Michael Geist writes about the lack of transparency surround the traffic shaping conducted by Canadian ISPs. A recent survey found that most Canadians are unaware of net neutrality issues but support net neutrality principles when informed.
Most Canadians can hardly be faulted for being unaware of the issue since ISPs have done their best to keep [...]
October 10th 2007 
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The Toronto Star reports that the Canadian government plans to tighten up efforts to fight identity theft by adding amendments to the Criminal Code:
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson was short on details on the severity of the amendments but said sharpening the Criminal Code will give police better tools to combat the rapidly growing theft trend [...]
October 3rd 2007 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
Stan Hall was angry at his lawyer and posted a rant about it on YouTube. An Ontario judge has ruled that the video must be removed:
Superior Court Justice William Jenkins reviewed the computer postings.
“I find that it includes unproven allegations that Mr. Ledroit and his law firm are incompetent and dishonest,” Jenkins said in [...]
September 12th 2007 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
The Ottawa Business Journal is reporting that Canadian ISP’s are “throttling” or “traffic shaping” in order to prioritize traffic. The primary target is actually to degrade performance for bittorrent traffic.
In Canada, Rogers and Shaw in Vancouver have responded by reducing the high speed of users downloading and uploading (or seeding) torrents. Rogers admitted to [...]
September 8th 2007 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
An Australian comedy group impersonated the Canadian delegation to APEC and managed to drive their motorcade into a restricted area before they were arrested:
Eleven of the pretend Canadians — all cast or crew from the satirical Australian television show The Chaser’s War on Everything, including one comic in an Osama bin Laden get-up — were [...]
September 7th 2007 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
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