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Ten Questions for Industry Minister Prentice

Appeared in the Hill Times on December 10, 2007 as Ten Questions for Industry Minister Prentice In anticipation of the forthcoming copyright bill, the CBC Radio program Search Engine recently conducted an innovative experiment by asking its listeners to post questions about the bill for Industry Minister Jim Prentice. What […]

December 10, 2007 — 5 comments — Columns Archive

Cellphone Spectrum Set-Aside Simply Step One

Appeared in the Toronto Star on December 3, 2007 as Cellphone Spectrum Auction Only First Step Following months of intense telecom lobbying, Industry Minister Jim Prentice took to the podium last week at a Toronto hotel and unveiled the government's policy on the forthcoming spectrum auction. Dismissing misleading claims of […]

December 3, 2007 — 3 comments — Columns Archive

Private Email Not Always Hush Hush

Appeared in the Toronto Star on November 26, 2007 as Private Email Is Not Always Hush Hush Appeared in the Tyee on November 27, 2007 as Private E-mail Not Hush Hush This past September, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency launched "Operation Raw Deal", an initiative that targeted people purchasing raw […]

November 26, 2007 — Comments are Disabled — Columns Archive

All I Want For Christmas is a Legal TiVo

Appeared in the Toronto Star on November 19, 2007 as All I Want For Christmas Is a Legal TiVo Appeared in the Tyee on November 20, 2007 as Slaves to TV Ads? Michael Powell, the former Chair of the United States Federal Communications Commission, received his first TiVo, a popular […]

November 19, 2007 — Comments are Disabled — Columns Archive

Canada’s Digital Info Strategy Stuck in an Analog World

Appeared in the Toronto Star on November 12, 2007 as Digitization Strategy Stuck in a Time Warp Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on November 13, 2007 as Canada Has To Move Its Digital Strategy out of the Analog World Appeared in the Thyee on November 13, 2007 as Digitize Our […]

November 13, 2007 — Comments are Disabled — Columns Archive