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  1. AT&T bid for Time Warner may help inform Canadian broadcasting policy

    The announced takeover bid by AT&T for Time Warner will likely be challenged by antitrust authorities, and possibly by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the United States. The resulting litigation will crystallize many ...

  2. CRTC at a crossroads

    Appeared in National Newswatch, June 2, 2016 The regulation of Canada’s broadcasting sector by the CRTC is at a crossroads. Technological change, especially the proliferation of streaming video over the Internet, or so-called over-the-top (OTT) ...

  3. Technological Change and Its Implications for Regulating Canada's Television Broadcasting Sector

    The emergence and growth of digital technologies broadly underlies much of the technological change affecting the TV broadcasting industry. The production of all sorts of programming has been affected by the growing capacity of producers to use computers ...

  4. Should Canadians directly subsidize high-speed Internet service in rural and remote areas?

    According to current CRTC policy, Canadians have access to basic telecommunications, including the capability to connect to the Internet via low-speed data transmission, regardless of where they live. In public hearings scheduled for ...

  5. CRTC suspends regular rules so Canadians can watch Super Bowl commercials

    The CRTC, the Canadian regulator of the Canadian broadcasting industry, acknowledged last week that the Super Bowl, America’s biggest sporting event, is special—so special that the regulator is suspending its simultaneous substitution ...

  6. Rewriting the script for Canada's cultural policies

    Appeared in the Guelph Mercury, Waterloo Region Record and Winnipeg Free Press The CRTC’s recent reprimand of three Toronto-based X-rated channels for failing to meet the required 35 per cent threshold for Canadian content became fodder for Internet humor ...

  7. Spectrum Auction Rules and Competition Policy

    This paper addresses the Canadian government's controversial limits (or caps) on the blocks of spectrum that can be acquired for the upcoming auction of 700 MHz spectrum on January 14, 2014. Large Canadian carriers (TELUS, Bell, and Rogers) have ...