The University of Ottawa and the University of Haifa have announcedan LL.M. exchange that will grant candidates two Master of Laws degrees upon completionafter 12 months. Candidates spend the first six months at theUniversity of Ottawa, followed by four months at Haifa, and then twomore months working on a major research paper. […]
Articles by: Michael Geist
CETA Could Cost Drug Plans Billions
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No Cap on UBB Reading: Lots of Coverage of Caps and Competition
The current controversy over usage based billing, the CRTC, and Internet data caps has generated a wide range of commentary and articles over the past few days. These include: Clearing Up the Confusion Over the Caps, a column version of my post on usage based billing and the impact on […]
Solving Canada’s Uncompetitive Internet Will Take More Than CRTC Reversal
Appeared in the Toronto Star on February 6, 2011 as The Real Reason We Pay So Much For Internet Last week, public concern with Internet bandwidth caps hit a fever pitch as hundreds of thousands of Canadians signed petitions against Internet provider practices of “metering†Internet use. The government responded […]
Clearing Up the Confusion over the Caps
Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on February 4, 2011 as Clearing up the Confusion over the Caps Caps on Internet service – referred to as usage based billing (UBB) – took the political world by storm this week with over 350,000 Canadians signing a petition calling for an end to […]
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