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In February 2019, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (“CRTC” or “Commission”), issued Telecom Notice of Consultation 2019-57 for the purpose of initiating a broad review of mobile wireless services and their associated regulatory framework. The Commission indicated that the review would focus on three key areas, including the future of mobile wireless services in Canada, with a focus on reducing barriers to infrastructure deployment. In inviting comments on the matter, an access issue arose which asked whether the CRTC's jurisdiction over access to municipal infrastructure extended to the installation of 5G small cells. This required the Commission to interpret the term “transmission line” in s. 43 of the Telecommunications Act, S.C. 1993, c. 38. The term “transmission line” is found in the Act's access regime. The access regime authorizes carriers like the appellants to go onto public property to construct, maintain, or operate “transmission lines” with the consent of municipalities. Where terms of access cannot be agreed upon, s. 43(5) accords the CRTC the essentially adjudicative role of considering applications from, and providing redress to, public service providers who cannot gain access to the supporting structure of a transmission line on terms acceptable to them. In the CRTC's view, “transmission line” could not include small cells or any technologies that transmit telecommunications wirelessly such that it did not have jurisdiction to resolve disputes in this area by way of the access regime. The Federal Court of Appeal confirmed this interpretation, and dismissed the appeal brought by Telus Communications Inc. Argued Date 2024-10-16 Keywords Administrative law — Appeals — Boards and tribunals — Regulatory boards — Jurisdiction — Wireless services — Deployment of 5G network — Access regime to public and other property — Transmission lines — CRTC determining that it lacks jurisdiction over carriers' access to municipal infrastructure for the installation of 5G small cells — Application of access regime to 5G small cells turning on interpretation of “transmission line” under Act — Does wireless transmission infrastructure (e.g., 5G small cells) constitute, or is it an integral part of, a “transmission line” within the meaning of s. 43 of the Telecommunications Act, SC 1993, c. 38? Notes (Federal) (Civil) (By Leave) Language English Audio Disclaimers This podcast is created as a public service to promote public access and awareness of the workings of Canada's highest court. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Court. The original version of this hearing may be found on the Supreme Court of Canada's website. The above case summary was prepared by the Office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada (Law Branch).

In this episode of the 'For The Love Of Emails' podcast, we're honored to host Steven Harroun, Chief Compliance and Enforcement Officer at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), alongside our esteemed host Matthew Vernhout, VP of Deliverability at Netcore. With Steven's wealth of experience in compliance and enforcement, particularly in telecommunications and electronic commerce, we delve into how the CRTC safeguards Canadians from digital threats, including email and SMS, while exploring the nuances of Canadian anti-spam legislation. In this podcast, they discussed: A brief description of the CRTC's role and how it operates within the digital space. Tips that marketers are missing that would be beneficial for enhancing email and SMS marketing security Cold outreach for business relationship building. Recent CRTC enforcement and their implications – beneficial for marketers to hear. Google and Yahoo authentication changes and its importance for brands and marketers. Common patterns and trends identified in the digital marketing cyber security space. What's next on the horizon from the CRTC's point of view when it comes to digital communication?  

