[SpongeG]

they sing about the fishies in the deep blue sea every christmas at church here - they mix some songs together

[manny_santos]

Not exactly a Canadian commercial, but...

I am not interested in going to the cloud!!!

[MolsonExport]

I think that in the balance, I hate Christmas.

[SpikePhanta]

Not exactly a Canadian commercial, but...

I am not interested in going to the cloud!!!

The commercials of the cloud on the tv are boring but the commercials of the cloud playing in the theater are funny.

[PhilippeMtl]

greateast canadian movie I have ever seen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ExCthgpKR4

[whiteford]

had christmass dinner at my inlaws best freinds house last night. wow!! what a time we had. they are a married gay couple who know how to entertain. both are GM's of hotels here in calgary. their house is like walking into a exotic gift botique. it would take me a month to see everything on display. and the food, wow. we had a great time. on anouther note, these big houses in chestermere/calgary, are actualy realy nice!!!

[vid]

For MolsonExport:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9a6ghGExu1qck1v3o1_500.jpg (http://i-am-reptar.tumblr.com/post/1533165262/carry-on-my-wayward-son)

[MolsonExport]

Lay your weary head to rest. Don't you cry no more.

[SpongeG]

I am Canadian, I watch YouTube

Canada leads G7 nations when it comes to time spent watching online videos

By Rebecca Lindell, Postmedia News December 30, 2010 12:04 AM

Move over hockey. Canadians are embracing a new national pastime: YouTube.

When it comes to watching online video, as with hockey, Canada is a world leader.

Seventy-one per cent of Canadian Internet users, or 17.6 million people, visit YouTube every month, according comScore, a company that specializes in measuring digital activity.

Once on the site, they spend an average of 292 minutes a month watching videos such as Classified's O Canada or the Bed Intruder Song, two of the most popular videos in Canada in 2010.

In comparison, 55 per cent of the American online population surfs YouTube monthly, comScore said. Canada also beats out every other G7 nation, according to the company.

"When it comes to communication, when it comes to Facebook, when it comes to a lot of these Web 2.0 tools, community-based, Canadians are really highly sophisticated," said comScore's Canadian VP Bryan Segal. The growth isn't limited to YouTube, he said. Canadian broadcasters, such as CBC, CTV and Global have seen steady growth in the number of people watching their content online, according to comScore's analysis.

"We are content-heavy and media-heavy and I think that is one of the great things about our country," he said.

Canada has also long been known as the world's top Facebook nation with 83.1 per cent of the online population on the popular social-networking site. In the U.S., Facebook has 71.5-per-cent reach of the online population.

...

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Canadian+watch+YouTube/4040087/story.html#ixzz19amZMzpK

[vid]

That's pretty impressive considering our internet connections are so slow. We probably spend most of that 292 minutes waiting for the damn page to load.

[SpongeG]

how slow is slow? my internet is pretty fast no complaints from me

[vid]

Mine is 2.5mbps, and has been since 2003. :rolleyes:

[SpongeG]

shaw high speed is pretty good - my dad's telus is kinda slow in comparison though

[vid]

Shaw doesn't have customer service though, and they charge several times more than their competitors, and they rape kittens.

[bulliver]

^ You take that back...Shaw is the bomb....

[vid]

You live in Thunder Bay and use their services and you'll realize that I am right and you are wrong.

[bulliver]

Sorry to hear that. I've used them in Edmonton and Penticton for 10 years now...they are by far the best mainstream ISP in these parts. Their TV services may suck, but I wouldn't know because I don't watch it (other than hockey). Their customer service may also suck, but again, I wouldn't know because I've never had a problem that required a call to them...

[SpikePhanta]

Love Shaw internet!
Telus loses on Customer service, Internet and Tv.
Only thing Telus wins is being local.

[vid]

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1bef8vMoh1qa3cijo1_500.jpg

Tiger Woods backstage at a Nickelback concert with the band’s stage manager. I bet Tiger asked this guy to pose for the photo. Look how happy Tiger is. At a Nickelback concert! Being a Nickelback fan is by far the worst thing Tiger Woods has ever done.

http://thatissogay.tumblr.com/post/542463937/tiger-woods-backstage-at-a-nickelback-concert-with

[SteelTown]

Shaw recently took over our cable company (I believe it's the first for Shaw in Ontario) and I have zero complaints about Shaw's internet and cable.

