SURREY, B.C. – Métis Nation British Columbia (MNBC) and Rogers for Business announced this week they will provide wireless connectivity, services, and dedicated support to over 340 Métis businesses and communities in B.C.
The new partnership will provide Métis-owned businesses registered with MNBC’s business directory with “exclusive access to business solutions and services as well as a dedicated team that will offer support and advice on how Rogers for Business services can advance their operations. MNBC believes this collaboration will help increase economic opportunities for local Métis residents and businesses,” reads the press release.
“This partnership means Métis businesses, no matter…
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TORONTO – Wireless brand Fido announced today the launch of its new campaign, Off-Mute, aimed at supporting and amplifying the voices of Canadian BIPOC and LGBTQ2S+ musicians – while driving conversations in support of the communities.
“Off-Mute offers an intimate look at several musicians who are carving their own paths and shaping Canadian culture with raw performances and stories in their own words,” says the company press release.
The campaign is centred around a web series featuring intimate artist-to-artist interviews and packed with powerful performances from boundary-pushing Canadian musicians, including 2021 Grammy nominee Lido Pimienta, Witch Prophet, Elisapie, Shay Lia, and…
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By Denis Carmel
OTTAWA – Quebecor has asked the CRTC and the Competition Bureau to conduct an inquiry into whether the three largest wireless providers, Bell, Telus and Rogers, are violating the Wireless Code by how they price devices as well as the charges incurred when consumers want to terminate their contract.
Through its own investigation, Vidéotron says in a letter to the CRTC it has collected the prices of various wireless devices on the websites of the Big Three and the conditions attached to them. The conclusion is clear, says the Quebec company. Compared to the prices offered by manufacturers,…
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MISSISSAUGA – Bob McCown is making his way back to Toronto radio with a new show on independent talk radio station Sauga 960 AM.
McCown was perhaps the most famous name in Toronto radio for over 30 years before being let go by Rogers Sports and Media in early 2019 from his Prime Time Sports slot he held for over 30 years on The Fan 590.
We saw the announcement in a clip posted to Twitter by broadcaster Mike Richards, who interviewed McCown – and who also has a show on the station.
McCown will launch his show (where he…
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By Greg O’Brien
THE PRIOR ITERATIONS OF our Broadcasting Act are carefully written, specific, documents.
The first, passed in 1968, was an Act meant to, among other things, “safeguard, enrich and strengthen the nation of Canada from sea to sea,” as quoted in the History of Canadian Broadcasting. That version of the Act also established the CRTC, empowering it with the responsibility to make sure the system stays under Canadian ownership and control.
American companies who had ownership positions in our broadcasters and then-nascent cable companies were forced to divest (down to a maximum of 20% ownership, but many left completely)….
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TORONTO, FREDERICTON and ST. JOHN’S — Rogers Communications announced Wednesday morning it is expanding eligibility for its Connected for Success low-cost Internet program to help bridge the digital divide for many more people residing within its service areas in Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland.
The company is also introducing new Internet packages with more speed options to support the evolving connectivity needs of low-income Canadians across these three provinces.
In Ontario, the Connected for Success program is expanding to new qualifying customers receiving income support through Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP). In New Brunswick, new eligible customers…
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Lobbying, new energy board, sees province take action
By Ahmad Hathout
TORONTO – The Ontario government has made good on a pledge to tackle broadband roadblocks in the province by proposing in new legislation to reduce hydro pole attachment costs, a move that is receiving praise across the board and that has been many months in the making.
The legislation, called Building Broadband Faster Act, proposes timely access by telecommunications companies to infrastructure owned by utilities and municipalities, including underground facilities, and requires utilities to better prepare their poles for new wire attachments, which require weighting assessments – the cost of which…
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TORONTO — The federal government “must dramatically reduce the regulatory burden on the telecommunications industry to accelerate 5G deployment,” says the newest report from the C.D. Howe Institute’s telecommunications policy working group – which includes top regulatory experts and executives from Canada’s biggest telecom companies, including Bell, Rogers, Telus, Shaw, Cogeco and Eastlink.
“Telecommunications providers face obstacles in gaining access rights to infrastructure for installing telecommunications facilities. These barriers, alongside difficulty navigating government incentive programs for expanded connectivity, could stall the federal government’s aim of extending high-speed internet coverage to 98 percent of households by 2026,” reads a press…
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OTTAWA — The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) announced today it is kicking off a new monthly virtual event series, “5G Canada: What’s Next?”, later this month.
Presented by CWTA and its 5G Canada Council, the virtual series will host leading experts to discuss digital innovations in key areas of Canadian society, including the connected home, education, healthcare, automotive, industry 4.0 and public safety, and how 5G will serve as a key enabler for Canada’s innovators.
The first event in the series is scheduled for Tuesday, March 30 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. ET.
The featured speakers include:
Luciano Ramos,…
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By Steve Faguy
“THE SYNDICATION OF LOCALIZED programming is nothing new,” says Troy Reeb, executive vice president broadcast networks at Corus Entertainment. “My career began at 17 years old at CFOK in Westlock, Alta., which was a hub station for a network of rural stations across Alberta and northern B.C., where we had this primitive robot — it was huge, it took an entire room and it looked like something out of Space Odyssey. It had reel-to-reel tapes that turned off and on automatically, and clackity cart machines, and it would deliver differentiated programming and weather forecasts and everything else…
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