Oh, and also--save the internet!
(I'm pretty much copying and pasting this info from glockgal's post on the matter--many thanks for bringing it to my attention!)
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SAVE OUR INTERNET, CANADA
In the coming days the federal communications regulator will issue a landmark ruling that has huge implications for Canadians' access to the Internet. The CRTC decision will determine whether Bell and other big telecoms can continue to "throttle" Internet service.
http://www.saveournet.ca/content/take-action
The commissioners have already twice delayed releasing their ruling, suggesting that they are struggling to make a decision. We need to make it very clear to the CRTC which side the Canadian public is on.
Until recently, Canada's Internet was an open network - a level playing field for free speech and innovation. All that is now threatened by a handful of corporations that want to control a "gatekeeper network" in which they decide what content and services get the fastest access to our homes.
These companies have been caught:
• throttling or slowing Internet traffic to businesses and consumers;
• blocking access to websites that criticized them;
• crippling consumer devices and applications.
The upcoming CRTC decision will have major and long-lasting implications for our Internet. Our online level playing field of innovation and free speech hangs in the balance.
Please Take Action and invite your fellow Canadians to do the same!
Also here: http://neutrality.ca/index.php?option=com_performs&formid=1&Itemid=3
Start here: http://saveournet.ca/content/take-action
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PS - I just found out that Firefox has a Canadian English Dictionary add-on! Hallelujah! (I always get so confused, since I'm constantly seeing both American and British spellings, which often go against my instinct on how something "should" be spelled. All in all, I think Canadian spelling is a hybrid of the two, but it's my hybrid and I'll be damned if I give in one way or the other!)
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SAVE OUR INTERNET, CANADA
In the coming days the federal communications regulator will issue a landmark ruling that has huge implications for Canadians' access to the Internet. The CRTC decision will determine whether Bell and other big telecoms can continue to "throttle" Internet service.
http://www.saveournet.ca/content/take-action
The commissioners have already twice delayed releasing their ruling, suggesting that they are struggling to make a decision. We need to make it very clear to the CRTC which side the Canadian public is on.
Until recently, Canada's Internet was an open network - a level playing field for free speech and innovation. All that is now threatened by a handful of corporations that want to control a "gatekeeper network" in which they decide what content and services get the fastest access to our homes.
These companies have been caught:
• throttling or slowing Internet traffic to businesses and consumers;
• blocking access to websites that criticized them;
• crippling consumer devices and applications.
The upcoming CRTC decision will have major and long-lasting implications for our Internet. Our online level playing field of innovation and free speech hangs in the balance.
Please Take Action and invite your fellow Canadians to do the same!
Also here: http://neutrality.ca/index.php?option=com_performs&formid=1&Itemid=3
Start here: http://saveournet.ca/content/take-action
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PS - I just found out that Firefox has a Canadian English Dictionary add-on! Hallelujah! (I always get so confused, since I'm constantly seeing both American and British spellings, which often go against my instinct on how something "should" be spelled. All in all, I think Canadian spelling is a hybrid of the two, but it's my hybrid and I'll be damned if I give in one way or the other!)