OTTAWA – Canada’s highest court ruled on Friday that the planned $52-billion leveraged acquisition of BCE can go ahead.
The Supreme Court of Canada decision was made public at…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s public broadcaster is calling the government’s decision late Thursday to not endorse the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage’s report on CBC/Radio-Canada a “missed opportunity.”
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MONTREAL – Seven shorts from the National Film Board will be featured on YouTube’s new The Screening Room channel, which runs international animated shorts from around the world.
The…
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OTTAWA – The federal government asked the CRTC on Friday to report on the accessibility and quality of broadcasting services offered to minority French- and English-language communities.
The request…
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OTTAWA – RTNDA Canada (The Association of Electronic Journalists) unveiled the winners of awards for the best in electronic journalism in its central region on Thursday evening. These winners…
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OTTAWA – Shaw Communications won’t be carrying a third broadcast feed introduced by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) in October 2006 to better serve western Canada, and this…
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OTTAWA – CBC is broadcasting the 46664 concert honouring South African leader Nelson Mandela in a multitude of platforms – on CBC Television, its specialty channel bold, its radio…
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TORONTO – Will we have smart Internet networks, or big fat dumb pipes? If net neutrality proponents win the debate, we’ll wind up with big fat dumb pipes that’ll…
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TORONTO – Property tax payers in Canadian cities are subsidizing the telecommunications industry by more than $107 million a year, according to a new report released today by the…
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TORONTO – TVO, Ontario’s public educational broadcaster, announced Wednesday it would be distributing its TV programming free and on-demand through Internet TV service Joost.
“Partnering with Joost offers TVO…
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