[SpongeG]

shaw used to be in ontario than they made a big deal with rogers and switched ontario for the west - we used to only have rogers here for cable than was forced into shaw can't really say there is a difference both are fine

so I usually watch local news on global and decided to watch it on CTV instead - they are so different - Global is like the snow is coming you are all going to DIE the snow the snow! CTV is like the snow is coming! yay lets go skiing oh its so pretty the city is so prepared and its so pretty! its snow!

global is all like doom and gloom and CTV is all like kittens and whiskers

weird - i might get happy watching CTV and avoiding global

[vid]

Global is based on the US Action News model where "something is always happening and it's really important so watch our news to know what it is", while CTV takes the more Canadian "oh, stuff is happening, let's talk about them" approach. I don't like the American version, it seems like they're constantly yelling at me. :( They're constantly alarmed at things as if this murder is the first murder that has ever happened and oh my god, more are planned!!!! :eek: :rolleyes:

TB News on the other hand is like watching your friends play newsman with a camcorder in another room hooked up to the TV. :) Some of their new female reporters sound like high school kids. It's kind of sad but when you consider journalistic integrity, TBT beats all three networks. You've gotta hand it to a news editor confident enough to put a high school college fair on before an armed robbery. (That actually happened.)

[SpikePhanta]

Rogers for cable wasnt that bad!
But Shaw was the cable in North Van in the past i believe.

[ZeDgE]

shaw used to be in ontario than they made a big deal with rogers and switched ontario for the west - we used to only have rogers here for cable than was forced into shaw can't really say there is a difference both are fine

so I usually watch local news on global and decided to watch it on CTV instead - they are so different - Global is like the snow is coming you are all going to DIE the snow the snow! CTV is like the snow is coming! yay lets go skiing oh its so pretty the city is so prepared and its so pretty! its snow!

global is all like doom and gloom and CTV is all like kittens and whiskers

weird - i might get happy watching CTV and avoiding global

Shaw is in western Ontario (Thunder Bay and Sault Ste Marie). Shaw also acquired Mountain Cable in Hamilton last year, this pushed them past Rogers as the largest Cable provider in the country.


Shaw recently took over our cable company (I believe it's the first for Shaw in Ontario) and I have zero complaints about Shaw's internet and cable.

Didn't see your post. :D

[vid]

Shaw has been in Thunder Bay since the mid 90s when they bought our Videon company. A lot of old people still refer to Shaw as Videon.

[manny_santos]

There's a new BMO commercial that takes place in a subway station.

I'm convinced it was filmed at the Lower Bay station in Toronto, which has not been used for regular TTC service in over 40 years but has occasionally been used for filming TV and movie scenes.

Anyone from Toronto agree with me?

[vid]

Someone at SSC mentioned people were filming down there recently so that is probably it.

[SpongeG]

screw you potty dance

[SpongeG]

Dire Straits' 'Money for Nothing' should be censored, broadcast panel rules

By The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press – Wed, 12 Jan 8:54 PM EST

OTTAWA - The 1980s song "Money for Nothing" by the British rock band Dire Straits has been deemed unacceptable for play on Canadian radio.


In a ruling released Wednesday, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council says the song contravenes the human rights clauses of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' Code of Ethics and Equitable Portrayal Code.

A listener to radio station CHOZ-FM in St. John's, N.L., complained last year that the song includes the word "faggot" in its lyrics and is discriminatory to gays.

...

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/dire-straits-money-nothing-censored-broadcast-panel-rules-20110112-175448-551.html

[drew]

^ wow. Just wow.

Someone should ask Elton John how he feels about that lyric, since I understand it may refer to him.

[MrOilers]

A listener to radio station CHOZ-FM in St. John's, N.L., complained last year that the song includes the word "faggot" in its lyrics and is discriminatory to gays.


They are half right - the lyrics do contain the term "faggot". However, the song is not discriminatory - the song is making the narrator look foolish for making fun of the flamboyant man on TV (the one he calls a "faggot"), when the man on TV is more successful and happier than the homophobic guy doing donkey work.

So according to the CBSC, it is perfectly reasonable to ban lyrics that make fun of a miserable loser by making him look ignorant for using a disrespectful word. We don't want people in Canada hearing a 25-year-old hit song that criticizes homophobes anymore, now do we?

