Streamers challenge #CRTC decision to publicly disclose financial information: www.thewirereport.ca/2025/12/18/s...

#CRTC expands definition of Canadian content, sets minimum level for copyright ownership: #CanCon #OnlineStreamingAct www.thewirereport.ca/2025/11/18/c...

@thewirereport.ca profiled our expanded Board and our work to shape 🇨🇦 digital policy. Uniting voices from academia, industry, & tech regulation, we’re moving beyond reacting to directly shaping legislation through strategic engagement & early government dialogue: internetsociety.ca/the-wire-rep...

Online News Act undermines outlets’ ability to prevent AI scraping, copyright violations, Parliamentary committee told: www.thewirereport.ca/2025/10/08/o...

Canada’s decision to scrap #DST is raising questions about the durability of the country’s other #digital #policy measures, such as the #OnlineStreamingAct, #OnlineNewsAct, and pending #OnlineHarms legislation: www.thewirereport.ca/2025/07/08/d...

Canadian wireless internet providers are being displaced from a band of spectrum they have been using for years. The high costs of the transition and strict rules around other spectrum bands have some groups worried about its impact on their services: #5G www.thewirereport.ca/2025/05/01/w...

OpenMedia calls federal digital policy ‘disaster’, makes pitches for feds’ consideration: www.thewirereport.ca/2025/04/17/o...

Online streamers continue to argue against the #CRTC applying traditional broadcasting regulations on their operations, asserting that their business models fundamentally differ from the conventional TV and radio landscape: www.thewirereport.ca/2025/03/19/o...

The group calls for immediate and coordinated action, with recommendations to update electoral rules, establish codes of conduct for political parties, and create independent teams to monitor and respond to AI-driven threats to elections: www.thewirereport.ca/2025/02/12/a...

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Former #Conservative Heritage Minister urges Tories to recognize importance of creative sector, #CBC: www.thewirereport.ca/2025/02/05/f...

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Three government bills and one private member’s bill dealing with cyber matters were among those that died when Parliament was prorogued: #cdnpoli #AI #privacy #BillC63 #BillC27 #BillC26 #BillC412 www.thewirereport.ca/2025/01/10/f...

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Bell says it will not participate in future government-subsidized broadband projects unless the CRTC restricts the country’s largest telecom companies from reselling internet services over each other’s high-speed networks: www.thewirereport.ca/2024/12/18/b...

The Competition Bureau is suing Google for allegedly engaging in anti-competitive conduct in the online advertising market: www.thewirereport.ca/2024/11/28/c...

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Northwestel announces completion of backup fibre loop: www.thewirereport.ca/2024/11/26/n...

The #CRTC has launched three consultations it says are aimed at improving consumer protection measures. The new rules being considered involve customer notification requirements, cancellation fees, and self-service mechanisms: www.thewirereport.ca/2024/11/22/c...

The #CRTC is asking if it is in the public interest to change its interim decision on wholesale fibre access – after cabinet ordered it to reconsider whether it should block Bell, Rogers, and Telus from using the framework: www.thewirereport.ca/2024/11/21/c...

Terrestar, a Quebec-based satellite communications company, is bringing the #CRTC to the Federal #Court of Appeal over its decision that spectrum sublicensing revenues must be included when calculating #telecom companies’ financial contribution requirements: www.thewirereport.ca/2024/11/19/t...

It's promising that the #CRTC continues to talk about telecom as an affordability issue. Under the previous CRTC leadership, affordability was too often sidelined as a telecom policy goal, or qualified with other outcomes.

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Telecom affordability, broadcast revision key to #CRTC mandate: Eatrides www.thewirereport.ca/2024/11/18/t...

Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook is looking to take its fight with Canada’s Privacy Commissioner over its users’ #privacy consent to the country’s highest court: www.thewirereport.ca/2024/11/15/f...

As it continues to update the Canadian broadcasting framework under the Online Streaming Act, the #CRTC has begun working on a new definition for "Canadian program," also known as CanCon. It is also trying to loosen regulations for radio stations: www.thewirereport.ca/2024/11/15/c...

Rogers, Cogeco, Eastlink, CNOC, and TekSavvy have asked the #CRTC to revise its decision on wholesale fibre access, with many calling for Canada's largest #telecom companies to be blocked from using the regime entirely: www.thewirereport.ca/2024/11/14/r...

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The #CRTC has been ordered to reconsider whether it should block three of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies from accessing fibre networks on a wholesale basis in Ontario and Quebec: www.thewirereport.ca/2024/11/07/c...