KNOX – Seeking absolution on Email Debt Forgiveness Day
BACK IN THE BEFORE TIMES, in 2019, I wrote a column about a half-finished message that had been sitting in the drafts folder of my email for five years. The unsent message [Continue]
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EDITORIAL – Rural communities being left in the dark on connectivity issue
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. RURAL CONNECTIVITY is the pits. On that score, Kamloops-Cariboo MP Frank Caputo is absolutely correct. Caputo has fired off a letter to [Continue]
LETTER – Rogers Communications failed the ‘most reliable network’ promise
An update received by Rogers customers today, July 13, 2022: Dear Valued Customers, Our network outage last Friday was unacceptable. Simply put, we failed on our promise to [Continue]
FORSETH – Better Internet is needed but why should taxpayers foot the bill?
THIRTY-FIVE POINT SIX ONE EIGHT MILLION dollars! In little more than 10 weeks (since March 26), that is how much the government of British Columbia has outright given to [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Time to use a stick to ensure connectivity for all Canadians
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THERE’S A MAJOR SCHISM between urban and rural areas when it comes to the level of services they receive. This has been driven home to me [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Look to the sea for the internet, not the clouds
OUR CONNECTION to the internet seems so ethereal – it’s as though data materializes out of thin air. This illusion is a result of the final hop of our connection to the [Continue]
GINTA – The antidote to Internet challenges is presence — the real kind
LIKE ALL PARENTS with school-age children, I received the district heads-up letter about the Momo challenge. By now most have are familiar with the strange, creepy face of [Continue]
NATIONAL PULSE – Should Canadians have the right to be forgotten?
By two-to-one ratio, Canadians support right to petition search engines to remove negative information By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE January 7, 2019 – In the European Union, [Continue]
INTERNET – CRTC wants to tax users to subsidize Canadian content creators
What does and doesn’t stream over the Internet is none of the CRTC’s business By PETER MENZIES Contributor Troy Media SOMETIME IN the not too distant future, everyone [Continue]
THE INTERNET – Social media is fully weaponized, open discourse be damned
The Eden-like public square was swiftly overrun by a cacophonic rabble dedicated to crushing ideas to which they’re opposed By PETER MENZIES Troy Media THE INTERNET may [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Canada’s internet remains flat, despite challenges
CANADA REMAINS a world-leader in keeping our internet equal for all. Challenges to tilt the internet in favour of special interests come from at home and abroad. Last month, [Continue]
COLLINS – To my friends on social media: some things that irk me
I HAVE EMBRACED social media as much as a non-technical person can. I don’t know all the ins and outs of hashtags and analytics and the finer points of how it all works. I [Continue]
More high-speed Internet coming, in two years
NEWS/ INTERNET — High-speed Internet is coming to 2,821 homes in the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo riding — but not for two more years. MP Cathy McLeod announced the service [Continue]
Rogers — Robin Williams tragedy shows media’s desperation
Mark Rogers writes a column about social media and hosts a blog at http://www.newsonaut.com. COLUMN — Here’s the bad news about how the media treated Robin [Continue]
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