A number of film groups and companies have submitted nearly identical letters to the CRTC in support of Rogers Communications Inc.’s plan to acquire Shaw Communication Inc....
After Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order survived an appeal from TekSavvy Solutions Inc. in May, the internet service provider (ISP) has decided to take the case to the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC).
In an application for leave to appeal filed with the...
As party platforms make the rounds ahead of the Sept. 20 federal election, the Bloc Québécois has proposed the creation of a Quebec-based organization to replace the CRTC in its own slate of...
In its response to a Rogers Communications Inc. request to the CRTC asking...
Unifor is calling on the government to introduce legislation that will...
After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally called Sunday for a...
In a dispute between a trade organization representing wholesale-based internet service providers (ISPs) and facilities-based ISPs over the amount of information the latter...
The CRTC has decided it will not open proceedings into creating a...
The CRTC has denied a request made by the Canadian Association of...
The CRTC will hold hearings on whether Rogers Communications Inc. may...
A Federal Court judge ordered three pirate TV services to pay more than $29...
The CRTC’s efforts to implement a digital media survey are premature, according to the Canadian affiliate of the Motion Picture Association, who argued that the commission should wait until the...
Civil groups and Canadian telecoms companies agree that the CRTC should...
Quebecor Inc.’s president and CEO is renewing calls for the federal...
Canadian Heritage is seeking input on how best to compensate the news...
The CRTC has ruled that the CBC/Radio-Canada is not giving itself an undue preference with its paid subscription, online, video-on-demand service, and that it has not contravened any exclusivity rules by allowing Telus Corp. customers free access.
Tuesday, the...
The federal government intends to create a new Digital Safety Commissioner...
The return of the Toronto Blue Jays has caused Rogers Communications...
The CRTC Monday approved an application from Asian Television Network International Limited, authorizing its “Mirror Now” channel for distribution as non-Canadian programming. The network,...
With advertising revenues battered by the pandemic -- particularly the second half of the year -- the...
According to a Statistics Canada study, in order to better measure the well-being or quality of life and progress of nations, digitization needs to be taken into account, among other trends, in “a need to move beyond GDP.” “Many countries are moving beyond just the measurement and monitoring of indicators to a more fulsome integration of quality of life into the policy process. The Government of Canada is moving in a similar direction,” StatCan wrote in its study which took place...
A court decision that Canada’s federal private...
Nearly six weeks after a Federal Court of Appeal upheld Canada's first-ever...
A Canadian radio broadcasting group operating in Southern Ontario will be...
An initiative explored this past month in a Senate...
In order to encourage more diverse content online, Heritage Minister Steven...
Senators are in no rush to push the revised Broadcasting Act into law after it moved to adopt it at second reading and referred it to the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications....
With Parliament rising this week for its summer break, a number of bills of interest to the broadcasting...
Local Radio Lab Inc. will be picking up three stations near the Greater Toronto area following approval of its application Friday by the CRTC. The broadcaster is acquiring three English-language stations -- CIMA-FM Alliston,...
Following a similar announcement from Facebook Inc. and promises from Heritage Minister Stephen Guilbeault to introduce legislation requiring compensation for news organizations’ content appearing on online platforms, Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced Thursday it has signed agreements with several Canadian news publishers for a new program. Google said in a release Thursday that participating news groups, including The Globe and Mail and Black Press Media, signed up to take part in “Google News Showcase,” a product and licensing program that allows newsrooms to curate their content for readers across the Google News app and its Discover panels. “These deals will help support Canadian newsrooms that provide comprehensive general-interest news to the communities they serve....
Senators are looking beyond the free speech issues raised by critics of the revised Broadcasting Act and...
The revised Broadcasting Act is finally on its way to the Senate after the...
The ArriveCAN app -- which travellers into Canada must now use to submit...
Experts in the journalism industry are not in...
The CRTC has approved an application from CBC affiliate CKRT-TV, giving the French-language television broadcaster temporary relief from its license conditions during the...
Editor’s note: This article contains...
Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc., and Quebecor Inc. are asking a...
A survey by the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting,...
