OTTAWA – The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage passed a motion at an in-camera (i.e.: not public) meeting late Wednesday afternoon to study the impact of the economic crisis on... Continue Reading
IN AN OFFICIAL COMPANY blog post last night, Google announced the official release of its latest free application: Google Voice. With Google Voice, users can get all their calls through... Continue Reading
WINNIPEG - Canwest Global Communications’ subsidiary, Canwest Media Inc. and its senior lenders have agreed to extend the waiver of certain borrowing conditions until April 7, 2009, the company announced... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – With the CRTC panel sounding increasingly like an ISP levy-for-broadband-Cancon is under serious consideration, leave it to Telus’ Michael Hennessy to bring peals of laughter into the hearing... Continue Reading
THE ORIGINAL PURPOSE of wireless walled garden (as referenced in Tuesday morning’s story “Closed wireless networks face broadcasters’ wrath”) was to control the experience because a lack of common interfaces made... Continue Reading
MONTREAL - A tax promoting the production of Canadian content for the Internet “is not needed”, and taxing Internet service providers for this purpose “amounts to taxing Canadian consumers under... Continue Reading
TORONTO and OTTAWA - CTV has laid off at least 24 employees at its 'Canada AM' morning show, and cut its last early morning local newscast in the country.Sources say... Continue Reading
CANADIAN HERITAGE MINISTER James Moore told reporters at the Canada Media Fund announcement that CBC will receive "record" funding from the government this year, something his parliamentary secretary - Dean... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – CNN International has been added to the list of eligible satellite services for distribution in Canada. The CRTC received a request from Shaw Communications in May 2008 to... Continue Reading
TORONTO – The Canadian Television Fund (CTF) will hand out approximately $285 million to Canadian television producers this year through the broadcaster performance envelope stream. The funds are earmarked to... Continue Reading
