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Scott says platforms may be asked to ‘manipulate’ algorithms for Canadian discoverability 

Media | 06/23/2022 10:49 am EDT

Intent of C-11 is to exclude digital creators: CRTC chairThe CRTC chair has said that social media platforms may have to change their algorithms to promote Canadian content online if the Online Streaming Act passes, despite there...

CRTC grants CBC flexibility for push to digital

Media | 06/22/2022 6:45 pm EDT

CBC, CRTC still viewed as keepers of Canadian identity: studyThe CRTC has granted a sweeping flexibility that paves the way for CBC/Radio-Canada to shift toward a focus on digital outputs and away from its linear programming.  Wednesday, the regulator released its long awaited decision on the renewal of the CBC's licence. In...

Rodriguez lashes out at Online Streaming Act critics, Senate begins study

Media | 06/17/2022 3:44 pm EDT

Rodriguez lashes out at Online Streaming Act critics, Senate begins studyMinister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked Conservative party...

Gov. tables three-headed private sector privacy reform bill

Media | 06/16/2022 5:45 pm EDT

BREAKING: Feds ban Huawei from 5G networksTouting it as a "historic day" at an afternoon press conference, Innovation...

Senate committee rejects Gov. threshold for border cell phone search bill 

Media | 06/13/2022 5:56 pm EDT

Senate committee rejects Gov. threshold for border cell phone search bill The Senate's National Security and Defence Committee has pushed back...

The border is a “perfect storm” for discrimination in cell phone search bill: Citizen Lab fellow

Media | 06/08/2022 4:55 pm EDT

Senators asked to champion net neutrality in comms laws reviewThe government's effort to convince parliamentarians to lower the threshold for the searching of cell phones and laptops at border crossings is based in "the fiction that data...

CRTC looks at improving telecom services in Far North

Media | 06/08/2022 4:21 pm EDT

CRTC looks at improving telecom services in Far NorthThe CRTC announced it was initiating a proceeding to improve telecommunications services in Canada’s...

Rodriguez slams Tories for misinformation on Online Streaming Act

Media | 06/07/2022 3:45 pm EDT

Election 2019: watch for price caps, Netflix regs, Huawei banMinister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked the opposition for...

Punish hotel broadcaster who infringed on copyright: Bell tells CRTC

Media | 06/07/2022 3:31 pm EDT

44.5% of under-30 households don’t have TV: reportBCE Inc. is supporting a Quebecor Inc. application for the CRTC to revoke...

ISED launches mmWave consultation

Media | 06/06/2022 5:21 pm EDT

ISED launches mmWave consultationThe Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development has launched its consultation on the...

Foreign streamers wary of CRTC power under Online Streaming Act, CHPC told

Media | 06/02/2022 4:53 pm EDT

Foreign streamers wary of CRTC power under Online Streaming Act, CHPC toldAlphabet Inc.'s YouTube believes the provisions of Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, give too much power to the CRTC to regulate content, the company’s head of government affairs and public...

C-11 needs to incentivize a new era of foreign-domestic partnerships: Bell

Media | 06/02/2022 2:54 pm EDT

C-11 needs to incentivize a new era of foreign-domestic partnerships: BellBCE Inc. wants the government to incentivize foreign-domestic partnerships...

Intent of C-11 is to exclude digital creators: CRTC chair

Media | 06/01/2022 6:01 pm EDT

Intent of C-11 is to exclude digital creators: CRTC chairCRTC chair Ian Scott told the House of Commons Heritage Committee Tuesday...

Tim Hortons app violated privacy laws: privacy watchdogs

Media | 06/01/2022 5:48 pm EDT

Tim Hortons app violated privacy laws: privacy watchdogsCanadian coffee chain Tim Hortons violated national privacy law because...

Next CRTC chair must be bilingual: Rodriguez

Media | 05/31/2022 6:42 pm EDT

Election 2019: watch for price caps, Netflix regs, Huawei banThe Minister of Canadian Heritage has assured the House of Commons that the next chair of the CRTC will be fluent in both of Canada’s official languages. The government has been taking heat for appointing a unilingual anglophone as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick and...

