Survey also shows few Canadians are following C-18
CANADIANS ARE NOT very familiar with the Bill C-18, the Online News Act, but after hearing about Google’s concerns, most still want government to amend it, according to data from an Abacus Data survey commissioned by Google Canada that was released last week.
“The results clearly indicate that while few Canadians are paying close attention to what is happening with the Online News Act, the issues with Bill C-18 raised by Google resonate with Canadians and cause them to want legislators to amend the bill to address concerns they have with it –…
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BPF reviewing whether it will continue awarding funding to CMAC moving forward
OTTAWA – A month and a half after the federal government announced it was cutting funding it awarded to the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC), the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage is trying to figure out why the organization received the funding – to develop an anti-racism strategy – in the first place.
Funding was cut to CMAC’s project after numerous concerns were expressed about antisemitic and other racist tweets posted by Laith Marouf, a senior consultant with the organization.
At a meeting last Friday, committee members, who argued CMAC…
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OTTAWA – The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) is expecting Canadian news businesses will receive around $329.2 million per year in total compensation from digital platforms if Bill C-18, the Online News Act, is implemented, according to a cost estimate report for the bill released yesterday.
For context, the heritage committee was told last month the Australian news media bargaining code is currently generating over $200 million for news businesses from digital platforms.
In Canada, the PBO estimates the revenue generated from digital platforms will equal around 30% of the costs of content creation for news organizations. “For broadcasters, the cost of content…
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By Howard Law
DESPITE THE SENATE’S singular focus on Bill C-11’s regulation of user generated content, today’s witnesses shed some light on other issues both important and neglected.
The biggest issue that has been mostly avoided in both the House and the Senate is what the post C-11 broadcasting world will look like when the US streamer/studios are placed under new obligations to make and/or finance CanCon, known in CRTC lingo as “Canadian Programming Expenditures (CPE).”
Debate over that issue immediately invokes a hot button issue: what counts as a certified “Canadian” program?
And debate over what is a Canadian program immediately poses…
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By Douglas Barrett
AMID THE GATHERING storm of comment on what should constitute a Canadian program once Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, is passed, there’s a question that needs to be addressed at the forefront: what is a Canadian producer?
Generally, when we think of a film or television producer we are speaking about the person or persons who have developed the creative property, raised the financing, engaged the key creatives including and especially the writer(s) and director, cast the performers, ensured the production stayed on time and budget, managed all aspects of post-production, and delivered the completed product to…
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OTTAWA – The Royal Canadian Geographical Society announced today Returning Home, Canadian Geographic’s first feature-length documentary, is now available through Crave and other Bell Media properties.
“Returning Home follows Orange Shirt Day founder Phyllis Jack Webstad on a cathartic, nationwide educational tour while, back home in Secwepemc territory, her family struggles to deal with the multigenerational trauma of Canada’s residential school system,” a press release says.
“The documentary, shot during the pandemic amid one of the lowest salmon runs in recorded history, masterfully connects Canada’s colonial history with the plight of Pacific wild salmon in B.C.’s Fraser River.”
Returning Home can be…
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CBC/RADIO-CANADA HAS responded to an open letter penned by Quebecor president and CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau, published here on Cartt.ca earlier today.
In his open letter, Péladeau expressed discontent with the direction of the national public broadcaster and the fact the government did not include any direction to the CRTC to consider “the advertising dollars the CBC/Radio-Canada is gobbling up” when it told the Commission to reconsider its decision on the renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada’s licences.
“Mr. Péladeau’s preoccupation with CBC/Radio-Canada is well known,” a CBC/Radio-Canada spokesperson said in an email to Cartt.ca. “He has, for years, repeated the claim…
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IN JUNE, THE CRTC renewed CBC/Radio-Canada’s broadcasting licences on terms that caused widespread indignation. Dozens of organizations protested that the new conditions of licence constitute a major departure from the mission of a public broadcaster. Last Thursday, the Governor General in Council ordered the CRTC to reconsider its decision, bearing in mind that the national public broadcaster must continue to make “a significant contribution to the creation, presentation and dissemination of local news, children’s programming, original French-language programming and programming produced by independent producers.”
That order is good news for Canada’s production industry and we welcome it. However, there’s nothing…
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CBC criticized for “competing with private enterprises” and “pilfering” journalistic talent
By Amanda Oye
OTTAWA – Australia’s news media bargaining code has changed the country’s journalism landscape from one of pessimism to one of optimism, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage heard today during the first meeting of its study on Bill C-18, the Online News Act.
“It’s transformed the journalism landscape,” said Rod Sims (above), a professor with the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University.
Sims, who appeared before the committee via videoconference to talk about Australia’s bargaining code, which C-18 is based…
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TREATY 1 TERRITORY, WINNIPEG — Indigenous broadcaster APTN and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) earlier this month announced they are coming together to produce a one-hour commemorative gathering at LeBreton Flats Park in Ottawa on Sept. 30 in honour of the second annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Called Remembering the Children, the event will air live starting at 1 p.m. ET across all APTN channels and “a wide network of other Canadian broadcasters from coast to coast to coast,” says a press release.
The broadcast will be available for streaming on APTN lumi from…
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