Grocery giant Loblaw Companies Ltd. is entering the mobile data market with the launch of its No Name Mobile product. Prepaid mobile SIM cards will be available at the company’s No Frills locations across the country. The cards will replace the PC Mobile SIM cards...
Canada’s four major wireless carriers experienced major upticks in usage during Monday’s solar eclipse, but they were prepared for the event. They took a victory lap when discussing the outcome. “This was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and our network team worked...
Incoming Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne vowed to stay the course,...
The House of Commons’ Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and...
Canada’s Privacy Act needs to be updated, Privacy Commissioner Daniel...
Data being collected by private companies on behalf of the Public Health...
The data services company TeraGo Inc. announced Monday that it has appointed Andy Ramsey, the company's senior director of finance, as vice president of finance and interim chief financial officer. The company's CFO David Charron will be stepping down as of Oct. 29, as...
The data services company TeraGo Inc. has announced it is looking for a new chief financial officer as its current CFO David Charron is stepping down "to pursue other...
The Conservative Party is promising new rules for electronic data collection and technologies like the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence if it wins in this fall’s federal election....
Prices for communications services are on a downward trend, according to new data from the CRTC, but spending on those goods are also on the rise. Those services are made up of mobile wireless (with unlimited voice and SMS...
The launch of new plans from Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom will...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s decision to introduce "no overage" plans will likely negatively impact all wireless carriers, Scotiabank’s Jeff Fan said in a new report. “In this dynamically...
A new group made up of businesses and industry associations wants to help...
A consortium of data stewards launched an informal network last week that looks to promote the anonymization of personal information in Canada in the wake of data privacy concerns sweeping the...
OTTAWA — The Office of the Privacy Commissioner plans to file in Federal...
Canada’s broadcasting and telecommunications legislation should be amended to include a number of references to accessibility for Canadians with disabilities, according to...
While online misinformation needs to be taken seriously, that doesn’t...
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...
Colin McKay, head of public policy and government relations for Alphabet...
Canada's federal, provincial and territorial privacy watchdogs collectively...
Canada and its Five Eyes counterparts have issued a warning to communications and technology companies that if governments continue to face difficult hurdles to lawful access to data created by encryption without private sector “solutions,” they “may pursue technological, enforcement, legislative or other measures” to get around that. The countries met in Australia last week and produced a joint-statement warning of an “increasing gap” between law enforcement being able to lawfully access data and actually being able to see and use the content of that data, which is a...
Canadian operators drive the highest revenues per wireless gigabyte in the...
OTTAWA — As the House of Commons rose for summer break Wednesday...
OTTAWA — The federal government said Tuesday it will hold consultations to look at the issue of data...
Following nine public meetings that began in March, the House committee...
Facebook Inc.’s attempt to reach out to members of the Parliamentary...
The CRTC should ensure telecoms offer plans for consumers who only need wireless service on an occasional basis, according to the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC). The consumer group filed a...
The federal government has announced that mandatory breach notification rules found in the 2015 Digital Privacy Act will come into force Nov. 1 this year, according to an order-in-council dated March 26. As originally reported...
Over the last month, the number of people who hold an unfavourable public...
Executives from Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. don’t see demand for wireless data slowing down, they told an investors conference earlier this week. “We’re still seeing significant data growth in the wireless space as customers continue to use more and more data. The drive to LTE-advanced and faster and faster phones drives more data as well,” Telus’ president of consumer and small business solutions, David Fuller, said Thursday at the Desjardins Industrial, Telecom and Consumer Products Conference in Montreal. Rogers’ chief financial officer Tony Staffieri told...
The privacy commissioner is calling for his office to be included in Bill...
The government should consider including frameworks for a right to erasure...
The Competition Bureau is inviting comments on a white paper on big data. “Recent global developments in technology have allowed firms to harness data in ways that drive innovation and quality improvements across a range of...
Global wireless data consumption through virtual reality (VR) content will grow ten-fold over the next...
Canada’s continued preservation of the provisions in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that protect Canadian culture is one of the few priorities Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland outlined Monday, as she continued her pre-negotiation blitz ahead of...
The United States is calling for its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners to limit restrictions and make it easier for its companies to compete in their telecommunications markets....