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As noted in materials that I sent to the Times Colonist on Feb. 24, my complaint is: “Against the licensee of CFAX in the Greater Victoria area for breaching its obligations under the Broadcasting Act and the Radio Regulations to provide ­programming that is of a high standard and balanced on matters of public concern. Specifically, my complaint arises from the ­licensee’s unbalanced and ­misleading ­programming on the matter of homelessness and poverty in the Greater Victoria area.�...

Article content Netflix is fine with the CRTC requiring it to contribute to Canadian content, but those regulations should be tailored to the streaming service and be less stringent than the rules traditional broadcasters have to abide by, its Canadian representative told MPs. “We are not saying that we do not wish to contribute. We want to participate in the system. It’s just that doing so should be done in a manner that takes into consideration the nature of our service,” Stéphane Card...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has agreed with his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison to continue “coordinating efforts” to ...

The offending part of the video spans about nine seconds and sees the musician walking down the middle of some train tracks, followed by some children playing. Anyone who wishes to film or take photos within the rail corridor, which includes the land surrounding the train tracks, must obtain a permit from KiwiRail. Youtube/Supplied The children can be seen balancing on the train tracks and throwing stones in the rail corridor. Being in the rail corridor without permission is illegal under th...

Fifty-three percent of Canadians believe music streaming services should be required to support the Canadian broadcast sector.

The Department of Communications wants broadcasters like MultiChoice to be obligated to collect TV licence fees from their subscribers.

Fewer than one million people paid the TV licence fee last year as An Posts efforts to catch evaders were hit by Covid-19 restrictions. The numbers being pursued through summonses and the courts for evading the €160-a-year licence fee fell dramatically last year as TV licence inspectors were forced to abandon all door-to-door inspections during the two nationwide lockdowns. An Post has confirmed that inspectors are currently "off the road" and have been since December 26, as they were in Mar...

The only way to control tech giants like Facebook may be for governments to gang up Don Pittis © AAP Image/Lukas Coch/via Reuters Australia’s conflict with the social media giants may be an unequal battle but a group in Waterloo, Ont., says they may have a solution. It used to be that the most influential media companies in Canada had to keep at least one eye on the Canadian public interest whether they wanted to or not. Broadcasters are regulated through the Broadcasting A...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: 2020 was, to say the least, an unusually active year on the trade front. While 2021 may not be as spectacularly eventful, we nonetheless anticipate several significant developments in international trade, and specifically trade related to Canada, over the coming year. COVID-19 will continue to affect global trade flows and economic growth throughout 2021. The pandemic has highlighted the significance of e-commerce and the importance o...

Comments The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) ruled that referring to Joe Biden as the President-Elect on November 9 was not in breach of its Code of Fairness, Objectivity, and Impartiality. The Executive Complaints Forum of the BAI considered and rejected four complaints in meetings held in October, November, and December 2020.  Read more Among the four complaints was one which took issue with the November 9, 2020 broadcast of RTÉ One’s Six One News, which discussed t...