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Canadian Media
OTTAWA - Rogers Communications Inc. is asking an Ontario court to strike down part of a federal law requiring a company to have "adequate and proper" tests of a product's performance before advertising claims about the product - on the grounds that it violates its freedom of expression. (PostMedia)
OTTAWA - The CRTC is blocking companies from offering television programs exclusively to their mobile or Internet subscribers in new rules for cable and telecom operators that also own TV networks. (CP) COMMENT: Winners, losers and opportunities lost
Regulator’s concept of 'competition'
OTTAWA - Competition from new wireless providers helped shave $1 off the average Canadian cellphone user's monthly bill in 2010, the CRTC says. (CBC)
Communications monitoring report July 2011 .pdf What does a gigabyte cost, revisited Canadians should make the rules, not telecoms Canada has the highest wireless prices New rules allow less CanCon
VICTORIA - PostMedia Network Canada Corp. said it had accepted an unsolicited offer for its community newspaper operations in BC and the Times Colonist. Vancouver-based Glacier Media will pay $86.5M for the collection of papers. (Victoria Times Colonist)
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed an appeal that sought to label Internet service providers (ISP) as broadcasters. (CP) JUDGMENT: 2012 SCC 4 Internet providers not subject to Broadcasting Act
REGINA - A class-action lawsuit which, if successful, could find cellphone companies on the hook for about $18B, has received the green light by the Saskatchewan Court Appeal. In their claim, the customers allege companies engaged in "unjust enrichment" by improperly charging "system access fees" over a period of roughly 20 years. (PostMedia)
Ex-ministers in the boardrooms
TORONTO - The political shift toward consumer-focused telecom concerns has unsurprisingly attracted the attention of the large incumbent telecom providers such as Bell and Telus, who have found their regulatory plans stymied by political intervention and the admission by some CRTC commissioners that the current policy environment has failed to foster sufficient competition. (Toronto Star) Jim Prentice Stockwell Day
The public debate has made it clear that the cost to deliver a GB ranges between less than 1¢ and no more than a few cents. On that basis, Bell’s profit margin under AVP will range from 250% (8¢ cost/19.5¢ selling price) to 2850% (1¢/29.5¢ for any overage). (Financial Post) Market forces are working just fine Canadian internet costs among the world's highest
While still developing, it is becoming increasingly clear that the Internet broadcasting has made nonsense of Canadian content regulations. The answer is not to compound the problem by extending Cancon regulations to Google and Netflix, but to ease the restrictions on Canadian broadcasters. (PostMedia)
Hollywood's role in Netflix price hike
A la carte TV pricing in Quebec
Former PMO worker lobbied for Globalive
Competition is not really not un-Canadian
Clement overrules CRTC decision
'Competition' in the CRTC regulated marketplace
According to the restrictive covenant signed in 2000, the two companies divided Canada in half - Rogers in ON, QC and the Maritimes, and Shaw in MB, SK, AB and BC - and agreed not to acquire or start a new broadband wireline cable business outside their territory for a period of 10 years. (Financial Post)
Moves from customers to regulators
CTV threatens to block popular programming
CTV threatens to close local stations
Shaw to buy control of CanWest
New CRTC rules are already outdated
CRTC face regulating 'new world'
Competition the key to a broken system
More regulation Less regulations
Vertical integration Oligopoly
Quebecor shakes up wireless money tree
Lobbying central - no consumers
CRTC hearing on media landscape begins
Restrictions on foreign ownership a topic
Canadians can afford high cable fees
Good news for lawyers and lobbyists
CRTC reviewing its oversight of telecom
Regulator increase funding tax
Canadian TV stations change hands
Bell, Telus told they're on hook for rebates
How lobbyists killed the cost calculator
Cellphone industry adopts 'conduct code'
Tax could mean hike in cable TV rates
Don't make rules for managing traffic
Feud roils troubled TV industry
'We are controlling transmission'
CRTC urges networks to change tack
Giant corporations fighting over giant profits
TSN TSN2 Rogers Communications
TV tumult on the regulated dial
Role reversal on TV tax debate
Regulators set web 'throttling' rules
Why you should care about Net Neutrality
CRTC threatens 'end of broadcasting'
CRTA debates end of conventional TV
Parliament 'blackmailed' by TV industry
Cuts would shake CBC to its core
Lobbying fight over regulating your TV
Torstar makes changes after loss
Quebecor writes down newspaper assets
Bell, Rogers should catch up with the world
Licence fee police target TV on the Net
Old issues in modern TV 'crisis'
Memo from Asper to CanWest staff
The CRTC isn't a nuisance, it's a real threat
CRTC’s regulated market Big Brother
Dozens fired as CityTV pulls newscasts
Senators let big media off hook
Canadian Media Board of Directors Dec 2005
Dec. 2, 2005 Bell Globemedia sold 48.5% of its shares for $1.3 billion in cash.
