Media News Post

Tony Burman has taken flak before for being a Palestinian toady, an anti-Israeli putz afraid to call a terrorist a "terrorist." So it's no surprise that the former editor-in-chief of CBC news became a target again as the new managing director of Al Jazeera English.

National Post editorialist Jonathan Kay opined last year that even he thought it was too much that his dad had a bumper sticker that declared "Who needs Al Jazeera when you've got the CBC?" But now that Burman's gone over, Kay figures his dad will have to print up a few more. Read more »

Media Democracy Day totally kicked it this weekend at the VPL. The event was a good fit with the library, and the MDD fair - 40+ community groups set up to do community outreach and promote a more accessible media system with less corporate influence - was well attended, both by intentional MDD attendees and regular library-goers.

Read on here: http://geeksandglobaljustice.com/?p=47

Ottawa (14 May 2008) - The National Union of Public and General
Employees (NUPGE) is disappointed with today*s decision by the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to
allow Bell Canada to continue to throttling Internet access speeds to
its subscribers.

At the heart of the issue is a concern over Internet neutrality which
is the principle that all Internet traffic be treated equally,
regardless of origin, destination or the software used to create it.
There has been growing demand for Internet neutrality in Canada coming Read more »

BBC presses case for universal broadband

by: Dave West

The government should consider intervention in the market in order to ensure everyone has access to broadband internet, the BBC has said in a statement on next generation networks. Read more »

NDP calls for net neutrality

by: Peter Nowak

The NDP is urging the government to introduce net neutrality and stop Canada's large telecommunications companies from throttling internet speeds.

MP Charlie Angus, the NDP's digital spokesman, has called on Minister of Industry Jim Prentice to follow the recommendations of the Telecommunications Policy Review Panel, made in 2006, and enact legislation that will stop large internet service providers from prioritizing certain types of internet traffic. Read more »

Wireless Nomad calls on CRTC to Support Net Neutrality

by: "Damien"

Mr. Robert A. Morin
Secretary General
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0N2

Dear Mr. Morin,

Re: An application requesting certain orders directing Bell Canada to cease and desist from "throttling" its wholesale ADSL access services." Read more »