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TekSavvy launches IPTV service

Media | 02/01/2019 5:11 pm EST

TekSavvy launches IPTV serviceTekSavvy 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...

Public music should feature Canadian content, Stingray says

Media | 02/01/2019 1:18 pm EST

Public music should feature Canadian content, Stingray saysMusic 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...

Devices ‘no less important’ in Huawei debate: computing professor

Media | 02/01/2019 8:08 am EST

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...

CBC president likens Netflix to colonialism

Media | 01/31/2019 4:27 pm EST

CBC president likens Netflix to colonialismOTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada’s president Catherine Tait compared Netflix Inc.’s worldwide presence to...

Ottawa taps team to warn of foreign digital interference in elections

Media | 01/30/2019 3:49 pm EST

Ottawa taps team to warn of foreign digital interference in electionsOTTAWA — The Liberal government has set up a new alert protocol and...

MPs demand removal of Lac Mégantic images from Netflix

Media | 01/30/2019 3:14 pm EST

MPs demand removal of Lac Mégantic images from NetflixThe House of Commons unanimously passed a motion Tuesday condemning Netflix...

CRTC reviewing capacity of three radio markets

Media | 01/30/2019 2:33 pm EST

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....

Bell’s panel submission calls for CMF to get 20% of foreign OTT revenues

Media | 01/29/2019 3:25 pm EST

ARIN asks Parliament to require ISPs to maintain Whois infoBCE Inc. wants to inject the Canada Media Fund (CMF) with a potentially...

CRTC says no Telus licence amendment over community TV

Media | 01/28/2019 5:54 pm EST

Telus offering communication service for doctorsThe CRTC has denied a requested licence amendment by Telus Corp., citing...

YouTube limiting promotion of conspiracy videos and ‘borderline content’

Media | 01/28/2019 4:47 pm EST

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...

Gaming companies bristle after review panel suggests they’re broadcasters

Media | 01/28/2019 4:05 pm EST

Gaming companies bristle after review panel suggests they're broadcastersA meeting with individuals leading the federal government’s review of...

New Broadcast Act should ‘unambiguously exclude’ OTT: Netflix

Media | 01/25/2019 4:51 pm EST

New Broadcast Act should ‘unambiguously exclude’ OTT: NetflixNetflix Inc. is defending against calls to rope foreign over-the-top...

Rogers cost for disclosure case set for April

Media | 01/24/2019 3:47 pm EST

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...

Ever larger wireless data buckets belying consumption, Rogers says

Media | 01/24/2019 2:07 pm EST

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionRogers Communications Inc. is pointing to higher data availability...

Might be ‘late’ for regional wireless competitors: Cogeco

Media | 01/23/2019 5:05 pm EST

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3Cogeco Inc.  is raising caution about the negative impact the government's...

Bell asked gov’t to ban some VPNs: documents

Media | 01/23/2019 4:40 pm EST

Bring border privacy issues under NAFTA: GeistBCE 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 calls for removal of 5% BDU content contribution

Media | 01/22/2019 6:17 pm EST

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...

Be ‘wary’ of regulating online speech: Facebook

Media | 01/22/2019 5:57 pm EST

CRTC consulting on new radio stations in Northern OntarioWhile online misinformation needs to be taken seriously, that doesn’t...

Preventing LGBTQ content discrimination raised in BTLR consults

Media | 01/21/2019 4:15 pm EST

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 moves from TVA to CBC

Media | 01/21/2019 2:54 pm EST

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...

FRPC wants CanCon visibility on search engines

Media | 01/21/2019 12:50 pm EST

Google CanadaAs 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...

Groups diverge on handling of net neutrality in comms laws

Media | 01/18/2019 5:25 pm EST

Groups diverge on handling of net neutrality in comms lawsCanada’s current laws implicitly protecting net neutrality are sufficient...

Canadians split between traditional, online viewing: MTM

Media | 01/18/2019 2:16 pm EST

Canadians split between traditional, online viewing: MTMThe number of Canadians who consume their video content mostly through...

Iristel getting into cybersecurity

Media | 01/18/2019 1:08 pm EST

Freedom cites ‘suspicious patterns’ in Iristel traffic pumping caseIristel Inc. is becoming a provider of cybersecurity services, the company said in a press release...

Bell offering day access to TSN/RDS for $5

Media | 01/18/2019 12:07 pm EST

Bell offering day access to TSN/RDS for $5BCE Inc. is now selling one-day subscriptions to its TSN and RDS streaming service for $5, the company...