Rogers-Shaw deal on hold until Competition Tribunal proceeding

Media | 05/30/2022 5:20 pm EDT

Rogers sued by Competition Bureau over alleged false advertising in ‘unlimited’ data plansRogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. have reached an...

CRTC dismisses Bell complaint that Videotron Vrai HVOD service violates regulations

Media | 05/30/2022 4:53 pm EDT

CRTC dismisses Bell complaint that Videotron Vrai HVOD service violates regulationsThe CRTC has found that Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron did not contravene its...

New legislation needed to cover growing privacy issues: Therrien

Media | 05/26/2022 4:07 pm EDT

Privacy commish vows more ‘proactive enforcement’Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien is calling for new legislation that would cover consent issues, forbid widespread data collection, hold collectors accountable and permit audits by his office.  He laid out these prescriptions in a speech to the International...

On Rogers-Shaw, focus shifts to network sharing agreements

Media | 05/25/2022 6:12 pm EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionAs the Competition Bureau takes Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...

Canadian politicians condemn Russian shuttering of CBC Moscow bureau

Media | 05/19/2022 4:13 pm EDT

Election 2019: watch for price caps, Netflix regs, Huawei banCanadian politicians were quick to condemn Russia’s move to close the...

Heritage committee calls for rejection of Rogers-Shaw deal

Media | 05/18/2022 4:34 pm EDT

ARIN asks Parliament to require ISPs to maintain Whois infoThe House of Commons Heritage committee is arguing against the merger of...

Court dismisses Telus challenge to Quebecor set-aside acquisitions in 3,500 MHz auction

Media | 05/18/2022 3:27 pm EDT

Court dismisses Telus challenge to Quebecor set-aside acquisitions in 3,500 MHz auctionA federal court judge has dismissed a challenge...

News Forum granted licence, denied mandatory distribution

Media | 05/17/2022 5:09 pm EDT

As CRTC rejects FairPlay, proposal could move to legislative reviewsTuesday the CRTC granted a broadcast licence for a discretionary service to...

Comp. laws are too focused on price: Lawson Hunter

Media | 05/16/2022 7:21 pm EDT

Comp. laws are too focused on price: Lawson HunterCanada's competition laws have become too sensitive to price, particularly in mergers, and should instead focus more on the role of innovation and change, according to a Canadian competition and regulatory lawyer. Lawson Hunter, a former senior civil servant involved in...

Freedom of expression regulation concerns on C-11 are “silly”: CRTC’s Scott

Media | 05/16/2022 6:55 pm EDT

Freedom of expression regulation concerns on C-11 are "silly": CRTC's ScottCRTC chair Ian Scott told conference attendees...

Tories put forward motion to kill Bill C-18, send “subject matter” to committee

Media | 05/13/2022 5:12 pm EDT

Tories put forward motion to kill Bill C-18, send “subject matter” to committeeConservative MP John Nater wants the Liberal government to withdraw its...

Liberal MPs say Tories faking outrage over Bill C-11, defend CRTC as regulator

Media | 05/12/2022 6:53 pm EDT

Liberal MPs say Tories faking outrage over Bill C-11, defend CRTC as regulatorLiberal MP Mark Gerretsen decried the fake outrage he said the...

 Tories attack C11, Grits compare it to CanCon regulations

Media | 05/11/2022 6:11 pm EDT

 Tories attack C11, Grits compare it to CanCon regulationsThe Conservatives continue to lambaste the government for the Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11, while the Liberals maintain the Tories are misrepresenting the legislation and compare it to the Canadian Content regulations brought in 50 years ago. The Conservatives have vowed...

Email spam and lack of consent top list for biggest spam complaints: report

Media | 05/11/2022 6:02 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPsCanadians are sending approximately 6,459 complaints per week to the Spam...

Telus and IBG row in behind NPF-PIAC petition against Rogers-Shaw CRTC approval

Media | 05/10/2022 4:53 pm EDT

Rogers requests extension for Wireless Code changesA joint petition to cabinet from the National Pensioners Federation and the...

CMPA enters fight for passage of Online Streaming Act

Media | 05/10/2022 3:13 pm EDT

CRTC releases described video statisticsThe Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) has entered the battle to pass Bill C-11, the Online...

