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Canadian IP and Counterfeiting Caucus Gaining Traction

The IP and Counterfeiting Caucus promoted by Liberal MP Dan McTeague appears to be gaining traction. The first meeting is set for next Wednesday with a visit to the U.S. presumably not far behind.

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November 8, 2007 1 comment News

JD Power Survey Finds Canadians Unhappy With Wireless

JD Power has released a survey that unsurprisingly finds that Canadians are unhappy with their choice of wireless services, particularly with respect to price competitiveness.

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November 8, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Statistics Canada Reports Canadian Music Industry Turning Healthy Profit

The official Canadian Music Week won't take place until March in Toronto, but this week the Canadian government has staged its own Canadian music week.  Days after the release of the Industry Canada commissioned study on the correlation between P2P and CD sales, Statistics Canada has just released a report […]

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November 7, 2007 11 comments News

McMurdy on Verner’s CAB Speech

Dierdre McMurdy covers Canadian Heritage Minister Josee Verner's speech yesterday to the CAB, noting that new fees for over-the-air television is a longshot and that a new copyright bill is about six weeks away.

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November 7, 2007 2 comments News

Bell and Traffic Shaping

Many people have written to note that new reports from P2Pnet, Ars Technica, and Technaute.com indicate that Bell has admitted that it is traffic shaping peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent.  I argued a couple of weeks ago that the starting point to address these issues is for far greater transparency […]

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November 7, 2007 7 comments News