TORONTO – Astral Media’s recently-launched high-definition classics movie channel MHD will offer high-definition programming ’round the clock starting Friday.
The new 24-hour high-definition schedule consists of programming from the…
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TORONTO – After passing the Competition Bureau and CRTC tests, Bell Globemedia announced today that it has completed the closing of its new ownership structure.
The CRTC approved the…
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TORONTO – The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Canada announced that former Bell Canada executive Josée Goulet has signed on as its president and CEO.
Goulet had worked for Bell…
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WINNIPEG – Political and business heavyweight Derek H. Burney, O.C., has been appointed chairman of the board of directors of CanWest Global.
He joined the Board of CanWest in…
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EDMONTON – Alberta Treasury Branches Financial has signed a three-year, $8.3 million contract with Telus to deploy the telco’s Internet protocol-based voice and data network services, as well as…
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TORONTO – Too bad This Is Wonderland didn’t score with Canadian viewers the way it has with Gemini nominators.
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced the nominees…
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TORONTO – XM Canada said today it has hired Donald McKenzie as senior vice-president of sales and marketing.
McKenzie has more than 22 years experience in sales and marketing…
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OAKVILLE – Pelmorex welcomed the honourable Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Minister of Labour, to its new Oakville building on Wednesday.
Minister Blackburn, who is also Minister of the Economic Development Agency…
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MONTREAL – Voice over Internet protocol phone service sounds better and connects faster than the standard public-switched phone network (PSTN), says a new survey from a Montreal company.
Data…
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OTTAWA – There’s a regulatory skirmish crawling through the CRTC right now over who gets to program for the diaper and rattle set (think Baby Einstein-type of shows and not as…
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