Posts Tagged ‘cbc’

Russell Video Clip

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Look what I found while trolling YouTube–an ancient CBC clip where Russell is being interviewed on the question of faith in a god.
(I wonder if I have the only 5-year old in town who can identify Bertrand Russell when she sees him in a YouTube clip.)

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The Warrior’s Lament

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Today I ordered a copy of Possibilities, an EP by Sierra Noble. I’d never heard of the ridiculously young Métis from Manitoba prior to today–which actually kind of surprises me–but as soon as I encountered her on the web today I knew I was going to buy the album.
What I encountered today (indirectly, via Penguin [...]

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How Did I Miss This?

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Well, apparently I missed this year’s Massey Lectures. Quite a change from last year, when I was even part of the broadcast, eh?
This may be in part because this year’s lecturer was Margaret Atwood, and I have a deep-seated and utterly irrational dislike of the woman. (I’m not saying that it’s irrational to dislike her, [...]

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Under The Covers, Up On Youtube

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Remember back in May 2007 when I mentioned my pal, musical genius Danny Michel was planning to co-host a radio show for the CBC with his pal Emm Gryner? (If you don’t remember, click back and refresh your memory)
Well the pilot for that program aired quite a while ago, but it did get picked up, [...]

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I love it

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Holy “ask and ye shall receive”, Batman!
From the CBC
The National Union of Public and General Employees, which represents more than 340,000 workers across the country, on Friday wrote to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to investigate the practice of “traffic shaping” and its impact on internet users.
“These internet service providers are, with little or [...]

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Canada Needs Some Net Neutrality Enforcement

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Did you see the news about Bell deciding that it can filter and shape traffic even carried over “wholesale” pipes to ISPs?
Users of the Canadian family-run ISP Teksavvy (which we profiled last year) have started noticing that Bell Canada is throttling traffic before it reaches wholesale partners. According to Teksavvy CEO Rocky Gaudrault, Bell has [...]

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Massey Lectures 2007: Follow-up

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

You may recall my lengthy post about attending the first of the 2007 Massey Lectures.
I just wanted to point out a couple of things about that:

Ideas is currently hosting MP3 versions of the lectures. If you subscribe to the Ideas podcast, you would already have them, but you can download them directly as they appear [...]

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City Of Words

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

I guess it’s fair to say I was a bit of weird teenager. There probably weren’t many other people my age who would rush home most nights in order to catch Ideas on the radio. But I did. I loved that show (I still enjoy it more often than not when I catch it now, [...]

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