Fast-track OTT review, clock ticking on CMF ‘top-up’: CMPA

Media | 01/18/2019 10:41 am EST

Fast-track OTT review, clock ticking on CMF ‘top-up’: CMPAThe Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) wants the government to...

Platforms could pull out of Canadian market if regulated: Google

Media | 01/16/2019 2:17 pm EST

YouTube introducing new CanCon channelAlphabet Inc.’s Google already contributes to the Canadian creative...

CRTC OKs Quebecor’s Groupe Serdy acquisition

Media | 01/14/2019 6:05 pm EST

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 to head Bell Media Quebec

Media | 01/14/2019 4:22 pm EST

Karine Moses to head Bell Media QuebecKarine Moses has been named president of the Quebec division of BCE Inc.’s media subsidiary, the...

One-in-8 ‘cord jumping’ video services: MTM

Media | 01/11/2019 5:28 pm EST

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 calls for site-blocking provisions for ‘manipulated content’

Media | 01/11/2019 4:09 pm EST

CBC president Catherine TaitCBC/Radio-Canada wants the federal government to grant the CRTC the ability...

CRTC asks Ottawa for single regulator on passive infrastructure

Media | 01/10/2019 6:28 pm EST

CRTC asks Ottawa for single regulator on passive infrastructureThe CRTC is formally asking the federal government to make one regulatory...

Netflix considering setting up hub in Toronto: report

Media | 01/10/2019 12:34 pm EST

Netflix considering setting up hub in Toronto: reportToronto mayor John Tory said he has been in discussion with Netflix Inc. about setting up a production...

CRTC dismisses bias complaint against Bell Fund

Media | 01/08/2019 5:37 pm EST

Bell Fund can’t boost limit for interactive content: CRTCThe CRTC has dismissed in part a complaint lodged against BCE Inc.’s Bell Fund earlier this year by a...

Bell expanding targeted ads program to all services

Media | 01/08/2019 3:38 pm EST

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,...

Stingray to acquire Alberta radio station CHOO-FM

Media | 01/08/2019 12:15 pm EST

Stingray to acquire Alberta radio station CHOO-FMMontreal-based Stingray Group Inc.’s radio arm says it has entered into an agreement to acquire the...

44.5% of under-30 households don’t have TV: report

Media | 01/07/2019 5:41 pm EST

44.5% of under-30 households don’t have TV: reportA new report using data from Statistics Canada says 44.5 per cent of Canadian households headed by...

Stingray shelves Music Choice buy, citing price ‘disagreement’

Media | 01/03/2019 4:12 pm EST

Stingray to double number of employeesStingray Group Inc. said it is aborting its previously announced...

CRTC to require big broadcasters to report on women in production

Media | 01/03/2019 3:18 pm EST

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...

Top telecom and media stories to watch for in 2019

Media | 12/21/2018 5:46 pm EST

Top telecom and media stories to watch for in 2019As the new year begins, the months ahead promise a new spectrum auction, new CRTC announcements on...

Growing CRTC cost awards delays ‘problem for everybody’

Media | 12/18/2018 7:44 pm EST

Growing CRTC cost awards delays ‘problem for everybody’Increases in how long the CRTC takes to pay public interest groups to...

CBC hires Torstar’s Claude Galipeau

Media | 12/18/2018 3:32 pm EST

CBC hires Torstar’s Claude GalipeauCanada’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...

Bell must pay $433k in ‘ineligible’ tangible benefits

Media | 12/18/2018 3:20 pm EST

Bell warns about some Apple Watch 911 capabilitiesThe CRTC has dismissed an appeal by BCE Inc. and ordered it to pay...

CRTC tells wireless providers to offer message relay services

Media | 12/14/2018 3:27 pm EST

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...

Ethics committee calls for new social media rules

Media | 12/11/2018 7:27 pm EST

Ethics committee calls for new social media rulesOTTAWA — A House of Commons committee is unanimously calling for new rules for social media companies...

Corus lost $2.3M in unspent CMF money from failed French channels deal

Media | 12/10/2018 10:14 am EST

Corus lost $2.3M in unspent CMF money from failed French channels dealCorus Entertainment Inc. had $2.3 million in Canada Media Fund (CMF) money...

Elections bill doesn’t ‘sufficiently protect’ against foreign meddling: senators

Media | 12/07/2018 2:22 pm EST

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...

Election 2019 still ripe for opinion-shaping, CSE says

Media | 12/06/2018 3:46 pm EST

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...

