Community Guy

Earlier today, the Canadian government overturned the CRTC’s ruling that Globalive would not be permitted to operate its WIND mobile service in Canada due to its foreign ownership structure.

On October 1 2009, at Bay & King, the White Ribbon Campaign will hold an event called “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” to raise awareness around violence against women. The WRC is a non profit organization of “men working to end men’s violence against women”. To learn more, visit the walkamiletoronto.org website.

You didn’t hear the news? Neither did anybody else… Electronic Arts led a covert operation  and Canadians are only now learning of the details. The obvious tip was the Electronic Arts’ “The Sims” website where the United States of America flag refers to all of North America– including Canada. I realize that US and Canadian [...]

The CIRA elections are once again upon us I’ve done a lot of thinking about how I can help the organization over the past few years but to date have not put any of those thoughts to action. Last night I decided I would no longer watch from the sidelines and submitted my formal nomination [...]

A few months ago, I was contacted by Steve Andersen who asked me if I would donate my domain name, SaveOurNet.ca to a coalition he’s been working on with a mandate to educate consumers and businesses on the importance of Net Neutrality and to force the Canadian government to realize that we need a plan [...]

Rogers issued a VERY short press release on the iPhone launch in Canada today: TORONTO, April 29 – Ted Rogers, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rogers Communications Inc. today issued the following statement: We’re thrilled to announce that we have a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Canada later this year. We [...]

Globe and Mail’s Matt Hartley wrote an article this morning about Bell Canada packet shaping its wholesale ISP’s end customer’s data. Rocky Gaudrault, the chief executive officer of Teksavvy Solutions Inc., a Chatham based ISP with 21,000 DSL subscribers across Ontario appears to be leading the charge against Bell’s decision to throttle his customer’s Internet [...]

Mark Evans, a leading Canadian thinker about VoIP and related technology, offered up a thoughtful post yesterday titled “Deep Thoughts about VoIP’s Future in Canada“.  Mark refers to Monday’s announcement by Maxime Bernier, Minister of Industry that discusses the acceleration of “Deregulation of Local Telephone Service in the Interests of Canadian Consumers”. In his post, Evans wonders “what happens if Bell and Telus [...]