In this interview, Peter Menzies, Senior Fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, former newspaper executive and past vice chair of the CRTC, discusses the state of the media in Canada. Menzies talks about how the industry is at a point where it needs to adapt or die, how it got to this point, who is to blame, the federal government online legislation, the CBC, and the growth of alternative news publications. Below is a column Menzies wrote for The Hub. By Peter Menzies, November 22, 2023 Twenty years ago, it should have been obvious to all that the jig was up for newspapers and journalism was going to need a new ride. Print had a good run—almost 600 years—but the invention by Tim Berners-Lee of the World Wide Web meant the era of massive presses and the power they bestowed on their owners was coming to an end. The only question, once Craigslist and Kijiji began boring holes in classified advertising, the economic foundation of newspapers, was whether there would even be time to save the furniture. Since the turn of the century, there have only been two alternatives for legacy news organizations: adapt or die. While there has been some evidence of success in terms of the former, public policy support has ignored new ideas in favour of propping up the ones everyone knows won't make it. The results have ranged from inconsequential to catastrophic. In Canada, as author and academic Marc Edge has detailed in his most recent book, The Postmedia Effect, the possibilities for newspapers to adapt have been severely limited by the nation's largest and dominant chain's business and ownership structures. Thousands of jobs have been cut to ensure high-interest debt payments can be made to its U.S. hedge fund owners. Easy to blame management, one supposes, but hedge funds gotta hedge and the primary fault for the mess that is Canada's news industry belongs squarely at the door of the nation's public policymakers. Sadly, outdated foreign ownership regulations restricted the supply of qualified buyers for media organizations, which depressed the cost of acquiring newspapers to a level that facilitated their acquisition en masse by Southam, then Hollinger, then Canwest, then Postmedia. With every step, competition was suppressed through increasingly consolidated ownership only to find the nation's largest newspaper chain owned by Americans. You can't make that up. Piling on, the Competition Bureau in 2015 inexplicably approved Postmedia's acquisition of Quebecor (Sun) Media's newspapers based on the “lack of close rivalry” between newspapers such as the Calgary Herald and the Calgary Sun and “the incentive for the merged entity to retain readership and maintain editorial quality in order to continue to attract advertisers.” All said with a straight face. Anyone who had actually worked in the business—I put in shifts at both the Calgary Sun and the Calgary Herald in their halcyon days—would know that this is sheer nonsense justified only by the extreme narrowness of the analysis the Bureau undertook. Today, the only distinguishable difference in content between the Herald and the Sun is that Don Braid writes a column for the Herald, and Rick Bell writes one for the Sun—a pretense of competition that appears to have allowed both to extend their careers well beyond those of thousands of their colleagues. “No solutions can be found until the issue of the CBC is dealt with.” Thirty years ago, Bell and Braid shared more than 250 newsroom colleagues covering events in a city of fewer than 800,000 people. Today, reflective of their business's demise, a couple of dozen survivors cling to the Herald/Sun lifeboat in a city approaching 1.5 million. Their presses and even their buildings have been sold to feed the hedge fund. Implementation of policies designed to sustain business models that produce results such as these in the hope of “saving journalism” is self-evidently unwise. We live at a time when innovation and entrepreneurship—virtues that are fuelled by competition and suppressed by consolidation—are desperately needed. While those are clearly lacking in the newspaper industry (laudable exceptions apply at the Globe and Mail, Le Devoir, and a plethora of digital startups) it's just as unlikely journalism can find salvation in the arms of Canada's heavily regulated broadcasting industry. For it, with exceptions acknowledged, the provision of news has always been primarily a regulatory obligation and not a core business proposition. Broadcasters are in the business of entertaining people with music, drama, chat, and related programming and have long acknowledged there is little or no money in them for news. All too often, it's just regulatory rent. For those who may believe, though, the ponderous regulatory processes in place at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) make the entrepreneurship and innovation needed to adapt in an era of massive technological change almost impossible. But all that is now as may be. Rear view mirrors may help protect from encroaching harms but they are not at all useful in terms of actually going places. And journalism clearly needs a new car and new drivers if it is to thrive as a public good. Any doubt that societies require trustworthy and shared sources of information to maintain a peaceful social compact should have been erased by the events of the past few weeks. It is clear from the protests and virulent antisemitism that erupted in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel that large numbers of Canadians are forming their opinions based not on differing interpretations of the facts but on very incompatible understandings of current reality. In these circumstances, and in this instance at least, the common ground necessary to establish a healthy public square of ideas simply doesn't exist. Without such a venue, societies collapse into warring tribes. But before we can even begin to explore the complexity of THAT problem, there needs to be a sustainable path forward for fair, balanced, and accurate news gathering and delivery. The federal government's best efforts to make that happen have been disastrous. The Online News Act has done more harm than good, with news providers losing access to audiences through Facebook and Instagram while an even more disastrous Google news boycott hovers menacingly over the industry. The five-year-old journalism labour tax credit hasn't stopped newsrooms from continuing to shrink. And while the Local Journalism Initiative has created temporary employment opportunities in news “deserts”, it didn't stop the Alaska Highway News, as just one example, from folding last month. Worse, there is increasing evidence to suggest that the more the public becomes aware of direct government funding to journalism organizations, the less likely it is to trust those organizations and label reporters as toadies with labels such as “#JustinJournos.” Should the government change, they would no doubt be #Pierre'sPravda. None of this ends well. What Canada desperately needs instead is a multi-pronged, coordinated national strategy based on current economic and market realities that will allow journalism to flourish again. A few months ago, Konrad von Finckenstein and I tried to get the ideas rolling with our policy paper for the Macdonald Laurier Institute, “And Now, The News”. Its two flashiest recommendations called for the establishment of a truly independent journalism sustainability fund supported by contributions from web giants such as Meta, Google, and others and, vitally, the de-commercialization of the CBC. The CBC, already government-funded, would not be eligible to draw from this fund, which we proposed should be supported by reasonable levies on tech companies and would only be available to companies whose primary business is the production of news. I have some sympathy for those who would argue that such a fund would best be used to support entrepreneurship as opposed to simply propping up what commentator Jen Gerson has labelled “zombie” newspapers that refuse to either adapt or die. But our proposal would nevertheless eschew such distinctions and make the fund accessible to all industry-verified news organizations solely on a per capita/journalist basis. News providers would still be free to make deals with social media to build readership and make other commercial deals with digital platforms as both parties see fit. But that, on its own, doesn't solve the problem. In fact, no solutions can be found until the issue of the CBC is dealt with. It is one thing to have a public broadcaster. But today's CBC is not that. It has evolved into a publicly funded commercial broadcaster and online content provider. Even its radio content, while broadcast free of advertising over the air, is repurposed to build online audiences and revenue in direct competition with news startups and legacy media attempting to transition into vibrant digital platforms. No industry can survive, let alone prosper, when the government subsidizes one commercial entity—in this case with $1.2 billion annually—to the detriment of all others. There certainly can be an important role for a national, truly public news provider. But CBC must be de-commercialized everywhere it operates, its mandate sharply re-focused, and its content made available at no charge through a Creative Commons license to other domestic news organizations. The removal of the CBC's ability to sell advertising would immediately free up $400 million in revenue for which news organizations could compete. As an added benefit, Canada would get a re-focused public broadcaster, and free access to its news content would allow all journalism providers to benefit from, instead of being punished by, government funding of the CBC. Our other proposals include making subscriptions to news organizations 100 percent tax deductible—a move that would subsidize the consumption of credible news with a market-based incentive for those providing it. We also proposed that: All expenditures by Eligible News Businesses that involve investment in digital transformation technology are eligible to be claimed in their first year as capital cost allowances. Phasing out of the current labour tax credit over a period of five years, declining in value by 20 percent annually in order to wean news organizations from it gradually while they adapt to a more permanent policy framework. Phasing out of the Local Journalism Initiative over a period of five years, declining in value by $4 million per year and with adjustments that would make it available only to news organizations serving market areas of less than 100,000 people and limited to easily defined core coverage beats such as public safety, courts, school boards, and municipal councils. Phasing out of the Canada Periodical Fund, which is no longer relevant in the digital age, over the course of three years. Ensure that the CRTC is engaged in the development of national news policies so that it considers the entire scope of the news industry when contemplating conditions of license for broadcasters. To those, I would add maximizing the value of tax credits for contributions to news organizations structured as not-for-profit businesses. Neither I nor my policy paper co-author, who these days is occupied as interim federal ethics commissioner, pretended to have all the solutions. As we wrote when our paper was published, building a national news industry policy is a tricky business. What we believed was that the pattern of ad hoc subsidies, willful ignorance of the impact of a commercial CBC, fear of failure, and the ill-conceived Online News Act were nothing but trouble and that a thoughtful, multi-pronged national news industry policy was called for. It still is. When it's done—when all the ideas are out there and the best of them are implemented—news organizations will still only survive through the quality of their work. Not all companies will, or should, survive and, frankly, some need to get on with their dying and get out of the way of those building a future for journalism. Fretting over and attempting to preserve the past and its icons is emotionally tempting. But it will not give news organizations the fighting chance they need to transition from unstable business models to those capable of sustaining quality journalism in the years ahead. We are at the end of the end of an era. It's time to embrace a new genesis. Peter Menzies is a Senior Fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a former newspaper executive, and past vice chair of the CRTC. Mario Toneguzzi is Managing Editor of Canada's Podcast. He has more than 40 years of experience as a daily newspaper writer, columnist, and editor. He was named in 2021 as one of the Top 10 Business Journalists in the World by PR News – the only Canadian to make the list About Us Canada's Podcast is the number one podcast in Canada for entrepreneurs and business owners. Established in 2016, the podcast network has interviewed over 600 Canadian entrepreneurs from coast-to-coast. With hosts in each province, entrepreneurs have a local and national format to tell their stories, talk about their journey and provide inspiration for anyone starting their entrepreneurial journey and well- established founders. The commitment to a grass roots approach has built a loyal audience on all our social channels and YouTube – 500,000+ lifetime YouTube views, 200,000 + audio downloads, 35,000 + average monthly social impressions, 10,000 + engaged social followers and 35,000 newsletter subscribers. Canada's Podcast is proud to provide a local, national and international presence for Canadian entrepreneurs to build their brand and tell their story. #business #CanadasNumberOnePodcastforEntrepreneurs   #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #Media #news #Newspapers #smallbusiness