CRTC says Quebec City radio market can’t sustain another station

Media | 12/06/2018 2:35 pm EST

CRTC says Quebec City radio market can’t sustain another stationThe 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...

English Canadian subs to OTT jumps to 65%: MTM

Media | 12/06/2018 1:17 pm EST

English Canadian subs to OTT jumps to 65%: MTMThe number of English-speaking adults in Canada subscribing to over-the-top streaming services continues...

CEO says Copyright Board to ‘run tighter ship’

Media | 12/06/2018 12:24 pm EST

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 increasing social media advertising worries AG

Media | 12/05/2018 5:25 pm EST

Ontario’s increasing social media advertising worries AGOntario’s auditor general is raising concerns about a legal "loophole"...

Bar Association tells committee notice-and-notice falls short

Media | 12/04/2018 5:36 pm EST

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...

CRTC has no jurisdiction over content on single programs, SCC hears

Media | 12/04/2018 5:18 pm EST

CRTC has no jurisdiction over content on single programs, SCC hearsOTTAWA — The CRTC can’t decide what commercials broadcasters can show...

CRTC says yes to new Alta. radio station, no to two Quebec applications

Media | 12/03/2018 3:43 pm EST

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...

Canadian Netflix had best value-for-money compared to other countries: study

Media | 11/30/2018 4:05 pm EST

Netflix responds to post-Creative Canada criticismA new analysis published by the consumer website Comparitech this week...

Elections chief to Senate: give OPC oversight over party privacy policies

Media | 11/30/2018 3:09 pm EST

Elections chief to Senate: give OPC oversight over party privacy policiesThe head of Elections Canada is urging the government to give the privacy...

Public Policy Forum to track online disinformation

Media | 11/29/2018 3:13 pm EST

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...

CRTC approves $22.5M budget increase for video relay service

Media | 11/29/2018 1:46 pm EST

CRTC approves $22.5M budget increase for video relay serviceThe CRTC has approved a budget increase for a service that allows...

Michel Bissonnette to be interim CBC vice-president

Media | 11/28/2018 5:02 pm EST

Michel Bissonnette to be interim CBC vice-presidentMichel Bissonnette, the executive vice-president of Radio-Canada, has been named interim head of CBC,...

Telus and Shaw say their customers largely aren’t watching OMNI

Media | 11/28/2018 4:29 pm EST

Shaw proposes banning third-party door-to-door salesGATINEAU, QUE. -- Telus Corp. and Shaw Communications Inc. say...

1-in-10 say ISPs should play a role identifying ‘fake news’: survey

Media | 11/28/2018 2:21 pm EST

Photo via Pxhere showing laptop with fake newsThere’s a lack of consensus over who should help Canadians determine what...

Google asks MPs for ‘flexible copyright exemption’ for AI

Media | 11/27/2018 1:58 pm EST

Google asks MPs for ‘flexible copyright exemption’ for AIOTTAWA — 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....

Rogers focuses on past shortcomings for ethnic must-carry licence

Media | 11/26/2018 5:55 pm EST

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...

PIAC says CRTC ‘railroading’ internet code, boycotts proceedings

Media | 11/23/2018 2:33 pm EST

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 in talks with Rogers for music channels on basic TV

Media | 11/22/2018 5:31 pm EST

Stingray in talks with Rogers for music channels on basic TVStingray Digital Group Inc. is in negotiations with Rogers Communications...

Budget bill risks ‘compromising’ copyright board autonomy, committee hears

Media | 11/22/2018 12:18 pm EST

Budget bill risks ‘compromising’ copyright board autonomy, committee hearsAn expert in copyright law is asking senators to nix a reform measure in...

OPC on global working group addressing AI challenges

Media | 11/21/2018 4:17 pm EST

OPC on global working group addressing AI challengesThe Office of the Privacy Commissioner and its counterpart in Quebec are party to a “permanent working...

Political parties ‘bumbling rubes’ on data: CPC campaign chair

Media | 11/20/2018 4:58 pm EST

Political parties ‘bumbling rubes' on data: CPC campaign chairOTTAWA —  The head of the Conservative Party’s 2019 national election...

Foreign Affairs says ‘too many’ employees falling for phishing attempts

Media | 11/19/2018 12:49 pm EST

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...

Ottawa paid $2K settlement after consulate shared copyrighted image

Media | 11/16/2018 5:11 pm EST

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....

CRTC to hold hearing on Leclerc radio stations acquisition

Media | 11/16/2018 4:54 pm EST

CRTC to hold hearing on Leclerc radio stations acquisitionThe CRTC will hold a hearing in Quebec City on Feb. 20 that will look into...

