Wawatay Communications was established in 1974 to serve First Nations people and communities of Nishnawbe Aski Nation. It does this through the distribution of a bi-weekly newspaper, daily radio programming (distributed over a network of 17 community-owned towers), television production services (airing on APTN) and a multimedia website that seeks to preserve and enhance indigenous languages and cultures of Aboriginal people in northern Ontario.

Wawatay also provides translation and interpretation services.

Wawatay and CACTUS have signed a memorandum of agreement to help Wawatay add new communications services to its service offering, including broadcast television from its existing network of 17 community-owned towers, and additional towers formerly used by TVO and the CBC. The parties will also investigate the potential to use the tower infrastructure to enhance the availability of broadband Internet in the communities served.

Outreach and ongoing development support to Wawatay are possible thanks to a grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

(English below)

La chaîne de programmation locale CCAP.Tv a vu le jour en octobre 2012 et est une division de la CCAP qui compte plus de 17 000 clients. Nous sommes diffusés en numérique standard et en HD. Pour la diffusion nous utilisons WinMedia et la production est donnée 100% en sous-Traitance. CCAP.Tv s’est aussi allié avec d’autres programmations locales du Québec et participe ainsi à un programme d’échange de contenu télévisuel. CCAP.Tv a participé à la création de ce groupe et fière du support que celui-ci apporte aux responsables de ces chaînes. CCAP.Tv s’est démarquée par la qualité et la variété de ses projets.

Babillard, plateforme de terminaux usagés, nouvelles locales, musique et plus encore! Pour en apprendre d'avantage sur CCAP.Tv ou visionner nos émissions, visitez le www.ccap.tv.

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CCAP.tv was launched in October of 2012 and is part of the CCAP community-owned cable network, with 17,000 subscribers. The programming is distributed in both SD and HD. CCAP.tv is proud to have founded a programming sharing network with other local channels around Quebec and for the quality of its productions.

For more information, please contact / Pour plus d’information nous contacter:

Cathy Edwards, Executive Director

tel: (819) 456-2237
email: cathy at timescape dot ca

Cathy Edwards used to be the Volunteer Co-ordinator and trainer at Shaw's community television channel in Calgary until 1997, the year the public was told it could no longer participate in local production. For the last several years, she has been touring the globe researching and documenting forms of community-access television. The results will be aired next year as the six-part series "My TV, Your TV, Our TV" on Canadian Learning Television, Access, the Education Station, PBS, FreeSpeech TV and Link TV.

CACTUS' board members include:

Geoff Scott (Western region)

Manager of Tricities Community TV, Port Coquitlam.

Patricia Elliott (Prairie region)

Associate professor of journalism, University of Regina.

Patrick Watt (Maritime region)

former Rogers community TV employee, and current Manager of St. Andrews Community TV in New Brunswick.

empty (Quebec)

Donna Mikeluk (Ontario)

Manager of the Schreiber Media Centre.

Ottawa (February 10, 2015) According to a complaint by Independent Community TV (ICTV) of Montreal, problems with Videotron's Montreal MAtv community channel stretch back over a decade. The CRTC's decision last week (CRTC 2015-31) appeared to agree with ICTV broadly, stating that MAtv “is not respecting the objectives of the Community television policy relating to access programming and local reflection”.

However, the Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS) doesn't think the CRTC's directive to Videotron to rectify the situation before its cable licence renewal in August of 2015 goes far enough. “Montrealers have gone without access to training, equipment and TV air time to tell their own stories for a decade,” said Catherine Edwards, CACTUS' spokesperson. “The CRTC's decision does not address ICTV's application for approval to operate the community television service in Montreal on a not-for-profit basis. ICTV filed its application following the letter of the CRTC's community channel policy.. The policy states that if a cable company does not comply with CRTC policy, a not-for-profit group within the licence area can run the community channel using the budget collected for this purpose from cable subscribers. This clause has been in CRTC policy since 2002, because Commission audits have shown chronic and systemic abuse of community TV channels by cable companies since the late 1990s.”

Laith Marouf shared ICTV's reaction to the CRTC decision: “We spent four months preparing our application, including canvassing local groups and organizations that could use a genuine community channel to get messages out. We developed a model for a fully multilingual channel that would work with indigenous and multicultural communities, to ensure Montreal would have a genuine platform for citizen dialogue. We will continue our efforts towards this goal.”

Ottawa (February 10, 2015) According to a complaint by Independent Community TV (ICTV) of Montreal, problems with Videotron's Montreal MAtv community channel stretch back over a decade. The CRTC's decision last week (CRTC 2015-31) appeared to agree with ICTV broadly, stating that MAtv “is not respecting the objectives of the Community television policy relating to access programming and local reflection”.

However, the Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS) doesn't think the CRTC's directive to Videotron to rectify the situation before its cable licence renewal in August of 2015 goes far enough. “Montrealers have gone without access to training, equipment and TV air time to tell their own stories for a decade,” said Catherine Edwards, CACTUS' spokesperson. “The CRTC's decision does not address ICTV's application for approval to operate the community television service in Montreal on a not-for-profit basis. ICTV filed its application following the letter of the CRTC's community channel policy.. The policy states that if a cable company does not comply with CRTC policy, a not-for-profit group within the licence area can run the community channel using the budget collected for this purpose from cable subscribers. This clause has been in CRTC policy since 2002, because Commission audits have shown chronic and systemic abuse of community TV channels by cable companies since the late 1990s.”

Laith Marouf shared ICTV's reaction to the CRTC decision: “We spent four months preparing our application, including canvassing local groups and organizations that could use a genuine community channel to get messages out. We developed a model for a fully multilingual channel that would work with indigenous and multicultural communities, to ensure Montreal would have a genuine platform for citizen dialogue. We will continue our efforts towards this goal.”

Ottawa (February 10, 2015) According to a complaint by Independent Community TV (ICTV) of Montreal, problems with Videotron's Montreal MAtv community channel stretch back over a decade. The CRTC's decision last week (CRTC 2015-31) appeared to agree with ICTV broadly, stating that MAtv “is not respecting the objectives of the Community television policy relating to access programming and local reflection”.

However, the Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS) doesn't think the CRTC's directive to Videotron to rectify the situation before its cable licence renewal in August of 2015 goes far enough. “Montrealers have gone without access to training, equipment and TV air time to tell their own stories for a decade,” said Catherine Edwards, CACTUS' spokesperson. “The CRTC's decision does not address ICTV's application for approval to operate the community television service in Montreal on a not-for-profit basis. ICTV filed its application following the letter of the CRTC's community channel policy.. The policy states that if a cable company does not comply with CRTC policy, a not-for-profit group within the licence area can run the community channel using the budget collected for this purpose from cable subscribers. This clause has been in CRTC policy since 2002, because Commission audits have shown chronic and systemic abuse of community TV channels by cable companies since the late 1990s.”

Laith Marouf shared ICTV's reaction to the CRTC decision: “We spent four months preparing our application, including canvassing local groups and organizations that could use a genuine community channel to get messages out. We developed a model for a fully multilingual channel that would work with indigenous and multicultural communities, to ensure Montreal would have a genuine platform for citizen dialogue. We will continue our efforts towards this goal.”

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