By Ahmad Hathout Officials from the federal government had tried and failed for months to get a formal response from the government of Nunavut on a revised scope for the... Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout Corus Entertainment Inc. announced Thursday that it has completed the recapitalization transaction that will make it a subsidiary to a parent company holding its assets and controlled... Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout The CRTC made final Wednesday Rogers’s new high-speed internet offerings to wholesale competitors. For the eastern part of the country, Rogers sought last July to introduce speeds... Continue Reading
CRTC says it improved pace of cost decisions and will announce 'further improvements in the upcoming weeks' By Linda Stuart and Ahmad Hathout Monica Auer, the executive director of the... Continue Reading
Internet service provider Uplink Communications has notified the CRTC it wants to withdraw its complaint against wholesale internet service provider Frontier Networks, saying the two companies are working on a... Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout The CRTC launched a consultation on Tuesday that could see the elimination of certain reporting requirements to better align with the goal of the federal regulatory system... Continue Reading
The CRTC has told Groupe TVA it must continue to submit reports twice a month regarding the progress it has made to resolve issues related to closed captioning on its... Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout The CRTC on Friday adopted a proposal from the government’s Communications Research Centre (CRC) and will standardize the information carriers will be required to report to improve... Continue Reading
By Howard Law, author of MediaPolicy.ca, and Canada vs. California: How Ottawa took on Netflix and the streaming giants (Lorimer, 2024)
Prime Minister Mark Carney recently granted the New York Times an hour-long interview about where he is taking Canada.
Canadian journalists, who would have loved that kind of access to the prime minister, were irked. What ever happened to Canadians telling Canadian stories?
But to heck with cultural irony. There’s an American audience to be educated about Canada.
An interesting item that emerged from the Times coverage was Carney’s candour about Canada’s warming relationship with the European Union. According…
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Comes after TVA Sports secured NHL rights deal from Rogers By Ahmad Hathout Quebecor’s Groupe TVA is stonewalling hotel television service provider Coopérative de câblodistribution Hill Valley over access to... Continue Reading
