One of the reasons I’ve been hanging out more in the physical world is that I was working on the submission of the Community Radio Fund of Canada (CRFC) to the CRTC Policy Review for our sector. One month and 22 pages later, here we are. And more than 100 stations, organizations, private broadcasters, governement [...]
Posts Tagged ‘culture’
CRTC Policy Review news for Campus and Community Radio
Posted in radio, tagged community-media, crfc, crtc, culture, funding, media, policy, politics, radio, radiofund on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Net Neutrality News
Posted in the net, tagged crtc, culture, media-democracy, net-neutrality, policy, politics on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I like to keep an eye on things around Net Neutrality, but I will certainly leave it to the experts to put forth some thoughts and opinions about the recent CRTC Decision on this issue. CRTC Sets Net Neutrality Framework But Leaves Guarantees More Complaints Michael Geist Wednesday October 21, 2009 The CRTC’s net neutrality [...]
Will They or Won’t They – Canadian feds could sell CBC, NAC, VIA
Posted in culture, government, media, tagged cbc, culture, media, media-democracy, politics on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been a little busy these days and have not been following a lot, but someone posted this on Facebook (thanks Barry Rueger). This article is primarily quoting Canwest and Mcleans. This is something we should keep our eyes on, I think. If there is any chance for public input, we should all take advantage. [...]
Did You Know . . .
Posted in life, tagged culture, environment, life on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favourite blogs is The Best Article Every Day. For March 31, they posted a great little video geared to make you think and offer a little perspective. I’m not sure if all of the facts are 100% spot on, so you might want to fact check before you start quoting anything. But [...]
November 28 – Buy Nothing Day
Posted in culture, environment, life, tagged buy-nothing-day, culture, environment, media-democracy on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you are not familiar with Adbusters and care about the “erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces”, find out more now. But Nothing Day was born in 1992 and adopted by environmentalists, but has since grown into an international campaign. And this year, Buy Noting Day is looking at the current [...]
