Missinipi to launch Aboriginal language news program in June.
Missinipi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC)--an Aboriginal radio station based in La Ronge--will incorporate an Aboriginal Language news program as part of their television news broadcast this year, with plans to launch it on June 21. The program will air in several Saskatchewan communities through the regional broadcaster, Saskatchewan...

Byron Review urges action.
The independent review led by Dr Tanya Byron has called for government, industry and parents to work together to improve child safety regarding the internet and video games. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dr Byron stated: 'In the same way that we teach our children how to manage...

State Supreme Court dismisses review of SD County ordinance.
The California Supreme Court has dismissed a case involving San Diego County's antenna ordinance because the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the ordinance last year. Adopted in 2003, the ordinance created a four-tier system for granting conditional use permits for wireless telecommunications facilities. The...

Currid, Brian. A National Acoustics: Music and Mass Publicity in Weimar and Nazi Germany.
Currid, Brian. A National Acoustics: Music and Mass Publicity in Weimar and Nazi Germany. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. 279 pp. $23.00 paperback. With A National Acoustics, Brian Currid upends some of the more stubborn cliches concerning musical mass culture in Germany during the first half...

Today's media--friend or foe?
We've all heard the joke: You know it's going to be a bad day when you show up for work and a news team is waiting outside your office. If you are a CEO or communications professional, it's no joke. Not affected as a Board member or co-op employee?...

The "privilege of speech" in a "pleasantly authoritarian country": how Canada's judiciary allowed laws proscribing discourse critical of homosexuality to trump free speech and religious liberty.
ABSTRACT Giving credence to Alexis de Tocqueville's argument that in democratic societies the love of equality is greater than the love of freedom is a recently emerging trend among Western nations to legally proscribe speech critical of homosexuality. Such laws, in various forms, now exist in a...

Filtering the Internet like a smokestack: how the children's Internet protection act suggests a new Internet regulation analogy.
I. INTRODUCTION The development of new technologies often presents society with novel legal issues. Rarely, however, do technological innovations present problems that are wholly unique. For example, a new medium of communication used to disparage a person's reputation would likely fall under the doctrine of libel. To...

A new view of scale and scope in the telecommunications industry: implications for competition and innovation (1).
Abstract: Telecommunication economic analysis has largely relied upon a conventional economic framework that has its roots in neoclassical analysis that emerged almost a hundred years ago, and has contributed to reshaping the direction of economic policies by attacking the premises of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, and providing far greater...

Going mobile--slowly: how wireline telephone regulation slows cellular network development.
The Study in Brief The cellular telephone's convenience and commercial usefulness has changed social and business communication. Yet Canada's pace in adopting cellular telephony lags most developed countries: Canada was the twenty-sixth among the 30 OECD nations to introduce digital cellular, and is currently twenty-eighth in per...

Interview with Prof. Eli Noam.
Professor of Economics and Finance, Director of Columbia Institute of Tele-Information (CITI), Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York Yves GASSOT: I am delighted that you have consented to do this interview. I would like to begin with the current situation in the United States. We,...