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Thursday, October 5th, 2023. Redballoon Not so long ago, the American dream was alive and well. Employees who worked hard were rewarded, and employers looked for people who could do the job, not for people who had the right political views. RedBalloon.work is a job site designed to get us back to what made American businesses successful: free speech, hard work, and having fun. If you are a free speech employer who wants to hire employees who focus on their work and not identity politics, then post a job on RedBalloon. If you are an employee who is being censored at work or is being forced to comply with the current zeitgeist, post your resume on RedBalloon and look for a new job. redballoon.work, the job site where free speech is still alive! www.redballoon.work https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2023/10/03/the-guardian-climate-change-has-made-rainstorms-20-wetter/ The Guardian: Climate Change Has Made Rainstorms ‘20% Wetter’ The UK-based Guardian newspaper has made the remarkable assertion that rainstorms are now 20 percent “wetter” than they used to be, thanks to climate change. New York City’s recent storm and accompanying flooding show the “unmistakable influence of the climate crisis,” the Guardian contended Monday, warning the city may not be “prepared for severe climate shocks.” The type of storm seen on Friday “is now 10-20% wetter than it would have been in the previous century, because of climate change,” the Guardian alleged, citing a new “rapid attribution study.” The Guardian said that such a pounding rainfall is “a symptom of a warming planet” because a hotter atmosphere is “able to hold more moisture.” Curiously, at this time last year, the Guardian declared that droughts are “at least 20 times more likely” than without “human-caused global heating.” In Monday’s article, the newspaper cited climate expert Tommaso Alberti, who said the rainstorm that hit New York was predictable and “aligns with climate change projections.” Human-driven climate change is the “primary driver” of major storms, which underscores “the urgent need for climate mitigation and adaptation efforts,” Alberti argued. Michael Mann, who invented the thoroughly debunked hockey stick graph and has falsely presented himself as a Nobel Prizewinner, agreed that the New York storm was clearly attributable to global warming. “New York is experiencing a very clear increase in these extreme – more than 2in per hour – rainfall events, and that’s clearly tied to a warming atmosphere,” he said. Rohit Aggarwala, the New York City commissioner of environmental protection, has also blamed the city’s reprehensible response to the storm on climate change, a convenient, if mendacious, dog-ate-my-homework excuse. “The sad reality is our climate is changing faster than our infrastructure can respond,” he said. Daniel Zarrilli, the former chief climate policy adviser to New York City, uttered similar lamentations. “It’s clear that our cities and our aging infrastructure were built for a climate that no longer exists, particularly as a warmed atmosphere holds and releases more water,” he said. Reuters joined in the climate change blame game as well, suggesting that New York City’s flooding is just part of the “new normal” ushered in by global warming. https://thepostmillennial.com/trudeaus-internet-censorship-plan-kicks-off-with-government-operated-streaming-registry?utm_campaign=64487 Trudeau's internet censorship plan kicks off with government-operated streaming registry Friday's announcement from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that online streaming services in Canada must register with the government agency has sent a chill throughout independent media. Critics say it is the beginning of a broad registry of all online news media, even if the CRTC is currently maintaining that a $10 million threshold exists for broadcasters before they must register. Previous CRTC vice-chairman and former editor of the Calgary Herald posted Monday on X: "Essentially and eventually, @crtceng intends to regulate everything on the Internet pretty much the way it regulates TV, radio and cable. Say g'bye to a free and open internet in Canada." Noted journalist Glenn Greenwald posted on X: "The Canadian government, armed with one of the world's most repressive online censorship schemes, announces that all "online streaming services that offer podcasts" must formally register with the government to permit regulatory controls." In a news release, the CRTC announced that it is setting out which online streaming services need to provide information about their activities in Canada. Online streaming services that operate in Canada, offer broadcasting content, and earn $10 million or more in annual revenues will need to complete a registration form by November 28, 2023." The declaration is part of the Trudeau government's Online Streaming Act, or Bill C-11, which was called a "dangerous first step towards government control of the internet" by Justice Centre for Constitution Freedoms President John Carpay, who wrote that "In the long run, the CRTC could end up regulating much of the content posted on major social media, even where the content is generated or uploaded by religious, political, and charitable non-profits." However, reading further down in the news release, the CRTC uses ambiguous language and apparently contradicts its own guidelines by stating, "online services that offer podcasts must register; however, individuals who use social media to share podcasts do not." The CRTC has previously stated that: "individuals that host podcasts on their own websites or make them available on a subscription service platform other than a social media service are not explicitly excluded from the Broadcasting Act under subsection 2(2.1)" University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist was quick to comprehensively comment on the CRTC announcement in an essay. Geist suggested the government's plans are "not as bad as critics would suggest, but not nearly as benign as the CRTC would have you believe." But Geist says the real danger of the CRTC's announcement is that it is "the thin edge of the wedge with the registration requirement being the first step toward a far broader regulatory framework." "In fact, the rationale for the CRTC to include many of the services is that without such information it is not well positioned to regulate. This creates an obvious contradiction: the Commission claims that the registration requirement is de minimis requiring the disclosure of only limited information but then also argues that such information is important to future decision making on compliance with the Broadcasting Act objectives," he writes. The CRTC hints that a broad registry is in the works: that "exempting online undertakings that provide news services from the requirement to register would prevent the Commission from having an adequate understanding of the players providing such services. Without information about the online broadcasting undertakings involved in the Canadian broadcasting system, it would be much harder for the Commission to develop policies aimed at implementing the above-noted policy objectives of the Broadcasting Act and conform to the proposed direction." The CRTC says "[a] third consultation is ongoing. It considers contributions traditional broadcasters and online streaming services will need to make to support Canadian and Indigenous content. The CRTC will hold a three-week public proceeding starting on November 20, 2023, and will hear from 129 intervenors representing a broad range of interests." https://www.foxnews.com/world/swiss-writer-called-journalist-fat-lesbian-sentenced-60-days-prison-lgbtq-groups-applaud-decision Swiss writer who called journalist 'fat lesbian' sentenced to 60 days in prison, LGBTQ groups applaud decision A court in Switzerland sentenced a writer and commentator to 60 days in jail for calling a journalist a "fat lesbian," and the decision is being lauded by LGBTQ+ groups. On Monday, French-Swiss polemicist Alain Bonnet, who goes by Alain Soral, was sentenced by the Lausanne court for the crimes of defamation, discrimination and incitement to hatred after he criticized Catherine Macherel, a journalist for Swiss newspapers Tribune de Geneve and 24 Heures, in a Facebook video two years ago. "This court decision is an important moment for justice and rights of LGBTQI people in Switzerland," said Murial Waeger, co-director of a lesbian activist group. "The conviction of Alain Soral is a strong signal that homophobic hatred cannot be tolerated in our society." In addition to the prison time, Soral was subsequently ordered to pay legal fees and fines totaling thousands of Swiss francs. Soral’s sentencing came after he called Macherel a "fat lesbian," criticized her work as a "queer activist" and said she was "unhinged" in a social media video, according to Swiss public broadcaster RTS. Pascal Junod, a lawyer for Soral, mockingly blasted the conviction for a "crime of opinion" in an email to The Associated Press. He said the case aimed to probe whether a person had "sinned against the dogmas of single thought." Soral will appeal to Swiss federal court and "if necessary" to the European Court of Human Rights, his lawyer added. In 2020, Swiss voters approved a measure that made it illegal to discriminate against people on the basis of sexual orientation. This conviction was not the first time Soral has gotten into trouble over his words as he was previously and repeatedly convicted in France for denying the Holocaust, which is a crime in France. He was sentenced to jail time in 2019 over the denials. https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/03/sports-governing-body-scraps-open-category-trans-athletes-no-one-signs-up/ Sports Governing Body Scraps ‘Open’ Category For Trans Athletes After No One Signs Up World Aquatics (WA), the international water sports governing body, announced in a press release Tuesday that it is getting rid of its transgender “open” category for the 2023 World Cup since no athletes had decided to sign up. WA said in August that it was opening a category for athletes to swim the 50-meter and 100-meter distances regardless of gender. After athletes failed to show, WA decided to scrap the category for the World Cup in Berlin, Germany, from Oct. 6 to Oct. 8 but noted that the “Open Category Working Group” would still consider reopening the division if demand increased in the future, according to the press release. “The World Aquatics Open Category Working Group will continue its work and engagement with the aquatics community on Open Category events,” the announcement reads. “Even if there is no current demand at the elite level, the working group is planning to look at the possibility of including Open Category races at Masters events in the future.” WA originally planned to debut the open category in July in Fukuoka, Japan, during its congressional meeting but later decided against it. The organization announced its new “gender inclusion policy” in 2022, which made it possible to create the “open category” for future competitions and required male athletes looking to compete in the female division to have transitioned and experienced no puberty symptoms before the age of 12, as well maintaining regular testosterone levels below 2.5 nanomoles per liter. “When World Aquatics instituted its Policy on Eligibility for the Men’s and Women’s Competition Categories, we committed to exploring the creation of an open category,” World Aquatics President Husain Al-Musallam said, according to the press release. “True to our word, a team of experts has diligently worked to make this a reality. I would like to thank all those who have helped World Aquatics to deliver this opportunity.” Other sport governing bodies have opted to not allow transgender athletes to compete in divisions outside of their biological sex, such as the International Cycling Union, which announced in July that males who had transitioned after puberty could not compete in the female category. The International Angling Sports Federation made a similar decision on Sept. 29 after England’s team said that it would boycott the world championship if men were allowed to compete with women.

