(Found that via @AntoniaZ.)

CBC is Canada's public broadcaster, and while the Federal Government might give private media conglomerates like CanWest Global bailout money, they won't help out the CBC. CBC is having to make 800 job cuts so far.

That's not even counting, as someone pointed out to me, the number of people those cuts will preclude ( Read more... )

(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 ( Read more... )

Found something.

As reported in the Guardian, last Thursday a 26-year-old Cheltenham man was arrested and the site, tv-links.co.uk, was closed . According to the Gloucester police, the arrest was carried out for alleged violations of Section 92 of the Trade Marks Act ( Read more... )

Not to be insensitive to all those mourning the victims of the Virginia Tech shooting...but, what the hell is a hokie?

I keep seeing stuff that refers to hokies, and I see LJ has a featured spotlight called "weareallhokies". While I'm sure the intentions are good, I suspect that no one stopped to think that they are making a community called "We ( Read more... )