It’s really a miscellany today. I was half-tempted to title this 88 lines about 44 links, and maybe even do it in some kind of poetic structure, but fortunately a combination of laziness and good sense prevailed.
Nice to see that former local (and HGPA-member) Brian O’Malley’s movie deal is actually happening–at least leads are being [...]
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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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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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