Amazon Video coming to Canada December 1st, says Bell’s Turcke

GATINEAU – The long-anticipated expansion of Amazon Prime Video into Canada could happen as early as December 1.At least Mary Ann Turcke, Bell Media president, believes it, having told the CRTC as much on Tuesday during the company’s license renewal hearing."Now, a new global OTT competitor – Amazon Prime – is entering the Canadian market in two days. So it's not just our fellow Canadian broadcasters who will try to outbid us for first run, original programming, but it's Netflix and now Amazon, two entities that are not subject to the same regulatory requirements as us and that have astronomically...