Archive for the 'Canada' Category

• 4.6.08 CBC Censored in China posted in Canada

  The President of CBC has written to Chinese Ambassador Lu Shumin requesting that access to www.cbc.ca be restored.
  www.cbc.ca is hosted on Akamai, so the IPs are not blocked but “www.cbc.ca” is treated as a keyword and thus requests that contain the keyword in the GET (including host headers) request are blocked by RST packets.

• 11.10.07 Demonoid down again posted in Canada, News Monitor, Notice and Takedown

  The bittorrent tracker site demonoid.com:
  The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.
  The Register has more.

• 11.5.07 Bell Sympatico Traffic Shaping posted in Canada, Net Neutrality, News Monitor, P2P

  Bell Sympatico is now admitting to traffic shaping during peak usage periods:
  “During peak periods of Internet usage, Internet Traffic Management is used to balance bandwidth fairly between P2P file sharing and other applications so that all customers receive fair use of the network”.
  For more see P2PNET.

• 10.22.07 Canada: What Questions Get Asked? posted in Canada, Free Expression, News Monitor

  The Toronto Star has an article about the free speech ramifications of the now shelved plan to build a new press centre in which the Prime Minister would get to choose which reports — which questions — would be asked. (The Liberals under Martin tried to do this too).
  The background: Shortly after he was elected [...]

• 10.10.07 Privacy Commissioner Investigates Harper posted in Canada, News Monitor, Privacy

  The Edmonton Sun reports:

  The federal privacy commissioner is examining a public complaint over greeting cards sent from the Prime Minister’s Office specifically to Jewish constituents.
  Several recipients have reportedly questioned whether the Prime Minister’s Office used government data to pinpoint Jewish residents.

  How did the Prime Minister get a list of Jewish constituents?