The CRTC has denied an application from Amherstburg Broadcasting...
A federal court judge has ruled on motions from both sides of a court...
The Canadian Heritage Committee’s work during...
The CRTC has approved an application from the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) to increase the amount of proceeds from the “Independent Local News Fund” (ILNF) that can be given to any one station or group operated...
Bidding opened Tuesday morning in what will be a...
Canada has laws that would hold companies accountable for allowing non-consensual sexual content on their platforms, but the government needs to put them into action,...
The Heritage Committee will be making the 2017 “Netflix deal” public after the NDP brought a motion to the committee compelling its disclosure. At Monday’s committee meeting -- the first...
The CRTC has approved a new broadcasting licence for Mohawk Multi Media Inc., allowing it to operate an English and Kanien’ke:ha (Mohawk) language Indigenous ration station in Kanesatake/Oka,...
A debate which Canadian Heritage Committee chair Scott Simms has jokingly said was “so exciting we...
Time ran out on Bill C-10 debate -- after the...
Four months after the federal privacy watchdog declared that Clearview AI engaged in illegal mass surveillance on behalf of the RCMP, Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien Thursday declared that the RCMP itself also broke the law.
For NDP MP Charlie Angus, the release of...
Canadian Federation of Musicians (CFM) is calling for a public apology from Conservative MP Rachael Harder after she made what it said are “derogatory comments lobbied...
A group representing news outlets in Canada has put out a call to Premier...
A Canadian tax lobby group is criticizing the global tax deal announced this weekend by G7 Finance...
The Liberals and the Bloc Québécois cooperated to pass a motion in the...
Conservative MP Dan Mazier has introduced a private member’s bill that...
The CRTC approved a request from broadcaster Stingray Group Inc. Wednesday, asking that it be allowed to change its English-language discretionary service, Stingray HITS, into a French service. According to the decision, the...
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is opposing internet...
BCE Inc. subsidiary Cablevision du Nord has to finish upgrading its routers...
A Quebec judge has ruled that Facebook Inc. can bring forward evidence the company believes will assist it in challenging a proposed class-action lawsuit. Facebook has been accused by an individual identified as CD -- who has sought leave of the court to bring forward a class action suit against the social media giant -- of hosting pages that allow people to publicly and anonymously denounce others with allegations of harassment or sexual assault. According to justice Martin Sheehan’s May 25 decision, CD claims that people who run the pages publish names of purported abusers as...
The federal government’s Canadian Heritage Committee is holding firm on plans to subject social media to broadcasting regulations after it voted down a proposed amendment from the Conservative Party...
Rogers Communications Inc. is repeating its request that the CRTC help it...
As reaction continues to pour in following the CRTC's Thursday decision to...
“Conservatives just don’t get it” when it comes to Bill C-10,...
The Federal Court of Appeal has allowed Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order to stand, dismissing an appeal of the order from TekSavvy Solutions Inc.
In a Wednesday decision, Justice George Locke, writing on behalf of the three-judge panel, said that he was not...
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority...
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault says Bill C-10 -- the Liberal government's update of the Broadcasting Act, which now allows for the regulation of content on social media platforms -- will have no...
A Canadian educational technology company used by the York Region District...
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee resumed its work on the...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and Canada’s Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) have sent a joint letter to the CRTC admonishing the regulator for failing to publicly post to its website a Part 1...
The Conservative Party accused the Justice...
The majority of the broadcasting experts invited before the House of...
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault wants work on...
Six organizations for people with disabilities are receiving a total of $61,562 from BCE Inc.’s deferral account, after the CRTC approved a proposal from the company to fund public interest and accessibility intervener participation for the consultation on reporting requirements for telecom companies under the Accessible Canada Act (ACA). The recipients of the funding are Canadian Association of the Deaf - Association des Sourds du Canada ($4,180), Media Access Canada ($7,872.75), Canadian National Society of the Deaf-Blind, Inc. ($4,747), CNIB Foundation ($5,170), Deaf Wireless Canada...
The Conservative Party Thursday accused the Liberals of “trying to hide...
