Canada's spy agencies want access to your encrypted communication, and they have a ploy to get it without going through Parliament. Australia is where the action is taking place since she has fewer constitutional protections for privacy. The 2018 Assistance and Access...
The US government is pressuring Canada to block telecommunications companies from using equipment provided by Huawei, a Chinese company, when building our 5G cellular network for smartphones. Their logic is along the lines of “we don’t have actual evidence that China...
Within the traditionally-sacred walls of our homes we felt secure that we were hidden from the prying eyes of peeping Toms. Once your curtains were drawn and the door shut, you feel a sense of quiet and a feeling that you were now in your own space, saying and doing...
State digital currencies, those that attempt to emulate private cryptocurrencies, are doomed to fail. Not only will they fail in terms of adoption, despite having the state behind them, they will fail in terms of the objectives that drive alternative currencies. The...
While it’s not the same minute-by-minute data provided by the Alberta Electric System Operator for their grid, SaskPower has begun breaking down where its power is coming from on a daily basis. And the data from Oct. 3 and 4 showed wind generated an average of just...
Executive Summary The various federal political parties are all promoting the policy agendas they believe will foster a sustainably high quality of life for all Canadians. It remains to be seen whether they will attain the success that they aim to achieve. In some...
One problem I have with the current Ottawa discussion about the need to stimulate innovation is the automatic assumption that innovation can be measured in R&D investment.
The BBC on Thursday used Kodak’s recent Chapter 11 filing to send a warning to service providers: do not fall into the trap of marginalising innovative technologies over fears it will cannibalise your core business.
Slowly but surely there is a push back against excessive patent protection around the world. This case in India is one more example
The way I heard it on Radio Canada (French CBC) in my car Bell paid a 39% premium on the share price to buy Astral Media. Astral worked the Canadian broadcasting system very very well. Now Bell owns it. Does anyone else remember Bell's acquisition of Daon...
IC also released a document called, "Proposed Revisions to the Frameworks for Mandatory Roaming and Antenna Tower and Site Sharing" More information to digest to evaluate the competitive framework. So far, one of the new entrants from the previous round, Mobilicity,...
The growth of internet video and music sites are growing. Sites like Netflix and Rogers Anyplace TV are making a splash in Canada. But why don’t Canadians have access to other sites such as Hulu and Pandora? The answer is a combination of regulation and ownership issues. Until there are changes made to the way distribution rights are negotiated, many of these services will remain unavailable to Canadians.
Industry Canada released two long-awaited telecom decisions yesterday. New foreign ownership rules and also the structure of the next spectrum auction, both key to the development of mobile wireless....
Exciting changes are happening in the pricing for mobile phone services and the direction is down. The biggest noise is coming from France where “Free” launched a service for 20 Euros per month - a shocking challenge to the market leaders that has France abuzz and is...
Ensure that every resident in the USA has access to a 1 Gigabit per second broadband connection by 2020.