Weekly News July 15th

July 15, 2017 Brittany Green

Upcoming Events

Week of July 17-23th

No planned events happening this week

Upcoming Events

Canadian House of Commons: not in session; returns September 18, 2017
Senate of Canada: not in session; returns September 19, 2017

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News, Decisions & Releases

CRTC Decisions

[TELECOM] Telecom Order CRTC 2017-242: Bell Aliant Reginal Communications, Limited Partnership- Local channel rates application
[TELECOM] Telecom Regulatory Policy CRTC 207-11-1: Application of Regulatory Obligations directly to noncarriers offering and providing telecommunications services
[TELECOM] Telecom Order CRTC 2017-247: Northwestel inc.- Interim approval of a tariff application
[BROADCASTING] Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2017-251: Rogers Media Inc., on behalf of Tillsonburg Broadcasting Company Limited
[TELECOM] The CRTC’s Wireless Code

Canadian Heritage

The Governor General Designate

Intellectual Property Office

[COPYRIGHT] New Zealand and Colombia join the Global Patent Prosecution Highway

Top News Stories

Top News Canada

[CISIS] $35M lawsuit alleges racist, sexist and homophobic discrimination at CSIS (CBC)
[COPYRIGHT] Ignoring the Supreme Court: Federal Court Judge Hands Access Copyright Fair Dealing Victory (Michael Geist)
[NET NEUTRALITY] Toward an Open and Innovative Internet: What Lies Behind Canada’s Net Neutrality Success Story (Micheal Geist)
[TELECOM] It’s Time We Put Emergency Alerts in Every Canadian’s Pocket (Huffington Post)
[TELECOM] TELUS and RingCentral expand portfolio of cloud communications solutions to keep Canadian businesses connected (Cantech letter)

Top News International

[TELECOM] FCC Grants Arycom License to Operate in the US (Satellite Today)
[TELECOM] Amazon and WhatsApp almost as bad as US telcos at protecting privacy: EFF (ZD Net)
[NET NEUTRALITY] Tech companies go big and small for net neutrality protest (CNN)
[NET NEUTRALITY] Web Firms Protest Efforts to Roll Back Net Neutrality (The Wall Street Journal)
[COPYRIGHT] No monkeying around: Court weighs if animal owns its selfies (News.com)
[COPYRIGHT] United States Supreme Court decision in impression products Inc. v lexmark International Inc. (Lexology)
[TELECOM] Telecoms Group Altice to Launch Online Bank in Europe: Source (US News)
[PRIVACY] Australia to compel chat apps to hand over encrypted messages (Telecom Economic Times)
[CENSORSHIP] Raising the Great Firewall Too High (Bloomberg Press)