OTTAWA – Telus’ EVP, corporate affairs, chief legal officer and corporate secretary Monique Mercier has been named Woman of the Year by Women in Communications and Technology (WCT).
Mercier, pictured, leads a team of 300 professionals, of which 49% are women. She coaches, mentors, and champions the Telus women’s executive network, and has advocated to have its board of directors be compromised of 25% women by May 2017, and 30% by 2019.
Accenture was named company of the year, and WCT also named 10 other recipients of its prestigious annual awards, which recognize efforts to advance women’s representation and achievement in…
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TORONTO – Telus has teamed up with Microsoft and Avanade to offer Skype for Business, an enterprise-grade unified communications and collaboration solution that enables new ways for employees to connect with colleagues and customers, and helps Canadian businesses better support a mobile workforce.
Designed for organizations of all sizes, Skype for Business, powered by Telus, is delivered as a fully managed private cloud solution from its Canadian data centres. Billed as the evolution of Microsoft Lync, the service brings together the familiar Skype interface with an expanded Lync feature set that offers seamless integration with commonly used Microsoft Office applications…
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TORONTO – With less than two weeks until its debut, Viceland unveiled more of its millennial-focused programming and confirmed that it will be available on a three month free preview at launch.
Beginning Monday, February 29 at 5:00 AM ET/PT (check local listings), viewers wake up in Viceland with the one-hour special Bar Talk, hosted by Vice Canada’s head of content Patrick McGuire from the new Toronto studio. Following that is the 13-hour special 646-851-0347 Leave A Message.
With hosts that include Canadians Ellen Page (Gaycation), Matty Matheson (Dead Set on Life), and renowned actor Michael K. Williams (Black Market with Michael…
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MONTREAL – Telus’ Optik TV customers now have free access to 10,000 music videos thanks to the launch of the Stingray Music Videos TV app.
Available to Telus Optik TV subscribers in British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec, the app also provides free access at the touch of a button to 225 compilations curated by Stingray’s music experts, including themed playlists, as well as music videos from today’s hottest artists like The Weeknd, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé.
The Stingray Music Videos TV app can be accessed in Western Canada from channel 559, and in Quebec by selecting the remote’s apps button and…
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THE ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL DATA PRIVACY Day (which was January 28) is often seen as a day when individuals are reminded ways they should stay safe online. However, Canadian corporate privacy and security officers are likely also reflecting today on a number of recent court and regulatory moves that are affecting their responsibilities.
These include:
An Ontario judge last month expanding the scope of privacy protection under the common law by allowing a person to sue another for putting an explicit video of them on the Internet, an action one lawyer called "revenge porn”
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VANCOUVER – Competition and the struggling Alberta economy helped to weigh down fourth quarter profits at Telus, the company said Thursday.
For the period ended December 31, 2015, consolidated operating revenue grew 2.8% to $3.2 billion from $3.1 billion a year earlier, buoyed by higher data revenue in both wireless and wireline operations. Net income dropped 16.3% to $261 million from $312 million year-over-year due to “significant restructuring” and other costs. Adjusted net income dipped 1.2% to $324 million
Earnings before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) fell 2.2% to $978 million, though EBITDA excluding restructuring and other like costs increased…
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Hearing starts Monday
TORONTO — CRTC commissioners have a lot of reading ahead of them, judging by the hundreds of submissions already made to the Commission’s review of basic telecommunications services, from industry players, consumer organizations, end-user businesses, and local and provincial governments. Then there are the thousands of individual consumers who have submitted questionnaires related to their usage of telecom services.
(Ed note: This is a re-post of a story we ran in February previewing the 14-day hearing that begins Monday. Cartt.ca will have daily coverage of the hearing, which will be available to hear…
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GATINEAU – A new fund or reallocated money dedicated to supporting local news, would do little to provide a long-term solution to the financial situation facing local TV, Shaw Communications and Telus told the CRTC on Tuesday.
Telus noted in its opening remarks that any funding for local conventional stations to subsidize their news productions shouldn’t come at the expense of community TV and the diversity it provides to the system. As well, “subsidizing the commercial business models of traditional television stations will not incent the innovation required of these stations to provide sustainable programming opportunities in the long run,”…
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GATINEAU – The industry needs increased levels of funding for access programming said executives from MTS, who appeared before the CRTC’s local and community TV hearing on Monday. The company has proposed that the more access programming BDUs carry on their community TV channels, the more money they should get.
In opening remarks, Paul Norris, VP of residential solutions at MTS, noted viewers want to see local programming that goes beyond news and that access programming is important for locally reflective expression.
“Access programming fulfills a unique role that is not available from conventional broadcasters or from social media…
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GATINEAU – Many parties to the CRTC’s local and community TV consultation have proposed funding approaches (each with their own acronyms we’re having trouble keep track of) which could financially support these struggling services. Rogers Communications Inc. has now joined them, unveiling its own approach to a local programming fund.
In its appearance before the Commission on Thursday, the media and communications giant argued while it still prefers its original proposal calling for greater flexibility to move local programming funds from larger to smaller markets, it offered up another model that it says is workable and would provide financial benefits…
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