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Culture Cuts a Blow to Canadian Digitization Strategy

Appeared in the Toronto Star on August 25, 2008 as Culture Cuts Deal Blow to Digitization Strategy The Canadian cultural community has been abuzz over the past two weeks as details emerge about the government's plans to cut millions of dollars from nearly a dozen culture programs. While the cuts […]

August 26, 2008 — 1 comment — Columns Archive

Bell’s PVR Legal Woes the Tip of the C-61 Iceberg

Appeared on August 18, 2008 as PVR, Bill C-61 Might Soon Make You An Outlaw Canadians watching the Olympic coverage from Beijing can hardly have missed the Bell commercial touting a new digital video recorder that features an external hard drive permitting users to "record forever." The archiving functionality may […]

August 18, 2008 — Comments are Disabled — Columns Archive

Text-Message Fight Obscures Real Consumer Costs

Appeared in the Toronto Star on August 11, 2008 as Text-Message Spat Obscures Costlier Issues Of all the recent controversies involving Canada’s wireless carriers – and there have been many – the fight over the 15-cent charge for the receipt of text messages must surely rank as the most puzzling. […]

August 11, 2008 — Comments are Disabled — Columns Archive

CRTC Says iOptOut Requests “Valid and Should be Honoured”

Appeared in the Toronto Star on August 4, 2008 as Get Online Help to Override Do-Not-Call Exemptions The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission's announcement last week that the national do-not-call registry (DNC) will be operational by September 30th generated a collective sigh of relief from Canadians tired of unwanted telemarketing […]

August 4, 2008 — Comments are Disabled — Columns Archive

Public Left Out Of ACTA Talks

Appeared in the Toronto Star on July 28, 2008 as Public Left Out of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Talks Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the leaders of G8 countries closed their recent summit in Hokkaido, Japan by encouraging "the acceleration of negotiations to establish a new international legal framework, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade […]

July 28, 2008 — 4 comments — Columns Archive