TORONTO – Canada’s creative community is adopting a zero tolerance approach to sexual harassment, discrimination, bullying, and violence in the industry.
In a joint statement, 16 groups pledged to enact an industry-wide code of conduct, clearly defining expectations of appropriate and inappropriate behaviour, enforcement and consequences. The first steps include:
– creating more effective reporting mechanisms and supports, which ensure all individuals can report allegations without fear of judgement or retribution;
– ensuring more effective enforcement of existing industry policies; and
– launching a multi-level education and training program, including an industry-wide awareness campaign designed to establish and strengthen a culture of safe…
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OTTAWA – CPAC president Catherine Cano has been recognized by the Women’s Executive Network (WXN) with one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women Top 100 Awards in 2017 in the Arts & Communications category.
The award celebrates the professional achievements of strong female leaders across the country in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors.
With more than 20 years of executive leadership in broadcasting, journalism and television production, Cano (pictured) joined CPAC in January 2016. Since her arrival, she has overseen the modernization of the television channel including a new look and fresh programming, has championed the network’s further expansion onto social and…
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OTTAWA – A senior government official acknowledged during a Parliamentary committee appearance Thursday morning that the federal government’s $500 million Connect to Innovate (CTI) program won’t do enough to bring broadband to all underserved communities in Canada.
Speaking to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology, Susan Hart, director general for the Connecting Canadians Branch at Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) noted the number of communities which will get new backbone infrastructure under CTI is “a drop in the bucket” compared to what’s needed.
When setting out to determine the scope of the CTI program, the…
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HALIFAX – Women in Film and Television Atlantic founder Jan Miller has received the Women of Excellence Award from the Canadian Progress Club Halifax Cornwallis.
Now in its 28th year, the Women of Excellence Awards honours seven inspirational women who play an important role in their community in the categories of Arts and Culture, Communications/Public Affairs, Education and Research, Entrepreneur/Innovator, Health Sport and Wellness, Management and the Professions and Young Woman of Distinction. Miller was recognized in the Arts and Culture category for her dedication to the screen industry in Canada and abroad.
Miller (pictured) has more than 25 years’ experience…
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OTTAWA – Piracy continues to be a major problem for the international content industry. Whether it’s the Premier League football in the UK or HBO’s Game of Thrones, rights holders are under pressure to find ways to stem the piracy tide. As a potential remedy, site blocking was one option raised at the International Institute of Communications’ Canadian event in Ottawa this week.
A paper by Richard Lizius, an associate with McCarthy Tétrault argued that site blocking is a legitimate approach and the Canadian courts have the authority to issue such orders (Lizius wasn’t in attendance; he was at the…
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OTTAWA – Brendan Carr, recently appointed commissioner of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has some advice for Canadian spectrum regulators: avoid using spectrum set asides in the 600 MHz auction.
In an interview style session with Cartt.ca publisher and editor Greg O’Brien at the International Institute of Canada’s annual conference in Ottawa on Tuesday, Carr, one of three Republicans on the five-member commission, characterized the FCC’s 600 MHz auction as generally successful, but noted it didn’t need to be as complicated as it was. The complexity resulted from the FCC’s decision to set aside spectrum as a way to…
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OTTAWA – This new guy is definitely different from the last one.
Exactly five years ago, then-new chair Jean-Pierre Blais used Ottawa’s IIC Canada conference to set out his plan for the Commission under his leadership. None could understand at the time how his “consumers, creators and citizens” vision would break apart industry assumptions, challenge business as usual, increase consumer involvement with the Regulator – and foster unprecedented levels of acrimony between the chair and industry – and between the chair and some of the CRTC staff and commissioners. A lot of that pain was fueled…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s anti-spam legislation may be burdensome for businesses, but it is beginning to pay off, says Steven Harroun, the CRTC’s chief compliance and enforcement officer.
In a recent address to the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology as part of CASL’s planned three year review, Harroun described the legislation as “largely effective” and stressed that it would be counterproductive to tweak it at this point.
He quoted a third-party study that determined there was 29% less spam email in Canadians' inboxes and 37% less spam originating from Canada just one year after CASL's implementation. Internationally, he continued, Canada is…
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TORONTO – CTAM Canada is seeking five new members to join its board of directors.
The industry association brings research, education and networking opportunities to its many members in the content distribution business in Canada.
The organization’s board consists of 15 seats with each board member serving two-year terms. In order to be considered as a nominee, candidates must be an established marketing professional serving the television industry in Canada; commit to attending monthly board meetings (by phone, in person or by proxy); and commit to leading or participating on one of the committees or sit on the board as a…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Canadians continue to gorge on data, using 25% more per month on their wireless devices than they did in 2015, says part two of the CRTC’s 2017 Communications Monitoring Report.
Mobile broadband subscriptions jumped 13.3% (3 million) year-over-year, and users averaged 1.2 GB of data per month on their wireless devices. More than a quarter of those who subscribed to a monthly data plan had at least 5 GB of data.
Young people are turning to their wireless device to watch TV, with 41% of 18-34 year olds using their smartphones to watch TV online, compared to 11% of…
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