[O-tacular]

That's does it! I'm calling in a complaint tomorrow that I find Rihanna, Cher, Willa Smith, the Dudes, Nickleback and BTO offensive. :tup:

[SpongeG]

That's does it! I'm calling in a complaint tomorrow that I find Rihanna, Cher, Willa Smith, the Dudes, Nickleback and BTO offensive. :tup:

:yes: :yes: :worship: :worship: no doubt they offend worse

[vid]

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/0302dec2-e23a-4552-925b-fdbd8d88bf69.jpg (http://failblog.org/2011/01/14/epic-fail-photos-unfortunate-url-fail/)

RIM!

[dsim249]

A very nice nod to Montréal (and Canada) by Paul Giamatti on the Golden Globes this evening.

:cheers:

[MolsonExport]

RIM.jobs. What sorts of qualifications, besides brown-nosing? :yuck: :yuck: :yuck:

[Darkoshvilli]

A very nice nod to Montréal (and Canada) by Paul Giamatti on the Golden Globes this evening.

:cheers:

I was watching CBC news Montreal yesterday and they showed a report done by CBC news Toronto on the golden globes and they blatantly cut out the part where Giamatti praised Montreal and only left the Canada part. It was amusing and downright annoying at the same time.

[caltrane74]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/movies/indian-oscars-will-put-bollywoods-focus-on-toronto/article1874919/

Indian ‘Oscars’ will put Bollywood’s focus on Toronto

When Bollywood’s version of the Oscars coming to Toronto in June, it will not only be the first time the event is held in North America. It will also be the first chance many fans here will have to see how massive the Bollywood industry is globally.

The International Indian Film Academy will be hosting the three-day awards event June 23-25, culminating in the main awards show, open to the public at the Rogers Centre.

[SpongeG]

cool

I know preity zinta is toronto right now she twittered about signing autographs somewhere - perhaps filming a movie there? they (bollywood) have filmed a lot of movies in Canada

[davidivivid]

Congratulations to Denis Villeneuve! His movie, Incendies, has been nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category. I strongly encourage everybody to watch this movie since it is so damn good!

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8ZR3RtzcG9A/TFtDb9eihBI/AAAAAAAAChA/G1Yw67xVSOw/s1600/incendies.jpg
http://anhkhoi.blogspot.com/2010/08/trailer-of-denis-villeneuves-incendies.html

YDf-XuYid1A

[MolsonExport]

She's Canadian, and I find it very entertaining:
Rachel McAdams' lovely, lovely ass in Morning Glory :slob:

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg811/scaled.php?tn=0&server=811&filename=1284321005188.gif&xsize=640&ysize=640
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg811/scaled.php?tn=0&server=811&filename=1284321005188.gif&xsize=640&ysize=640

:slob::slob::slob::slob::slob::slob::slob::slob::slob:

[harls]

If you ordered a pizza and went to the door, and the pizza guy had your box open for you and told you to eat a slice, would you? Apparently the idiots at Delissio think so.

[SpongeG]

i was watching CNN and they were broadcasting the Obama/Harper news conference and everytime Harper would speak CNN would pull away and analyze what Obama just said - mostly about egypt and totally ignore Harper and than i switched to CBC and the one person on the CBC pnael discussing the whole thing mentioned the same thing how american networks were ignoring harper... haha no wonder americans never seem to know anything unrelated to their country they never get exposed to it

[kirjtc2]

If you ordered a pizza and went to the door, and the pizza guy had your box open for you and told you to eat a slice, would you? Apparently the idiots at Delissio think so.

Delissio tastes about as good as the box it came in.

[Ayreonaut]

i was watching CNN and they were broadcasting the Obama/Harper news conference and everytime Harper would speak CNN would pull away and analyze what Obama just said - mostly about egypt and totally ignore Harper and than i switched to CBC and the one person on the CBC pnael discussing the whole thing mentioned the same thing how american networks were ignoring harper... haha no wonder americans never seem to know anything unrelated to their country they never get exposed to it

BBC did the same thing, but it seemed to only be because they didn't have a translator ready for when Harper spoke French.

