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Quebecor proposal could fill gap in regulatory research and development

A new research project being proposed for the University of Montreal has the potential to extend Canada’s leadership in communications regulation into cyberspace. As part of its tangible benefits package tabled with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications (CRTC) to take over Vidéotron Communications, Quebecor Inc has offered a $200,000-grant to the school’s faulty of law to produce a book exploring models for regulation and legislation of new media.

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Hull-based company offering free video streaming to schools on CA*net 3

Veteran streaming company Callisto Media Systems is offering its technology to Canadian and American universities to experiment with video in the classroom. With the federal research agency CANARIE Inc as a partner in the initiative, the Ottawa-based company put out the call two weeks ago to institutions that are linked into either country’s national fibre backbone network.

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Publisher and union clash over e-rights

The attempted relaunch of Canada’s oldest book review publication is leading to a literary feud over electronic rights. The Periodical Writers Association of Canada maintains its members are having their work stolen. The owner of Books In Canada insists there isn’t a problem.

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BELLE project to connect Canadian universities to video, graphical content

An Alberta group is launching a $3.4-million research project this month promises to give Canada a technological lead in sharing educational video, text and graphics over broadband networks. Led by Netera Alliance Inc, the BELLE project works with five locations to test new ways of organizing, distributing and using digital educational material. Another five sites will come onboard by year’s end. If successful, Netera officials hope funding will continue after March 2002 to move the initiative from prototype to a full repository eventually linking every university and college in the country.

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Auction ends with little fanfare, incumbents walk away with majority of spectrum

The roller-coaster ride of Canada’s first-ever auction for PCS spectrum ended last Thursday with the arrival of a potential new competitor, a larger spectrum cache for three national incumbents and nearly $1.5 billion in new money for the federal government. Bell Mobility, Rogers Wireless Inc and Telus Communications Inc walked away with most of the 52 licences, while W2N Inc landed one licence in each of Eastern Quebec, Alberta and BC.

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CCR Editorial

The opinions expressed in this editorial are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Decima Reports.

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Why DTH black marketers are losing the war

So-called state-of-the-art DTH pirates and their customers got a rude shock last fall when a Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench shut down a major industry player. Bell ExpressVu teamed up with News Datacom Ltd to send a loud message to the DTH black marketeers that Canada is not a safe haven for satellite television pirates.

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Colette Watson, currently VP of programming and external relations at Rogers Cable Inc, becomes general manager of the Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC), a national channel with a budget of $6 million. She replaces Al MacKay on Feb. 1. MacKay will restart his policy and communications consulting business.

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Statscan hopes to renew annual culture surveys
Statistics Canada expects to hear by late February or early March on a funding proposal that would see as many as seven biennial cultural surveys returned to annual events, and data collection initiated on 10 new cultural areas, including new media. Dubbed the Cultural Statistics Program Improvement Initiative, the proposal is currently being reviewed by senior managers at Statscan and Canadian Heritage. If approved, the two departments would jointly contribute funding for two years. John Gordon, chief of Statscan’s Cultural Surveys Section, says past data collection in this area has tended to focus on how traditional cultural industries, such as publishing and broadcasting, are moving into online activities. The 10 new areas identified for data collection are new media, visual artists, cultural tourism, libraries, arts education, culture trade and investment data gaps, cultural consumption, commercial performing arts, performance venues, and the retail trade of cultural goods.

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Suite Systems begins roll out of IP-based cable, declares pilot project a success

Suite Systems Inc has successfully completed a small pilot of its new IP-based digital cable system, and plans to have about 1,000 homes hooked up by April.

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