BRANTFORD, ON – Rogers Communications rolled out its Connected for Success program in Ontario's Brant Region Friday, offering its inexpensive Internet service to more than 1,300 subsidized households in the City of Brantford and County of Brant.
The service, available for $9.99 per month, requires no contract or credit checks upon sign up.
“In today’s digital world, access to the internet is essential – it’s how we book doctors’ appointments, finish our homework, and connect with friends and family,” said Peter King, Rogers’ senior director of corporate social responsibility, in the news release. “Together with the City of Brantford, we’re committed…
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AT CIRA, WE BELIEVE Canadians have a right to a safe, reliable, and open internet—but we also believe in staying within the boundaries of the law.
Bell Canada has a problem. Some Canadians are infringing on Bell’s rights by accessing pirated content online. If Bell believes this is happening it has the right to pursue legal action. I am fine with this. However, Bell is offside in seeking the power of the state (and Canadian tax dollars) to help solve their problems. Unfortunately, this is exactly what they are proposing.
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OTTAWA – Bell Canada and Rogers Communications showed off some different philosophies when it came to the federal government’s NAFTA negotiations when they appeared recently in front of a recent meeting of the Standing Committee on International Trade.
Rogers Cable vice-president, regulatory, Pam Dinsmore said in her opening remarks on September 20th that her company is concerned the trade talks will wander too far from its prior mandate and into copyright, which includes such issues as retransmitting U.S. over-the-air TV signals, Canada’s notice-and-notice regime for pirated online content, and our Copyright Modernization Act’s provisions for personal use and its…
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ALTHOUGH WE NOW LIVE in a vast internet landscape with immense amounts of content, the diversity and quality of the news media we consume continues to be a concern. Large sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google should not be trusted to solve these problems.
Internet news platforms have contributed to the closure of traditional news outlets that are the source of much of the quality news consumed online. The internet has facilitated the rise to dominance of…
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NEW YORK – Corus Entertainment’s Global News last night took home the Edward R. Murrow Excellence in Innovation award in the network news division at last night’s Radio Television Digital News Association gala awards Monday night in New York City.
Global won the honour, the association’s inaugural innovation award, for its industry-leading multi-market content (MMC) story-centric workflow system, which Cartt.ca profiled here last year.
Click here to watch its video entry.
Continuing with Canadians, Bell Media’s CTV News took home the network news division award for Excellence in Sound for its feature entitled…
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TORONTO – As it threatened weeks ago, Unifor, the union which represents journalists and television employees at Rogers’ OMNI TV, has filed a complaint with the CRTC over the broadcaster’s decision to hire Fairchild TV to create its Chinese news broadcasts.
The union believes that violates its CRTC licence.
“The CRTC gave Rogers a special licence with guaranteed income to bring back the Chinese language daily news for the nation’s largest immigrant community,” said Unifor media director Howard Law, in a press release. “Instead of producing the show themselves and adding to the…
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AU QUEBEC, LA CLASSE POLITIQUE et culturelle a décidément mal avalé la politique culturelle récemment dévoilée par la ministre du patrimoine canadien, Mélanie Joly. Le centriste Parti Libéral du Québec a été aussi véhément dans sa dénonciation de la politique que le Parti Québécois et la formation souverainiste de gauche Québec Solidaire.
Le Devoir, un quotidien montréalais de gauche, a accusé le fédéral dans un éditorial de vouloir “cautionner l’injustice». Pour sa part, le chroniqueur souverainiste de droite Mathieu Bock-Côté, toujours sceptique à l’endroit du gouvernement Trudeau, a reproché le gouvernement et le ministère “d’abandonne les forces vives de…
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IN QUEBEC, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S cultural policy announcement has landed with a decisive thud. The province’s governing Liberals were as scathing in their denunciation of the “Creative Canada” policy as the sovereigntist Parti Québécois and the left-wing party Québec Solidaire. Highbrow left-wing daily Le Devoir accused the federal government of nothing less than “excusing injustice,” while right-wing sovereigntist columnist Mathieu Bock-Côté, writing in the Journal de Montréal, accused Canadian Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly of “dereliction of duty.”
The opinion pages of the centre-right tabloids Le Journal de Montréal and Le Journal de Québec, usually skeptical of all things Trudeau, lit…
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MONTREAL – After getting into wireless last year with the purchase of Wind (now Freedom) Mobile, many expect Shaw to soon start offering wireline/wireless bundles in the west just as Telus, its biggest competitor, already offers.
But the telco isn’t worried, Stephen Lewis, Telus’ senior vice-president and treasurer, told a CIBC investor conference on Wednesday. “We’ve seen this coming for a number of quarters and we are very confident in the preparation we’ve done for when they do bring the Shaw wireless brand to market,” he said.
He cited the “robustness” of Telus’ Internet and OptikTV offering and its continuing installation of…
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OTTAWA – In a speech today at an Economic Club of Canada event, Minister of Canadian Heritage Melanie Joly officially unveiled the federal government’s long awaited digital content strategy. Dubbed 'Creative Canada', the plan has angered some and sated others and calls for increased investments to support both domestic production as well as the promotion of Canadian content abroad.
The release of the strategy comes a day after news leaked that the federal government had inked an agreement with Netflix that would see the online broadcaster and distributor invest a minimum of $500 million in Canadian productions over the next…
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