Viewing of U.S. kids’ linear TV channels in a freefall: analyst

Media | 11/16/2018 4:30 pm EST

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...

Most content pirates have TV subscriptions: MTM

Media | 11/15/2018 5:19 pm EST

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 wants to shutter 44 TV rebroadcasting transmitters

Media | 11/13/2018 6:17 pm EST

Corus wants to shutter 44 TV rebroadcasting transmittersCorus 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...

Facebook to cooperate with French regulators on pilot project

Media | 11/13/2018 4:26 pm EST

CRTC consulting on new radio stations in Northern OntarioThe French government will work with Facebook Inc. on a new initiative to...

Voltage reverse class action motion moving ahead

Media | 11/12/2018 3:47 pm EST

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...

Accurate audience measurements for radio lacking, conference hears

Media | 11/09/2018 6:15 pm EST

Accurate audience measurements for radio lacking, conference hearsTORONTO —  The radio industry has a “big problem” with a lack of...

CRTC rejects Bell’s ask to simsub Canadian Super Bowl ads in 2019

Media | 11/09/2018 12:16 pm EST

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...

Broadcasters ‘perfectly positioned’ to leverage podcast boom

Media | 11/08/2018 6:43 pm EST

Broadcasters ‘perfectly positioned’ to leverage podcast boomTORONTO — Broadcasters should think about renting out their own studios...

Former CRTC commissioners criticize Harnessing Change report

Media | 11/07/2018 7:15 pm EST

Former CRTC commissioners criticize Harnessing Change reportTORONTO —  The idea of cross-subsidization of industries did not find...

Liberal government fills last two vacancies on Copyright Board

Media | 11/07/2018 4:00 pm EST

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....

Zuckerberg declines joint Canada-UK committee appearance

Media | 11/07/2018 1:50 pm EST

Facebook to hand over Russia ads to CongressFacebook Inc.’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has declined a joint-request by...

Consumer groups warn MPs against site-blocking pitches

Media | 11/06/2018 1:55 pm EST

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...

Heather Conway leaving CBC

Media | 11/05/2018 1:18 pm EST

Heather Conway leaving CBCCBC/Radio-Canada’s executive vice-president of English-language services, Heather Conway, is leaving the public broadcaster next month, the Crown corporation announced...

Comms law review panel extends comment period

Media | 11/05/2018 1:13 pm EST

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 names new ombudsman

Media | 11/02/2018 5:22 pm EDT

CBC names new ombudsmanCBC/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’s transition to new customer system drags down Q4

Media | 11/02/2018 4:52 pm EDT

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3Cogeco Inc.’s implementation of a new customer management system, which...

OPC tweaks breach notification over ‘notice fatigue’ fears

Media | 11/02/2018 3:53 pm EDT

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...

Artificial intelligence tests yielding promising results: Corus CEO

Media | 11/02/2018 12:09 pm EDT

Artificial intelligence tests yielding promising results: Corus CEOOTTAWA — Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy told an industry...

Comms acts review panel urges ‘practical’ submissions

Media | 11/01/2018 7:11 pm EDT

Top telecom and media stories to watch for in 2019OTTAWA — Members of the panel tasked with providing recommendations to...

Yale responds to criticism about review panel consumer reps

Media | 11/01/2018 2:29 pm EDT

Yale responds to criticism about review panel consumer repsOTTAWA – Conservative senators doubled-down on a previously-raised...

MPs call on Zuckerberg to testify to international committee on ‘fake news’

Media | 10/31/2018 7:45 pm EDT

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...

Rogers’ network ‘our contribution’ to content ecosystem: VP

Media | 10/31/2018 7:24 pm EDT

Rogers’ network ‘our contribution’ to content ecosystem: VPOTTAWA — The billions of dollars Rogers Communications Inc. says it’s...

Most Canadians concerned with ‘fake news’ in next election: MTM

Media | 10/30/2018 5:55 pm EDT

Photo via Pxhere showing laptop with fake newsA year away from the next federal election, a majority of Canadians are...

CRTC needs clarity over who can resolve 5G rollout disputes: Scott

Media | 10/30/2018 4:34 pm EDT

CRTC needs clarity over who can resolve 5G rollout disputes: ScottOTTAWA — The head of Canada’s telecom regulator says clarity on where...

VMedia looking to go public through reverse takeover

Media | 10/24/2018 5:06 pm EDT

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...

Former Telus employee can continue working at Rogers: B.C. court

Media | 10/24/2018 3:58 pm EDT

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...