Bell Media announced last week a strategic agreement with Telus to expand its connected TV live advertising capabilities into Western Canada, enabling new ad inventory across TSN, CTV and English-language specialty channels on the Telus TV+ platform.
Building on its launch of Addressable TV in 2023, Bell Media continues to evolve its live connected TV offering with expanded inventory, enhanced capabilities and broader distribution beyond its Bell Fibe footprint, Bell Media said in a press release.
The partnership with Telus marks the first agreement between a Canadian broadcaster and broadcast…
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Telus announced last week it is now accepting applications until May 29 for its Telus Aging in Place Innovation Summit, which it says is an opportunity for technology innovators to partner with Telus on solutions that support independence for older adults.
Telus already offers its Medical Alert solutions for seniors and says it wants to build on that foundation to bring more solutions to market to support seniors and caregivers at home.
“The TELUS Aging in Place Innovation Summit, being held on July 9, 2026 at TELUS Garden in Vancouver, is the…
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By Ahmad Hathout
The head of Quebecor said Thursday that the company will consider adopting satellite-to-mobile technology, but is in no rush to do so.
“This is an important and interesting matter,” Pierre Karl Peladeau said on a first-quarter earnings conference call. “Obviously, as you can imagine, we’re considering it, we’re looking at it, we’re analyzing it, we’re looking at what’s happening in the marketplace.
“We’re not considering it in urgen,” he added, noting it’s a small market. “But that doesn’t mean that we should not look at it. In fact, we’re considering this is complementary or down the road, probably also…
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Expects mandatory roaming and tower sharing to be feasible in all cases
By Ahmad Hathout
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has launched a consultation this week on a set of proposals to streamline the tower build process and updated the conditions of licence to find that mandatory roaming and tower sharing are technically feasible in all cases.
Through a consultation document released Monday, ISED is asking for comments about the following proposed measures: whether it should allow telecoms, tower owners and broadcasters to forego public consutlation and notification to a land use authority (LUA) if the proposed tower…
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By Ahmad Hathout
The Federal Court of Appeal said Monday that the CRTC did not err by forcing Rogers to negotiate a deal through staff-assisted mediation or go to final offer arbitration (FOA) to carry OneSoccer.
In a decision from the bench after a hearing Monday, the court said the CRTC was not wrong in deciding that Rogers’s proposed remedy – to negotiate a deal privately – was unlikely to be acceptable to OneSoccer parent Timeless Inc., and that staff-assisted dispute resolution, requested by Timeless, was required.
The cable giant said in its original appeal application that it proposed…
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The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed an application for leave to appeal from Canada’s largest broadcasters regarding a Federal Court of Appeal ruling that supplanted a Copyright Board decision regarding rate setting for the retransmission of distant television signals.
The high court does not provide reasons for rejecting leave to appeal applications.
The group of broadcasters who brought the leave to appeal application to Canada’s highest court include Bell, Rogers, Telus, Videotron, Cogeco and the Canadian Communication Systems Alliance (CCSA).
They sought clarification about whether a relatively new judicial…
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Telus and the Canadian government on Monday announced they are collaborating on a proposed sovereign AI factory cluster to be built in British Columbia under the federal Enabling large-scale sovereign AI data centres initiative.
Telus, Vancouver-based real estate developer Westbank and the federal government are working together on the details of this collaboration, Telus said in a press release, as Telus scales its Sovereign AI Factory network across three facilities in B.C.
With Telus’s first Sovereign AI Factory in Rimouski, Quebec — which opened in September 2025 — fully sold out, Telus…
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Telco ditches reporting on TV and landline numbers
By Ahmad Hathout
Doug French, Telus’s long-time chief financial officer, is retiring from the company on June 30 and will be replaced by the CFO of Telus Digital and Telus Health, Gopi Chande.
Affectionately known as “Uncle Doug” internally, French will stay on as an advisor until the end of July and will remain seated as chair of the board of Terrion, Telus’s tower company.
His retirement marks a 30-year career at the telco giant. Holding the CFO and executive vice president position for a decade, French was also a senior vice president and corporate…
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Access Communications Co-operative announced Wednesday it has partnered with Sask 1st Call, commonly recognized as the “Click Before You Dig” program, to support safer excavation across Saskatchewan.
By joining Sask 1st Call’s program, Access becomes part of a province-wide network of utilities working together to make excavation safer, Access said in a press release.
Whether the project is a large-scale excavation by a utility company or a homeowner planting trees or installing fence posts, Sask 1st Call helps ensure underground facilities are identified before work begins, significantly reducing the risk…
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Indigenous charity Indspire and the Telus Friendly Future Foundation announced last week a four-year, $500,000 partnership to support indigenous post-secondary students through Indspire’s Building Brighter Futures bursaries and scholarships program and the Telus Student Bursary program.
With matching funding from the federal government, this partnership promises to deliver $1 million to empower indigenous youth, by offering up to 320 Telus Student Bursaries to First Nations, Inuit and Métis students who are enrolled in their first undergraduate diploma or degree program at recognized post-secondary institutions across Canada, a Telus press release said.
Award recipients…
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