TORONTO – CTV is shoring up its local news coverage, announcing Wednesday that CTV News broadcasts at 5 p.m. will be available weekdays on all local CTV stations across Canada, beginning this fall.
Creating an additional 35 hours of original local production each week, the added news programming on weeknights ensures viewers can find CTV News at 5 p.m. as well as 6 p.m. in their local market, the broadcaster continued. Previously, only CTV Vancouver, CTV Calgary, CTV Red Deer, CTV Edmonton, CTV Lethbridge, and CTV Atlantic offered 5 p.m. newscasts.
Beginning this summer in Toronto, both CTV Toronto and CP24…
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MONTREAL – Telecon and Chemco are joining forces to create a new telecommunication infrastructure company in Alberta.
Chemco Telecon Infrastructure Group Inc., operated and owned equally by Telecon and Chemco, will provide quality infrastructure services under Telecon's fibre optic to the home (FTTH) solutions, the companies announced this week.
In addition to boosting both companies’ presence in the Western Canadian market, Chemco Telecon Infrastructure will be able to exert greater control and efficiencies in fibre deployment infrastructure activities, reads the news release.
“Our organizational strengths such as large capacity infrastructure construction management and execution, combined with Telecon's industry leading design and delivery…
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TORONTO – Canadian communications providers have to become leaders in the debate about the importance of privacy and cyber security to educate consumers, an expert has told a telecom conference.
“They have to be much more vocal,” Ann Cavoukian (pictured), executive director of Ryerson University’s Privacy and Big Data Institute, said Monday at the annual Canadian Telecom Summit in Toronto. “We’ve had a lot of conversations but we need much more to explain to the public: ‘This is your data. Telcos may have custody and control, but they don’t own your data. They don’t have right do what they want…
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TORONTO – ISED Minister Navdeep Bains opened the 2017 Canadian Telecom Summit with a speech outlining a number of new government initiatives, but there was one overarching message that has to burn the ears of the incumbent network providers in attendance who were listening.
That is, your prices are far too high.
“The bigger barrier is prices, which are especially high for low-usage cellphone plans,” the Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister said in his speech to delegates.
“I get letters regularly from Canadians who are concerned that they are being priced out of the market,” he added in the speech.
“Our government…
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GATINEAU – What is 5G and what will be the new killer application driving 5G network adoption? Those were two of the main questions that a number of speakers at the Wireless World Research Forum’s (WWRF) 5G Huddle conference in Gatineau last week attempted to answer.
As was noted many times during the event about new wireless networks, the applications that end up dominating and driving usage tend to have not yet been conceived when new networks begin rollout. Take SMS on 2G networks and video streaming on 4G networks, the application that will be the define 5G isn’t likely…
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MISSISSAUGA and DALLAS – Shaw said Friday that it is selling its Shaw Tracking division to Dallas-based Omnitracs. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Shaw Tracking has been the exclusive Canadian distributor of Omnitracs fleet management solutions for over 25 years, offering services such as GPS vehicle tracking products, fleet management software, and professional services for additional support. Shaw Tracking will be integrated into the Omnitracs solution portfolio, further expanding that company’s customer base and reach into Canada.
“By going to a leader in the transportation and logistics industry, the operations of Shaw Tracking are well-positioned for future…
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Cable Cable doesn’t own the Raptors…
THERE WAS A TELLING MOMENT during last year’s CRTC review of basic telecommunications services which demonstrated just how differently independent network owners run their businesses compared to the big guys.
During the appearance by the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance, commissioners seemed to struggle to get their heads around CCSA member company Cable Cable’s plan to expand its fibre network.
Based in Fenelon Falls, Ont., Cable Cable was launched in 1983 and serves about 4,000 video and 6,500 broadband customers in the municipality of Kawartha Lakes and is integral to delivering broadband to Canadians in a region…
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TORONTO – The Documentary Organization of Canada | l’Association des documentaristes du Canada (DOC) has named Judy Gladstone as its new executive director, replacing outgoing ED Pepita Ferrari.
Gladstone (pictured) was executive director of Bravo!FACT and MaxFACT from 1997 to 2012 where she was instrumental in growing and developing BellMedia's foundation for short film, including short-form docs, and music video projects, reads the announcement. Since 2013, she has been a consultant for E & E Productions, where she has created partnerships for innovative film and education-based projects, both locally and internationally. In addition, Gladstone has extensive board experience in the…
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OTTAWA – Huawei has chosen 20 third-year engineering students from nine Canadian universities to travel to China on its work study program ‘Seeds for the Future’.
Now in its third year, ‘Seeds for the Future’ provides students an opportunity to experience firsthand the incredible advancement taking place in China’s technology industry. The program aims to build links between Canada and China, promote a greater understanding of career opportunities in the telecommunications sector, and to encourage participation in the international ICT community.
This year’s students will undergo two days of preparation at Huawei Canada’s Research Centre in Ottawa this week before departing…
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THE CANADIAN CREATIVE community (by which I mean writers, actors, directors and other makers of television) is up in arms over the CRTC’s recent decision to harmonize a floor for spending by Canadian broadcasters on programming of national interest at 5%.
Historically speaking, the guilds, unions and associations have every right to fear any reduction in the Cancon spend mandated by the CRTC. Our broadcasters do not exactly have a stellar record of treating the production and airing of Canadian content (except for news and sports) as anything but a tax on their operations that they…
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