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Fired morning man Dave Wheeler suing Rogers for $1.4M

Dave Wheeler, the former 92 CITI FM Winnipeg morning man fired by Rogers in July after controversial on-air comments about transgender people, is suing the...

Vic Sarin to receive 2018 DGC Lifetime Achievement Award

Vic Sarin will be honoured with this year's Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) Lifetime Achievement Award. The Indian-born Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter is...

Torstar poised to acquire digital news site iPolitics

Torstar Corporation has announced that through one of its subsidiaries, it has signed an agreement to purchase the assets of iPolitics Inc., the Ottawa-based online...

Rogers to build 5G testbed on UBC campus

Rogers and the University of British Columbia (UBC) have announced a three year, multi-million dollar partnership to build a real-world 5G Hub on campus that will...

Sophie Dupuis’ Chien de garde to represent Canada in Oscars race

Telefilm has announced that director Sophie Dupuis' Chien de garde will represent Canada in the race for Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, to be held...

Corus Radio continues podcast to broadcast trend

Corus Radio is continuing the podcast to broadcast trend, announcing this week that its Curiouscast podcast network is partnering with Night Time, a Halifax-based...

Brother-sister duo to take over 102.1 the Edge mornings

102.1 the Edge (CFNY-FM) has revealed that brother-sister duo Ruby and Alex Carr will become the permanent hosts of the station’s morning show, beginning Jan. 2019. In what...

Youth-focused CBC Kids News and CBC News Snapchat Discovery launched

CBC News is doubling down on boosting its youth-focused content with the launch of two new digital-first news platforms for kids and young adults - CBC...

Humble & Fred return to terrestrial morning radio

Humble & Fred will return to the terrestrial morning show airwaves on Monday for the first time since 2005. For the past eight years, the...

DHX Media suffers one day stock drop of 33 per cent

Shares in Halifax-based DHX Media closed the market down Thursday more than 33 per cent, after the company issued a revenue warning. Stock in the children's...

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