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Lawyer Mark Hayes, a partner in Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP’s technology, e-commerce & communications group, is leaving the firm to join Ogilvy Renault. Hayes is one of Canada’s leading media and technology lawyers, and has represented such groups as the Canadian Association of Internet Providers, the Canadian Cable Television Association, and Bell Canada before the Copyright Board of Canada.

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A recent Ipsos-Reid survey indicates high interest in education matters online. A survey of 1,000 online Canadians polled in mid-March 2002 finds that 26% of them have at least searched for education information online. It’s estimated that 59% of Canadian Internet users are likely to take an online course in future.

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CIVFV funds high number of new media projects in latest evaluation round

The Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund (CIFVF) has allocated ten per cent of its funds during a 19th evaluation round to new media projects. Nine of the 68 successful applicants to the fund were classified as new media. In total, the fund approved $1,440,000 in grants for the round, and successful new media projects publicly announced July 2002 will receive $144,000 of the kitty.

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North American Aboriginal Games site among most complete at Virtual Museum

The newest addition to the Virtual Museum of Canada (VMC) is being touted as a rich multimedia learning experience that may serve as a model for future exhibits. Not every site on the VMC is as interactive, says a spokesperson, but the Living Traditions: Museums Honour the North American Indigenous Games exhibit may be held up as an example as museum officials decide how to deal with exhibits that approach the end of their five-year hosting contracts.

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CRTC set to wade into retransmission debate with call for comments

As asked to by the federal government, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has issued a call for comments in a new public process to examine Internet retransmission. It has set a deadline of September 6 for comments on how Canada’s broadcasting laws, and the 1998 new media exemption order in particular, might be amended to take into account the retransmission of over-the-air television signals via the Internet.

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CTV benefits fund seeks industry direction as cash goes untapped; hired gun on board

A little publicized cash pool offered by CTV Inc. to encourage convergent TV/interactive products is struggling to find projects to fund, according to numerous sources. The $28-million, five-year Groundbreaker Fund, offered by BCE Inc. as part of its 2000 benefits package arising from its takeover of CTV, appears set for changes to satisfy industry concerns that it is poorly targeted and structured.

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Domain Registry of Canada adopts “aggressive use of law” to silence critics

Adopting a best-defence-is-a-strong-offence approach to a bitter domain name registry dispute, a prominent web registry is suing Tucows Inc. for more than $20 million over statements it claims are false and defamatory. The case stems from a longstanding debate over a practice some have claimed is tantamount to "slamming" – the switching of customers from one provider of services, especially telephony, to another by dubious means – and warnings issued by Tucows that Domain Registry of Canada is engaged in the practice.

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Craig Wireless hoping to roll out MDS service in Vancouver next month
Despite asking the CRTC for a delay until the end of the year to launch its wireless cable service in British Columbia (CCR, July 18/02), Craig Wireless International Inc. says it could be up and running as early as next month. Craig Wireless CFO Darcy Kindred tells Canadian Communications Reports that the company’s number one priority is getting the digital TV service deployed, followed by Internet access this fall. He says Craig Wireless is targeting seniors in multi-unit dwellings, and would be happy if it can sign up 2,500 cable subscribers in the first year. Kindred adds that Craig has a deal with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. to place transmitters on its tower on Mt. Seymour, and will use IPWireless to provide the Internet service. He further notes that Craig Wireless could refurbish and transfer one of two headends from its Manitoba MDS system to B.C. Failing that, Kindred says Craig is looking at feeding the video signal from its existing headend in Manitoba via fibre to B.C. For more on this story, see the July 22/02 issue of CCR affiliate publication Report on Wireless.

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