OTTAWA– An Amazon Inc. Prime Video executive has said CanCon rules hinder getting Canadian stories to a world market, but CBC/ Radio-Canada’s president and CEO says...
The organization representing independent companies providing cable TV and IPTV services is arguing that the Online Streaming Act has ignored the needs of small broadcasting...
Netflix Inc., and the Motion Picture Association - Canada (MPA-Canada), of...
A former senior general counsel at the Department...
Former CRTC vice-chair Peter Menzies has claimed...
Debate continued in the House of Commons Thursday on the Online Streaming Act, known as Bill C-11....
For the second time in the span of a year, the Liberal government has introduced a new bill to update Canada’s broadcasting act but “what it doesn't bring is new ideas,”...
According to an advocacy group opposing restrictions on the internet,...
Civil groups and Canadian telecoms companies agree that the CRTC should...
A survey by the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting,...
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 Conservatives “continue to oppose” Bill...
The House of Commons Heritage committee has moved...
Asked whether or not the CRTC is up to the task of dealing with broadcasters who may try to circumvent Canadian content regulations if Bill C-10 is passed and brings streaming...
Cogeco Inc. has responded to a Part 1 from television company Wildbrain,...
MPs on the House of Commons Heritage Committee said Friday they want to see the first draft of the directions the CRTC is going to get from Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault...
The federal government plans to begin imposing sales taxes on foreign digital services on July 1, 2021...
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault isn’t concerned about potential...
The Liberal government’s proposed updates to the Broadcasting Act have...
Given the precarious situation around the now-escalating COVID-19 pandemic, what will actually be...
A quarter of anglophone Canadian over-the-top (OTT) service subscribers opted in to a new platform during the COVID-19 pandemic, while a majority of subscribers increased their usage, according to a new survey from Media Technology Monitor (MTM), a project of...
Netflix Inc. has announced it will lower its bit rate in Canada by 25 per cent for the next 30 days, just days after three telecommunications associations publicly urged the streaming giant to lower rates to lessen network...
The COVID-19 global pandemic represents "an unprecedented challenge for all involved in the screen-based industry across Canada," according to the Canadian Media Fund. As such, the CMF has joined...
Former Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly’s much-touted 2017 deal with Netflix Inc. to spend $500 million...
OTTAWA — A broadcasting and telecommunications legislative review report...
The Liberal government's minority mandate means it will have to move fast...
Following the federal parties’ shared pursuit to further regulate foreign...
Facebook Inc. has registered to lobby the federal government on “proposed...
OTTAWA — New Public Safety Minister Bill Blair indicated Wednesday he is...
Despite Conservative leader Andrew Scheer indicating throughout this fall’s election campaign that he would make sure Netflix Inc. pays its “fair share,” his party is...
Federal party leaders agreed Thursday evening in the last debate of the...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development will host a public consultation next month on its proposed “unified approach” to the taxation of the world’s biggest tech companies. A document released by the...
Organizations that represent important stakeholders in the field of Canadian content are staying...
During the first French-language debate of the federal election campaign,...
The Liberal Party platform, released Sunday, includes promises of new regulations for Canadian content on streaming services — while the Conservatives gear up to announce new taxes affecting foreign digital giants, the specifics of which are still unclear. As Heritage...
Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc.’s Super Channel...
Even before the federal election campaign officially kicked off, telecom...
MONTREAL — Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron unveiled its new Helix platform...
The federal government last week announced that it would pour $14.6 million...
The CRTC wants to know more about the potential for the Canadian...
The CRTC has asked several telecoms to explain how their throttling of wireless speeds once customers exceed their data allotments doesn’t violate the commission’s regulatory policy on internet...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said in a social media post Wednesday that the Liberal government plans...
New data released by the CRTC Thursday shows the industry-wide trend of tumbling broadcast sector revenue...
The House heritage committee says the government should do more to fight piracy, including holding internet service providers “accountable,” and put in place efforts to...
Almost 60 per cent of Canadians have “low trust and confidence” in Netflix Inc. to “protect Canadian culture and identity on television”; half of Canadians don't trust cable companies to do...
MONTREAL — The NDP’s platform for this year’s federal election will include requiring foreign...
OTTAWA — Canadian companies that sell digital products which are subject...
As the Liberal government unveils its last budget before the upcoming...
Netflix Inc. will expand its production presence in Canada by leasing space at two Toronto production studios, the company said in a press release Tuesday. The news follows discussions with Toronto mayor John Tory about the streaming company setting up a production hub in...
Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube makes up just over 35 per cent of worldwide mobile data traffic, making it the...
Canada’s private radio broadcasters are fighting against a push to keep...
OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada’s president Catherine Tait compared Netflix Inc.’s worldwide presence to...
The House of Commons unanimously passed a motion Tuesday condemning Netflix...
Netflix Inc. is defending against calls to rope foreign over-the-top...
Toronto mayor John Tory said he has been in discussion with Netflix Inc. about setting up a production...
The number of English-speaking adults in Canada subscribing to over-the-top streaming services continues...
A new analysis published by the consumer website Comparitech this week...
A new report from the Angus Reid Institute indicates that the cost of services is the main driver behind the choice of Canadians who have gotten rid of their traditional TV service subscriptions. The Angus Reid polling analysis released Thursday said despite the current...
OTTAWA — Canada’s federal privacy watchdog asked a Senate committee...
Canada has been “pushing hard” to speed up development of a plan for...
Internet traffic is “more encrypted than ever,” with a “conservative estimate” suggesting more than half of all internet traffic is encrypted, according to Sandvine Corp.’s 2018 Global...