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Thursday, October 5th, 2023. Redballoon Not so long ago, the American dream was alive and well. Employees who worked hard were rewarded, and employers looked for people who could do the job, not for people who had the right political views. RedBalloon.work is a job site designed to get us back to what made American businesses successful: free speech, hard work, and having fun. If you are a free speech employer who wants to hire employees who focus on their work and not identity politics, then post a job on RedBalloon. If you are an employee who is being censored at work or is being forced to comply with the current zeitgeist, post your resume on RedBalloon and look for a new job. redballoon.work, the job site where free speech is still alive! www.redballoon.work https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2023/10/03/the-guardian-climate-change-has-made-rainstorms-20-wetter/ The Guardian: Climate Change Has Made Rainstorms ‘20% Wetter’ The UK-based Guardian newspaper has made the remarkable assertion that rainstorms are now 20 percent “wetter” than they used to be, thanks to climate change. New York City’s recent storm and accompanying flooding show the “unmistakable influence of the climate crisis,” the Guardian contended Monday, warning the city may not be “prepared for severe climate shocks.” The type of storm seen on Friday “is now 10-20% wetter than it would have been in the previous century, because of climate change,” the Guardian alleged, citing a new “rapid attribution study.” The Guardian said that such a pounding rainfall is “a symptom of a warming planet” because a hotter atmosphere is “able to hold more moisture.” Curiously, at this time last year, the Guardian declared that droughts are “at least 20 times more likely” than without “human-caused global heating.” In Monday’s article, the newspaper cited climate expert Tommaso Alberti, who said the rainstorm that hit New York was predictable and “aligns with climate change projections.” Human-driven climate change is the “primary driver” of major storms, which underscores “the urgent need for climate mitigation and adaptation efforts,” Alberti argued. Michael Mann, who invented the thoroughly debunked hockey stick graph and has falsely presented himself as a Nobel Prizewinner, agreed that the New York storm was clearly attributable to global warming. “New York is experiencing a very clear increase in these extreme – more than 2in per hour – rainfall events, and that’s clearly tied to a warming atmosphere,” he said. Rohit Aggarwala, the New York City commissioner of environmental protection, has also blamed the city’s reprehensible response to the storm on climate change, a convenient, if mendacious, dog-ate-my-homework excuse. “The sad reality is our climate is changing faster than our infrastructure can respond,” he said. Daniel Zarrilli, the former chief climate policy adviser to New York City, uttered similar lamentations. “It’s clear that our cities and our aging infrastructure were built for a climate that no longer exists, particularly as a warmed atmosphere holds and releases more water,” he said. Reuters joined in the climate change blame game as well, suggesting that New York City’s flooding is just part of the “new normal” ushered in by global warming. https://thepostmillennial.com/trudeaus-internet-censorship-plan-kicks-off-with-government-operated-streaming-registry?utm_campaign=64487 Trudeau's internet censorship plan kicks off with government-operated streaming registry Friday's announcement from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that online streaming services in Canada must register with the government agency has sent a chill throughout independent media. Critics say it is the beginning of a broad registry of all online news media, even if the CRTC is currently maintaining that a $10 million threshold exists for broadcasters before they must register. Previous CRTC vice-chairman and former editor of the Calgary Herald posted Monday on X: "Essentially and eventually, @crtceng intends to regulate everything on the Internet pretty much the way it regulates TV, radio and cable. Say g'bye to a free and open internet in Canada." Noted journalist Glenn Greenwald posted on X: "The Canadian government, armed with one of the world's most repressive online censorship schemes, announces that all "online streaming services that offer podcasts" must formally register with the government to permit regulatory controls." In a news release, the CRTC announced that it is setting out which online streaming services need to provide information about their activities in Canada. Online streaming services that operate in Canada, offer broadcasting content, and earn $10 million or more in annual revenues will need to complete a registration form by November 28, 2023." The declaration is part of the Trudeau government's Online Streaming Act, or Bill C-11, which was called a "dangerous first step towards government control of the internet" by Justice Centre for Constitution Freedoms President John Carpay, who wrote that "In the long run, the CRTC could end up regulating much of the content posted on major social media, even where the content is generated or uploaded by religious, political, and charitable non-profits." However, reading further down in the news release, the CRTC uses ambiguous language and apparently contradicts its own guidelines by stating, "online services that offer podcasts must register; however, individuals who use social media to share podcasts do not." The CRTC has previously stated that: "individuals that host podcasts on their own websites or make them available on a subscription service platform other than a social media service are not explicitly excluded from the Broadcasting Act under subsection 2(2.1)" University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist was quick to comprehensively comment on the CRTC announcement in an essay. Geist suggested the government's plans are "not as bad as critics would suggest, but not nearly as benign as the CRTC would have you believe." But Geist says the real danger of the CRTC's announcement is that it is "the thin edge of the wedge with the registration requirement being the first step toward a far broader regulatory framework." "In fact, the rationale for the CRTC to include many of the services is that without such information it is not well positioned to regulate. This creates an obvious contradiction: the Commission claims that the registration requirement is de minimis requiring the disclosure of only limited information but then also argues that such information is important to future decision making on compliance with the Broadcasting Act objectives," he writes. The CRTC hints that a broad registry is in the works: that "exempting online undertakings that provide news services from the requirement to register would prevent the Commission from having an adequate understanding of the players providing such services. Without information about the online broadcasting undertakings involved in the Canadian broadcasting system, it would be much harder for the Commission to develop policies aimed at implementing the above-noted policy objectives of the Broadcasting Act and conform to the proposed direction." The CRTC says "[a] third consultation is ongoing. It considers contributions traditional broadcasters and online streaming services will need to make to support Canadian and Indigenous content. The CRTC will hold a three-week public proceeding starting on November 20, 2023, and will hear from 129 intervenors representing a broad range of interests." https://www.foxnews.com/world/swiss-writer-called-journalist-fat-lesbian-sentenced-60-days-prison-lgbtq-groups-applaud-decision Swiss writer who called journalist 'fat lesbian' sentenced to 60 days in prison, LGBTQ groups applaud decision A court in Switzerland sentenced a writer and commentator to 60 days in jail for calling a journalist a "fat lesbian," and the decision is being lauded by LGBTQ+ groups. On Monday, French-Swiss polemicist Alain Bonnet, who goes by Alain Soral, was sentenced by the Lausanne court for the crimes of defamation, discrimination and incitement to hatred after he criticized Catherine Macherel, a journalist for Swiss newspapers Tribune de Geneve and 24 Heures, in a Facebook video two years ago. "This court decision is an important moment for justice and rights of LGBTQI people in Switzerland," said Murial Waeger, co-director of a lesbian activist group. "The conviction of Alain Soral is a strong signal that homophobic hatred cannot be tolerated in our society." In addition to the prison time, Soral was subsequently ordered to pay legal fees and fines totaling thousands of Swiss francs. Soral’s sentencing came after he called Macherel a "fat lesbian," criticized her work as a "queer activist" and said she was "unhinged" in a social media video, according to Swiss public broadcaster RTS. Pascal Junod, a lawyer for Soral, mockingly blasted the conviction for a "crime of opinion" in an email to The Associated Press. He said the case aimed to probe whether a person had "sinned against the dogmas of single thought." Soral will appeal to Swiss federal court and "if necessary" to the European Court of Human Rights, his lawyer added. In 2020, Swiss voters approved a measure that made it illegal to discriminate against people on the basis of sexual orientation. This conviction was not the first time Soral has gotten into trouble over his words as he was previously and repeatedly convicted in France for denying the Holocaust, which is a crime in France. He was sentenced to jail time in 2019 over the denials. https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/03/sports-governing-body-scraps-open-category-trans-athletes-no-one-signs-up/ Sports Governing Body Scraps ‘Open’ Category For Trans Athletes After No One Signs Up World Aquatics (WA), the international water sports governing body, announced in a press release Tuesday that it is getting rid of its transgender “open” category for the 2023 World Cup since no athletes had decided to sign up. WA said in August that it was opening a category for athletes to swim the 50-meter and 100-meter distances regardless of gender. After athletes failed to show, WA decided to scrap the category for the World Cup in Berlin, Germany, from Oct. 6 to Oct. 8 but noted that the “Open Category Working Group” would still consider reopening the division if demand increased in the future, according to the press release. “The World Aquatics Open Category Working Group will continue its work and engagement with the aquatics community on Open Category events,” the announcement reads. “Even if there is no current demand at the elite level, the working group is planning to look at the possibility of including Open Category races at Masters events in the future.” WA originally planned to debut the open category in July in Fukuoka, Japan, during its congressional meeting but later decided against it. The organization announced its new “gender inclusion policy” in 2022, which made it possible to create the “open category” for future competitions and required male athletes looking to compete in the female division to have transitioned and experienced no puberty symptoms before the age of 12, as well maintaining regular testosterone levels below 2.5 nanomoles per liter. “When World Aquatics instituted its Policy on Eligibility for the Men’s and Women’s Competition Categories, we committed to exploring the creation of an open category,” World Aquatics President Husain Al-Musallam said, according to the press release. “True to our word, a team of experts has diligently worked to make this a reality. I would like to thank all those who have helped World Aquatics to deliver this opportunity.” Other sport governing bodies have opted to not allow transgender athletes to compete in divisions outside of their biological sex, such as the International Cycling Union, which announced in July that males who had transitioned after puberty could not compete in the female category. The International Angling Sports Federation made a similar decision on Sept. 29 after England’s team said that it would boycott the world championship if men were allowed to compete with women.

