OTTAWA – Perhaps too much was expected of Industry Minister Tony Clement’s speech at the International Institute of Communications Canadian chapter conference on Monday.
Post-speech, we were asked by our…
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MONTREAL – The Alliance for Children and Television has changed its name to Youth Media Alliance (YMA).
The Alliance said that its new name reflects the shift that the organization…
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TORONTO – The Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION) elected Anne Sado, president of Toronto’s George Brown College, as chair of its board of directors.
Sado, who first joined…
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PLANO, TX – Former Nortel Networks CTO John Roese has joined Huawei as SVP and GM of Huawei North America R&D.
As a recognized authority on network convergence and emerging…
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TORONTO – The website textED.ca promises to teach teens about the risks associated with texting, and how to deal with the various situations new technologies present. And, it offers teachers…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has extended its call for new French-language general interest pay television service applications, but only for channels that don’t plan to compete with Astral’s Super…
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OTTAWA – Calling the wireless contracts from Rogers, Bell and Telus “anti-consumer”, Mobilicity has launched a national push for new laws that would make some of the contract terms…
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OTTAWA – After a two month investigation, the Competition Bureau announced today it has begun legal proceedings against Rogers Communications to stop what the Bureau says is misleading advertising…
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TORONTO – Rogers has agreed to purchase for cancellation 1,300,000 of its outstanding Class B non-voting shares for an aggregate purchase price of $44,515,380, which is at a discount…
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OTTAWA – The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) has named Devon Jacobs as director of government affairs, effective immediately.
Jacobs has previously held government relations positions at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, and…
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