc Choma said in an email. The current iteration of the program is on an opt-in basis, in contrast to a similar unsuccessful initiative called the relevant advertising program in 2013. That version faced stiff opposition,...
Montreal-based Stingray Group Inc.’s radio arm says it has entered into an agreement to acquire the...
A new report using data from Statistics Canada says 44.5 per cent of Canadian households headed by...
Stingray Group Inc. said it is aborting its previously announced...
The CRTC plans to soon start measuring the participation of women in television production and how much big TV broadcasters spend on production of Indigenous and official language minority...
As the new year begins, the months ahead promise a new spectrum auction, new CRTC announcements on...
Increases in how long the CRTC takes to pay public interest groups to...
Canada’s public broadcaster has hired Torstar Corp.’s Claude Galipeau as its executive vice-president of corporate development.
The chief revenue officer of Torstar will join CBC/Radio-Canada on Jan. 7, 2019, the...
The CRTC has dismissed an appeal by BCE Inc. and ordered it to pay...
Wireless operators will have to begin offering message relay services (MRS) by June 2019, the CRTC said Friday. Message relay serves customers with a hearing or speech disability by allowing them to make calls via text with the help of an operator. It’s separate from video relay services. “Given that many Canadians are disconnecting their home phones in favour of cellphones, the CRTC is directing mobile wireless service providers to offer IP relay services,” the regulator said in a press release. Friday’s decision follows a consultation it launched last year. The CRTC also...
OTTAWA — A House of Commons committee is unanimously calling for new rules for social media companies...
Corus Entertainment Inc. had $2.3 million in Canada Media Fund (CMF) money...
A Senate committee is concerned that the elections modernization bill introduced earlier this year and ahead of the 2019 federal election won’t do enough to “sufficiently...
OTTAWA — Efforts to stanch online misinformation campaigns will not eliminate the very real situation that may see Canadians fall victim to attempts to influence their political opinions, the...
The CRTC has rejected two warring bidders who wanted to set up commercial radio stations in Quebec City on one of the last available frequencies, ruling that the central...
The number of English-speaking adults in Canada subscribing to over-the-top streaming services continues...
OTTAWA — The Copyright Board will work to address long-standing criticism over how long it takes to issue decisions, including by implementing new regulations, CEO Nathalie Théberge told members of the House industry committee....
Ontario’s auditor general is raising concerns about a legal "loophole"...
OTTAWA — The Canadian Bar Association told MPs Monday Parliament should introduce a new regime to deal with online piracy in the Copyright Act because the current notice-and-notice regime is...
OTTAWA — The CRTC can’t decide what commercials broadcasters can show...
In a trio of decisions Monday, the CRTC approved a broadcast licence application for a new station in Cochrane, Alta., and declined both an application for a new station in Lachute, Que. and to renew...
A new analysis published by the consumer website Comparitech this week...
The head of Elections Canada is urging the government to give the privacy...
Ottawa-based think tank the Public Policy Forum says it’s launching a new project to track, analyze and eventually find a way to counter "fake news." It’s digital democracy project will start by studying the effects of disinformation through commissioned research and journalism in the lead-up to the next federal election, the think tank said in a press release this week. Concerns have been stirring that Canada might be a target of foreign actors when Canadians go to the polls next year. Public Policy Forum president Edward Greenspon said his group’s previous research has shown that...
The CRTC has approved a budget increase for a service that allows...
Michel Bissonnette, the executive vice-president of Radio-Canada, has been named interim head of CBC,...
GATINEAU, QUE. -- Telus Corp. and Shaw Communications Inc. say...
There’s a lack of consensus over who should help Canadians determine what...
OTTAWA — Alphabet Inc.’s Google wants members of Parliament to include a “flexible copyright exemption” for AI and machine learning copying in the Copyright Act, adding to a chorus of voices from digital companies calling on Parliament to address the issue....
The Commission for Complaints for...
GATINEAU, QUE. -- Rogers Communications Inc. is taking what it learned a year ago and is proposing to rectify what a previous CRTC panel said were shortcomings to run its national ethnic channel for a...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre says it is boycotting the CRTC’s internet code proceedings, a move that comes after the regulator denied an application by consumer groups for a time-extension on...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. is in negotiations with Rogers Communications...
OTTAWA — Canada’s elections commissioner said...
An expert in copyright law is asking senators to nix a reform measure in...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner and its counterpart in Quebec are party to a “permanent working...
OTTAWA — The head of the Conservative Party’s 2019 national election...
