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February 3, 2024
The City of Québec filed a lawsuit in the amount of one (1) million dollars ($500,000 in compensatory damages and $500,000 in punitive damages) against Cogéco inc., Cogéco Diffusion Acquisitions inc. and Cogéco Diffusion inc., as well as against the…
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November 27, 2024
Music Canada welcomes the Supreme Court’s decision today in the CBC v. SODRAC case which reaffirms that a copy of a recording has value for which creators must be fairly compensated. The Supreme Court has determined that broadcasters must pay…
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August 13, 2024
The Canadian Association of Journalists is shocked the authorities in Ferguson, Mo., have presented a summons to CTV News’ Los Angeles bureau chief Tom Walters. Walters had been arrested and detained for hours after trying to ask a Missouri Highway…
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July 3, 2024
The television network Avis de Recherche (ADR) filed an application in Federal Court for a judicial review of a decision rendered on August 8, 2024 (Decision 2024-389 and Order 2024-380) by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. The documents filed…
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June 24, 2024
Data & Audio-Visual Enterprises Holdings Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, Mobilicity) today announced that the Sale Approval Motion, in regard to a proposed sale transaction between Mobilicity and Rogers Communications, was approved by Mr. Justice Frank Newbould of the Ontario…
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May 6, 2024
BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. have reached an agreement with the Competition Bureau that resolves the Bureau’s concerns that the acquisition by BCE of wireless retailer Glentel Inc. and the subsequent sale by BCE of 50 percent of Glentel…
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January 6, 2024
Two high-ranking CBC executives involved with interviewing employees in connection with the Jian Ghomeshi affair have been put on indefinite leave of absence. Chris Boyce, executive director of CBC-Radio, and Todd Spencer, executive director of human resources and industrial relations…
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June 25, 2024
The United States Supreme Court ruled 6-3 today that streaming television startup Aereo violates the Copyright Act. Aereo provides thousands of miniature TV antennas, to subscribers, then uses freely available signals of local stations in cities like New York, Boston and…
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May 28, 2024
Data & Audio-Visual Enterprises Holdings Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, Mobilicity) announced today that the Acquisition Plan under the terms of the Interim Order of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) dated Friday, April 26, 2024 (the TELUS…
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April 8, 2024
Cogeco Cable Inc. today announced its full opposition to the application by Astral Media Inc. to the CRTC for authority to transfer its effective control, and control of its licensed broadcasting subsidiaries, to BCE Inc. and to complete related corporate reorganizations.…