Tories denounce Bill C-11 while Bloc defends it

Media | 05/06/2022 4:08 pm EDT

Big telecoms fight calls for an ‘ISP tax’, pitch new OTT rulesDebate continued in the House of Commons Thursday on the Online Streaming Act, known as Bill C-11....

Quebecor asks CRTC to punish hotel broadcasters

Media | 05/06/2022 2:53 pm EDT

44.5% of under-30 households don’t have TV: reportIn the wake of a Federal Court ruling that determined a trio of companies that had established a private...

CRTC issues accessibility reporting timetables

Media | 05/05/2022 4:57 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPsThursday the CRTC released the schedule for broadcasters and telecommunications companies to report under...

Tory MP attacks government for advertising on foreign media instead of local

Media | 05/05/2022 4:41 pm EDT

ARIN asks Parliament to require ISPs to maintain Whois infoConservative MP Martin Shields castigated the government for advertising on...

Rogers-Shaw merger benefiting wireless industry as a whole in 2022: Bell CEO

Media | 05/05/2022 4:35 pm EDT

MVNO decision arrives at a ‘tipping point’: Bell CEOWhen it comes to Canada's wireless market this year, there are a number of trends that are benefiting the wireless industry as a whole, including the potential merger between...

Integrity Commissioner refers TekSavvy’s Scott complaint to Ethics Commissioner 

Media | 05/05/2022 3:20 pm EDT

TekSavvy seeks permission to appeal CRTC rates decision, CNOC asks for public support Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Joe Friday...

Telus hasn’t completely lived up to its broadcast license obligations: CRTC 

Media | 04/29/2022 4:19 pm EDT

Roaming revenue not expected to fully recover until 2022: Telus CFOThe CRTC has admonished Telus Corp. for not entirely fulfilling its...

Senator calls for greater broadband access to First Nations

Media | 04/29/2022 3:29 pm EDT

Throne speech reiterates rural broadband, web giant promisesA Saskatchewan senator called on the government to do more to ensure...

Singh calls for halt of Rogers-Shaw merger, PIAC appeals to cabinet

Media | 04/27/2022 4:38 pm EDT

Singh calls for halt of Rogers-Shaw merger, PIAC appeals to cabinetNDP leader Jagmeet Singh called once again for the government to disallow the Rogers Communications Inc. takeover of Shaw Communications Inc., saying it is not in the public...

Facebook lied in Security Committee: Rodriguez

Media | 04/27/2022 4:28 pm EDT

Election 2019: watch for price caps, Netflix regs, Huawei banHeritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has said the Government is not backing down from its legislative effort...

CRTC approves new television rebroadcaster in British Columbia

Media | 04/22/2022 2:39 pm EDT

CRTC approves new television rebroadcaster in British ColumbiaFriday the CRTC approved an application by the Burns Lake & District...

Rogers boss won’t confirm Xplornet ‘rumours’

Media | 04/20/2022 4:59 pm EDT

Rogers requests extension for Wireless Code changesRogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri declined to comment on what...

Cogeco still waiting on MVNO terms and conditions, reports increase in Q2 revenue and profits

Media | 04/14/2022 4:45 pm EDT

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3Cogeco Inc. is preparing its entry into Canada’s mobile wireless market but has no definitive timeframe, as it is still contingent on the approval by the CRTC for the terms...

Corus profit margins lower, citing end of CEWS.

Media | 04/08/2022 5:01 pm EDT

Corus profit margins lower, citing end of CEWS.Corus Entertainment Inc.'s profits were hit by the loss of approximately $12 million in wage subsidies...

Budget devotes new funding to CRTC and to journalism initiatives

Media | 04/07/2022 4:07 pm EDT

Budget devotes new funding to CRTC and to journalism initiativesIn a federal government that is mostly targeted towards new spending on...

Corus sells over 400 episodes of different series to Hulu

Media | 04/07/2022 3:31 pm EDT

CRTC releases described video statisticsCorus Entertainment Inc.’s Corus Studios announced Thursday it has sold more than 400 episodes of programming to Walt Disney Co.’s American streaming service Hulu.  The series in the deal feature lifestyle, renovation, unscripted and crime content. This is in...

