TORONTO – Women are underrepresented at nearly all levels of production in Canada’s film and television industry, according to a new report from Canadian Unions for Equality on Screen (CUES).
Using industry statistics and data collected from unions representing workers in front of and behind the camera – such as ACTRA, DGC, IATSE, and NABET – the CUES “Focus on Women 2013 report” found that the division of labour in these industries is highly gendered.
Technical positions are overwhelmingly male dominated, while women are concentrated in areas that are traditionally considered to be “women’s work”…
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TORONTO – TeraGo Inc. announced today it has completed the transaction to acquire Vaughan, Ont.-based Data Centers Canada Inc. on May 31 for approximately $9.5 million.
Data Centers Canada provides data centre solutions, including colocation and disaster recovery, to businesses, enterprises, public sector and technology service providers. TeraGo, which announced the acquisition May 23, said Data Centers Canada’s operations and management team will continue on with the company.
The acquisition was financed under existing senior term debt facilities with Royal Bank of Canada, Knowledge-Based Industry Group.
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TORONTO – Expect to see continued growth in mobile video, commerce and other wireless apps over the next few years, as well as a surge in new, smart, web-connected devices.
Those were some of the key points made by four industry experts at the Canadian Telecom Summit here on Monday morning. Speaking on a panel devoted to mobile devices, screens and apps, the four executives agreed that the mobile movement will continue to extend into new areas, foreseen and unforseen, as consumer demand for such devices keeps growing, wireless devices get even more sophisticated and even such traditional appliances as…
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OTTAWA – Thanks to the undeniable and dramatic growth in mobile data consumption as Canadians increasingly buy and use smartphones and tablets, the Canadian wireless sector generated an overall economic benefit of $50.2 billion in 2011, an increase of 16.7% over 2010, says a new report to be released today by the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association.
The report comes to that figure when direct and multiplier effects associated with the industry’s GDP ($38.7 billion) are combined with the consumer surplus generated by wireless voice and data services ($11.5 billion).
CWTA president and CEO Bernard Lord will release the new report, The…
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VANCOUVER – The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) along with Telus, Rogers and Bell announced yesterday they are donating the $22,000 legal costs awarded in a court decision with the City of Nanaimo back to the city for support of its 911 emergency operations.
The CWTA and the wireless carriers were awarded the legal costs from the City of Nanaimo following a decision by the Supreme Court of British Columbia last July concerning a jurisdictional review of a municipal fee on 9-1-1 calls.
“Our goal in determining what role wireless carriers can play…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s largest telecommunications workers’ union is urging Industry Canada to add job guidelines that protect Canadian workers’ jobs to its list of criteria for telecom companies wanting to participate in next month’s 700 megahertz spectrum auction.
“The sale of this highly coveted spectrum is a prime opportunity to protect Canadian telecommunications jobs from being moved offshore. Industry Canada needs to add job guidelines to its list of non-monetary criteria for telecom companies wanting access to these public airwaves,” said Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, in a prepared…
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IT’S INSTRUCTIVE, TRAVELLING to a country where spectrum policy seems focused on what’s best for citizens and not what’s best for the government itself.
In her keynote to the annual CTIA Conference in Las Vegas which we attended last week, acting FCC chair Mignon Clyburn laid out just what the Federal Communications Commission has done and is doing on the wireless front, in good detail. It was a straightforward account of what is going on with the spectrum file Stateside; concrete strategy geared towards the public interest, clearly spoken by a government official in a way that I have never…
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GATINEAU – While many Canadians themselves wonder why they need a phone line attached to their home when they already carry their lives around inside the smartphones in their pockets and purses, the CRTC announced internally today that it plans to cut that old phone cord.
An initiative announced to staff this week will see the Regulator begin to move from landlines to mobile phones starting with a pilot project launching next week.
“As you know, the CRTC is committed to providing technology to support our employees to effectively perform their day-to-day work activities. Over the past few years, there has…
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TORONTO – Two new studies by the Television Bureau of Canada say that while Canadians consume video on their computers, tablets and phones, they still like watching TV on TV sets.
Given the choice between smartphones, tabs and computers, 87% of adults between 18 and 49 prefer watching their favourite TV shows on a television screen at home, says the TVB’s Television Viewing Preferences and Online Synergy 2013 study. The research also found that 73% of the same demographic think watching TV content on a computer, tablet or mobile device could not replace viewing on a television set.
“In a saturated…
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VANCOUVER, B.C. – The Ontario Superior Court of Justice today approved Telus’s proposed $380 million acquisition of struggling wireless carrier Mobilicity.
The court granted approval for the deal to proceed under the Canadian Business Corporations Act.
In a statement, Telus chief marketing officer David Fuller said the decision puts the company “another important step closer to completing this acquisition, which will allow Telus to save the jobs of Mobilicity’s 150 employees and continue service for their 250,000 customers without the disruption that company’s current financial issues could cause.”
Telus made the announcement to acquire Mobilicity…
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