Breakdown is now:
Bell Globemedia 20%
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) 20%
Ken Thomson's holding company Woodbridge Co. 40%
Board of Directors
Bell, John Kim
VP Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF)
Christmas, Bernd
CEO of the Membertou Band of Nova Scotia
Fortin, Helene
Partner Groupe HLA, Chartered Accountants
Fournier, Guy
Khosrowhahi, Nezhat
Giguere, Marie
Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary Molson Inc.
Herrndorf, Peter
McNutt, Howard
Partner Goluch Company Halifax
McQueen, Trina
Rabinovitch, Robert President & CEO CBC
Former Executive VP and COO of Claridge Inc
A wholly owned subsidiary of Power Corporation of Canada
Dassault, Laurent
Dassault Investissements Managing Director
Desmarais, André
President and Co-Chief Executive the Corporation and Deputy Chairman, Power Financial Corporation
Boards of Bertelsmann, Canada China Business Council (CCBC), CECIA, CITIC Pacific part of the CITIC Group, Great-West Lifeco Inc., Investors Group Inc.
Desmarais, Paul G.
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Corporation and of the International Advisory Council 2003
Boards of Canada China Business Council (CCBC), Great-West Lifeco Inc., Group Bruxelles Lambert (GBL), Investors Group Inc., Power Financial Corporation, Queen's Privy Council for Canada
Desmarais, Paul Jr.
Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and Chairman, Power Financial Corporation
Boards of Great-West Lifeco Inc., Group Bruxelles Lambert (GBL), Imerys, Investors Group Inc., Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, Suez, Total
Graham, Anthony R.
President, Wittington Investments Ltd, President & ECO Sumarria Inc., Former Vice Chairman National Bank Financial
Boards of Brown Thomas Group Ltd, Loblaw Companies Ltd, George Weston Ltd, Graymont Ltd, Holt, Renfrew & Co., Ltd, Power Financial Corporation, Provigo Inc., President’s Choice Financial, Selfridges & Co. Ltd.
Gratton, Robert
President & CEO Power Financial Corporation
Boards on Great-West Lifeco Inc., Investors Group Inc., Power Financial Corporation,
Mazankowski, Donald F.
Boards on Great-West Lifeco Inc., Investors Group Inc., Power Financial Corporation, Queen's Privy Council for Canada
Nickerson, Jerry E. A.
Chairman of the Board H.B. Nickerson & Sons Limited
Boards on Great-West Lifeco Inc., Power Financial Corporation
Nininger, James R.
Parizeaum, Robert
Chairman Aon Parizeau Inc..
Plessis-Bélair, Michel
Vice-Chairman and CFO of the Corporation and Executive VP & CFO Power Financial Corporation
Boards of Great-West Lifeco Inc., Group Bruxelles Lambert (GBL), Investors Group Inc., Power Financial Corporation
Rae, John A.