[MolsonExport]

Rachel McAdams tastes a million times better than Delissio Pits-a

[mr.John]

i was watching CNN and they were broadcasting the Obama/Harper news conference and everytime Harper would speak CNN would pull away and analyze what Obama just said - mostly about egypt and totally ignore Harper and than i switched to CBC and the one person on the CBC pnael discussing the whole thing mentioned the same thing how american networks were ignoring harper... haha no wonder americans never seem to know anything unrelated to their country they never get exposed to it
Are you surprised? did you watch the super bore broadcast yesterday, I never seen such over the top hype for the "greatest nation on earth" with the" greatest sporting event" in history of mankind all of course to deterime the "world champs" of football...I'm sure the people of China India and Europe were glued to their TV sets watching a sport the crams 12 minutes of action spread over a 3+ hours, which features head coaches covering their mouths in case the opposition hired lip readers.... and the bullshit goes on and on and on for about 10 hours, you have the pre-game show the pre-pre game show and not to be missed the pre-pre-pre game show, god bless America

[Acajack]

Are you surprised? did you watch the super bore broadcast yesterday, I never seen such over the top hype for the "greatest nation on earth" with the" greatest sporting event" in history of mankind all of course to deterime the "world champs" of football...I'm sure the people of China India and Europe were glued to their TV sets watching a sport the crams 12 minutes of action spread over a 3+ hours, which features head coaches covering their mouths in case the opposition hired lip readers.... and the bullshit goes on and on and on for about 10 hours, you have the pre-game show the pre-pre game show and not to be missed the pre-pre-pre game show, god bless America

I don't know if it is just my entourage, but I was wondering if one doesn't have to be native-born and raised (in Canada) in order to be interested in gridiron football.

Now, not everybody I know who grew in Canada was interested in the Super Bowl yesterday. But everyone - every single one - I know who was interested grew up in Canada. Out of all the people I know (and I know quite a few) who are originally from abroad, none of them had the slightest interest and most were hostile to or baffled by the popularity of the sport.

Anyone have a similar observation?

[mr.John]

I wonder how many people know that football lagged far behind baseball in popularity in the US right up to the late 60's? guess what happened to change all that ...yup TV came on the scene(along with all the hype and bullshit), oh by the way have they made that late windbag Vince Lombardi a saint yet?

[vid]

I don't know if it is just my entourage, but I was wondering if one doesn't have to be native-born and raised (in Canada) in order to be interested in gridiron football.

Now, not everybody I know who grew in Canada was interested in the Super Bowl yesterday. But everyone - every single one - I know who was interested grew up in Canada. Out of all the people I know (and I know quite a few) who are originally from abroad, none of them had the slightest interest and most were hostile to or baffled by the popularity of the sport.

Anyone have a similar observation?

Native Canadians don't seem to care about Football much either. White people go crazy for it, though.

[SpongeG]

Telus says it will offer service to unlock mobile phones starting next week

By LuAnn LaSalle, The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press – Mon, 7 Feb 2:38 PM EST

Telus (TSX:T) will begin offering a service to unlock mobile phones that use SIM cards, a trend in the wireless industry that allows consumers to use the devices on other carriers' networks.


The telecom company said Monday that starting on Feb. 15 its customers will be able to pay $50 to have their mobile phones unlocked.

"We know that people want the flexibility to use their phones as they see fit," said Brent Johnston, vice-president of mobility solutions at Telus.

That means customers on long-term contracts, usually smartphone users, will be able to get their phones unlocked if they've had the device for a minimum of 90 days. Consumers could then buy SIM cards for other networks.

Typically, customers have to wait until the end of their contracts to get a phone unlocked or go to a third-party retailer that provides the service.

Johnston said there could be some potential revenue loss for Telus, but added the Vancouver-based company believes its rates and packages are competitive enough to withstand such a risk.

"So we don't feel that insecure that people are going to run off to Rogers or Bell because of their network or their rates," he said.

The service applies mostly to smartphone users, Johnston said. It also applies to some flip phone users with voice plans, he added. For now, the unlocking service will not apply to Apple iPhone users.

Apple, though, announced last spring it would sell unlocked phones in Canada.

Johnston said consumers who decide to pay for the service are still bound to their contracts.

Some of Telus' competitors have dabbled in the market for unlocking phones.

Customers with Rogers (TSX:RCI.B) and Fido have been able to unlock their phones through Rogers Wireless since late last year, also for $50 per single phone unlock, a spokeswoman from the company said in an email.

...

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/telus-says-offer-unlock-mobile-phones-starting-next-20110207-065823-674.html

[MolsonExport]

I don't give three shits about NFL football. The two teams might as well be from Shithouse Falls and Asswipeville for all I care. I really don't understand the "Fan for a day" phenomenon. I do understand people getting into the cameraderie/fellowship, and/or watching for commercials/half-time shows, etc.

