MONTREAL and CHICAGO – Air Canada will soon offer satellite connectivity on international flights, allowing customers to email, surf the internet and stream entertainment at broadband speeds.
Air Canada is presently the only Canadian carrier offering customers in-flight Wi-Fi across its entire fleet of narrow-body aircraft in North America. Under the new agreement, Gogo's 2Ku connectivity technology will be installed on Air Canada's wide-body international aircraft, starting with the Boeing 777 this fall.
"Air Canada is pleased to announce it will offer customers the ability to stay connected whenever and wherever they fly by extending in-flight, North American connectivity to its wide-body…
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TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) and NZ On Air (New Zealand) will contribute a financing incentive of $1 million (CAD) for three digital media co-production projects under the Canada-New Zealand Digital Media Fund.
Now in its second year, this partnership between the CMF and NZ On Air funds eligible digital media co-pros by producers from the two countries. By funding projects that use new technologies to tell culturally-relevant stories, the program is designed to encourage creative producers from each country to collaborate on digital media productions.
The projects, detailed here, were evaluated and chosen by a selection committee…
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OTTAWA – Growing and nurturing Canada’s digital talent base is essential for the country’s future growth and positioning in the global economy, says the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC).
The organization’s first-ever national digital talent strategy, Digital Talent: Road to 2020 and Beyond, projects that 182,000 skilled ICT workers will be needed in Canada by 2019, with another 36,000 by 2020. ICTC says that Canada’s digital economy currently employs approximately 1.15 million workers and contributes $74 billion annually to GDP across all sectors. Growth in digital jobs has outpaced those in the overall economy in…
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TORONTO — Bell Canada and the National Football League are crying foul against the CRTC, claiming the Regulator is trying to push forward with its Super Bowl simultaneous substitution (simsub) ban via a distribution order, before Bell and the National Football League’s appeal of the CRTC’s broadcasting decision makes its way to Federal Court.
When the CRTC announced in January 2015 (in Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2015-25) that Canadian TV distributors would no longer be allowed to perform simsub for the Super Bowl, starting with the February 2017 broadcast of Super Bowl LI, the Commission indicated it would…
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VANCOUVER – The National Film Board of Canada marked International Women’s Day on Tuesday by pledging that at least half of its productions will be directed by women, and half of all production spending will be allocated to films directed by women over the next three years.
Women in View, a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to strengthening gender and cultural diversity in Canadian media both on screen and behind the scenes, recently released a report on the Canadian film industry showing that women represented only 17% of directors, 22% of writers, and 12% of cinematographers, in a sample of…
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OTTAWA – Registration is open now for the Structure, Tower and Antenna Council (STAC) inaugural conference next month.
Scheduled for April 11 – 12 at the International Plaza Hotel in Mississauga, the STAC 2016 Conference & Exhibition will focus on communications tower safety and tower design, as well as timely industry issues such as drone-based tower inspections, new tower lighting standards and contractor prequalification.
The STAC 2016 lineup includes expert speakers from across the industry, including tower engineers, working from heights trainers, and members of relevant Canadian Standards Association committees, among others.
The organization is offering a free conference pass to any…
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OTTAWA – Registration is now open for the 18th Biennial National Conference: New Developments in Communications Law and Policy.
Scheduled for May 5 – 6, 2016 at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa, the event is designed for lawyers, industry executives, and government officials. If your work connects you to regulation, licensing, or policy development for phone, internet, television, or radio broadcast in Canada, organizers say this symposium should be on your must-attend list.
This year’s program includes a wide choice of plenary and concurrent lectures, as well as panel sessions canvassing current issues.
In addition to the conference materials, copies of a…
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MARKHAM, ON – Clearcable Networks president Rob McCann has been awarded Supplier of the Year by the Canadian Independent Telecommunications Association (CITA) at the organization’s Seminar Showcase 2016, held earlier this week in Markham.
CITA said it chose McCann because of his commitment to hard work, customer service and continuous support of the association.
“Rob has demonstrated his commitment to our industry for the last 25+ years working with advanced broadband service deployments and is responsible for building and maintaining technical, network and application intelligence”, reads a statement from CITA. “He has contributed to industry development, participated in CRTC working groups…
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TORONTO – CTAM Canada is again inviting its members to apply for a scholarship to attend the prestigious CTAM-U Executive Management Program at Harvard in June.
One successful applicant will be selected to attend the program at Harvard Business School that this year runs from June 12 – 17, 2016. The scholarship, valued at approximately $13,000, covers the participant’s tuition, accommodation, meals, books, and materials.
Exclusive for CTAM Canada members, join industry executives for a one week intensive and intimate learning program studying with top Harvard Business School professors and industry luminaries. The curriculum is built around detailed case study problems…
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OTTAWA – The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) wants the federal government to force Internet broadcasters like Netflix to pay “their fair share when it comes to supporting Canadian culture”.
ACTRA national president Ferne Downey, accompanied by Canadian performers including Sarah Gadon, Benz Antoine, Nigel Bennett, Ellen David, Art Hindle, Shannon Kook, Tristan D. Lalla, Huse Madhavji, Michelle Nolden and Rick Roberts, will attend a reception on Parliament Hill Wednesday evening to ask the new government to support Canada's creative economy.
The organization said that its other strategic priorities for this lobby trip are to ensure that…
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