THE HEADLINE WAS a typical one: “Thousands slam Bell coalition’s website blocking proposal,” said the Globe and Mail two weeks ago.
That number (4,700-plus comments from Canadians to the CRTC…
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Towards a Canadian strategy
OVER THE LAST two weeks, I’ve argued the Canadian strategy of supporting, and indeed actively pushing for, the vertical integration of our broadcasting system was a…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC this week told consumer group Public interest Advocacy Centre that there are already ample ways for customers to lodge complaints over what they feel are…
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TORONTO – Canadians have a new streaming option after Wednesday’s launch of BritBox, a subscription video-on-demand streaming service from BBC Worldwide and UK commercial broadcaster ITV.
Priced at $8.99 per…
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TELSTRA, ERICSSON, NETGEAR and Qualcomm Technologies have achieved 4G speeds of up to 2 Gbps in lab testing using a new commercially announced chipset.
The companies said Wednesday that the…
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SEATTLE – Amazon said Wednesday that the ‘Your Voice’ feature for its voice-activated digital assistant Alexa has begun to roll out in Canada.
Customers with a compatible Alexa-enabled device and…
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MONTREAL – Videotron has kissed and made up with AMC after inking a new agreement to keep the American network in its channel lineup.
The new carriage agreement was completed…
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TORONTO – The Documentary Organization of Canada | l’Association des documentaristes du Canada (DOC) has named Mathieu Pierre Dagonas as its new executive director.
Dagonas (pictured) has led the philanthropic efforts…
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MONTREAL – Quebecor has donated $15 million to the Fondation du centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal (CHUM), the largest philanthropic commitment in the Foundation’s 20 year history.
The donation,…
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Part III in our series on rewriting the Broadcasting and Telecom Acts
THERE IS NO QUESTION the emergence of Netflix as a major competitor for eyeballs in Canada has created…
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