[SpikePhanta]

7 million + watched the superbowl :o in canada!!!

[SpongeG]

my brother prefers the NFL over the CFL he probably watched the game

[manny_santos]

I watch Canada AM some mornings, as we do not have a local morning show. For those of us outside Toronto and the Maritimes, instead of local news at 7:24 and 7:54 we get a filler segment that usually is a story from the prior night's CTV News, and usually introduced by Marcie Ien. Usually the same segment is repeated several times during the show.

I'd like to know if Marcie Ien ever watches her own segments. Right after the report, she always says "And now a look at YOUR LOCAL WEATHER!" What always comes up is an assortment of cities like Kelowna, Yorkton, Sudbury, and Saint John (the last of which doesn't even see this segment since ATV has a local segment at that time), accompanied by annoying string music. Never does any city "local" to me come up, and neither do some major cities like Vancouver or Winnipeg.

I also dislike how for some live interviews, they put a video off to the side related to the interview, and they'll loop it over and over and over. CBC News Network does the same thing.

[harls]

I watch Canada AM some mornings, as we do not have a local morning show. For those of us outside Toronto and the Maritimes, instead of local news at 7:24 and 7:54 we get a filler segment that usually is a story from the prior night's CTV News, and usually introduced by Marcie Ien. Usually the same segment is repeated several times during the show.

I'd like to know if Marcie Ien ever watches her own segments. Right after the report, she always says "And now a look at YOUR LOCAL WEATHER!" What always comes up is an assortment of cities like Kelowna, Yorkton, Sudbury, and Saint John (the last of which doesn't even see this segment since ATV has a local segment at that time), accompanied by annoying string music. Never does any city "local" to me come up, and neither do some major cities like Vancouver or Winnipeg.

CTV Ottawa used to have the local news segment as well before it was replaced with that generic insert. I think that happened when CTV was crying about losing money and had to make cuts. I didn't know that the Maritimes still had a local news bit during Canada AM... I thought it was just Toronto that kept it.

I guess they felt that the little ticker thing at the bottom of the screen was a good enough substitute (and cheaper to run).

On another note - the new McBiscuit commercial from McDonald's featuring some old bald dude covered in flour is weird and annoying. I wonder if employees really do that every morning - throw bags of flour and jugs of milk all over themselves...

[MolsonExport]

^speaking from my 5 years as a mgr at McShittes (long time ago), they do indeed. There is also vat-grease wrestling in the back room.

[kirjtc2]

CTV Ottawa used to have the local news segment as well before it was replaced with that generic insert. I think that happened when CTV was crying about losing money and had to make cuts. I didn't know that the Maritimes still had a local news bit during Canada AM... I thought it was just Toronto that kept it.

ATV still has its own version of Breakfast Television before Canada AM (a holdover from when ChumCity owned the station), so if there's someone in the newsroom, you might as well put her on the air.

[vid]

Neither of Thunder Bay's local channels have a morning show. Global has infomercials when it comes on air at 6:30, then "mommy shows" for two hours followed by 100 Huntley Street at 9am. Our CBC has Steven and Chris reruns, then CBC News, local news, and kid shows until 11am, which apparently is the perfect time for them to air more infomercials.

When I was a kid, the only non-local commercials both TV stations aired were for Mormons, War-amps or the government. Now, they're something like 25% advertising. CBC is going to be taking away their affiliation soon to directly operation a NWO CBC station, but who knows how long that will last.

They should really work harder at turning TBTV into a superstation. We could use a channel that airs interesting television every once in a while.

[SpongeG]

CRTC has lost its way: Snobelen
Can't keep up in the new media age

By JOHN SNOBELEN, TORONTO SUN

I am hopelessly Canadian. I listen to Murray McLaughlin’s Farmers Song at least once a week. I know all the words to obscure Valdy tunes. My car was assembled in Ingersoll.

I spent Christmas Eve trading Ian Tyson stories with Dr. Jim Henderson. How Canadian is that?

I say all of this in advance of confessing to a horribly unpatriotic feeling.

I hate the CRTC.

There I’ve said it.

I know I’m wrong to hate the CRTC.

Heck, the commission is as Canadian as triple-digit cell bills, hugely expensive Internet service providers and the always popular bundled TV service.

