Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission

Google agreed last year to pay Canadian news publishers $100 million a year, indexed to inflation, in order to be exempt from the law, which compels tech companies to enter into agreements with news publishers to pay for content reposted on their platforms.

Pelmorex received an administrative licence renewal Aug. 8 for its system — publicly known as Alert Ready — by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), with no public consultation.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Liberal legislation aimed at social media platforms is ushering in censorship, despite his party running on similar policy in the last federal election.

A federal source says the coming budget will detail how the Liberals plan to go after hidden or unexpected consumer fees, following the United States announcing its own crackdown on these charges.

The House of Commons passed a Liberal bill on Wednesday, December 14, 2022, designed to require web giants to compensate journalism outfits for reposting their content, and Meta is once again threatening to remove news content from Facebook in Canada.

Canadians are united not by hockey or poutine or some other overplayed national stereotype, writes columnist Max Fawcett — they're bound together by unreasonably high cellphone bills.

The minister responsible for overhauling Canada's broadcasting and telecommunications sectors tried to reassure Canadians on Monday, February 3, 2020, that the federal government is not preparing to license news outlets.

Consumer advocates say a rare consensus is forming among the major political parties ahead of the federal election that Canadians need protecting from gouging by the country's big telecom companies.

The sales practices of Canada's largest telecommunications companies — a long-time sore spot for many consumers — will be the subject of a public inquiry ordered by the federal government on Thursday.

The technology exists to fix some of the design flaws in Canada's mobile emergency alert system that was tested last week for an Amber Alert issued in Ontario, some experts say.

Canada's wireless providers are preparing for a looming update to the National Public Alerting System that will force smartphones to sound an ominous alarm when an emergency alert is triggered.

The portrayal of Canada's diversity on television has improved over the last decade, but there's still a lack of programming representing people with disabilities and the Indigenous population.

The owner of billboards currently showcasing ads that seek to promote the People's Party of Canada's controversial stance on immigration reversed course on Sunday, August 25, 2019, saying the company would take the material down in response to "overwhelming" criticism.