OTTAWA — The federal government announced Monday it is launching a creative industries trade mission to Europe this spring, with the aim of facilitating trade opportunities and strengthening collaboration between Canada and creative industries in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden.
The trade mission will take place from May 25 to June 2, with the creative industries delegation travelling to Berlin, Amsterdam and Stockholm to work on creating new business opportunities in both established and emerging markets. The mission will be a key initiative to build momentum before Canada’s role as the Guest of Honour country at the Frankfurt Book Fair…
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OTTAWA – The Department of Canadian Heritage is asking a select group of consultants to submit bids for a research contract that will do a deep dive into how the CBC impacts the country.
The contract will “assess the social, cultural and economic impacts of CBC/Radio-Canada on the Canadian media and production sectors, and on Canadian audiences more generally,” a Heritage spokesperson confirmed to Cartt.ca.
“This research is part of the department’s ongoing work to ensure our policies and programs keep pace with societal and technological changes,” the spokesperson added. “Other countries, including the United Kingdom and Australia, have conducted similar…
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MONTREAL – Francois Choquette (above), the former NDP MP who sued Canadian Heritage and the Official Languages commissioner over the Liberal government’s 2017 $500 million Netflix deal, said he has been pursuing his legal action as a private citizen.
“I’m taking this case as a private citizen since the beginning,” the former Official Languages critic for the party told Cartt.ca on Tuesday. “Nobody has funded me, I’m doing it on my own and I’m representing myself.”
That appears to run counter to a press release on the NDP website from April — when the legal challenge was filed and when…
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OTTAWA — In what will be their first public appearance following the impending release of the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review report (we still don’t yet know exactly when the report itself is being released), the chair of the government-appointed expert panel, Janet Yale, and panel member Monique Simard will be speaking at Prime Time in Ottawa next week.
Scheduled to speak during lunch on Thursday, January 30, Yale and Simard will discuss their recommendations to the government in a keynote session called “The Legislative Path Forward for Cultural Policy in Canada.”
Prime Time organizers CMPA previously announced Minister of Canadian…
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Our information ecosystem is in trouble. Here’s how we can fix it. Part four of four
By Tessa Sproule
WE AS HUMANS have to learn how to communicate with AI. We have to learn what it’s good at helping us with, and what it might mess up if we’re not watching it.
The role of the modern digital citizen of a democracy has become similar to the old-school editor — knowing where a piece of information came from, assessing its credibility and potential biases,…
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OTTAWA — The CRTC says it will not proceed with an application submitted in September requesting must-carry status under a barker licence type, on SiriusXM, for an audio-based radio guide for the visually impaired.
Evan Kosiner of Kosiner Venture Capital submitted the application on September 17, 2019, requesting 9 (1)(h) designation for the service that would allow visually impaired Canadians to have access to the alphanumeric information displayed on the screen in a car or on a portable receiver, where it would be turned into machine-read audio. The information would pertain to the song or the show being played.
In…
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OTTAWA — The CMPA’s Prime Time 2020 conference at the end of the month will kick off with an opening keynote by Minister of Canadian Heritage Steven Guilbeault, it was announced Monday.
Guilbeault will be joined on stage by CMPA president and CEO Reynolds Mastin for a discussion about the current state of the screen-based industries and Minister Guilbeault’s vision for the future of Canadian content creation. The fireside chat with Minister Guilbeault will take place on the morning of Thursday, January 30.
“We are honoured to welcome Minister Guilbeault to Prime Time at this inflection point for the Canadian screen-based…
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By Christopher Guly
OTTAWA – The new year brings many challenges for Steven Guilbeault less than two months after he was sworn in as minister of Canadian Heritage, which was just a month following his debut as a federal politician, bringing the Liberals a win in Laurier-Sainte-Marie when he was elected MP for the downtown Montreal riding previously held by the NDP and the Bloc Québécois.
Co-founder of Quebec’s largest environmental organization, Équiterre, and a former campaign manager for Greenpeace, Guilbeault is tasked with managing a new ecosystem that calls on him to create new regulations for both social media platforms…
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OTTAWA – NBCUniversal will head to Parliament Hill to lobby on favourable tax measures for the company that has created content in the country, as it prepares to push new products in the new year.
It’s the first time the mega media company out of New York (and of course owned by Comcast Corp.) has registered to lobby the feds after having done so with Alberta and Ontario this past fall. The federal registration, effective January 6, targets Canadian Heritage and seeks to “monitor” and “assist” in the “development of policies that encourage and not hamper the development of film…
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Much depends on France-U.S. talks
By Denis Carmel
OTTAWA – Last month the Federal Liberals offered up some confusion on taxing the digital giants like Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (FAANGs), something promised by the Liberal’s 2019 election platform.
On December 12th, Heritage Minister Stephen Guilbault seemed to allude to a quick move and since the platform speaks of potential revenue of $540 million in 2020–2021, his comments reported in Le Devoir said he might not wait for an international agreement.
The next day Prime Minister Trudeau, in his first TV interview on Radio-Canada, said he wanted to work in tandem with…
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