Globe and Mail Update February 7, 2008

This week, in a government building in Gatineau, Que., our federal broadcasting regulator meets to hear arguments from broadcasters, filmmakers, actors, television producers, cable companies and other players in Canada’s TV business. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, January/February 2008 issue

Since its inception the Internet has promised an extraordinary opportunity for a huge array of communicative activity. People have new ways of communicating directly with one another and independent media producers can distribute their content cheaply. More information seems to be more available to more people every day. The open Internet is also an organizing tool for many civil-society groups, and here it is an especially exciting space for innovation and experimentation. However, we would be naive to take this medium for granted at a time when we are on the cusp of losing the open Internet. Major Internet service providers (ISPs) are hoping they can increase their current high level of profitability by becoming Internet gatekeepers. (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail Update January 15, 2008

Canada’s broadcast regulator has put in place new rules on media ownership in Canada that will restrict how big the country’s broadcasters can get, following a year of unprecedented deals in the sector. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, January/February 2008

On New Year’s Day, 2003, few crystal-ball gazers predicted that during that year an estimated three million Americans would contact politicians or sign petitions on — what? The Iraq war? Global warming? (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press Dec 12 2007

THERE’S a parallel scandal to Karlheinz Schreiber, Brian Mulroney and envelopes containing $300,000 in cash changing hands in hotel rooms. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension Magazine, November/December 2007

Progressive-minded Canadians have long been concerned that private media concentration threatens democratic values. In June, 2006, even the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications Report on the Canadian News Media warned that there are “areas where the concentration of ownership has reached levels that few other countries would consider acceptable.” (Keep reading…)

Rabble.ca September 25, 2007

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) began hearings aimed at setting new policies for media consolidation and diversity last week. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Press September 16, 2007

OTTAWA (CP) - The Conservative government is facing charges of political meddling in the selection process for a new president and chief of news operations at the CBC. (Keep reading…)

Democracy Now.org August 7, 2007

Transcript of John Pilger, speaking during the Socialism 2007 conference in Chicago. (Keep reading…)

Published: July 3, 2007 TheTyee.ca

Among other things — high drama, low journalism — Conrad Black’s fraud trial in Chicago has provided a rare inside glimpse into the divvying up of much of this country’s news media seven years ago. (Keep reading…)