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Byline: Alan Freeman OTTAWA -- When A.J. Hirsch-Allen gets together with a dozen or so family and friends for his annual Super Bowl party on Feb. 5 in Toronto, there [...]

Byline: SHERIDAN SCOTT OPINION Sheridan Scott is a partner at Bennett Jones LLP in Ottawa Two years ago, Australia launched an ambitious program to fully prepare all of its children [...]

OTTAWA -- Canada's broadcasting regulator has devised a system aimed at allowing conventional television station owners to negotiate payments from operators of cable and satellite TV systems. But in a [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW COMPUTER LITERACY TELECOM REPORTER If it weren't for the aging computers at a tiny drop-in centre in downtown Toronto, Joan Commanda wouldn't have completed high school. The [...]

Byline: JACQUIE MCNISH AND IAIN MARLOW TELECOMMUNICATIONS The CRTC is stepping up pressure on the telecom industry to improve wireless Internet access by calling for a surprise public hearing that [...]

Byline: GRANT ROBERTSON AND JAMES BRADSHAW In a move that would reshape prime time television, the federal broadcast regulator is considering placing a cap on how much the country's biggest [...]

Byline: GRANT ROBERTSON; MEDIA REPORTER Canada's cable industry is bracing for a backlash from the national television networks after regulators blocked a move by the big broadcasters last week to [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR; ktaylor@globeandmail.com Let's see ... what's on TV tonight? Well, CBC is airing the 1990 Hollywood movie Pretty Woman. Global is airing repeat episodes of the American dramas [...]

Byline: Grant Robertson Canada's broadcast regulator plans to hold hearings into whether 'new media,' such as online TV, radio and mobile video, should be regulated. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications [...]

Byline: GLENN O'FARRELL Over the past three weeks, in a public hearing room in Gatineau, Que., the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) heard all sides of a debate over [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR There's a mother of a fight shaping up in the TV industry that could add several dollars to your monthly cable bill, but also expand your cable [...]

Byline: WILLIAM HOUSTON; whouston@globeandmail.com Despite pressure from cable companies to open up the Canadian market to more foreign content, the likelihood of ESPN coming into the country is virtually zero, [...]

Byline: GRANT ROBERTSON; MEDIA REPORTER New rules on media ownership in Canada have put a cap on how much of the national television audience one company can command, a move [...]

Byline: JANE TABER; SENIOR POLITICAL WRITER Just after 8 p.m. last Tuesday night, the two passions of Jerry Yanover collided. In the Senate chamber, Governor-General Michaelle Jean was part way [...]

Byline: STEVEN CHASE OTTAWA -- Canada's TV production subsidy fund should take a more market-oriented approach to how it spends dollars contributed by cable and satellite firms, a CRTC task [...]

Byline: Guy Dixon While receiving more than $200-million in public assistance, Canadian TV broadcasters are buying more U.S. programming, as opposed to Canadian shows as intended, Friends of Canadian Broadcasters [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON It's a decidedly unusual issue to be discussing in 2007, so far into the digital era, but for the next few months Parliament's heritage committee will be [...]

There was a time, long ago, when having a broadcasting gatekeeper like the CRTC made some sense. In the era of 'limited spectrum,' there were only a certain number of [...]

Byline: GUY DIXON Apetition to change Canadian-content regulations to favour up-and-coming musicians, rather than the Celine Dions and Bryan Adams of the business, has gotten almost 4,000 signatures and great [...]

The CRTC has initiated a public proceeding to allow interested parties to comment on the implications for the Canadian broadcasting system of the increasing consumption of Internet-delivered programming in Canada [...]

CSI proposes tariffs for non-commercial radio stations (2011), online music (2011), and satellite radio (2011-2013) On July 17, 2010, CSI, the company formed as a royalty-collection vehicle by the Canadian [...]

In a series of recent licence-amendment decisions, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has dropped the three-year limitation on upgraded high-definition (HD) feeds of already-licensed pay and specialty services. [...]

Barely nine months after the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission launched its long-awaited Do-Not-Call List (DNCL) to cut down on unwanted telemarketing calls, the Canadian government introduced legislation that will, [...]

This article was originally published on 20 July, 2009. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (the 'CRTC' or 'Commission') announced today that it has adopted a new framework with respect [...]

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC, or Commission) has issued a decision in its year-long consultation on audiovisual material delivered in Canada using the Internet or an on-demand mobile [...]