What’s not to like?

Thanks to the CRTC, I am now permitted to listen to some of the satellite radio channels I have been pirating for a decade as I drive to Buffalo for a cheap flight.

By gosh, I am Canadian.

Growing up within the range of American media it always seemed to me the CRTC was like a small dog yapping at a sleeping coyote.

While the CRTC regulated and pontificated and re-regulated, Commander Tom and Promo the Robot entertained a generation of Ontario kids from their American studios, far from the reach of Canadian regulators.

The CRTC seemed quaint when it fiercely regulated two Canadian TV channels even as our rabbit ears picked up three U.S. stations.

Today it misses the plot entirely.

Back in the day, the CRTC was charged with metering out licences to use public airways.

The notion was a central government agency could best protect the sensitivities of the Canadian public and promote Canadian culture. Laudable goals.

But the CRTC’s attempts to support Canadian culture and talent have always been suspect.

Long before the Internet changed everything, Canadians consumers enjoyed a wealth of international content and Canadian artists made their mark on the international stage.

Today the worlds of music and entertainment are irreversibly global.

In fact, the last vestiges of national culture are the areas the CRTC does not regulate; literature and live performance.

This is the era of new media. Narrow casting. Ultra small screens. Blogs, tweets and streaming stuff.

Whatever the grand intentions of the CRTC were back in the analog age, today it rules over the fattening of wallets.

It is in the business of restricting trade, driving up costs and making a few companies rich.

The CRTC, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that usage-based billing (UBB) is the Canadian thing to do.

This despite the fact UBB will result in limiting competition in the ISP business, already dominated by a few large corporations.

This gets pretty simple for me; I want high-speed, low cost Internet access.

I don’t care what Rogers, Bell and Shaw want.

I don’t care what the government or the CRTC believe they need to protect me from.

Give me the Internet fast and cheap.

The federal courts recently ruled the government overstepped its bounds in allowing Wind Mobile to offer cell service in Canada.

Apparently we need less competition and more Canadian ownership in the cell business.

I am no expert on Canadian business ownership.

...

http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/john_snobelen/2011/02/11/17242841.html

[SpongeG]

Usage-based method fair for Internet billing: Bell

Those who use less bandwidth should pay less than heavy users

By Matt Hartley, Financial Post February 11, 2011 Comments (45)

Following weeks of public outrage and political manoeuvring, representatives from BCE Inc.'s Bell Canada got the chance to answer its critics about the company's plans to implement usage-based billing practices for Internet services on its wholesale customers.

Appearing before a parliamentary committee in Ottawa on Thursday into the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's controversial ruling last month on Internet billing, Bell Canada's chief of regulatory affairs, Mirko Bibic, said all customers should be treated equally.

"From a billing perspective, we believe there should be no discrimination between retail and wholesale customers," Bibic said during his opening testimony before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology.

"All customers should be treated in the same way and usage-based billing is the fair way to price Internet use. Simply put, the heaviest users should pay more than those who use less."

Bell has been under fire since the CRTC's Jan. 25 ruling that effectively allows larger Canadian Internet service providers to impose the same bandwidth caps and overage fees on the third-party ISPs which lease network space from them, as they do on their own retail customers.

Critics of the ruling, some of whom spoke at the hearing prior to Bell on Thursday, contend the decision is anti-competitive and prevents them from offering Internet services which are tangibly different than those offered by the larger ISPs.

Bibic disputed claims that usage-based billing has an impact on businesses and maintained that the ruling would affect only heavy downloaders who are already clients of thirdparty ISPs, a number he pegged at about one per cent of the Canadian online population.

Bell has maintained that usage-based billing is necessary to generate revenue which the company can then invest back into its own network.

Bibic told the committee that usage-based billing "prevents [other ISPs] from differentiating their offers from our own."

...

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Usage+based+method+fair+Internet+billing+Bell/4264941/story.html#ixzz1DjhvjEAX

[vid]

If they were seriously about letting those who use less pay less, they would charge by GB from the start. If a $37 plan has 50GB, that is 74 cents per gigabite. So if someone who uses less only uses 3GB that month, they shouldn't pay more than $2.22 before tax for internet that month. That is fair.

