WINNIPEG – Bell MTS has expanded its LTE Advanced (LTE-A) wireless coverage in Manitoba, extending wireless service for the first time to the Southeastern communities of Stuartburn, Woodridge and Zhoda.
Part of the $1 billion Bell MTS infrastructure investment plan for the province, LTE-A wireless service will be available in Woodridge this week, and launch in Stuartburn and Zhoda in 2019.
"Bell MTS is proud to bring Canada's best mobile network service to the communities of Stuartburn, Woodridge and Zhoda and to travellers along Highways 12 and 59," said Dan McKeen, vice chair of Bell MTS and Western Canada, in the…
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OTTAWA – Registration is now open for the CMPA’s Prime Time In Ottawa conference scheduled for January 30 – February 1, 2019 at the Westin Ottawa.
Prime Time in Ottawa (PTiO) is a national conference for some 600 of Canada’s most prominent business leaders from the feature film, television, interactive media, broadcasting and telecommunications industries.
Including a series of keynote speakers, plenary panels, breakout sessions and roundtables, the 2019 conference will grapple with the important issues currently facing the screen-based content industry. Stay tuned for programming announcements in the coming weeks.
Registration for early bird pricing is open now through December 7, 2018.
The Prime…
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TORONTO – Netflix has picked up a Canadian made docu-series challenging mass-marketed health trends.
Produced by Toronto-based Peacock Alley Entertainment, A User's Guide to Cheating Death is hosted by Canadian professor, health expert and author Timothy Caulfield (author of Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?) who uses his trademark humour, quick wit and authoritative science knowledge to investigate trendy diets, ancient therapies, wellness and anti-aging products to separate science fact from fiction.
The series premiered first on VisionTV in Canada last fall, and Netflix will begin North American-wide streaming of season one on September 28. Season two will premiere on VisionTV starting October 15 at 9:00…
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OTTAWA – After having paused for Parliament’s summer recess, the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology reconvened in the nation’s capital on Wednesday to continue its statutory review of the Copyright Act.
Representatives from the Canadian Network Operators Consortium, Société des auteurs de radio, télévision et cinema, the Movie Theatre Association of Canada and the Professional Music Publishers' Association faced the committee this week. (Some larger organizations will face the committee next week from the likes of Bell, Quebecor, Rogers, Stingray Digital, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, Teksavvy and Shaw Communications.)
Canadian Network Operators Consortium (a group of independent ISPs)…
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OTTAWA – While ISED looks a model of stability, Canadian Heritage has seen in the recent months a new minister, Pablo Rodriguez (July 18, 2018) two new Parliamentary Secretaries (August 31st) and announced today a new deputy minister, Hélêne Laurendeau starting October 9th (coming over from Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs) and a new associate DM, Isabelle Mondou, starting on starting October 22nd (moving over from the Privy Council Office.
The previous DM, Graham Flack is going to become DM at the Department…
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VANCOUVER – Rogers and the University of British Columbia (UBC) are teaming up to build a real-world 5G hub on the UBC campus in Vancouver that will be “a testbed and blueprint for 5G innovation in Canada.”
Thursday’s announcement said that the three year, multi-million dollar partnership will see 5G-ready network equipment and infrastructure deployed at UBC starting early next year, designed to study 5G applications such as monitoring cars and traffic to develop smarter and safer cities. Other research interests include autonomous vehicles, machine learning, artificial intelligence and network slicing technology for use in robotics, farming and medical applications.
Rogers said…
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WHEN NOW-FORMER Heritage Minister Melanie Joly announced the launch of public consultations with consumers and creators to bring Canada’s cultural properties (everything from the Broadcasting Act to the CRTC) into the digital age, there was great excitement.
That was in April, 2016, nearly two and a half years ago.
Her extensive consultations led to the publication of the Creative Canada Policy Framework in September, 2017, which included a request to the CRTC to examine future programming distribution models and report back to her by June 1, 2018. The Commission used a variety of consultation tools in preparing…
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ST ANDREWS, N.B. – What are you doing? What do you need to do? What do you want to do? What stands in your way? These and various other questions were posed this year to a roster of Canadian Communications Systems Alliance member companies by consultants Broadband Success Partners, who presented their findings Monday at the CCSA annual convention.
Canada’s independent operators are obsessed with providing the best broadband experience, the best customer service and the best TV service, while knowing they want to compete on the TV Everywhere front, and to push fibre as deep as possible in order…
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Food Network Canada available on national free preview in October
TORONTO – Food Network Canada is cooking up the inaugural season of franchise Iron Chef Canada that will premiere on October 17 at 10:00 PM ET/PT.
The world’s biggest, boldest food competition series will deliver all of the world-class dishes, high-stakes drama and engaging characters that are the hallmark of the Iron Chef brand with a distinctive Canadian flavour, said the Corus-owned service.
At the helm is Canadian television personality, accomplished food writer and trained culinary expert Gail Simmons as host; critically acclaimed food critic Chris Nuttall-Smith as floor reporter; and Vancouver-native Jai…
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IQALUIT – Northwestel will officially launch its new high-speed broadband satellite network serving Nunavut October 1st, the company announced this morning.
Iqaluit, Nunavut’s capital and largest community, is the first to have the high-speed network commissioned – and all 25 Nunavut communities will have access to the network in the coming months, said the company in a press release. Industry Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) contributed $49.9 million to the project through its Connect to Innovate program.
Northwestel’s Tamarmik Nunaliit network provides up to 20 times more capacity to Nunavut communities than its previous generation C-Band satellite network. The network…
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