OTTAWA – Thanks to over 500 Access to Information requests in just three months, CBC/Radio-Canada is having to staff up its Access to Information Office
CBC/Radio-Canada came under the…
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HALIFAX – EastLink is celebrating the new year with three new long distance plans.
The company said in a press release the new plans “will offer customers long distance…
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TORONTO – EchoStar Communications, along with security partner NagraStar LLC and Bell ExpressVu Limited Partnership, today announced “another victory against satellite piracy in the Canadian court system,” reads a…
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OTTAWA – The Communications Energy and Paperworkers Union, Canada’s largest media union, said today it is consulting lawyers to explore avenues of appeal of the CRTC CanWest/Alliance deal, Continue Reading
GATINEAU – CanWest Global’s uniquely structured deal to acquire the broadcasting assets of Alliance Atlantis was approved late Thursday by the CRTC.
CanWest is buying the 13 specialty channels…
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TORONTO – CBC Media Sales and Marketing has promoted Paula Kilpatrick to the position of director, national sales, the company announced this week.
She will oversee Toronto sales and…
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GATINEAU – A newly established consumer agency, the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services, was given a conditional go-ahead by the CRTC this Thursday afternoon.
"We are very pleased…
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GATINEAU – Bell Canada has won a five-year contract to run the newly established National Do Not Call List (DNCL), the CRTC announced today.
The company was the only…
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TORONTO – After 31 years with Goodmans LLP, senior partner and leading Canadian communications lawyer Kathryn Robinson has decided to retire at the end of 2007. Continue Reading
GATINEAU – CanWest Global’s unusually structured deal to acquire the broadcasting assets of Alliance Atlantis was approved today by the CRTC.
CanWest is buying the 13 specialty channels owned…
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