Month: September 2017

There is a mole in the Minister’s office. Maybe she is in the Heritage Department. She (I assume it is a she) is a secret member of the Internet Society of Canada, but we do not know who she is. We give orders in code and one-time paper. She is loyal and obedient, a true […]

      Bell Canada joins Google as the latest to hop on the censorship bandwagon, although not for reasons of political correctness. With Bell it is about money, which is a small mercy. Apparently people want to leave the regulated system (Gasp! Shock!) and get free stuff. Says the CBC: Canada is a safe haven […]

  It is a sobering sight to see a company destroy its moral authority in an instant. Google’s firing of James Damore for his polite and well reasoned argument about the company’s mindset will have greater negative effect in the long run than any other action the company has taken. You are not being asked to agree with Damore. […]

    A couple of shallow and obvious data points: people continue to exit the regulated broadcasting universe, yet at the same time there has never been so much money poured into scripted television. Or should I say “television”, in the same ironic way we still “dial” a telephone? Variety reports from a US data […]