The RIAA has recently settled a number of actions related to DRM issues. However, don’t expect them to stop. This blog has pointed out (and rightly so) that we should expect the RIAA to start to lobby the US government to impose a blanket broadband tax to penalize everyone for pirates. A similar thing was tried by the Canadian version of the RIAA. Here’s a […]
Well folks, 2008 was … interesting. I lived through what felt like Canada’s first tumble into dictatorship, thanks to Steve. I watched the opposition parties collapse into one blend of bad policy to be picked up by another dictator-wanna-be. In the media world, I’ve help initiate a media boycott against the like of Bell, Rogers and Canwest that I hope will pick up speed in […]
We know the Harpercrites hate the public and we know they hate public broadcasting even more. Maybe it was Peter Mansbridge and his ‘daring’ questioning of our repugnant leader just a few weeks ago. "Is a coalition really such a bad thing?" "Die Peter, Die". (Could it be that he really meant to say "The Peter, The"?). Anyways, this broadcast spells out that the CBC […]
Job creation by the Conservatives now total 39. 18 bloated Senate positions and 21 new seats for the province of Ontario, all in the hope that the people of Ontario will continue to be blind to the fact that Harper is blind to manufacturing in this country. And now that Mike Puffy has been assigned to a greater power , we certainly know the reason […]
Canadian mainstream media companies are not doing themselves any favours. CTV has absolved itself of any objectivity, along with friends at Canwest, calling into question the role of mainstream media in Canada. We see in their stock prices that the market doesn’t agree with them, so why do they continue to mis-lead the Canadian public? Are they simply mouthpieces for the Harper regime? Or are […]