by Monica Auer | May 20, 2026 | Research
One-day online symposium on the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Rules of Practice and Procedure, on Thursday, June 18, 2026 from 10:30 am EDT top 4:30 pm EDT Keynote speaker: CRTC Commissioner Bram Abramson Following remarks from CRTC Commissioner...
by Monica Auer | May 19, 2026 | Research
In early 2026 the CRTC announced its plan to review its 2010 Rules of Practice and Procedure in its Regulatory plan to modernize Canada’s broadcasting framework. The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) is holding an online symposium on the...
by Monica Auer | Sep 12, 2025 | Research
On 27 April 2023 – 2 years, 4 months and just over 2 weeks ago – the Online Streaming Act or Bill C-11 received Royal Assent. C-11 made a series of major changes to Canada’s 1991 Broadcasting Act. The most hotly debated of these changes was...
by Monica Auer | Aug 14, 2025 | Research
The CRTC’s performance, 1969-2025: Analysis and recommendations is an in-depth report that describes the CRTC’s operations (staffing and expenditures). It also uses information from the CRTC to consider its practices and work through the standards set out in...
by Monica Auer | Jul 11, 2024 | Research
On June 25, 2024 the CRTC called for comments about the “development of a regulatory policy for closed captioning provided by online streaming undertakings” (Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2024-137). The CRTC wrote in this Notice that “[a]ddressing...
by Monica Auer | May 30, 2024 | Research
In 2023 Canadians experienced the nation’s most destructive wildfire season ever, touching all parts of Canada and ‘consuming’ 16.5 million hectares of land, from coast to coast to coast. On May 6, 2024 the Prime Minister “convened the Incident...