The number of Canadians sending the Spam Reporting Centre complaints about consent issues is on the rise, according to a Tuesday CRTC release. In the past six months, the centre received thousands of complaints about spam...
The CRTC has denied Byrnes Communications Inc.’s request to amend its broadcasting licence so that its Fort Erie station is no longer bound to broadcast a minimum of three hours of news programming...
Mohawk Multi Media Inc. was given the green light by the CRTC to acquire the assets of CKHQ-FM, a low-power English and Mohawk language Indigenous radio station broadcasting in Kanesatake and Oka,...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner needs to be able to decide what to prioritize in the best interest of citizens as it deals with increased responsibilities under Bill-C-11, Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien told the House of Commons Ethics committee Monday.
As it...
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee is moving forward with a charter...
After saying it would address concerns around...
Acadia Broadcasting Ltd. is asking the CRTC for the authority to acquire the assets of multiple English radio stations in Atlantic Canada and Ontario as part of a corporate reorganization. In a notice of hearing from the CRTC...
The Asian Television Network International Limited is asking the CRTC to authorize the “Mirror Now” channel for distribution as programming. The network, which says on its website that it...
The CRTC granted a request by Shaw Cablesystems Ltd. to revoke its broadcasting licence for the Sault Ste. Marie area of Ontario on Wednesday. Shaw Communications Inc. said in its application its...
Cogeco Inc. and Xplornet Inc. are getting a combined $81.36 million to connect more than 18,000 households to high-speed internet in the Outaouais region of Quebec. The funding announcement from...
The Conservative party is “falsely accusing” the government of wanting...
An Alberta judge shot down a request from Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc. for an injunction against Best Buy Canada Ltd., Staples Canada ULC, Canada Computers Inc., and London Drugs Limited as part of...
Investment management firm Apollo Global Management Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire Verizon Media for $5 billion. Under the terms of the agreement announced Monday, Verizon Communications Inc. will receive $4.25 billion in cash, preferred interests of $750 million and retain a 10 per cent stake in Verizon Media. Current CEO Guru Gowrappan will continue to lead Verizon Media, which will be known as Yahoo, the company said in a release. “The past two quarters of double-digit growth have demonstrated our ability to transform our media ecosystem. With Apollo’s sector...
Canada should establish a centralized expert regulator for...
Professional networking platform LinkedIn will have its applications for a summary trial heard in the...
Quebecor Inc. executive Jean-François Pruneau announced Tuesday morning that he would be stepping down from his position as president and CEO of Videotron in order to "leave active professional life and devote himself to personal...
The Supreme Court of Canada has decided it will hear an appeal from Music Canada and the Society of...
The House of Commons Heritage committee has moved to strike an exemption for content posted on social media sites from regulation in the government's much-watched update to...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the Forum for Research and...
“Canada is first world in its input and third world in its output”, according to the chair of the Council of Canadian Innovators Jim Balsillie told the House of Commons...
The House of Commons Heritage committee has reinstated language protecting...
As the House of Commons Ethics committee considers the protection and privacy of individuals online, advocates criticized its lack of consideration for sex workers Monday and...
The federal government has launched a consultation document to solicit feedback on whether or not it...
Cogeco Inc. announced another increase in revenue with its second-quarter results Tuesday as it awaits...
Internet speeds for rural Canadians continue to remain “well below” the recommended CRTC speeds, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, when people “are counting more than ever on reliable broadband...
In order for the federal government to best deal with sexual exploitation...
Corus Entertainment Inc. reported Friday that it had begun to recover some of the losses of the earlier stages of the pandemic, with bleeding stopped in its television segment. The company posted second quarter television revenues of $338.5 million, a mere three per cent drop from the $347.8 million it posted this time last year, the last quarter before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in Canada. The profit in Corus' television segment, meanwhile, was up four per cent from a year ago, to 119.6 million from $115.5 million. Radio continued to struggle, with revenue in the quarter down 28 per cent to $20.4 million, from $28.2 million last year, and profits down 69 per cent to 1.4 million, from the 4.6 million the company pulled in on radio for the three months ending Feb. 29 last year. The company's margin on its television profits was...