Executive VP, Office of the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Corporation
Director of Kasten Chase, brother of Robert (Bob) Rae
de Seze, Amaury-Daniel
Chairman & PAI Partners
Boards of BNP Paribas and Group Bruxelles Lambert (GBL),
Szathmáry, Emöke J.E.
President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Manitoba
Pitfield, P. Michael
Director Emeritus
Boards of Power Financial Corporation, Queen's Privy Council for Canada
Burns, James W.
Director Emeritus
Boards of Great-West Lifeco Inc., Investors Group Inc., Power Financial Corporation
Board of Directors
Gouin, Serge
Chairman of the Board of Directors President & CEO Quebecor Media Inc. Chairman of the Board Videotron Itee
Mulroney, Brian
Senior partner Ogilvy Renault
Chairman of the Board Quebecor World Inc.
Boards of AOL Latin America, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) Barrick Gold Corporation, Chairman of the European Strategy Board of Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, Cendant Corporation, Chairman of Forbes Global, International Advisory Councils of CITIC, Trizec Properties Inc. Member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada International Advisory Council 2003 Power Corporation of Canada
La Couture, Jean
President Services Top Management Inc.
Minzberg, Samuel
Senior Partner Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg L.L.P
Mongrain, Jean Louis
Chairman Groupe Deschenes Inc.
Neveu, Jean
Chairman of the Board Quebecor Inc. & TVA Group Inc
Peladeau, Erik
Chairman of the Board Quebecor Media Inc., Quebecor Inc., Quebecor World Inc.
Peladeau, Pierre Karl
CEO Quebecor Inc., Quebecor World Inc
Provost, Norman
Executive VP Private Equity Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec
Board of Directors
Evans, John R.
Chairman of the Board
Vice Chair NPS Pharmaceuticals/NPS Allelix Corp
Boards of Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and MMC: Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.
Babick, Don
Former National Post publisher
Clark, B. Neil
Connell, Martin P.
Private Investor
Fuller, Jack
Retired President, Tribune Publishing Company
Gold, Christina A.
President, Western Union Financial Services, Inc. & Senior Executive VP First Data Corporation
Harvey, Campbell R.
Professor Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Honderich, John
Iacobucci, Frank
Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Lanthier, J. Spencer
Marwah, Sarabjit S.
Senior Executive VP & CFO Bank of Nova Scotia
Mills, Peter W.
Osborne, Ronald W.
Prichard, J. Robert S.
President and CEO
Primis, Lance R.
Lance R. Primis & Partners LLC
Board of AvalonBay Communities, Inc., and former CEO of The New York Times
Thall, Martin E.
President & CEO of the Thall Group of Companies
In 1998, Torstar formed a strategic alliance with Sing Tao Holdings Limited. Torstar owns an approximate 50% interest in the Canadian operations of Sing Tao's media group.
"The name of Global China Group Holdings Limited has been changed to Sing Tao News Corporation Limited with immediate effect. The new URL of our corporate website is www.singtaonewscorp.com."
Board of Directors
Dattels, Timothy David
HO Chiu King, Pansy Catilina
Eldest daughter of Stanley Ho
HO Tsu Kwok, Charles
Chairman and Director
Board of Sinopec Corp. (China petroleum & chemical corporation)
JIA Hong Ping
JIM Sui Hing
KING Yun Zing, Richard
LAI Ting Yiu
LEUNG Chun Ying
LO Wing Hung
SY Wong Chor Fong
TONG Yuk Lun, Paul
TUNG Chee Chen
WONG Wai Ming
YANG Yiu Chong, Ronald Jeffrey
The various media owners do work together
"CBC and Montreal-based Power Corp., the original partners in Newsworld International, received US$155-million for Newsworld and specialty channel Trio when they were sold to Barry Diller's USA Networks in May, 2000. Mr. Diller sold out to Vivendi Universal in late 2001." CBC Watch
"Workopolis is a unique and complementary partnership of three Canadian media companies, The Globe and Mail division of Bell Globemedia, Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. and Gesca Ltd."