Hate groups need legislative stops on fundraising, security committee hears

Media | 03/31/2022 7:50 pm EDT

CRTC consulting on new radio stations in Northern OntarioExtremist groups are able to propagate their message and raise funds because Canada does not have legislation that prevents it, the House Committee on Public Safety and...

Panelists tell government to reform the CRTC

Media | 03/30/2022 7:14 pm EDT

50/10 Mbps standard just fine, CanWISP members sayGATINEAU, Que.--The CRTC came in for a drubbing at two panels Wednesday at the annual conference of the...

CBC license administratively renewed, full decision to come by late June 

Media | 03/29/2022 3:56 pm EDT

CBC, CRTC still viewed as keepers of Canadian identity: studyThe CRTC has issued an administrative renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada's...

CRTC approves Arsenal, Cogeco, radio swap

Media | 03/25/2022 2:42 pm EDT

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3The CRTC approved two separate applications by Cogeco Inc. and Arsenal Media which would essentially see...

Digital creators may still be subject to C-11, Heritage Committee told

Internet and Governance | 03/24/2022 5:26 pm EDT

ARIN asks Parliament to require ISPs to maintain Whois infoDigital creators are wary of the government’s claim that amendments to...

UPDATED: CRTC approves Rogers-Shaw broadcasting acquisition

Media | 03/24/2022 4:33 pm EDT

Rogers needs Shaw to sell CanCon alongside OTT services The CRTC has approved Rogers Communications Inc.'s acquisition of Shaw...

Supreme Court dismisses TekSavvy appeal of GoldTV site-blocking order

Media | 03/24/2022 1:28 pm EDT

Supreme Court dismisses TekSavvy appeal of GoldTV site-blocking orderUpdated with TekSavvy reaction. The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday...

Union files for mediation in talks with Cogeco

Media | 03/21/2022 5:44 pm EDT

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3Cogeco Inc. has two different labour disputes brewing, according to the union representing two different...

Put national moratorium on facial recognition for law enforcement, lawyer tells HoC committee

Media | 03/21/2022 5:01 pm EDT

Shaw poised for boost from new iPhonesThe Canadian government should place a national...

CNOC makes appeal to CRTC chair personally

Media | 03/18/2022 3:36 pm EDT

Bell, Rogers defend sales practices to CRTCThe industry group Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) has sent a letter personally addressed to CRTC chair Ian Scott, asking Scott to both "resolve the commission’s backlog of competition moving decisions as soon as possible," as well as "consider [his] ongoing...

CRTC issues broadcasting licence fees 

Media | 03/17/2022 3:23 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPsThursday the CRTC released its broadcasting licence fees for the 2022-2023 fiscal year. The net...

Federal government spends $2.5m to battle disinformation

Internet and Governance | 03/16/2022 3:17 pm EDT

Federal government spends $2.5m to battle disinformationThe Canadian government has allocated $2.5 million to help people identify...

Rogers, civil groups, say CRTC should remove Russian state-owned channels from airwaves

Media | 03/09/2022 4:27 pm EST

Rogers, civil groups, say CRTC should remove Russian state-owned channels from airwavesRogers Communications Inc. and civil organizations...

Rogers still expects Shaw deal to close in Q2

Media | 03/08/2022 5:44 pm EST

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionRogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri has said that last week's announcement from Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne, in which he said he would not allow the 'wholesale' transfer of Shaw Communications Inc.'s spectrum assets to Rogers as part of the...

CRTC holding hearing for Indigenous radio, French-language radio, applications

Media | 03/07/2022 3:59 pm EST

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPsThe commission is holding a hearing for two separate applications for a...

Google wins patent infringement decision in Federal Court

Media | 03/07/2022 2:34 pm EST

Google wins patent infringement decision in Federal CourtThe Federal Court of Canada dismissed a motion for summary judgment brought...

CRTC opens consultation on Russia Today removal after request from Gov.

Media | 03/03/2022 5:45 pm EST

CRTC opens consultation on Russia Today removal after request from Gov.Following the issuing of an order-in-council from the cabinet on Wednesday...

Net neutrality prevents CRTC from ordering ISPs verify age online: CRTC to Senate

Media | 03/03/2022 9:10 am EST

Net neutrality prevents CRTC from ordering ISPs verify age online: CRTC to SenateThe CRTC cannot direct internet service providers (ISPs) to implement age...

