Advocacy and Strategies
Bell's Application for Bilingual Community Channels in Ottawa and Montreal
CACTUS' intervention to Bell's application to retain 4% of its revenues to offer bilingual community channels in Ottawa and Montreal.
Submission to CRTC by Steering Committee for ICTV Montreal
This is a letter to the CRTC from a citizen group calling itself the Steering Committee for Independent Community TV in Montreal, asking the CRTC to delay a decision on Videotron's request for a second community TV channel in Montreal (in English), while it develops a model for community TV that would be open to the whole community.
This letter was submitted on October 7th, 2013.
Draft Powerpoint
Dec. 2012 Letter to CRTC Regarding 2011 Cable Community TV Audit
This letter is a response to a June 21st, 2012 letter from CRTC staff regarding the audit done by the CRTC in March of 2011 of selected cable community channels. The letter requests a Commission decision about the findings.
CACTUS Intervention to Bell-Astral Purchase Hearing
Click the link below to read CACTUS' hearing presentation before the CRTC regarding the application by BCE to purchase the assets of Astral (CRTC 2012-370).
CACTUS Submission to CRTC 2012-0509-7 (CBC Analog Shutdown)
LPIF Principles
A set of principles signed by ten industry groups to guide the operation of the Local Programming Improvement Fund (LPIF or FAPL in French). The principles were included with these group's submissions to the 2012 review of the LPIF.
Le ressource est disponible dans les deux langues officielles.
CACTUS' LPIF Submission to the CRTC
CACTUS' Written Submission to the CRTC's 2012 Consultation to Review the Local Programming Improvement Fund (LPIF or FAPL in French)
The Transition to Digital Over-the-Air Television: New Opportunities
CACTUS Brief for the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage Nov. 2010
The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage conducted a study in the fall of 2010 into the role of the CBC, small and independent broadcasters, and new media platforms in an environment of increasing media ownership concentration.
CACTUS presented both the challenges to community broadcasters of this environment as well as the important role the community sector could play to address these challenges.
