Global: CRTC scrutinizes internet pricing
By Rebecca Lindell for Global GATINEAU, Que. – Bell Canada is asking Canada’s federal telecommunications regulator to adopt a new usage-based billing plan in a process set to change the…
By Rebecca Lindell for Global GATINEAU, Que. – Bell Canada is asking Canada’s federal telecommunications regulator to adopt a new usage-based billing plan in a process set to change the…
It makes sense. You tell kids they can't do something, they will try to find a way to do it. The trouble with the sex negative and abstinence-only education is…
The latest cartoon from Gerry Hummel - referencing the Joint Panel Review for the hugely controversial proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. Rules defining public participation were recently announced by the…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about signals. About how signals are more often than not ambiguous and/or prone to interpretation. Signals are everywhere; everything that commutes meaning or conveys…
Help Media Matters petition for a Congressional review of Rupert Murdoch's media empire and manipulation of the public.
Issue of the DayMuch of the day's debate was taken up with the final debate on the Cons' budget legislation, with the NDP particularly highlighting provisions to subsidize private mortgage…
Time to juxtapose, photos this time. Click for links. Has it really come to this?...
Lots of people hoped that everything would return to normal after the dictator Mubarak abdicated. They hoped that once the face at the top was changed people would be happy.…
AllTheGougingThatFitsSatirizeThisVilleIn the wake of the recent revelations about BC Ferries' Bossman David Hahn's gold-plated anchor around our collective necks, we were surprised to find that we'd missed this little item:Please…
Monday, July 11, marked the beginning of a two-week-long CRTC hearing on Internet metering. This is the result of your signing our online petition, your engagement with Internet openness and…
Firstly, I have to give Macleans credit for getting it right most of the time at least in terms of University rankings, but in the following case there is some…
Found on the front page of Dkos today..... original from the prorogue.... And it has me grinning....Bwhahahahaha! That sweater vest is still as smarmy and unsettling as ever.
CBC Search Engine's Jesse Brown interviews Jacob Glick, the Canada Policy Counsel for Google, about the CRTC's "fact finding mission" on Over-The-Top content (e.g. online video): read more
Ok, this proves StatsCan has lost its way!!! Actually, it probably shows the economy is still in bad shape and there are a lot of unemployed and underemployed: http://bit.ly/odjTnP http://bit.ly/odjTnP…
The Ontario Liberals are taking the gloves off, with a very impressive attack ad. This morning I heard some reaction from the Progressive Conservatives, calling the ad a "sign of…
Try Molleindustria a web site that hosts a gaggle of free and generally amusing progressive computer games. Among the offerings are:Leaky World, a playable theory, described as an interactive interpretation…
Each afternoon I’m going to post a video of some classic comedy bits. This one always made me laugh, though there is so much more to do with Noah. (You…
I actually like this one. For one thing, it accentuates Tim Hudak's propensity to dorky expressions. Secondly, the reviews really have been that bad. The ad doesn't even get to…
Severe drought is becoming commonplace around the world. Even the southern United States has been hard hit from Georgia and Florida to Arizona and California. Brasil's Amazon rainforest isn't being…