Music Business News: Canada

Canada’s ole launches label services division as it acquires Anthem

ole has now spent $500m on acquisitions in 11 years

Napster expands into Canada with $1 three-month deal

Service has 3m paying subscribers around the world

Another senior Universal Music Canada exec quits for Bell Media

Tyson Parker joins Randy Lennox at broadcaster

Canada’s JUNO Awards get a new Chairman, Mark Cohon

Former Canadian Football League boss will also head up CARAS and MusiCounts

Lucian Grainge poaches indie champ Remedios to run Universal Canada

Arts & Crafts co-founder jumps ship after 12 years

ole has already spent $450m on acquisitions – now it’s ramping up

Brian Holdcroft appointed in VP role

BMG signs JV with YouTube multi-channel network BroadbandTV

Windfall promises to accelerate the careers of emerging music artists

Audio streaming volume grows 127% in Canada – but YouTube is king

Video streams up 56% to 8.4bn in the country