WELL, GIVEN THAT WE'RE celebrating media in Alberta, let's just start by saying that CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais demurred from simply mumbling "adios" and riding quietly into a western…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Connexion brought its Gigabit Internet service to Quebec Tuesday, launching in various sectors of Trois-Rivières.
UltraFibre 1Gig service will roll out in successive phases in the Ontario…
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MONTREAL and CALGARY – Videotron is continuing to shed its wireless spectrum outside of Quebec, announcing early Tuesday that Shaw Communications has bought seven licences for $430 million.
The sale…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications has sold off its Denver-based subsidiary ViaWest Inc. for approximately C$2.3 billion (US$1.675 billion) to GI Partners portfolio company Peak 10 Holding Corporation.
The deal is…
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BANFF – CTV’s two hour, crowd-sourced special Canada In A Day will debut on Sunday, June 25 at 8:00 PM ET/PT on CTV, CTV Two, and CTV Go, just…
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TORONTO—Although ISED Minister Navdeep Bains' call for lower wireless and broadband prices dominated the buzz at the Canadian Telecom Summit here last week, it was…
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“I will be presenting my vision for the creative sector in September”
OKAY, FULL TRANSPARENCY, I wasn't going to scribble about this.
I went to the advertised keynote partly to…
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MARTENSVILLE, SK – Access Communications customers in Martensville, a community of about 9,600 just north of Saskatoon, saw their cable and broadband company recently expand its services.
Access Communications, a…
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THE ANNUAL CANADIAN MEDIA LEADERS panel at the 2017 Banff World Media Festival pivoted from the future of production, development, and broadcast screen-based content to the onslaught of streaming…
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BANFF – Canada’s Indigenous screen-based sector received a boost Monday with the announcement of a dedicated Indigenous Screen Office tasked with supporting the development, production and marketing of Indigenous…
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