In this episode, Monica Song has a policy discussion on broadband with Ian Scott, former Chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). They discuss barriers, opportunities and topics like how well prepared Canada is for scaling up to seamless online access across cities and metropolitan regions. If you would like to watch the video recording of this podcast, please click here.

Bill C-11, commonly known as the Online Streaming Act, has been riddled with controversy since its introduction in June of last year, through to its adoption as law in April 2023. Canada's first major reform of the Broadcasting Act since 1991, the Act aims to promote Canadian content on online streaming services, in part by extending the regulatory powers of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). In this episode, we hear from Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, on why the Act falls flat, and how it misunderstands the nature of on-demand streaming services. This conversation was recorded in January 2023, while Bill C-11 was in its third reading before the Senate.

Bud Light has been subject to what many are calling the single most successful boycott in history! And they're crying uncle! The executives at Anheuser-Busch are indeed officially admitting defeat.  Another Soros-backed DA is getting kicked out and Fox News might get banned in Canada.   Highlights:  ●      “The Daily Mail is reporting that in a first-quarter meeting call with investors, Anheuser-Busch CEO Michel Doukeris, in their words, ‘unceremoniously disowned the disastrous Dylan Mulvaney stunt –  insisting it was 'not a campaign', an official ad campaign approved from the top.” ●      “Things are so bad that Bud Light is actually offering their distributers free beer to help offset the purchasing plunge. I'm not sure how that's going to help anything, given that no one's buying the beer in the first place, it's just going to take up more room with supply for which there's no demand!” ●      “It's being widely reported here that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has opened a public consultation on a complaint from an LGBTQ rights group to ban Fox News from Canadian cable television.” ●      “What red states like Missouri are doing is they're starting to transfer the way Circuit Attorneys are installed. Rather than getting directly elected by city residents, who keep putting in these Soros-backed leftist radicals, they're going to be appointed either by the governor or by the state District Attorney, and that way, we can finally put an end to all of these radical leftist DAs who are enforcing a de facto anarcho-tyranny on their respective populations.”    Timestamps:    [04:52] How the executives at Anheuser-Busch are distancing themselves to the Dylan Mulvaney stunt [12:00] On Bud Light doubling or tripling their ad spend for the summer [17:06] Why Canada may end up banning Fox News [22:47] How another Soros-backed DA is getting kicked out [27:45] Q&A Resources:  ●      Start the 24/7 Protection of Your Home and Equity Today! Go to https://www.hometitlelock.com/turleytalks  ●      Are you at risk of a Stroke? Screenings provide peace of mind or early detection, schedule your appointment today! http://llsa.go2cloud.org/aff_c?offer_id=819&aff_id=1604 ●      Get Over 66% OFF All of Mike Lindell's Products using code TURLEY: https://www.mypillow.com/turley ●      Want free inside stock tips straight from the SEC? Click here to get started now: https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/turleytalks ●      Reclaim control over your health TODAY with PHD Weight Loss! Click HERE: https://myphdweightloss.com/ or call: 864-644-1900 ●      Learn how to protect your life savings from inflation and an irresponsible government, with Gold and Silver. Go to http://www.turleytalkslikesgold.com/ ●      Join Dr. Steve for an unedited, uncensored extended analysis of current events in his Insiders Club at https://insidersclub.turleytalks.com/   Thank you for taking the time to listen to this episode.  If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and/or leave a review. Sick and tired of Big Tech, censorship, and endless propaganda? Join my Insiders Club with a FREE TRIAL today at: https://insidersclub.turleytalks.com Make sure to FOLLOW me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrTurleyTalks BOLDLY stand up for TRUTH in Turley Merch! Browse our new designs right now at: https://store.turleytalks.com/ Do you want to be a part of the podcast and be our sponsor? Click here to partner with us and defy liberal culture! If you would like to get lots of articles on conservative trends make sure to sign-up for the 'New Conservative Age Rising' Email Alerts. 

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: New questions about how the federal government handled a reported Chinese government plot to target MPs are being raised after Conservative MP Michael Chong said Thursday that a 2021 intelligence report on the matter was shared with the prime minister's national security and intelligence adviser. GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen's Park and Parliament Hill - The Online Streaming Act, or Bill C-11, has garnered the most scrutiny to date. The bill, which passed Parliament last week and has become law, allows the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to require platforms such as Spotify and YouTube to produce and promote Canadian content, as it does for radio and television stations. Bill C-11 will meddle with Canadians' ability to pick their own content and content creators' business, in the name of “protecting the economic interests of a niche of Canada's music and video industries,” according to the Canadian arm of the Internet Society. In a scathing submission, the non-profit group argues that “Bill C-11 seeks to turn the Internet into a mere extension of the Canadian broadcasting system – a dying artifact of 20th Century technologies.” GUEST: Justin Ling, Freelance Investigative Journalist who has written for the Globe and Mail, The Guardian and Vice - A "perfect storm" of factors including the 2018 election, inefficient practices and the COVID pandemic has left Ontario's trouble-plagued Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) "fundamentally failing" to provide swift justice, the province's ombudsman says. In a lengthy report published Thursday, Paul Dubé made 61 recommendations to address a backlog of cases at the tribunal that has ballooned to more than 38,000 applications. GUEST: Kayla Andrade, Founder of Ontario Landlords Watch

Guest: Christine Dobby, business reporter Scam calls are an annoying and growing problem that cost Canadians $57 million in losses last year. With a technological arms race between con artists, phone companies and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), there is no clear path to stop calls. Some will always get through, making awareness one of the best tools to make sure you don't get taken. This episode was produced by Brian Bradley, Paulo Marques and Raju Mudhar. Audio source: @AlecBenfica on YouTube

Guest: Jon Festinger, adjunct professor at the Allard School of Law The federal government is changing how the internet is regulated in Canada. Bill C-11, also known as the Online Streaming Act, is new legislation that will give the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) the task of regulating companies like Netflix, YouTube and TikTok, similar to what it does with radio and television broadcasting. Many critics point out that internet streaming is very different and question if a similar approach is the right idea. There are also concerns about where user-generated content fits in. Jon Festinger, an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia's Peter A. Allard School of Law and a faculty member in the Centre for Digital Media, joins “This Matters” to discuss. This episode was produced by Brian Bradley, Paulo Marques and Raju Mudhar.

