Corus Entertainment Inc. is adding itself to the list of industry players who are suspending advertising on Meta Platform Inc. after the tech giant announced it will block Canadian news content on Facebook and its other platforms due to its grievances with the Online News Act.
“We are disappointed in the recent actions taken by Meta, and encourage all foreign digital platforms to actively participate in meaningful discussions regarding Bill C-18 to create an open and accessible media landscape in Canada,” Corus wrote in a statement Monday.
Corus said it is suspending all advertising across all its brands and trademarks, and encouraged its partners and clients to follow suite.
“We look forward to actively...
In an ongoing tug-of-war at the CRTC, tech giants are arguing that a level of consensus has emerged surrounding the applicable revenue threshold for registration under the...
The Forum for Research and Policy in...
The CRTC is seeking comments on whether it should consolidate several...
Other governments and private sector companies are joining in the boycott of Meta Platforms Inc. after it announced plans to block Canadian news from Facebook and Instagram. Meta’s move came in...
APTN has applied to the CRTC to consolidate its four channels into two, one...
The CRTC has now received reply comments in its ongoing proceeding into how to implement the Online Streaming Act. As with the original interventions, proposals vary depending on the group submitting the suggestions.
The Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) calls for online undertakings to reveal the date they began operating in Canada, their annual revenues, operational model, and how much Canadian content is available. It disagreed with calls to exempt smaller...
The CBC is requesting the CRTC amend its conditions of licence (COL),...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has announced it will be removing Canadian news links from its websites.
The...
Local independent news stations want to exclude...
Meta Platforms Inc. said it will no longer provide news on social media...
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to amend the conditions of...
Quebecor Inc. has reversed itself and will not be suspending TVA’s newscasts in Quebec City on weekends...
The CRTC denied SiriusXM Canada Inc.’s request for relief from its...
Quebecor Media Inc. is asking the CRTC to remove some of the conditions of...
The rapid pace of change in the technology sector has led a group of Parliamentarians to form an emerging technology caucus where members of all parties can learn about the brave new world.
The caucus was the brainchild of Alberta Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner who tweeted out the idea and was flooded with responses. Liberal MP Anthony Housefather was...
Several trade unions representing Canadian media...
The proposed financial threshold for exemption for online streaming...
Approximately 1,300 BCE Inc. employees will be...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Meta Platforms Inc.’s move to block news content on its platform is...
Sunday in Banff saw the launch of Canadian Broadcasters for Sustainability, a consortium of 22 organizations committed to working together for environmentally sustainable change.
The members pledged to meet four times per year to work on five common goals: collaboration...
In a Thursday ruling, the Federal Court of Appeal sided with Société...
The federal government is spending $5.5 million to create the Canadian Digital Media Research Network...
Revenues and subscriber growth featured prominently in Stingray Group Inc.’s quarterly report...
Tuesday the Senate Transport and Communications Committee continued its...
Spokespeople for Alphabet Inc.’s Google expressed further concerns they...
Monday Horizon Media Canada released a report that found TikTok is facing a crisis in trust due to the bad press it has been receiving of late. There are concerns that the Chinese-owned platform may be sharing users’ private...
The government has extended the term of Catherine Tait as president and CEO...
A group of consumer advocacy organizations have received some support for...
Quebecor Inc. has won a copyright infringement case against a trio of companies the Federal Court as agreed was illegally broadcasting Quebecor's TVA Sports channels in...
Corus Entertainment Inc. has written to the CRTC asking whether or not that the company will be allowed...
CBC/Radio-Canada has received several letters of support in its attempt to delay a mandated consultation...
In a back-and-forth between CBC/Radio-Canada on when the broadcaster should...
A coalition of 12 different public sector and public interest groups have...
A House of Commons committee is calling for the Minister of Canadian Heritage to ban Chinese state media from Canadian broadcast systems. The committee on Canada-China Relations made the demand in a report issued Thursday.
The MPs are asking minister Pablo Rodriguez to...
A Federal Court of Appeal judge has dismissed an attempt by BCE Inc.,...
OTTAWA–Delegates to the International Institute of Communications...
OTTAWA–The CRTC is improving its process to be more responsive to its...
Now that the Online Streaming Act has become law, the CRTC is launching a...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) told the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications...
Wednesday the CRTC announced it had allowed new area code overlays for...
The Senate Committee on Transport and Communication continued its study of...
