Media Industry News

OTTAWA — The official Opposition tried to have a House of Commons committee study an editorial decision of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. on Tuesday, despite its independence from the government being enshrined in law.

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — Two newspapers in British Columbia are publishing their last editions this week, eliminating coverage by community papers for a large swath of the province's northeast.

After asking the federal telecommunications regulator to waive local news and Canadian programming requirements for its television stations, BCE Inc.

VANCOUVER — The RCMP say a photojournalist who is suing the force was not exempt from complying with a court injunction while reporting on protests over the Coastal GasLink pipeline that's nearing completion in northern British Columbia.

TORONTO — A lobby group for Canada's newspapers and magazines says it agrees with many of the issues raised by Google about a law that will force the tech giant to compensate those same publishers for use of their work.

TORONTO — Taylor Swift's concert movie is proving to be a fairy tale for Canada's largest cinema chain. The film "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour," which hit theatres Thursday, generated $6.2 million in pre-sales for Cineplex Inc.

TORONTO — Some pre-game challenges made for a memorable debut when Joe Bowen became the voice of the Toronto Maple Leafs over four decades ago.

OTTAWA — Confusion over Canada's Online Streaming Act is running rampant on social media, clouding debate over what the legislation actually does.

TORONTO — The Canadian media landscape is changing too quickly to wait for a perfect version of the Online News Act, federal Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said Friday, while Google once again threatened to remove news links from its ubiquitous se

VICTORIA — An award-winning travel magazine said British Columbia's capital city tops its 2023 list of the world's best cities.