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Guest Host Shiona Thompson: The Canadian Forces will create a new group to focus on the growing importance of space to military operations and the country's security. The idea of establishing a Canadian Space Division has been circulating at National Defence headquarters in Ottawa since 2019, but it is now expected to be in place by September. GUEST: David Pugliese, Journalist with the Ottawa Citizen - The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is ordering Rogers to explain in detail what caused last week's network outage, how it affected emergency services and what the company plans to do to compensate customers. In a letter addressed to Ted Woodhead, Rogers' senior vice president of regulatory affairs, the CRTC chided Rogers for not being fully transparent with its customers. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - Villa Italia executive director Pat Mostacci, former chair of Festitalia, is accused of being the architect of a seven-year-long fraud and embezzlement plot How did an identity theft scheme funnel $1.2 million out of Hamilton's Villa Italia retirement home? GUEST: Grant LaFleche, Investigative Journalist with the Hamilton Spectator

The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Radley: CNN is looking at leaning away from political opinion to straight news coverage. Is that marketable in 2022, after years of 24-hour news networks building up personalities and clout among political factions? "Late last month, Ford announced his picks for his new cabinet and parliamentary secretaries as he embarks on his second term as premier. Ford announced the largest roster of overpaid politicians in the province's history. No less than 73 of 83 Progressive Conservative MPPs received special titles and pay raises. Four years ago, Ford appointed a cabinet of 20. Last month, his cabinet size grew to 30.” Did you notice that Rogers had an outage on Friday? Yeah, it was kind of a big deal. Now the Public Interest Advocacy Centre – a national not-for-profit corporation and a federally registered charity which has represented consumer interests in regulated services like telecommunications since 1976 – is calling for an inquiry from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Hamilton's longtime “Mayor of the Morning” has died, according to a statement from his family. Iconic CHML morning show host Paul Hanover, who began his radio career in the 1940s, died at the age of 97 on Monday. Bob Bratina joins us to remember Paul Hanover. A new survey suggests there is a strong relationship between a person's political perspective and their views on free speech in Canada. It's been three years since what used to be a staple of the political calendar — the annual summer premiers' gathering — was held in person. As the Council of the Federation reconvenes, Canada's premiers are packing a lot of familiar baggage, particularly when it comes to their demands of the federal government. It is all coming up on the Hamilton Today Podcast. Guests: Bill Brioux, television critic and author Jay Goldberg, Ontario & Interim Atlantic Director, Canadian Taxpayers Federation Yuka Sai, Staff Lawyer with the Public Interest Advocacy Centre Bob Bratina, Former CHML broadcaster, Former Mayor of Hamilton, former Liberal MP for Hamilton East-Stoney Creek and now candidate for Mayor of Hamilton Jason Disano, Director, Canadian Hub for Applied and Social Research, University of Saskatchewan Peter Graefe, Professor of Political Science with McMaster University Host - Scott ThompsonContent Producer – William ErskineTechnical/Podcast Producer - William WebberPodcast Co-Producer – Ben StraughanNews Anchors – Diana Weeks, David WoodardWant to keep up with what happened in Hamilton Today? Subscribe to the podcast! https://omny.fm/shows/scott-thompson-show

We talk about how Canada's Bill C-11 could limit outside access to Canada's consumers and even limit companies in Canada from reaching people in Canada. All this controlled by the government.  About Canada's Bill C-11On February 2, 2022, the Government of Canada introduced Bill C-11, referred to as the Online Streaming Act (Bill). The Bill, which seeks to amend Canada's Broadcasting Act (Act), aims to modernize Canada's broadcasting framework, notably by empowering the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to regulate “online undertakings,” a term that will encompass a range of undertakings, including video and music streaming service providers, as well as social media platforms. Underpinning the Bill are a number of broadcasting policy objectives, including supporting Canadian content creators, increasing access to Canadian content and its visibility, providing increased opportunities to produce programming in French and in Indigenous languages, and promoting diversity and inclusion in the broadcasting sector. More about Bill C-11 About the EDGE's Friday Show Every Friday Danielle Jenkins, founder of Domestic Divas Cleaning Co, and I talk shop over coffee. Danielle and I each run companies doing several million in revenue each year. We talk about what's working, what's not, what software and systems we use, sales and marketing, our own wellness and other challenges and solutions we've discovered as business owners. It's a casual, honest conversation that you'll walk away with things you can use to run, market, increase your sales and build your business. Note: the first 7-12 minutes we usually catch up on current events, news and things that have happened over the last week and our reactions, then we jump into the topic.  SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER HERE!Over 17,200 listeners and counting EPISODE LINKS: Domestic Divas Cleaning Co. EDGE Podcast PODCAST INFO: Apple Podcasts: EDGE on Apple Podcasts  Spotify: EDGE on Spotify  RSS Feed: EDGE's RSS Feed Website: EDGE Podcast SUPPORT & CONNECTJoin over 17,000 others and sign up to receive bonus content. It's free sign up here >>> EDGE Podcast. A top podcast for entrepreneurs!

In this first of several podcasts on troubles with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), we concentrate on the CRTC's egregious slowness in both running regulatory proceedings (both broadcasting and telecommunications) and in releasing its decisions after these proceedings - all of which can take years.  During this time, the smaller, or more vulnerable, less powerful parties, such as small competitors, consumers, politicians and the public are disadvantaged while larger players reap the benefit of delay that allows them to exploit their marketplace advantages.CNOC's Geoff White joins us to explain his take on why this situation has arisen and opines on what to do to reform the CRTC.  Hint: change their governing legislation and keep an eye on them.  We concur. This situation is now hurting consumers and Canadians.

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A recent study suggests that incorrect reporting may be responsible for Southern Quadra Island, Tahsis, Gold River and Sayward not qualifying for funding under the Connected Coast High Speed internet program. As a result of this failure, the Strathcona Regional District (SRD) had to arrange for loans of up to $12.5 million. BC's Ministry of Citizens' Services, the Union of BC Municipalities and the Northern Development Initiative Trust hired TANEx Engineering to study reports that the amount of broad service available in rural communities is less than what servers like TELUS, Mascon Cable Services (a TELUS company) and Bell are reporting on the National Broadband Internet Service Availability Map. According to a summary of the findings, released by the Ministry, ‘there was medium to high evidence of possible discrepancies in 106' of the 940 localities studied. The SRD Board appears to have discussed this matter in the closed session of their Feb 23 Board meeting. A link to the summary of findings was in the minutes of that meeting. The SRD declined Cortes Currents subsequent request for an interview. However some of the Directors have discussed the reporting problem at previous Board meetings. According to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), “Canadian residential and business fixed broadband Internet access service subscribers should be able to access speeds of at least 50 megabits per second (Mbps) download and 10 Mbps upload.” The services in Southern Quadra Island, Tahsis, Gold River and Sayward were all reported to have met that standard. However Tahsis is also one of the six communities that TANEx chose for case studies: “Tahsis reports poor internet, does not appear to have 50/10 service available for purchase, and there are no CIRA tests within the municipality that reflect service at 50/10. This provides further evidence of a difference in what the Map shows and what the community is experiencing.“ At the March 24, 2021, Board meeting, Mayor Martin Davis of Tahsis remarked, “I find it really disingenuous that they're throwing these numbers around about 50 down and 10 up for Tahsis because, well, I just did a test on mine and it's 6 down and 3 up. I've talked to many people in the community around these tests and that's typical. So I really don't know where the data's coming from and I believe it's incorrect. So I'm glad to see that they're looking into it.” Mayor Brad Unger of Gold River agreed, “Same thing happening in Gold River.” Regional Director Jim Abram reported the results of Quadra Island's speed tests at the April 28th Board meeting, “200 or some odd people had to do speed tests and screenshots of what kind of service they were getting from TELUS, because TELUS had given the government information that was not quite correct, that we were covered to a degree of 50 megabits down, 10 megabits up on our internet speeds that is untrue and we proved it with our screenshots. The highest one we had was 38! Most of them were down in the 10s. So that in itself cut out a huge amount of our funding for the Connected Coast, which we're all involved and we just passed a huge motion to borrow a bunch of money!” TANEx found that 50/10 can mean very different things for customers logging on to their hosting network and a service provider who is only accessing the Canadian Internet Exchange. Connection speeds can degrade as information passes through more parties. So what the provider experiences as 50/10, can be much slower for customers. In theory, providers should deliver the connection speeds they advertise, but there is also a wide range of factors that are regarded as outside the control of the network provider.

Bill C-10 is a proposed amendment to the Canadian Broadcasting Act, introduced on November 3, 2020 by Minister of Canadian Heritage Steven Guilbeault during the second session of the 43rd Canadian Parliament. The bill seeks to amend the Broadcasting Act to account for the increased prominence of internet video and digital media, by adding undertakings that conduct "broadcasting" over the internet to the regulatory scope of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Bill C-10 has faced criticism for granting a large amount of power to the CRTC, who are unelected regulators and receive very little guidance from Parliament or the government. Its unclear applicability to user-generated content on social media services has also faced concerns that it infringes freedom of expression. 

