The Federal Court has denied the CBC/Radio-Canada’s and the Media Coalition’s application to intervene in a case that will determine whether the privacy commissioner can order search engines to delist certain content -- at least until it deliberates on Alphabet Inc.’s motion to change the scope of proceedings. Google’s motion, which became available only after the intervention hearing last month, seeks to amend the original November reference to include a discussion of freedom of expression rights under the Charter. CBC called the privacy commissioner’s request an “indirect...
The Shaw Rocket Fund wants CBC/Radio-Canada to expand its focus on children’s content to reflect a broader age range and is asking for new communications legislation to ensure it has the funding required to make that happen. The fund, which invests in Canadian-made children’s content, said the CBC “must provide meaningful, appropriate and relevant programming for all Canadian children under 18 years of age.” “CBC’s primary focus has been on content for preschoolers,”...
Despite heightened interest in the impact of social media on Canadian elections, Facebook Inc. said it has not heard of any Canadian institutions that have applied to view the social media giant’s...
Both over-the-top services and broadcasters should be required to show a certain amount of Canadian feature films, the Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters is asking the panel...
Marco Dubé will take over the vice-president of people and culture position at CBC/Radio-Canada when...
OTTAWA -- Democratic institutions minister Karina Gould said the government...
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc.’s head of public policy in Canada said the federal government hasn’t fully owned how “significant” an undertaking it is to require social...
Organizations representing Canadian publishers are flagging the difficulty...
Key evidence relied upon by movie studios in a substantial chunk of copyright infringement cases that have yielded vast sums of money from settlements has been ruled insufficient by a Federal Court...
The real value of the funding CBC/Radio-Canada receives has slipped significantly due to inflation, the...
A group representing the Canadian community TV sector is asking the panel reviewing the broadcasting and...
Corus Entertainment Inc. has promoted Troy Reeb and Colin Bohm to its executive vice-president ranks,...
A majority of Canadian internet users say the federal government should impose fines or other sanctions on social media companies that don’t remove fake news from their platforms, according to...
Netflix Inc. will expand its production presence in Canada by leasing space at two Toronto production...
Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube makes up just over 35 per cent of worldwide mobile data traffic, making it the...
The National NewsMedia Council wrote to the expert panel reviewing Canada’s broadcasting laws to express concern about a “gap in the current public complaints framework...
Better representation at the CRTC of official language minority communities is a concern a number of...
OTTAWA — A lawyer for CBC/Radio-Canada who is asking the Federal Court to...
Trish Williams is moving from Temple Street Productions to CBC/Radio-Canada, where she will be CBC’s new executive director of scripted content.
Starting this week, she...
Rogers Communications Inc. said it was surprised to see two motions for disclosure of subscriber information filed by two movie studios late last year and challenged them because they did not include...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s former chief operating officer, Barbara Williams, will be CBC/Radio-Canada’s new executive vice-president of CBC.
Williams, who retired from Corus last year, will start the Toronto-based job on May 1, CBC said in a press release Wednesday.
Michel Bissonnette, who has been in the role on an interim basis since Heather Conway left the public broadcaster in December, will continue as interim VP until May, CBC president Catherine Tait said in an internal message to staff Wednesday.
“A visionary leader, Barbara brings with her a wealth of experience with respect to developing future revenue streams and overall content strategies that have consistently resulted in audience growth,”...
Former CBC/Radio-Canada president Hubert Lacroix has joined the business law firm Blake, Cassels &...
Canada’s private radio broadcasters are fighting against a push to keep...
The federal government is organizing a working meeting next week in Ottawa...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is now offering IPTV in Chatham, Ont., and the service will become available in...
Music in public establishments such as malls, bars and restaurants should...
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 Inc. for using footage of the Lac Mégantic, Que. train disaster in a TV show and a movie.
The motion, introduced by NDP heritage critic Pierre Nantel, condemns the use of the images, and demands...
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...
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 communications legislation caught the video game industry off-guard, when the panel members’...
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...
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 CBC/Radio-Canada. “For the public broadcaster to succeed in an increasingly competitive, global market, we need our technology and our infrastructure to stay leading edge. Daniel has the experience to help us do just that,” CBC president Catherine Tait said in a press release Monday. The appointment is effective Feb. 4. At TVA, CFO Denis Rozon will become...
As a rule, when Canadians search keywords on the internet, they should be presented with Canadian content...
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 said Friday.
Bell launched the streaming service for the two channels in June, priced at $25 a month, the same price point as rival Rogers Communications Inc.’s...
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...
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 coalition of media producers including CBC/Radio Canada and Blue Ant Media Inc., which alleged bias in how it decides on distributing funding.
The complainants had...
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...
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 programming. The regulator has launched a consultation to expand the ‘programs of national interest’ (PNI) reporting requirements for large English and French language broadcasting ownership groups, a category that includes BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc. and Corus Entertainment Inc.The public...
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...
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 Canadian Security Establishment said in its cyber threat assessment Thursday. “Although major web platforms are making efforts to curb the negative effects of manipulative information sharing, the opinions of Canadians will remain an attractive target for cyber threat actors seeking to influence Canada’s democratic processes,” the CSE said Thursday. That view came from a national cyber...
The CRTC has rejected two warring bidders who wanted to set up commercial...
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 ineffective. Steven Seiferling, executive officer of the bar association’s intellectual property law section, said at the House industry committee Canada’s notice-and-notice regime isn’t enough to deter infringement if it doesn't result in consequences. He said a copyright infringer could ignore the notice or spoof their location, making it hard for a rights-holder to stop the...
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...
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 counts as ‘fake news’, but the government, non-profits and internet service providers (ISPs)...
OTTAWA — Alphabet Inc.’s Google wants members of Parliament to include...
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 Inc. to get its HD channels on its basic TV lineup, a spokesman said, following an announcement by the telecom it's removing four Stingray music channels that were in lower definition.
The four...
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...
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 with getting particular content that may not be readily available through the [users’] existing subscriptions,” Thursday’s report outlined. “This may be content exclusive to other services or stations not included in the users’ subscription.” Nearly as many, or 58 per cent, subscribe to over-the-top (OTT) services, the CBC/Radio-Canada agency said....
