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Shaw Communications has been given the go-ahead to merge its satellite and cable operations.
In a decision released this week, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved an application by Shaw Com…
Tag: Policy
OpenMedia.ca: The Vertical Integration Elephant in the Room
Cross-posted from Mediamorphis
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OpenMedia.ca: The importance of Canada’s media economy
Editor’s note: This Policy Watch piece is a rare look at Canada’s media economy from the perspective of an academic researcher, rather than the usual commercial consultants. In this detailed entry, Winseck shows that media and the Internet—wired and …
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Our submission to the UBB proceeding: A summary
We recently made our final submission to the CRTC’s usage-based billing (also known as “UBB” or “Internet Metering”) hearing, which was brought about because of the hundreds of thousands of Canadians who raised their voices by way of the Stop The Meter…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Rogers LTE and 4G: Beyond Sales Puffery?
This blog post comes courtesy of Mike Fujimoto, PIAC’s summer student intern. I hope to add occasional pieces on the open internet from a telecom-regulatory-consumer-advocate perspective and not to make them too dull. Thanks. John Lawford, Counsel, …
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Ex-Politicos in Big Telecom Boardrooms
Cross-posted from Mediamorphis
Where do ex-politicians go when they retire? It would appear that they take up sinecure amongst the boards of directors at Canada’s leading telecom-media-Internet (TMI) companies.
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Exponential Book: Happy birthday, High-Tc. I miss you.
Twenty-five years ago, the first so-called high temperature superconductor was discovered — unexpectedly, almost out of nowhere. Suddenly, the interest of physicists all over the world in the phenomenon of superconductivity was re-ignited (click …
Continue readingArt Threat: A new generation of threats to online freedom – Report by ONI details 3rd generation strategies for online interference
Worried about how the Internet is being transformed from a creative playground into a structure for dominance and control? You should be, at least that’s the warning from the OpenNet Initative in their latest publication, Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace (2010, The MIT Press). The Internet remains one of […]
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 readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: ALEC Exposed: Center For Media and Democracy Details ALEC’s Industry-Friendly Legislation Machine
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The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has launched a new website, ALECExposed.org, to help consumers understand more about the secretive business group th…
Continue readingArt Threat: $16.8 million in arts funding goes to BC Arts Council
Last Thursday, July 7, BC’s Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, Ida Chong, announced $16.8 million in funding for the arts, to be administered through the BC Arts Council. This amount is the second-highest level received by the BC Arts Council in its history. In the announcement, Minister Chong apologized for the long delay […]
Continue readingeaves.ca: It’s the icing, not the cake: key lesson on open data for governments
At the 2010 GTEC conference I did a panel with David Strigel, the Program Manager of the Citywide Data Warehouse (CityDW) at the District of Columbia Government. During the introductory remarks David recounted the history of Washington DC’s journey to open data. Interestingly, that journey began not with open data, but with an internal problem. […]
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Fundamental guiding rules for telecom-media-Internet politics
Cross-posted from Mediamorphis
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Art Threat: Toronto theatre fest gets funding pulled – A conversation with Artistic Producer Michael Rubenfeld
Toronto’s indie theatre festival SummerWorks has recently reported that core funding from Heritage Canada has been pulled at the last minute. Given the ire the festival drew from the government over last year’s play about terrorism in Canada, those of us working in the arts are feeling a sudden chill in the collective national room. […]
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Bell gouges and lies, the Competition Bureau charges, and Canadians know that something has to change
Cross-posted from Mediamorphis
Bell was slammed with the highest fine possible today for ripping people off for bundled telecom-media-internet, $10 million. The Competition Bureau meted out the stiffest punishment it has and arrived at a settlement o…
OpenMedia.ca: NDP MPs Angus & Sandhu write to Toews: Online spying bills are "disturbing"
“The question is not whether abuse would occur, but how widespread such abuse would be,” say Angus and Sandhu in their letter to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, written in response to proposed online spying legislation (Lawful Access):
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OpenMedia.ca: Vertical Integration hearings: Bolting the barn door after the horse has already left the stable
Written for The Globe And Mail
The CRTC’s hearings on vertical integration begin Monday. For the next two weeks, this means that the four major vertically integrated media companies in Canada – Bell, Shaw, Rogers and Quebecor – could face tough q…
CalgaryLiberal: Three arguments for a Liberal think tank
If you haven’t already heard, Ed Broadbent has stated he’ll be starting a think tank (named after himself, even) in the fall. It’s a smart move–a move that the conservatives amongst many different parties have been doing for alm…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Parsons: OpenMedia.ca was the elephant in the room at the 2011 Telecom Summit
Cross-posted from Technology, Thoughts, and Trinkets
Each year Canada’s leaders in telecommunications gather at the Canadian Telecommunications Summit to talk about ongoing policy issues, articulate their concerns about Canada’s status in t…
OpenMedia.ca: The CANARIE in the coalshaft: CPC cuts funding to Internet research network
Cross-posted from Mediamorphis
I received an email this morning alerting me to something that had, well, been flying under my radar: CANARIE, or Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network as it is formally known. It appears that the Conse…