According to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), almost 88% of  Canadians have access to a high-speed broadband internet connection, compared to just over 45% for rural communities. This has led to concerns around a digital divide, the broader digital determinants of health, and whether telehealth technologies can actually be delivered without widening health disparities. In this episode of the Public Health Insight Podcast, Dr. Keith Thompson, Chief Medical Officer of iTelemed Canada, remains with us to discuss the importance of addressing the digital determinants of health and the ways in which telehealth can be leveraged to reach marginalized and isolated populations.Podcast GuestsDr. Keith ThompsonPodcast HostsGordon Thane, BMSc, MPH, PMP®Leshawn Benedict, MPH, MSc, PMP®References for Our Discussion Canadian Medical Association: Virtual Care in Canada - Discussion PaperThe Agenda with Steve Paikin: Is Virtual Health Care Here to Stay?American Medical Association (AMA): A review of telehealth trends: Informing the future of virtual careCanadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) BROADBAND FUND Closing the digital divide in CanadaSubscribe to the NewsletterWhat if there was an easy way to receive timely information about public health and global health right to your inbox? Subscribe to the newsletter to stay in the loop about the latest news, live events, jobs, and professional development opportunities. Subscribe to ensure you don't miss out: https://thepublichealthinsight.com/subscribe/. Tell A FriendIf you enjoy our podcasts, it would mean the world if you shared it on social media and tagged us. If you are not the social media type, we would appreciate it if you shared it with a friend or colleague who you think might enjoy the podcast. It helps us to get discovered by other people. Music CreditsThe following tracks used in this episode were all produced by Lukrembo:Daily • Bread • Biscuit • Bored • Chocolate • Onion • Holiday

Telecommunications networks are evolving in keeping with technological advancements. In this episode of CGE Radio, J. Richard Jones talks with Alex Miller about Next-generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) and the significant change of moving from calling 9-1-1 from a phone number to transmitting text, images, video and data to emergency services. Alex Miller is a pioneer in transforming geography and mapping into a 21st-century digital tool used by millions around the world. His work has helped people see location as a unifying lens through which land and resources are understood. Having successfully guided a software company for so long, Mr. Miller is constantly in demand from tech startups, helping them address the needs of their future market to ensure their long-term business viability. He has chaired the Geomatics Industry Association of Canada and the Natural Resources Canada Earth Sciences Sector Minister’s Advisory Committee and was a member of the Government of Canada’s Open Government Advisory Panel. He launched The Community Map of Canada, a comprehensive, freely available map, constantly updated and from authoritative community sources. He has donated software and expertise so that maps of the longest trail in the world, Canada’s Great Trail, are easily accessed by everybody. Passionate about using technology to promote environmental sustainability, Mr. Miller is Chairman of the Planet in Focus Foundation, which showcases outstanding films on environmental themes, and is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Hear more about the changes coming with this system from phone number to IP address, how emergency services will not only rely on voice but data emitting from locations, telecommunications companies changing switches, 5G, making a call on behalf of someone in need of emergency services, working with the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), and the cultural change of mapping. In Canada, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is leading the charge to implement this new service infrastructure in March 2021.

This week on the SyrupCast MobileSyrup features editor Igor Bonifacic, telecom reporter Sameer Chhabra and freelance tech reporter and author Peter Nowak discuss everything the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has been doing lately. Last week, the CRTC issued a follow-up decision to the Canada Broadband Fund. Under the regulator's previous chair, Jean-Pierre Blais, the recommended broadband target was set at 50Mbps download and 10Mbps upload speed. Now the CRTC has halved that number to 25 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload for rural and remote communities across Canada. Friend of the podcast and telecom journalist Peter Nowak has some thoughts on the matter that he tweeted out last week. Among other announcements this past week, the CRTC denied the Fairplay Canada coalition on 'jurisdictional grounds.' The team talks about how the CRTC pointed out that there is already a copyright review under way in Parliament that it states is a better fit for the discussion of whether or not to block websites that facilitate piracy. Tune in to hear the SyrupCast team's thoughts. Do you have questions, comments, thoughts, or anything you would like addressed on the podcast? Send us an email to podcast@mobilesyrup.com. If you're feeling extra adventurous, send us a voice recording of your question or comment and you may end up featured in a future episode! Total runtime: 38:22 CRTC 25/5: 2:00 Fairplay Canada: 10:00 Shoutouts: 34:30 Igor shouts out the LG G7 One. Peter gives his shoutout to LED lights. And finally, Sameer's shoutout is to Bloomberg's report on The Big Hack.

Deemed the modern equivalent of building roads or railways, connecting every person and business to high-speed internet is on the minds of policymakers, advocates, and industry players. Under the leadership of Mr. Jean-Pierre Blais, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (“CRTC”) ruled in December 2016 that broadband internet access is a basic and vital service, thus ensuring that broadband internet joins the ranks of local phone service. The CRTC’s announced reforms will impact over 2 million Canadian households, especially those in remote and isolated areas. The policy aims to ensure that internet download speeds of 50mbps and upload speeds of 10mbps are available to 90% of Canadian homes and business by 2021. Join the Berkman Klein Center and the HLS Canadian Law Student Association as Mr. Blais speaks about broadband, internet, and the future of connectivity in Canada and around the world. About Jean-Pierre Blais Before joining the CRTC, Mr. Blais was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Board Secretariat’s Government Operations Sector. In this capacity, he provided advice on the management oversight and corporate governance of various federal departments, agencies and crown corporations. From 2004 to 2011, he was Assistant Deputy Minister of Cultural Affairs at the Department of Canadian Heritage. While there, he created the Task Force on New Technologies to study the impact of the Internet and digital technologies on Canada’s cultural policies. In addition, he served as Director of the Canadian Television Fund. His responsibilities also included cultural trade policy and international policies and treaties, such as the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expression. As the Director of Investment from 2004 to 2011, he reviewed transactions in the cultural sector under the Investment Canada Act and provided advice to the Minister of Canadian Heritage. Mr. Blais also served as Assistant Deputy Minister of International and Intergovernmental Affairs at the Department of Canadian Heritage. He played a pivotal role in the rapid adoption of the UNESCO Anti-Doping Convention and in garnering international support for the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Anti-Doping Code. Moreover, he represented the Government of Canada on the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games Bid Corporation. As the CRTC’s Executive Director of Broadcasting from 1999 to 2002, he notably oversaw the development of a licensing framework for new digital pay and specialty services and led reviews of major ownership transactions. He previously was a member of the Legal Directorate, serving as General Counsel, Broadcasting and Senior Counsel. From 1985 to 1991, Mr. Blais was an attorney with the Montreal-based firm Martineau Walker. Mr. Blais holds a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne in Australia, as well as a Bachelor of Civil Law and a Bachelor of Common Law from McGill University. He is a member of the Barreau du Québec and the Law Society of Upper Canada. His term ends on June 17, 2017. For more info on this event visit: https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheons/2017/04/Blais

