Annual parade returns as nighttime event at Canada’s Wonderland
TORONTO — Bell Media announced today this year’s Original Santa Claus Parade will once again be presented as a two-hour primetime event, filmed at night inside Canada’s Wonderland amusement park north of Toronto and aired exclusively on CTV, CTV2 and CP24 on Saturday, Dec. 4 starting at 7 p.m. ET.
Unlike last year’s event, which was closed to the public due to Covid-19 health concerns, this year a limited number of families will experience the magic of the parade in person at the festively decorated park, while adhering to all local health…
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Natale and board unable to reach “mutually agreeable arrangement.” Search is on for permanent replacement
TORONTO – Joe Natale is out as CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI) effective immediately, RCI announced Tuesday night.
Tony Staffieri has been appointed interim president and CEO, a press release says. Staffieri is also a candidate for the permanent position, which RCI’s board is now looking to fill, according to the release.
“On behalf of the Rogers family, the Board and our 24,000 team members across the country, I thank Joe for his leadership and contributions to our company, including paving the way for our…
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By Ahmad Hathout
TORONTO – CRTC chairman Ian Scott (above) said Monday the contested acquisition of 5G spectrum licenses by Quebecor’s Videotron in Western Canada is an example of what the regulator envisioned when it made the decision to allow regional competitors to force negotiations for wireless network space from the larger providers.
The regulator’s April decision allows regional carriers to negotiate access to the wireless facilities of the incumbents – Rogers, Bell, Telus and Sasktel – as long as they have spectrum and network facilities in the area they want to provide mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service….
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COAST SALISH TERRITORY, VANCOUVER — B.C.’s Coastal First Nations (CFN) and Rogers Communications announced today a partnership agreement to support the growth of a conservation-based economy through improved connectivity for underserved, rural and Indigenous communities, as well as to advance CFN’s environmental stewardship work through technology and academic research.
The partnership includes several initiatives that will be announced between today and into 2022, says a press release.
One of the first initiatives will see Rogers build five new cell towers to provide more than 100 kilometres of new service coverage along Highway 16 from Masset through Port Clements to Queen Charlotte,…
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TORONTO — NBCUniversal International announced today its all-reality TV subscription streaming service hayu is now available on LG smart TVs running webOS 4.0 through webOS 6.0 in 27 territories, including Canada.
The hayu app offers more than 8,000 episodes of reality content across more than 300 series, including Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Below Deck and the Real Housewives franchises. The service’s wide variety of unscripted sub-genres include home and design, dating, cooking, fashion and true crime.
A Canadian subscription to hayu costs $5.99 per month.
“This has been an incredible year for hayu, with multiple successful launches into new territories and…
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Focus now on Shaw as company tells CRTC hearing must proceed as planned
TORONTO – Rogers Communications Inc. announced Sunday evening it will not seek an appeal of Friday’s British Columbia Supreme Court ruling, which settled the matter of who is actually on RCI’s board of directors. This would seem to put an end weeks of drama over who controls the company.
On Friday, Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick ruled in favour of Edward Rogers, chair of the Rogers Control Trust, who was seeking orders related to the board changes he made by written resolution in late October, which were…
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VANCOUVER – Changes made to the Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI) board of directors by Edward Rogers are valid, a British Columbia Supreme Court judge ruled today.
Mr. Rogers removed and replaced five board members by written consent resolution in his capacity as chair of the Rogers Control Trust on Oct. 22, a move that RCI at the time declared to be “invalid”.
On Oct. 26, Mr. Rogers filed a petition with the Supreme Court of B.C. seeking, among other orders, a declaration the written consent resolution making changes to the board is valid.
Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick today granted Mr. Rogers the…
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They say he has a pattern of overstepping
By Amanda OYE
VANCOUVER – On its face, the court case this week between Edward Rogers as the chair of the Rogers Control Trust and Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI) is largely about the interpretation of the company’s articles in conjunction the B.C. Business Corporations Act.
Tangled up in this, however, are two competing storylines of what has happened at RCI over the last two months and of what the company’s founder, the late Ted Rogers, would have wanted.
This became clear last Friday when several affidavits were filed in response to Edward…
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Shaw asks CRTC to dismiss requests of “opportunistic proponents of delay”
OTTAWA – Bell and Telus both filed letters yesterday with the CRTC supporting the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and National Pensioners Federation’s (PIAC-NPF) procedural request to have the Commission’s public hearings into the broadcasting side of Rogers Communications’s purchase of Shaw Communications delayed.
The hearings are scheduled to begin Nov. 22. PIAC-NPF, Bell and Telus all argued there is too much uncertainty around who controls Rogers for the CRTC to conduct fair hearings that protect the public interest.
Bell, in its letter, called the situation “unprecedented” and said it “places…
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OTTAWA – With control of Rogers Communications now before a B.C. judge, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and National Pensioners Federation has asked the CRTC to hold off on the public hearing into the purchase of Shaw Communications by Rogers Communications.
“The press has reported on a series of events unfolding at Rogers that call into question the legal status of the existing board of directors, and whether the current officers of the company have the confidence of the board of directors or whether they will even remain as officers of…
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