The CRTC bought Bell’s two-step hook, line and stinker, snapping their own credibility so thoroughly as to turn Tony Clement into something few ever thought would be possible: a folk hero.
Keep ReadingEveryone, including the CBC, always pledges that they’ll negotiate in good faith to create them, but ’casters are so powerful that nothing can really compel them to come the table and stay
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Keep ReadingI strongly urge the forming of a national digital panel, one that will bring together leading players from all sectors to begin to think through the long-term issues related to the development
Keep ReadingTaxing us to plug the dyke not only infuriates for the cynical grab that it is, but insults us as well for the waste of money it will become.
Keep ReadingWhat a time it’s been for private Canadian broadcasters. Here they are, in the midst of a mini depression, on the ropes from falling ad revenue, and swimming in debt.
Keep ReadingThe CRTC know they’ve got to come up with a less monopolistic map of our broadcast and new media world and create conditions for new players to enter the field.
Keep ReadingThe CRTC has little choice but to get involved, perhaps kicking and screaming, in the nether world of the Internet.
Keep ReadingThe storm of protest caused by that dry-as-dust technical omnibus document, Bill C-10, shows how Canadian filmmakers rally the troops.
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