The department of Foreign Affairs is looking for bidders to build a “phishing simulation initiative” to prepare its employees to better deal with such attempts. “Due to the increasingly sophisticated phishing campaigns distributed by cyber threat actors through email, text, and social media accounts, too many people working in the Department continue to be deceived,” it said in a tender published Monday. To deal with what it describes as a “serious” problem, it’s looking for...
The federal government paid a $2,000 settlement to a Barrie, Ontario photographer, according to the 2018 public accounts, because bureaucrats shared a copyrighted image on a government Facebook page....
The CRTC will hold a hearing in Quebec City on Feb. 20 that will look into...
Viewership of children’s TV channels in the United States declined by another 20 per cent in the past year, according to Bernstein Research analyst Todd Juenger. That decline means viewing of...
More than half, or 59 per cent, of Canadians who pirate TV and movie content also have a TV subscription, according to a new report from Media Technology Monitor (MTM). “This likely indicates that pirating content has to do...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is asking the CRTC for permission to shut down 44 television rebroadcasting transmitters in small rural markets, arguing they are too expensive to run.
“The rebroadcasting transmitters generate no incremental revenue, and attract little to no...
The French government will work with Facebook Inc. on a new initiative to...
A reverse class action case that has been stalled for nearly two years over the issue of costs will now move forward, after plaintiff Voltage Pictures LLC put up $75,000 in security for defence costs. Voltage paid the amount...
TORONTO — The radio industry has a “big problem” with a lack of...
The CRTC has rejected a request by BCE Inc. to bring back simultaneous commercial substitution in time for next year’s Super Bowl, pending a ruling by Canada’s top court and implementation of the...
TORONTO — Broadcasters should think about renting out their own studios...
TORONTO — The idea of cross-subsidization of industries did not find...
The federal government has named two new members to the Copyright Board of Canada, a move that fills the last vacancies on the board and comes alongside Ottawa introducing new board reform measures....
Facebook Inc.’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has declined a joint-request by...
OTTAWA — Consumer advocacy groups are cautioning MPs against proposals that would make site-blocking in Canada easier, after a push for those anti-piracy policies failed at the CRTC failed last month. Representatives from the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) warned MPs on the House of Commons industry committee Monday against proposals similar to FairPlay Canada’s CRTC ask for a new website-blocking regime to deal with internet piracy. John Lawford, executive director at PIAC, said “expedient judicial...
CBC/Radio-Canada’s executive vice-president of English-language services, Heather Conway, is leaving the public broadcaster next month, the Crown corporation announced...
The comment period for the government-appointed, blue-ribbon panel that’s reviewing Canada’s communications laws is being extended into next year. It is being lengthened to January 11, 2019, the panel has confirmed to The...
CBC/Radio-Canada has named Jack Nagler its new English services ombudsman.
Nagler, who is currently CBC’s senior director of journalism, replaces Esther Enkin in the...
Cogeco Inc.’s implementation of a new customer management system, which...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) has made a change to its breach notification guidance to address wording that some lawyers warned could lead to multiple organizations sending out notices over the same breach. A trio of lawyers from Borden Ladner Gervais LLP told the OPC last month that its draft notification guidelines could lead to “notice fatigue.” They said that having all companies -- for example, one that collects data and a third party service provider that processes it -- submit reports would be confusing to those individuals affected by a breach. The...
OTTAWA — Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy told an industry...
OTTAWA — Members of the panel tasked with providing recommendations to...
OTTAWA – Conservative senators doubled-down on a previously-raised...
MPs in Canada and the United Kingdom have stepped up their efforts to get the chance to grill Facebook Inc.’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a parliamentary committee hearing. The chairs of two...
OTTAWA — The billions of dollars Rogers Communications Inc. says it’s...
A year away from the next federal election, a majority of Canadians are...
OTTAWA — The head of Canada’s telecom regulator says clarity on where...
VMedia Inc. has come to an agreement Tuesday to buy a small company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange in a move that will allow it to become publicly traded without having to go through an initial public offering (IPO). The...
The Supreme Court of British Columbia has ruled that Telus Corp. can’t stop a former employee from immediately joining Rogers Communications Inc. despite signing a contract that forbids him from jumping ship within a year. The contract Daniel Golberg signed when he joined Telus as vice-president in 2005 included a stipulation that restricted his ability to work in a senior management capacity for a competitor -- in this case, Rogers’ Media division -- in certain provinces within a year of leaving the company, which he did in August. It’s a standard agreement in employment contracts...
