IQALUIT – The Government of Canada is providing $1,236,669 in funding to the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) to support the production of 39 hours of new, original television programming in Inuktitut.
Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of the Environment, Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and Minister for the Arctic Council, made this announcement today on behalf of the Honourable Shelly Glover, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages.
The IBC, whose programming is aimed at Inuit living in Nunavut, will produce four series, including "Takuginai," a children's program; "Niqitsiat," a cooking show; "Ilinniq," a documentary series featuring community members; and…
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TORONTO – David McLennan has been nominated to the Canada Media Fund’s board of directors following the general assembly held last week in Montreal.
With more than 20 years of experience as a senior business executive, McLennan joined Sierra Wireless in 2004 as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary. Prior to that, he spent almost a decade years in a variety of senior management positions within the Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) group of companies, including Chief Financial Officer of Bell ExpressVu and subsequently as president and Chief Operating Officer. McLennan is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and earlier in his…
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TORONTO – CBC/Radio-Canada’s new strategy will result in a leaner, focused, more modern and financially sustainable public broadcaster by 2020, president and CEO Hubert Lacroix promised Thursday in a town hall session with employees.
That plan, dubbed 'A space for us all’, will “transform the Corporation from the traditional to the modern, and aims to better serve Canadians, through three fundamental shifts: the digital, the individual and the sustainable”, reads the press release.
Noting that the Corporation will have 1,000 to 1,500 fewer employees by 2020, in addition to the reductions announced to date, the strategy calls for cuts in fixed…
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GATINEAU – Quebec lawyer Yves Dupras has been appointed as a full-time member of the CRTC, designated for the Quebec Region, for a five year term effective August 11, 2014.
Dupras has been a senior business and securities lawyer with the Montreal law firm Spiegel Sohmer Inc. since 2010. He has over 30 years of experience in the areas of business, entertainment, media, communications, and strategic and regulatory affairs, and served on the CRTC as a part-time member in 1992 and as a full-time member for the Quebec Region from 1993-1998.
"I am pleased that Mr. Dupras is joining the CRTC…
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OTTAWA – The federal government has taken the final step to implement the Copyright Modernization Act after formalizing the voluntary Notice and Notice regime Tuesday.
The Notice and Notice regime formalizes a voluntary system that some copyright owners and Internet service providers (ISPs) have already been participating in for many years. Set to take effect January 2015, it will legally require Internet intermediaries, such as ISPs and website hosts, to take action upon receiving a notice of alleged infringement from a copyright owner.
Specifically, ISPs and hosts are required to forward notices, sent by copyright owners, to users whose Internet address…
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BANFF – While Shelly Glover, our Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, hasn’t spoken publicly to or about the industry very much since her appointment last July, (we at Cartt.ca would love to know what she thinks of the challenges ahead of CBC, for example), she was pretty darn interesting in her first Banff World Media Fest speech.
First of all, she's an at-ease former cop, a motorcycle mama, comfortably bilingual, with an aboriginal granddad, and loves the hot Radio-Canada TV series Unite 9 along with Game of Thrones. Plus, she's also enamoured of the media and the arts…
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GATINEAU, QC – Cecil S. Hawkins has been appointed to the board of directors of CBC/Radio-Canada for a five year term that began March 6, 2014.
Hawkins is president and owner of Canerector Inc., a Toronto-based multi-divisional company focused on metal fabrication and erection that operates more than 60 plants across North America and employs over 3,000 people. He has also served as chair of the Minister's advisory committee with the Canadian Space Agency, as well as director and trustee of TerraVest Industries.
"It is with great pleasure that I announce that Mr. Hawkins has accepted the invitation to join…
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VANCOUVER – The Federal Government told the CRTC Thursday that it wants to be kept in the loop on how Canadians feel about unbundling their television channels.
“As stated in the most recent Speech from the Throne, our Government believes Canadian families should be able to choose the combination of television channels they want,” said Shelly Glover, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, in a statement. “This decision is an important step in defending Canadian consumers, who want choice and flexibility in their television services. Our request will ensure that the CRTC develops a more complete…
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OTTAWA – With the Throne Speech still ringing in our ears, the Feds were quick to applaud the CRTC’s ‘Let’s Talk TV’ discussion which kicked off this week.
Shelly Glover, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, issued a statement Thursday reiterating the government’s pledge to unbundle TV channels while also protecting Canadian jobs.
“Consistent with that commitment, the Canadian Radio-television Communications Commission has today launched a dialogue with Canadians on the future of television”, the statement reads. “The dialogue launched today will play a part in fulfilling our Speech from the Throne…
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TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) announced Tuesday that Alain Cousineau and Chris Frank, former Bell TV vice-president of programming, have been nominated to the CMF’s board of directors.
Cousineau, who is currently chair of the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, was also elected chair of the board following the CMF's annual general meeting held in Montreal. He takes over from outgoing CMF board chair Louis L. Roquet.
Frank was a founding officer at ExpressVu Inc. (later Bell ExpressVu and Bell TV). During his 16 years at ExpressVu he held executive management positions…
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