EXTON, Pa. and TORONTO – Brent Innes of Rogers Communications is this year’s winner of the SCTE Young Canadian Engineering Professional of the Year Award, the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) proudly announced today.
The Young Canadian Engineering Professional of the Year Award is made possible through the sponsorship of Aurora Networks and the efforts of Cartt.ca and SCTE. Innes will receive his award at SCTE Canadian Summit 2011, which is set for Tuesday through Wednesday, March 8-9 at the Toronto Congress Centre in Toronto.
Innes, 30, of Bolton, Ontario, and an SCTE member since January 2010, is a senior…
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NOT LONG AGO I ASKED A CRTC senior policy advisor I know how work was going. It was one of those just-making-conversation questions we all ask, but I was a little surprised at his response:
“Livin’ the dream,” he excitedly told me. Now, I’m not sure my facial expression betrayed my wonder at that statement and I don’t remember what I said next, but he continued to add that he found it exciting, interesting and fun to debate and then help craft what would become the “law of the land.”
Upon reflection, it shouldn’t have come as such a shock –…
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TORONTO – CTAM Canada is again inviting its members to apply for the CTAM Canada Fellowship to CTAM-U 2011.
One successful applicant will be selected by a jury to attend CTAM-U at Harvard in Boston from June 5 – 10, 2011. All costs will be covered by CTAM Canada, a value of over $9,000, other than travel to and from Boston.
The fellowship winner will study with the top Harvard Business School professors and selected key industry luminaries. The stimulating curriculum is built around detailed case study problems that are used to challenge the minds of the participants.
In order to be…
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OTTAWA – A coalition of groups and associations representing Canada’s arts and culture industries has come together to urge the Government to make changes to Bill C-32 that they say will help keep Canada competitive in the digital economy.
After presenting a position statement and their proposed revisions to MPs in Ottawa, the coalition issued a statement saying that the Bill, as it stands, will “overturn the core principles of copyright law that historically have ensured a healthy environment for creators, producers, distributors and consumers of Canadian cultural content”.
Citing a list of new exceptions in the Bill, including the expansion of…
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OTTAWA – Does Industry Minister Tony Clement plan to loosen restrictions around foreign investment in Canada’s telecom industry? His predecessor seems to think so.
According to a report on Canada.com, former Industry Minister and outspoken Conservative MP Maxime Bernier told a Halifax radio station that foreign investment and ownership is the best way to bring competition to the market, and, that he believes that Minister Clement agrees.
"First of all, we need more competition, and the way to have more competition is to open foreign investment, foreign ownership in the telecom (industry) in Canada, we don’t have that, and…
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OTTAWA – The government is asking Canadians for feedback on its policy on Audiovisual Treaty Coproduction.
Coproduction treaties enable Canadian and foreign producers to pool their creative, technical, and financial resources to coproduce films and television projects. Treaty coproductions are granted domestic status in their respective countries, which makes them eligible for applicable domestic funding programs and fiscal incentives, plus they qualify for broadcast quotas. Telefilm Canada administers these treaties on behalf of the Department of Canadian Heritage.
"The implementation of Canada’s Policy on Audiovisual Treaty Coproduction is the next step in paving the way for future coproduction treaty negotiations between…
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OTTAWA – While CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein said Thursday he’d have the Commission take another look at the wholesale usage-based billing decision, he did not back down at all from the concept itself as an acceptable way for ISPs to do business.
The chair was called in Thursday to appear before the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology to explain the Regulator’s rationale behind its decision that caused so much ill-informed uproar. The January 25 decision confirmed that major ISPs could apply the same UBB parameters to wholesalers using its networks, and that it had to be offered…
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HOW DID A CRTC DECISION on usage-based billing that affects so few total Canadians become a national story and potentially an election issue?
It’s your fault, big ISPs.
According to recent research, most customers of the large Canadian ISPs were not even aware their Internet packages were subject to bandwidth caps and extra billing if they went over those limits. They didn’t know they were capped and sure didn’t know how much extra it could cost.
In short, the big ISPs were and are doing a poor job letting their customers know their limits and what they mean. People aren’t…
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OTTAWA and TORONTO – The Federal Court has quashed the government’s decision that found Globalive Canadian enough to operate its Wind Mobile wireless service.
According to a Globe and Mail report, Mr. Justice Roger Hughes of Federal Court said Friday that the Cabinet’s decision “was based on errors of law and must be quashed”. The decision does not go into effect for 45 days which allows Globalive to keep operating for now, and allows it the chance to go back to the CRTC.
Globalive chair Anthony Lacavera said that he is “very disappointed” with the decision but vowed not throw in…
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MONTREAL – Rob Braide has been named VP of content and regulatory affairs for Stingray Digital Group.
In this role, he will oversee all aspects of the company’s music services content department, including music programming, content acquisition and delivery. He will also be responsible for Stingray’s relationships with the music industry in Canada and around the world, plus manage the regulatory affairs of Stingray.
Braide has extensive music and broadcast industry experience which began at CKCU-FM – Radio Carleton during his university days, and continued for 20 years in various capacities with Standard Radio and most recently at Astral Media where…
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