Reading Time: 4 minutes Canadian production is booming. It hardly needs more official intervention – and funding – to continue to grow
Tag: CRTC
Rolling the gender boulder up the broadcast hill ignores bigger issues
Reading Time: 3 minutes The CRTC should be far more concerned about the role of women within the telecommunications industry than in TV
The CRTC remains shrouded in mystery
Reading Time: 3 minutes Open up about decisions made on the communications tools people use, the content they consume and the price they pay for it
Search for the just and the reasonable is not a beauty pageant
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s public institution boards may not be democracy in action, but ultimately they’re obliged to heed the public and their political masters
Wasting money propping up untenable news operations
Reading Time: 3 minutes Billions spent on the CBC, hundreds of millions redirected by the CRTC. Is more federal funding for local news justified?
Avast ye swabbies: CRTC asked to crack down on Internet pirates
Reading Time: 3 minutes How do you crack down on internet piracy while preserving net neutrality, the cherished principle of a free and open web?
On the run from tsunamis, missiles … and false alarms
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alert systems like the text project that will soon be introduced across Canada can be extremely valuable, if they’re structured and managed properly
The enduring legacy of maverick media baron Jim Shaw
Reading Time: 4 minutes A hard-nosed businessman, he made a brilliant cable territory swap, competed ferociously with Telus and pulled Global television from the Canwest inferno
Protect the integrity of the Internet, protect free thought
Reading Time: 3 minutes The industrial and cultural disruption initiated by the web was always going to result in some chaos. But now the barbarians may be the gatekeepers
Why you still subsidize some channels when you pay your cable bill
Reading Time: 3 minutes Little wonder that the CRTC has been the focus of so much public contempt