Netflix Inc. says it’s “on track to exceed” its $500 million pledge...
Just under half of Canadians, or 47.2 per cent, use subscription over-the-top (OTT) services, according to new data from eMarketer. More than 75 per cent of those subscription OTT users watch Netflix Inc.’s service, eMarketer said in a Wednesday press release,...
Despite the impact over-the-top (OTT) streaming services have had on the television market for sometime in Canada, a new report by Think TV suggests that linear is still dominating those services. The report said that,...
Former chief government whip Pablo Rodriguez is the new heritage minister,...
There is no legal or regulatory obligation on telecoms to offer paper bills, BCE Inc. said in a filing to the CRTC, responding to an application asking the regulator to ensure companies must provide a paper bill to customers who...
Domestic and international content producers and over-the-top (OTT) services are continuing to partner...
According to the latest data from CBC/Radio-Canada’s Media Technology Monitoring (MTM) project, 35 per cent of English-speaking internet users in Canada continue to own four types of electronic...
OTTAWA — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains and Heritage Minister Mélanie...
GATINEAU — The CRTC is recommending the government undertake a bevy of...
The House standing committee on international trade is calling on the government to implement sales taxes on “intangible products” sold by foreign companies, improve rural internet access and...
CBS Corp.’s All Access streaming service is now available in Canada, the company said in a press release Monday. The company’s president and CEO, Leslie Moonves, previously indicated CBS was planning a June launch. The service, which costs $5.99 a month, “will...
The Quebec government’s 2018 budget, unveiled Tuesday, includes a measure...
CBC/Radio-Canada is in negotiations over opening up its French-language...
The 2018 federal budget, released Tuesday, confirmed the Canadian Media Fund (CMF) will receive top ups...
Data insights and programmatic advertising that could disrupt digital...
As part of its government-ordered proceeding on future content distribution models, the CRTC is asking a number of companies — including Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Netflix Inc. — for information about their digital media broadcasting revenues, subscribers and viewing in Canada. Several years ago, during its Let’s Talk TV proceeding, those two companies refused to provide such info to the regulator, triggering conflict with the commission that saw then-chairman Jean-Pierre Blais briefly walk out of a hearing and threaten to revoke the digital-media exemption order under which Netflix...
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly faced questions this week about why a...
Fifty-seven per cent of Canadian anglophones subscribe to over-the-top (OTT) streaming services, with Netflix Inc. as the strong leader, according to the latest report from Media Technology Monitor (MTM), a project of...
Netflix Inc. has published a blog post in support of a deal it reached with the government to invest $500...
The Quebec national assembly voted Tuesday to impose provincial sales tax on foreign digital services,...
Just over half, or 53 per cent, of Quebec households with internet access watch streaming video services,...
Various groups praised the promised investment in production and promotion...
OTTAWA — While the response to the long-awaited results of Heritage...
France will put in place a two-per-cent tax on foreign digital video platforms, according to a report in Le Monde. The tax will begin in January 2018, the newspaper reported last week. In Canada, the federal government has indicated it’s not likely to begin imposing sales tax on platforms...
If the federal government isn’t willing to impose taxes on foreign over-the-top (OTT) services, Quebec is willing to do so itself, Le Devoir quoted Quebec culture minister Luc Fortin as saying Thursday. He said Quebec would be willing to impose its provincial sales tax on subscriptions to Netflix Inc.’s service, the newspaper said in a report Friday. A coalition of more than 30 cultural groups praised Fortin’s comments in a press release the same day, writing that it “shares the Minister's position that nations must apply a consistent regulatory framework for all parties,...
The Bloc Québécois has accused Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly of favouritism toward the likes...
Netflix Inc. original series House of Cards will broadcast on Channel Zero Inc.’s CHCH this fall, the...
Canadians’ awareness of the National Film Board (NFB) as an organization that produces documentary or...
Skinny-basic uptake will only grow in Canada and that could spell bad news for broadcasters’ bottom lines in the future, according to Macquarie Capital Markets analyst Greg MacDonald. In a Monday note, MacDonald highlighted...
A proliferation of new streaming TV competition in Canada is set to benefit content producers even as it causes problems for the country’s broadcasters and TV service providers through fragmented audiences and higher content costs — though it doesn’t yet signal an...
Walt Disney Co. will end its partnership with Netflix Inc. and launch two of its own separate...
Last month’s deluge of Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) members on Parliament Hill for the...
Both CBC/Radio-Canada and Netflix Inc. saw dramatic improvements in how Canadians view their brands over the past year, according to the latest edition of the Gustavson Brand Trust Index. The annual University of Victoria...
The parliamentary secretary to the innovation minister was a popular target for lobbyists last month, as...
Netflix Inc. is setting up “download zones” in certain areas in Ontario to help the data starved pre-load movies and TV shows onto their devices, according to a Canadian Press report. WiFi...
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly will travel to California later this month to meet with representatives from Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc., her office has confirmed....
A Quebec union representing communications sector employees said it is disappointed with both the federal and provincial budgets, saying that in “both cases, no action has been taken to counter...
Taxing foreign digital services such as Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc.’s Prime service, Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube and Netflix Inc. could provide the federal...
The federal government should require foreign providers of digital services to remit tax on sales in the jurisdiction where the final customer is located, the C.D. Howe Institute said. In a report released Thursday containing suggestions for the federal government ahead of the release of the 2017 budget, C.D. Howe said the measure would increase annual revenue by about $200 million and “level the playing field for domestic and foreign providers of digital products and services in Canada.” The issue of taxing foreign digital services has been raised as...