Suppose of the $37, 20 is maintenance/debt/whateverotherbullshit. At $17 for 50 GB you're down to 34 cents per GB. (That is still about 10 times higher than a GB costs.) A user of 3GB in a month would pay $21.02 before tax. A user of 134GB in a month would pay $45.76. Or perhaps you could have a higher rate for exceeding 50, 75, 100, 125 GB...

Suppose:

$20 base service fee
0.34/GB until 50GB ($17)
0.68/GB until 75GB ($17)
1.00/GB until 100GB ($25)
2.00/GB until 125GB ($50)
3.00/GB after 125GB

The user of 3GB still pays $21.02. The user of 134GB pays $156 before taxes.

They still make their absurd profits on the mass downloaders that make up "less than 1%/less than 5%/barely 10%" or however much it is they're saying now, while the nation's internet rates finally fall in line with those of other terrestrial nations.

[SpongeG]

arcade fire wins the big award at the grammys! and they even dare speak french on american tv!

[davidivivid]

:previous: THE SUBURBS - ARCADE FIRE - HELL YEAH - OUIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Simpseatles]

YES!!!:cheers: . The Suburbs is probably my second favourite album of all time!!:worship: For once the grammys actually got something right!

[SpongeG]

the americans are b**ching today about that win - well at least stuff i have seen on twitter - even the people on the talk on CBS were like WTF?

[Bdog]

Bieber and Drake were robbed!!!! :D

But a big night for Canada all around - Buble, Arcade Fire, and of course, favourite son Neil Young...

[SpikePhanta]

QMI agency totally ignored Arcade Fire on their article of the grammys, saying only neil young and buble were the only canadians who won major awards.

[Doady]

http://whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com/

[vid]

Are there any lyrics to Justin Bieber songs besides "Baby Baby Baby Oh"? It sounds like he is a woman having an orgasm in a bad porn.

[SpongeG]

Are there any lyrics to Justin Bieber songs besides "Baby Baby Baby Oh"? It sounds like he is a woman having an orgasm in a bad porn.

at one point he also sings "yeah yeah yeah"

[vid]

at one point he also sings "yeah yeah yeah"

Lyrical genius! :stunned:

[SpongeG]

i had never sat down to listen to him before until the grammy performance it was like um is that all the lyrics?

[harls]

I think I've seen Tiger Woods hack on the golf green at least 20 times this morning. The best part is when they give you a warning that some viewers may find this offensive, then proceed to put it in super slow mo for your viewing pleasure.

[manny_santos]

When I was a kid, the only non-local commercials both TV stations aired were for Mormons, War-amps or the government. Now, they're something like 25% advertising. CBC is going to be taking away their affiliation soon to directly operation a NWO CBC station, but who knows how long that will last.

Has CBC actually stated they intend to open their own station in Thunder Bay with local news? Certainly with having the radio station already they don't need to start a news department from the ground up, which would make it less expensive than starting a new station in, let's say London.

[PhilippeMtl]

http://whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com/
:haha: now that's funny...

Best quotes:
-What is an Arcade Fire and why are people excited for it?

-What the fuck is the Arcade fries

-who in the hell were those suburbs ppl that won album of the year??? omg really i'M pissed!!!

[Darkoshvilli]

:haha: now that's funny...

Best quotes:
-What is an Arcade Fire and why are people excited for it?

-What the fuck is the Arcade fries

-who in the hell were those suburbs ppl that won album of the year??? omg really i'M pissed!!!

Bunch of morons. Nothing else exists besides Bieber, Usher and Gaga to these fucking idiots.

[ue]

http://whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com/

Haha

My favourites:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgnh0dKpLZ1qh8gp5o1_500.png
from tumblr

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgnhytW9vG1qh8gp5o1_500.png
from tumblr

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgo54c8Am61qh8gp5o1_500.png
from tumblr

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgn96qggdq1qh8gp5o1_500.png
from tumblr

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg615/scaled.php?tn=0&server=615&filename=j07m.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640
from desmond.yfrog

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgma2y3T3N1qh8gp5o1_500.png
from tumblr

because...if this person has heard it, it must be good!
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lglrf1H7Wp1qh8gp5o1_500.png
from tumblr

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lglpjySKBO1qh8gp5o1_500.png
from tumblr

[Simpseatles]

:haha: now that's funny...

Best quotes:
-What is an Arcade Fire and why are people excited for it?

-What the fuck is the Arcade fries

-who in the hell were those suburbs ppl that won album of the year??? omg really i'M pissed!!!

