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CBC.ca on Wikipedia

CBC.ca examines Wikipedia and the willingness of courts and law enforcement to rely on it.

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July 5, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

CMAJ on Open Access

The Canadian Medical Association Journal offers a strong endorsement of open access for medical publishing, yet Open Medicine and the Public Library of Science rightly note that there are important differences between free access (which CMAJ provides) and open access (which it does not).

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July 4, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

The Tyee on Black and Asper

The Tyee examines some of the documents that shed light on the Canadian newspaper business posted by the U.S. Department of Justice in the Conrad Black case.

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July 4, 2007 1 comment News

Television Broadcasting Shows Significant Revenue Gains

Statistics Canada is out this morning with data on television broadcasting revenues for 2006.  Operating revenues topped $6 billion and the industry experienced the third largest annual gain over the past ten years.

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July 4, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

CRTC Releases Do-Not-Call Registry Rules

More than 18 months after legislation creating a do-not-call registry passed through the Parliamentary process, the CRTC today released the much-anticipated rules for the registry (rules here, CRTC release here, media coverage here).  As I argued just last week, this process has taken far too long and even today's announcement […]

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July 3, 2007 27 comments News