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The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission issued the annual Communications Monitoring Report today, presenting growth figures for Canada's telecommunications and broadcasting industries in 2009.

General trends indicated a continuous increase in mobile and broadband internet usage, while conventional television and radio stations saw a decline in revenue last year.

An Ontario Superior Court judge approved the sale of CanWest Global Communication’s entire TV assets, including its specialty programming, to Shaw Communications Inc. for $2 billion. The deal includes the transfer of highly popular channels such as Global TV, Slice, Food Network Canada and HGTV.

The approval is a required and significant step in the complete transfer of Canwest’s TV channel operations to Shaw.

In accordance to their commitment to University of Ottawa’s open access program, The University of Ottawa Press has launched an open access collection that strives to enable free and unrestricted access to scholarly research.

Upon Netflix’s announcement to bring their online video rental services to Canada, Rogers lowered the bandwidth limit on two of their data plans shortly after.

Although Rogers urges that the changes are unrelated to Netflix’s expansion to Canada, it is hard to believe that Rogers isn’t attempting to prevent competition to their On Demand Online service that already allows Canadians to view TV shows and movies on their computers and mobile devices.

If you're wondering what happened with Quebecor's attempt to imbue their upcoming Sun TV News (which has been frequently dubbed "Fox News North") with a "must carry" license for all cable and satellite providers, you shouldn't be too surprised to learn that the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has denied their request.

Agenda setting is a process whereby organizations, such as government bodies or news conglomerates, strategically select which messages and news should be conveyed to the public audience. By deciding for the public what news deserves their complete attention, more sensitive news could be deliberately excluded and neglected.

WikiLeaks is a platform for dispensing unfiltered news, generally submitted by whistle-blowers or journalists who can’t get their news published in mainstream press due to sensitive or, what news broadcasters deem as, ‘unfavourable’ news topics.