Google signs deal to launch journalism fund in California, while cash from its Canadian media fund has yet to flow
Google awaits the CRTC go-ahead for $100-million-a-year Canadian media fund as news outlets call for urgent access to cash.
‘In the new world order,’ feds must work with industry to fix IT procurement problems, say experts
New research examining IT procurement failures—the ArriveCan app, the Phoenix pay system, and Employment and Social Development Canada’s benefits modernization system—reveals three common issues: inadequate accountability, lack of internal expertise, and changes in scope.
Correcting the record on Bell’s restructuring: BCE exec
Re: “Should telecommunications be nationalized?” (The Hill Times, April 17, opinion piece, p. 3). Last week’s opinion piece in The Hill Times authored by Mark Hancock, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, contained inaccuracies concerning the recent restructuring at Bell, which need to be corrected. To be clear, none of the recently […]
Should telecommunications be nationalized?
The federal government must not accept that the telecommunications companies under its jurisdiction and regulated at its initiative are exporting our jobs and damaging our economy.
CRTC must act to save broadband competition
We cannot let rules designed to create competition do the opposite. If the rules don’t change, we will see less investment in rural connectivity, less competition against the Big Three, followed by damaging impacts on service and cost.
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The original sins of C-18
The fundamental problem lies in the premise Meta and Google somehow misappropriated news content and derived unfair benefits from links to this content.
Inaction is perpetuating Canada’s digital divide
Changing the way we deploy spectrum is a key part of the solution to bridging the rural-urban divide, and ensuring equitable access to affordable and reliable telecommunications services for all Canadians.
Rapid change in our media scene highlights the growing importance of CBC/Radio-Canada
Every Canadian has views about how to change it, and some even want to kill it, but some kind of vision fit for a rapidly changing world needs to come out of the dialogue.
Innovation Minister Champagne could solve connectivity in Canada
By using spectrum conditions in Toronto, he’s let it slip that he has the power to bring affordable bills to the hands of people across the country.
