Month: January 2016

Lest you be in doubt that the CRTC believes it has authority over video delivered across the Internet, I refer you to the transcript of the hearing currently underway in Hull regarding the policy framework for local and community television. In this portion the Chairman is taking issue with the way the counsel for Cogeco, Yves […]

I have been giving thought to the invisibility of the Internet, and in particular, to the learned inability of lawyers to account for it. I mean account for it in law. For example, the CRTC made the correct decision in Bell Mobility versus Benjamin Klass. The Commission decided that a video broadcasting application which rode on Bell Mobility’s […]

A coalition of the usual suspects has published a study purporting to show that cable unbundling, which constitutes the increase of free choice by cable customers, will cost up to 15,000 jobs in the protected Canadian television content sector. What rubbish.   It is not unbundling per se; it is the ability to get programming over the […]