Three new tax measures to support Canadian journalism, but nothing for broadcasters. Oh, and no Netflix taxes
OTTAWA – In the federal government’s budget released this afternoon, Finance Minister Bill…
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GATINEAU – Two days after the ISED Minister Navdeep Bains issued a proposed policy direction requiring the CRTC to put Canadian consumers at the forefront of all future…
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OTTAWA – In something of a surprising move, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Navdeep Bains announced Tuesday during Question Period he planned to issue a Policy…
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OTTAWA – On Thursday, February 21st, as just about everybody else in Ottawa was watching the Clerk of the Privy Council defend the Prime Minister in front of the…
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GATINEAU – When the CRTC released its Broadband Fund Decision in September 2018, it set out a methodology to allot the disbursement of the expected $750…
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GATINEAU – CRTC submissions are sometimes entertaining when issues are significant, potentially polarizing and wildly debated.
However, and as we indicated previously, this new proceeding into…
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MOST OF THE arguments we found in the Bell Canada Enterprises submission to the Broadcast and Telecom Legislative Review panel we’ve heard before, which is not surprising since the…
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TWO WEEKS AFTER THE DEADLINE for filing comments with the Broadcast and Telecom Legislative Review panel – and on the eve of this week’s CMPA Prime Time conference…
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It’s the oligopsony, of course
THE CANADIAN MEDIA Producers Association’s mission is to defend it members, so of course it is the focus of its submission to the Broadcast and…
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THE START OF GOOGLE’S submission to the Broadcast and Telecom Legislative Review panel may be just be a boilerplate presentation of what they do (“Google’s mission is to organize…
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