The future of the CBC debated

Kudos to the folks at Newslab.ca for posting a link to the following clip.

Featured is Peter Mansbridge, anchor of CBC's The National, who hosts a panel discussion regarding the future of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, its programming and most controversially, its funding:

Listen to Campaign For Democratic Media audio PSA

Special thanks to CJSF Radio, and NRCA

In a recent poll conducted by The Globe & Mail (retrieved on April 13 2008), when asked the question:

"Third party Internet providers are up in arms because of a new Bell high-speed Internet policy that slows service to some of their customers.
Do you think ISPs that sell bandwidth to third parties have the right to "shape" that bandwidth?"

Here is a series of charts which demonstrate the effect of Bell's traffic shaping ("throttling") on internet traffic. P2P traffic is now down significantly.

Watch this hilarious video about serious impending changes to Canadian
copyright law.

As some may remember from our Community Media Now Campaign, the CRTC is reviewing an application by the non-profit Community Media Education Society (C.M.E.S) to provide a community channel for Telus TV subscribers in British Columbia and Alberta. Brock MacLachlan, Lynda Leonard, and Richard Ward from C.M.E.S. recently made their case before the CRTC in Kelowna on November 1.