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The High Cost of Canadian Wireless

The National Post featured a revealing article on the weekend featuring comments from both RIM and Google about the high prices associated with Canadian wireless services, particularly the cost of the data.  The numbers in the article point out that Canada is not even close to being competitive with countries […]

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July 8, 2007 36 comments News

CMPDA Says Back Room Lobbying Key to Movie Piracy Bill

CMPDA President Doug Frith tells the Hollywood Reporter that back-room lobbying from the Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. (Wilson) and the U.S. Ambassador to Canada (Wilkins) was very helpful in getting Bill C-59 passed.

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July 5, 2007 1 comment News

CBC.ca on Wikipedia

CBC.ca examines Wikipedia and the willingness of courts and law enforcement to rely on it.

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July 5, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

CMAJ on Open Access

The Canadian Medical Association Journal offers a strong endorsement of open access for medical publishing, yet Open Medicine and the Public Library of Science rightly note that there are important differences between free access (which CMAJ provides) and open access (which it does not).

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July 4, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

The Tyee on Black and Asper

The Tyee examines some of the documents that shed light on the Canadian newspaper business posted by the U.S. Department of Justice in the Conrad Black case.

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July 4, 2007 1 comment News