By Amanda Oye
OTTAWA – Conservative leader Erin O’Toole made an announcement in Ottawa today on the party’s plan to address cellphone and Internet prices in Canada, mistakenly claiming Canada currently bans foreign ownership of telecommunication companies in the country.
“Canadians continue to pay some of the highest prices in the entire world for our cellphone and Internet access,” O’Toole said. “A big reason for high cellphone bills is a lack of competition.”
O’Toole went on to say Canada needs more players in the market “to help improve wireless choice and affordability for consumers,” after which he claimed, “Canada currently bans foreign…
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VANCOUVER and LOS ANGELES — OUTtv, Canada’s only specialty service dedicated to LGBTQ2+ communities, and Inside Out, the largest LGBTQ2+ film festival in Canada, announced today the launch of “Out on Set”, a free online database of North American queer film talent.
“Out on Set will connect LGBTQ2+ cast and crew with production companies, studios, networks and agencies across the USA and Canada through an online database where industry professionals can easily search for specific queer crew and talent,” reads a press release.
The database can be used to search for talent and crew by location, job category, gender identity, sexual…
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TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) announced today it released its 2020-2021 annual report, which shows its funding triggered $1.5 billion in production activity.
“Every $1 of CMF funding generated $4.29 in production activity, slightly higher than last year’s $4.12, despite historic challenges as a result of the global pandemic,” a press release says.
The CMF fosters, develops, finances and promotes Canadian content production. The Government of Canada and the country’s cable, satellite and IPTV distributors make financial contributions to the CMF.
In 2020-2021, the CMF funded 1,309 projects, according to its annual report. It’s program budget for the year was…
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TORONTO — BIPOC TV & Film announced today the launch of its first showrunner training bootcamp, a four-day workshop for mid- to upper-level Canadian writers and content creators.
“The bootcamp will be open to writers who are Black, Indigenous or People of Colour who have or have had a TV or web series in development with a Canadian broadcaster or production company, a minimum of co-producer credit on a Canadian TV or web series, or a story editor credit on an animated series,” reads a press release.
Led by writer and executive producer Anthony Q. Farrell, the bootcamp will include special…
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MONTREAL – Telus announced yesterday it will collaborate with Civalgo to bring a fully integrated Internet of Things (IoT) approach to connected job sites.
Civalgo is “an operational management platform built to accelerate digital transformation activities and processes in the construction industry,” a press release says.
“We are very excited to work with Civalgo on expanding our Connected Worker solution offering,” said Julio Villalta, Telus director of products and services, Internet of Things, in the press release.
“This association brings next-generation technology to construction teams aiming to increase connectivity and efficiency in their operations at the execution level and beyond,” Boris Germanov,…
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By Denis Carmel
YOU KNOW THERE is vigorous competition when companies are always at each other’s throats – and we can surely say there is no collusion between Bell Canada (BCE) and Québecor!
This time, BCE is complaining to the CRTC that Videotron, a Québecor affiliate, launched a new service on August 17 that is not available to competitive distributors contrary to the CRTC’s Terms and conditions of the exemption order for video-on-demand undertakings, related to hybrid video-on-demand undertakings (HVODs). The CRTC specifies an HVOD is an undertaking that “… offers its service over a broadcasting distribution undertaking provided that all…
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SYDNEY, NS – Rogers Communications will acquire Seaside Communications, a local telecommunications company based in Sydney, Nova Scotia, the companies announced today.
Seaside has two divisions, a wireline operation and fixed wireless rural Internet. “They both have about 10,000 customers and both are included in the deal,” said Parker Donham, director of communications at Seaside, in an interview with Cartt.ca.
“I think this is a pretty good deal for our customers because they’ll have all of the strengths that Seaside brought to a community-based telecommunications company, but they will have resources that we didn’t have before particularly in terms of spectrum…
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TORONTO – TikTok has big plans to reach beyond mobile around the world, including in Canada.
The company hired Dan Page (above) in April as its head of global business development, new screens. Since then, Page has been working “to ensure that TikTok is distributed beyond mobile, with the goal to be on every other screen around the world, while also overseeing all Distribution in Canada,” he said in an email to Cartt.ca.
Page, who noted it is interesting the company often gets compared to social networks when it is not one, described TikTok as “an immersive, entertaining platform that enables…
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TORONTO – Redline Communications Group Inc., a provider of mission-critical data infrastructure for challenging locations, announced today telecommunications veteran Richard Yoon (above) has been appointed as the company’s president and CEO and as a director, effective Sept. 13.
“The Board carried out a rigorous selection process of assessing executives in the wireless industry against key cornerstones of our strategy which includes scaling our LTE and 5G product portfolio and growing our customers and served markets,” said D. Neil McDonnell, Redline Communications board chair, in a press release.
Yoon most recently “served as CEO of ZTE Canada, a global leading manufacturer of…
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TORONTO — Young Canadians “are more eager than ever” to work in creative and behind-the-scenes roles in the current cultural media landscape in Canada, according to a new study released today by Ontario Creates, the provincial agency that facilitates economic development and investment in creative industries.
The study, titled The Future of the Creative Workforce, was conducted by Vice Media Group, which surveyed 1,000 young Canadians (500 Gen Z (18-24 years old) and 500 young Gen Y (25-30 years old)) to gauge awareness and interest in creative industry careers and the skills required to succeed in the new media landscape.
According…
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