Sir Nicholas Clegg’s reversal of an agreement to appear before the House...
OTTAWA–As the Liberal Party of Canada gathers in the capital for its policy convention, its youth group has put forward a resolution calling for changes to the...
A Part 1 application has officially been opened...
After months of contentious debate, Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, has become law. The Senate voted...
Rogers Communications Inc. released its first quarterly report since it was granted approval to take over...
Senior executives of Alphabet Inc.’s Google appeared before the House of...
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...
CBC/Radio-Canada is asking the CRTC to give it more time before holding a required consultation with...
The Conservatives are keeping up their battle against the government’s...
A group of six consumer and public advocacy organizations is asking the CRTC to step in to restructure a Rogers Communications Inc. payment to...
Fiscal 2023 will be an "especially challenging" year for Corus...
The new regime at the CRTC met with general approval Wednesday from...
Public broadcasting advocacy group Friends is “frustrated” that the...
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) is...
The CRTC won’t force Quebecor Inc. into final...
The CRTC has adjusted how it considers the use of stock footage for the purposes of counting toward Canadian Content requirements.
In a Thursday decision, the regulator announced it would move the treatment of stock footage costs from the "services" category to the...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says he is not worried that...
The CRTC has issued the broadcasting licence fees for the 2023-2024 fiscal year. The estimated total...
Thursday the Supreme Court announced it was allowing an appeal by a group of media into the unsealing of...
The CRTC Thursday approved a radio broadcasting license for Piikani Resource Development Ltd. on behalf...
Members of the Senate are calling on the CBC/Radio-Canada to maintain its current broadcasting regime, saying it is necessary for those in areas with limited internet access.
On Feb. 7 CBC president and CEO Catherine Tait said in an interview with the Globe and Mail...
Broadcasting arbitrator Monica Song has updated her list on the amount of...
The CRTC released two commissioned reports on the changing nature of the...
The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday it had dismissed a leave to...
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that it is...
The House of Commons Heritage committee voted Tuesday to summon top...
A New Democrat representing a border city wants the CRTC to review...
Quebecor Inc.’s efforts to reach all wholesale and MVNO access agreements...
The CRTC is reopening its proceeding into whether or not BCE Inc., Cogeco Inc., Bragg Communications...
The Online News Act, Bill C-18, will “fundamentally change the relationship between people and the internet,” if passed, according to the Internet Society (ISOC).
On...
The CRTC announced that it will publish the data collected in its Annual...
After years of consideration, the CRTC determined that Yellowknife, NWT...
During Tuesday’s Question Period, two Conservative MPs from Quebec took...
Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion has found that...
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne says he will not be forced into a decision on the takeover of Shaw Communications Inc. by Rogers...
Monday the federal government outlined new policy directions for the CRTC, with an emphasis on...
The battle over the government’s Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11,...
OTTAWA–Streaming is the way of the future, a panel told the Canadian...
OTTAWA– An Amazon Inc. Prime Video executive has...
In its first notable broadcasting decision under...
OTTAWA–Australia has followed a different path to film and television...
OTTAWA – The Senate officially adopted the Online Streaming Act, a year...
Rogers Communications Inc. will not need more financing from the capital...
OTTAWA — The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) announced the deployment of a new $30 million financing envelope, and a partnership with Telefilm Canada, in an effort...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez Monday announced the appointment of...
All eyes are on Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, who is the last line of defense for...
Commissioner of Competition Matthew Boswell said Tuesday his agency will not take the fight against the takeover of Shaw Communications Inc. by Rogers Communications Inc. to the Supreme Court. The...
The purpose of the CRTC is to achieve policy...
Tuesday afternoon the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed with costs the Commissioner of Competition’s appeal of the Competition Tribunal’s decision on the merger of Rogers...
Monday the CRTC opened up the radio market in Joliette, Que., calling for...
The CRTC Tuesday approved a proposal for an FM station serving La Crete, Alta. Two years ago the...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced late-Monday night the passing of...
Monday the CRTC approved an application by Malayalam Commercial Radio Inc. for a low-power commercial...
Corus Entertainment Inc. president and CEO Doug Murphy said an “advertising recession” is the cause...
Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, is a necessary tool to update...
BCE Inc. announced Friday that the company was partnering with Snap Inc....
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 reflect on his time leading the organization.
The Wire Report: Have you figured out what's next?
Ian Scott: I haven't. We have, as you know, post-employment...
