Month: April 2016

While change is always a risk, not changing is ultimately deadly. So we should welcome the the Heritage Minister’s announcement of a policy review of broadcasting and digital industries.    (Melanie Joly, above) As always, the basic question is whether the Toronto cultural troglodytes will succeed in poisoning the Internet with a requirement to licence websites, […]

Yep, I loaded the shotgun this morning and wandered out to the fish barrel, where I blasted away at hapless statistics. It was ugly. According to the Convergence Consulting Group, 190,000 Canadians ended their ties with traditional TV in 2015. That’s an 80 per cent increase from the previous year when 105,000 people cut the cord. […]

  Yep, I loaded the shotgun this morning and wandered out to the fish barrel, where I blasted away at hapless statistics. It was ugly. According to the Convergence Consulting Group, 190,000 Canadians ended their ties with traditional TV in 2015. That’s an 80 per cent increase from the previous year when 105,000 people cut the […]

The CRTC is asking all the right questions in its Notice of Consultation on Next Generation 911. The question for me is who can answer them? First, I congratulate the Commission for the serious way in which it is approaching 9-1-1. It is holding a significant public hearing, set for January 17th, 2017. It is asking […]

The CRTC is asking all the right questions in its Notice of Consultation on Next Generation 911. The question for me is who can answer them? First, I congratulate the Commission for the serious way in which it is approaching 9-1-1. It is holding a significant public hearing, set for January 17th, 2017. It is […]