Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Joe Stiglitz discusses the link between increased inequality and the U.S.’ economic frailty: Any solution to today’s problems requires addressing the economy’s underlying weakness: a deficiency in aggregate demand. Firms won’t invest if there is no demand for their products. And one of
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The Liberal Scarf: First post in a long time, some policy discussion!
I haven’t posted in forever, so I decided to break out of the doldrums of summer by posting a policy I’m considering submitting for OYL Summer Fling on reforming Canadian Content regulations. Here it is: Whereas – Canadian music deserves to be supported and funded for both economic and cultural
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Sun News Network’s vulgar response reveals CBSC as toothless, demonstrates need for meaningful rules
This Sun News Network truck has now moved on, obviously the result of your blogger’s bullying. Below: Ezra Levant assails the CSBC. Below that: Ezra Levant comments on the passing of NDP leader Jack Layton. Below that: Well, actually, it’s pretty hard to go any lower than that. Radio and
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Sun News Network’s vulgar response reveals CBSC as toothless, demonstrates need for meaningful rules
This Sun News Network truck has now moved on, obviously the result of your blogger’s bullying. Below: Ezra Levant assails the CSBC. Below that: Ezra Levant comments on the passing of NDP leader Jack Layton. Below that: Well, actually, it’s pretty hard to go any lower than that. Radio and
Continue readingImpolitical: New CRTC chair said to be appointed any day now
There has been some buzz on an imminent CRTC chair appointment in the past week. The Globe had a report that the Harper government was leaning toward a relative unknown, a public servant by the name of Jean-Pierre Blais. This is how his appointment was characterized: “Unlike former chair Konrad
Continue readingVernon Morning Star – Service loss silences mom and daughter
This is such a sad story from my community back home and I just had to share it. A woman who is deaf and her mother who is blind were relying on a trial run of VRS (video relay system) to communicate. This was introduced by the CRTC (Canadian-Radio Television
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: On SOPA + PIPA + [Un]Lawful Access…
Millions of internet users and entrepreneurs already opposed the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act (aka SOPA and PIPA), including Google. Why NO SOPA? In case you missed it, somecanuckchick dot com went dark — along with thousands of others — on January 18, 2012 to protest SOPA
Continue readingImpolitical: Consistency on merit based appointments
In the news this past week, we have seen that Senator Leo Housakos is not thrilled with the Auditor General appointment: “Tory senator remains critical of unilingual AG appointment.” He’s against the unilingual appointment, fair enough, the job require…
Continue readingCRTC Chair Von Finckenstein stepping down in 2012
Laid low with some kind of vicious viral crud for the last 2 weeks, I missed this story. But I think it’s worth commenting on, if only because one teeny-weeny year ago there was so much gnashing of teeth over the possibility that the thuggish Steveoid Government would immediately jackboot von Finckenstein’s ass out of […]
Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your long weekend reading.- Bruce Johnstone comments on the real source of Saskatchewan’s relative economic success over the past few years – and not surprisingly, it has nothing at all to do with the Sask Party government that’s s…
Continue readingCRTC to limit ear bleed volume of commercials
It took long enough. Canadian TV is an annoying business. Mostly due to commercials. I rarely watch anything that has commercials. I’m pretty much stuck with them because I watch sports. I’ve gotten pretty good at hitting the Mute button when a commerc…
Continue readingAnother blow for Sun News Network. Loses preferred access to more than three million Canadian TV screens.
While QMI outlets like to brag about how Fox News North (AKA Sun News Network) is ‘smoking‘ its news rivals, things aren’t looking so rosy for the right wing propaganda channel. This October, the network will lose its over the air free access; it will only be seen by those subscribers whose cable company . . . → Read More: Another blow for Sun News Network. Loses preferred access to more than three million Canadian TV screens.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Michael Coren Violates CRTC Rules On Sun TV With Racist Remark
I was just reading a comment on Dr. Dawg’s Blog that makes reference to a recent appearance by Michael Coren on Brian Lilley’s show, Byline. In an interview about the London riots, Coren makes a racist comment that violates both Canadian Broadcast Stan…
Continue readingLaw is Cool: The law of telephone numbers
A few days ago, I was shopping around for a good fax service. Besides receiving faxes by email and a few other musts, I needed a stable fax number. Who can afford to lose a number after spending thousands on advertising? There is goodwill in your number. Sometimes it is catchy and easy to remember. […]
Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading…- While I agree with Murray Dobbin’s latest to a point, I’d think it’s worth clarifying exactly what kind of fight we can and should expect from the NDP over the next four years. To the extent one consid…
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: Usage Based Billing and the Liberal Approach: Andrew Moore’s Appearance at the CRTC 2011-77 Public Consultation
Rarely does one hear politeness, somber, and well versed folks speak in politics. This–this here–is a video of a talent person that encapsulates the need for change in the CRTC and the regulations that can make our information systems the b…
Continue readingeaves.ca: The Audacity of Shaw: How Canada’s Internet just got Worse
It is really, really, really hard to believe. But as bad as internet access is in Canada, it just got worse. Yesterday, Shaw Communications, a Canadian telecommunications company and internet service provider (ISP) that works mostly in Western Canada announced they are launching Movie Club, a new service to compete with Netflix. On the surface […]
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Christopher Michael points out the real problem underlying the News of the World’s scandalous demise:The Sun is either clairvoyant at predicting the results of British elections, or instrumental in determining t…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading.- Kai Nagata’s post on why he quit his job as a reporter is well worth a read in full. But let’s particularly note his observations which may apply just as much to many other jobs as to positions in the media (eve…
Continue readingArt Threat: Myth-busting the Internet: The truth about throttling, congestion and usage-based billing – New report offers scathing critique of Canadian telecoms industry
A new report challenges claims made by Canada’s largest telecommunication companies in recent disputes over Internet billing and governance. Casting An Open Net: A Leading-Edge Approach to Canada’s Digital Future, offers an at times scathing critique of telecom positions on Internet congestion, BiTorrent use, billing strategies and throttling and backs its criticisms with topnotch research […]
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