Fabienne and Face2Face host David Peck talk about the Toronto Black Film Festival, racism, diversity, inclusion and making a difference in the world.  Biography Award-winning actress, filmmaker, speaker, business owner and consultant, Fabienne Colas is the ‘Queen of Festivals’ who created and manages 7 successful festivals between Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, New York City and Port-au-Prince – including the Montreal International Black Film Festival, which has become not only Canada’s largest black film festival, but also a key player in cultural diversity in Quebec. Besides attracting tens of thousands of festivalgoers every year and showcasing hundreds of artists, those events have also welcomed and/or paid tribute to top celebrities from around the globe such as: Harry Belafonte, Stedman Graham, Danny Glover, Spike Lee, Paul Haggis, Martin Luther King III, Dany Laferrière, Wyclef Jean, Alfre Woodard, Bill Cobbs, Souleymane Cissé, Arcade Fire, Clement Virgo, Gbenga Akinagbe and more. CEO/Founder of Zaza Production, Fabienne is a charismatic leader with an unwavering persistence and perseverance who makes things happen. Her primary mission is to help others unlock their greatness and bring their business to the next level through coaching, seminars, conferences, workshops, online courses and videos tutorials. She continues to create platforms that show a diversity of voices, faces and points of view. As chairman of the Fabienne Colas Foundation, she supports, awards grants and promotes independent films and artists who, otherwise, would not have been seen or heard. She currently sits as a board member on the Society for the Celebrations of Montréal’s 375th Anniversary. In 2015, Fabienne was awarded a Medal from Quebec’s National Assembly – by Kathleen Weil, Minister of Immigration, Diversity and Inclusion – recognizing her leadership and contribution in the fight against racism and discrimination in Quebec. She won the Black History Month Award in 2010 for her great involvement in her community. In 2008, she made her first film, Minuit, a narrative feature on voodoo in which she also played the leading role. Considered by many as the most popular actress in Haitian cinema, Fabienne started out as a model, was crowned Miss Haiti in 2000 and has represented Haiti in numerous beauty contests around the world. In 2003, she was awarded the Ticket d’Or (golden ticket) in Haiti for best actress for her role in the film Barikad (directed by Richard Sénécal) and was also nominated for this same role at the Haitian Entertainment Awards in Florida. She has acted on both the big and the small screens in a number of productions in Quebec, Canada (Watatatow, l’Auberge du chien Noir, Comment Conquérir l’Amérique en une nuit). Fabienne is a member of both Canadian professional acting unions: the Union des Artistes (UDA) and the Alliance of Canadian Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA). She has sat on a number of prestigious juries in the arts community in Quebec, including those of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (Quebec Council for ththe Arts) and les Prix Gémeaux. She obtained from the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) a licence for two new television stations, provisionally called Diversité TV and Bon Goût TV, with a view to promoting a better representation of cultural diversity on televisions in Canada and providing a window to those who would, otherwise, never be seen or heard. Toronto Black Film festival Founded by the Fabienne Colas Foundation, Toronto Black Film Festival is dedicated to celebrating the very best in cinematic work dealing with the varied experiences of black people from diverse communities. Their mandate is to provide an opportunity for filmmakers to shine the spotlight on authentic stories that reflect the realities of black experiences. Along with its sister festival, the Montreal International Black Film Festival (now in its thirteenth year), TBFF showcases new voices in cinema and encourages audiences to see the world in new ways. In connecting black films with viewers of all ethnic origins, they recognize the differences that make the communities they serve unique while celebrating the shared values that bring people together.  ---------- For more information about my podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit my site here.   With thanks to producer Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's a long-standing Canadian Super Bowl tradition: tuning in to the big game, but being shut out from the big-budget, star-studded U.S. commercials. That changes this year as a Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) policy banning the simultaneous substitution of Canadian ads over U.S. ones during the big game comes into play for the first time.   GUEST: Michael Geist - Law Professor at the University of Ottawa  

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has made waves with recent changes to the access of Certified Independent Production Funds. These efforts have provided Canadian productions with more flexibility to secure funding and increase quality CanCon — affecting all corners of the industry, including actors, writers, producers, distributors, and broadcasters. We will unpack the terms of the new regulations and look at their impact on the future of independent film and television production in Canada. This session was designed for an industry professional audience. Guest John Bain Guest Dave Forget Guest Ferne Downey Guest Marcia Douglas

Welcome to episode #044 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Maanit Zemel. Does your organization email Canadian stakeholders? If so, have you developed a CASL Compliance Policy? If you haven’t, you may be in store for some serious repercussions. Canada’s Anti Spam Legislation (CASL) came into effect in July of 2014 and it seems that since it came into effect, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has been out for blood. They recently fined an organization called Compu-Finder a wopping $1.1 Million for “4 alleged violations”. They also recently fined the online dating service, Plenty of Fish, $48K for not having an unsubscribe button prominently displayed in their email send outs. Both of these organizations took a completely different approach to their crisis management, which is interesting to analyze. Within this episode of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, I explore both of these crisis management strategies and their impact on the organizations’ reputations with CASL attorney, Maanit Zemel. No matter where your organization is based, if you email Canadians then CASL deeply applies to you and presents you with some serious risks for non compliance. The good news is that these risks are completely manageable and preventable. Within this podcast, Maanit and I provide you with strategies and tips to make sure that yours is not the next organization fined by the CRTC for emailing Canadians. Running time: 55:37 More CASL information Original Podcast with Maanit on CASL: TCIP #025 – Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) with Maanit Zemel 7 Steps for Preparing CASL Compliance Policies Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) – Why It Matter to Non-Canadians Get connected Subscribe to The Crisis Intelligence Podcast!Subscribe and leave us a review on iTunes and/or StitcherSubscribe via email About host, Melissa Agnes Learn more about Melissa AgnesFollow Melissa on Twitter: @melissa_agnesConnect with Melissa on LinkedInEmail Melissa directly: melissa@melissaagnes.com Learn more about Agnes + Day, Melissa’s crisis management firm. About guest, Maanit Zemel Learn more about Maanit and her practice: www.casllaw.caConnect with Maanit on LinkedInFollow Maanit on Twitter: @maanitzemelEmail Maanit directly: mzemel@casllaw.ca Learn more about Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation at fightspam.gc.ca This post, TCIP #044 - Organization Fined $1.1 Million for Emailing Canadians (CASL) with Maanit Zemel, was originally published to melissaagnes.com.

Hosts: Doctor and Mr James Runtime: 48:03 : National Post reports: Harper and Obama currently hashing out plan for creation of common security perimeter around N America : Deal to be signed between US and Canada in January, Mexico to be brought in later : associated with rising security protocols in the US (DHS and WalMart, scanners in bus stations) : Mulroney stated deal would be good for Canada : Atlantic Canada hit by massive snowstorm Monday, 50 000 estimated without power for multiple days : additional floods and storm surges in New Brunswick over past month : wikileaks Assange signs $1.3mil book deal to keep website afloat, "doesnt want to but has to" : spent over 200pd on legal defence, plus bail : residence during hearing 'fit for king', historic country mansion : 'leaking' info such as celeb gossip among other low-level intel : flu shot season: Toronto Star reports government calls for better preparedness : calling last year flu outbreak 'pandemic', first one to hit in 40 years : around 8 700 hosipitalizations, 428 deaths : 3 female inmates in BC infected with 'swine flu' : AIDS virus removed from German patient : suffered from Leukemia and AIDS, obtained bone marrow transplant : transplant was from northern European who has a 'genetic invulnerability' to HIV : genetic mutation affects cellular doorway receptor AIDS virus uses to infect cells : Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) fined multiple companies (including Bell) for not ahhering to 'Do Not Call lists' : Do not call list still allows charities, phone companies, bank / credit companies, politicians : fines range from $200k - $1.3mil, peanuts for big corporations for public abuse : CRTC allows internet provider to charge per usage starting Feb 1 2011 : 'bandwidth caps' meant to remove unlimited internet access from general public : most ISPs in Canada dont offer unlimited access, Rogers/Bell only true ISPs : two class action lawsuit against Apple alledges iPods and iPads transmitting user info to advertisers without consent : Hungary creates National Media and Communications Authority to keep watch on private and public media outlets : issues fines for 'violations', definition for which is broad : government claims idea was to improve the media not 'wage a war' on it : followed that if found law applied in wrong way it would be changed : timed with Hungary becoming President of EU next month (rotating position) : IRan admits to shooting down 2 'Western' spyplanes : hints US based planes used against Iraq and Pakistan : article then turns, claims Iran routinely threatens Israel : continues on that nuclear power agenda might really be weaponry : also states that Israel like US not ruling out preemptive attack to keep Iran nuclear free FREEMASON - Tim Horton Kroy Lodge No. 676 Thornhill, Ontario, Canada Initiated – 1962 [blog: trooth.info] [email: radio@trooth.info] [twitter: @troothradio]