Appeared in the Toronto Star on September 4, 2006 as Education Minister's Proposal Needs a Rewrite As thousands of children across the province return to school tomorrow, nearly everyone will be asking "what did you do this summer?” If the question were posed to Education Minister Sandra Pupatello, her candid […]
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Tough Choice for CRTC in Hate Blocking Case
Appeared in the Toronto Star on August 28, 2006 as Content Blocking a Can of Worms More than a decade ago, John Gilmore, one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, coined the phrase "the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." Last week, the Canadian […]
Statscan Survey Shows Internet’s Potential and Pitfalls
Appeared in the Toronto Star on August 21, 2006 as Public Sector Should Step in if Private Can't Provide Canadian Internet policy has long been based on the principle of private sector leadership. The 2005 Canadian Internet Use Survey, released last week by Statistics Canada, suggests that the approach […]
Shades of Another Battle of Waterloo
Appeared in the Toronto Star on August 14, 2006 as Shades of Another Battle of Waterloo Appeared in the BBC on August 14, 2006 as Patent Battle over Teaching Tools A Waterloo, Ontario company spends years developing new technologies that leverage the power of the Internet. It develops a […]
Canadian Libel Law Raises Net Free Speech Chill
Appeared in the Toronto Star on July 31, 2006 as Libel Case Key For Internet Free Speech The Rivoli, a well-known Toronto club, may seem like an unusual venue to consider Internet free speech. Yet later this week, it will play host to a fundraiser in support of P2Pnet.net, a […]
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