Rogers “not putting a dime” in middle tier news market: Conservative MP

Media | 03/02/2022 7:16 pm EST

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionCommunity-owned television outlets “are not producing local news that...

Bill C-11 a new bill with no new ideas, and a ‘legal pretzel’ for censorship: CPC

Media | 03/01/2022 5:05 pm EST

ARIN asks Parliament to require ISPs to maintain Whois infoFor the second time in the span of a year, the...

Gov. to ask CRTC to stop RT broadcasts over Ukraine invasion

Media | 02/28/2022 6:11 pm EST

Gov. to ask CRTC to stop RT broadcasts over Ukraine invasionPrime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday afternoon that the...

Quebecor targeting both MVNOs and Shaw assets for wireless roll out 

Media | 02/24/2022 6:04 pm EST

Quebecor threatens legal action if MVNOs are mandatedQuebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau said that while his company is...

Bell acquires Quebec-based provider Ebox

Media | 02/24/2022 4:23 pm EST

Bell warns about some Apple Watch 911 capabilitiesBCE Inc. has acquired Quebec-based internet, telephone and television provider Ebox Inc., the incumbent announced in a Thursday press release. The independent company provides services to consumers in Quebec and parts of Ontario. Bell will continue to provide those...

Quebecor provides no justification or rationale in Vrai pricing dispute: Bell

Media | 02/24/2022 2:58 pm EST

Videotron asks for extension on Unlimited Music finaleBCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that Quebecor Inc. provided no...

Google says Canada pursuing unique approach to news compensation

Media | 02/23/2022 5:55 pm EST

Election 2019: watch for price caps, Netflix regs, Huawei banCanada’s pending news media compensation legislation is based on key...

CRTC approves annual digital media survey, elects to keep data secret 

Media | 02/23/2022 4:59 pm EST

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPsAfter long consultation, the CRTC on Wednesday approved the establishment of an annual digital media survey. Under the regulations, all digital media broadcast undertakings (DMBUs) operating in whole...

Tories announce changes to critics positions

Media | 02/22/2022 3:12 pm EST

ARIN asks Parliament to require ISPs to maintain Whois infoInterim Conservative leader Candice Bergen shuffled her shadow cabinet on Tuesday, moving some MPs into...

ISED contributes $80M to fund cyber security project 

Media | 02/17/2022 5:16 pm EST

Public Health Agency among most targeted for cyber threats: CSEThe Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development announced Thursday that it would allocate some $80 million to the  National Cybersecurity Consortium to establish the Cyber Security Innovation Network.  "In order to expand Canada's national cyber security...

Don’t leave local news in the hands of megacorporations, Heritage committee hears

Media | 02/16/2022 8:45 pm EST

Don’t leave local news in the hands of megacorporations, Heritage committee hearsNot-for-profit community news associations are sounding the alarm over the Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. merger, with one stakeholder saying "democracy dies in the dark...

Quebecor calls Bell’s Vrai complaint “desperate” and “devoid of any merit”

Media | 02/11/2022 6:10 pm EST

Videotron asks for extension on Unlimited Music finaleQuebecor Inc. wants BCE Inc.’s request to mandate that Videotron...

Government, Telefilm, extend support for uninsured Canadian productions 

Media | 02/11/2022 1:06 pm EST

Government, Telefilm, extend support for uninsured Canadian productions The Government of Canada has extended its temporary emergency fund...

Witnesses raise issues with Senate bill restricting youth online access to porn

Internet and Governance | 02/10/2022 2:03 pm EST

Senators asked to champion net neutrality in comms laws reviewInternet and criminal justice experts sounded the alarm on a proposed...

Competition Bureau recommends overhaul of competition law

Media | 02/08/2022 5:47 pm EST

Rogers sued by Competition Bureau over alleged false advertising in ‘unlimited’ data plansIn reviewing mergers and acquisitions Canada's Competition Act should do...

Privacy Commissioner advocates update of Privacy Act before Ethics committee

Media | 02/07/2022 4:43 pm EST

Privacy Commissioner advocates update of Privacy Act before Ethics committeeCanada’s Privacy Act needs to be updated, Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien told the House of Commons Ethics Committee Monday, repeating a longstanding call the Privacy...