MTS Allstream Inc., Canada’s largest provider of Internet Protocol television services, said it plans “to trial” its next-gen high-speed broadband (computer) and IP (TV) services to many of its 75,000-plus subscribers in Manitoba before the end of 2008.

Bell Canada has added five French-speaking HD channels to it menu for subscribers, growing its HD tier to more than 60 outlets.

Eastlink, the fifth largest cable firm operating in Canada, has added a trio of HD channels to its original 10 high-definition outlets, and now provides a baker’s dozen of HD venues for its digital subscribers.

While some baseball markets struggle to get as many games as possible on good old, run-of-the-mill analog TV (or in the case of the newest baseball market, Washington, D.C., more than a handful of televised games all season), the Toronto Blue Jays said its Major League Baseball club will partner with Rogers Sportsnet

Unlike the United States, Canada does not have a transition plan in place for digital terrestrial television broadcasting. That, however, hasn’t stopped Canadian broadcasters from producing and distributing programming in HD, whether it be by cable, satellite or over-the-air.

The launch of the HD TV Box provides adaptive streaming in high definition without buffering

CBC Television will launch CBC HD, the network's high definition television service, broadcasting on two new digital transmitters in Toronto and Montreal with CBC HD's first HD broadcast on Saturday, March 5.