I've never heard of this band, therefore they suck!:jester:

On a side note, this was the second time this awards season that a winner thanked Montreal (the first being Paul Giamatti at the Golden Globes). That's pretty cool!:cool:

[vid]

Has CBC actually stated they intend to open their own station in Thunder Bay with local news? Certainly with having the radio station already they don't need to start a news department from the ground up, which would make it less expensive than starting a new station in, let's say London.

They are revoking CKPR's affiliation with them and have applied for a licence to broadcast a new station over the air here. Whether that will be a local TV station or a repeater we don't yet know, but we are the location of their NWO Newsroom, and the building is large enough to accommodate a TV studio. Due to cuts, a good amount of its floorspace is vacant. They'll probably be reoccupying it. I first heard about these plans over a year ago through a local news site, I didn't believe him at the time, but I guess it is real now that they've announced their plans.

We could use a new media source anyway. Aside from their radio news updates (the website is just a clone of CBCNews.ca with a Sleeping Giant photo on top) the only major news sources here are Dougall Media and The Chronicle-Journal, and they basically cover the same things. CBC does some pretty in-depth stuff, but radio is the only way to access it right now, which is annoying.

From what I have read about their efforts to expand local content, Hamilton is their number one priority.


And when the fuck did Eminem come back? Is it 1999 again?

[MolsonExport]

I hate lady gaga. I hate her music. I hate her face. Did I tell you that I hate her music?

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/17850227/Lady+Gaga.png
last.fm

Fugly!

[davidivivid]

:previous: Are you telling me you're not one of her so-called "little monster"!?!... :shrug:

[harls]

She is not as fugly as "Snooki".

[mr.John]

They should've dumped the egg she arrived in for the grammys in boiling water,now that would've been a show....that little baking Guido "the cake boss" and his ugly sisters are getting on my nerves ,turns out that little chubby twit can't even speak Italian(or English) and his brother in law Remy is up on sexual assault charges

[MolsonExport]

Yeah snooki is fugly too. I've never seen that Guido show, but I know I hate it.

[davidivivid]

:sly:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bUPnRwe8UGU/TASHp_hwzOI/AAAAAAAACh0/E9VM0IaDX_A/s1600/snoki.bmp
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bUPnRwe8UGU/TASHp_hwzOI/AAAAAAAACh0/E9VM0IaDX_A/s1600/snoki.bmp

[MolsonExport]

^how on earth does a person that looks like that get any fame? In 5 years, she will look like a brown gucci handbag.

[kirjtc2]

I hate lady gaga. I hate her music. I hate her face. Did I tell you that I hate her music?

Fugly!

Like I said on Sunday night....if you have real talent, you don't have to show up to the Grammys in an egg.

[harls]

^how on earth does a person that looks like that get any fame? In 5 years, she will look like a brown gucci handbag.

In 5 years? How about RIGHT NOW :D

[HomeInMyShoes]

Somehow, I'm not authorized to read news from Canada? I bet the CRTC is behind this.

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h217/HomeInMyShoes/no.jpg

Photo by me. About two minutes ago.

[vid]

Not only can I access the site (which looks much better than it did yesterday), but it got my location right, too:

http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/1413/cbcnews.jpg

:tup:

[manny_santos]

Don Cherry's contract with CBC has been renewed through the 2011-2012 NHL season.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/story/2011/02/19/sp-cherry-contract.html

http://humberetc.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/dcherry.jpg
Humber Et Cetera

[manny_santos]

:sly:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bUPnRwe8UGU/TASHp_hwzOI/AAAAAAAACh0/E9VM0IaDX_A/s1600/snoki.bmp
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bUPnRwe8UGU/TASHp_hwzOI/AAAAAAAACh0/E9VM0IaDX_A/s1600/snoki.bmp

Call me crazy, but I actually LIKE that picture of Snooki. She actually looks like a real person there.

[SpongeG]

i am watching "instant cash" on tvtropolis what kind of crap is this?

[manny_santos]

Guess what's coming back this week...

http://blstb.msn.com/i/43/3221537A62289CCCEE0EC7566B11.jpg
MSN

[manny_santos]

Paris last minute? Who the hell suddenly decides they're traveling to Paris?

I'd say welcome to the world of "no". That's a lack of planning if I'd say so.

[vid]

Heard the censored version of Money for Nothing for the first time today. The CBSC has turned us from faggots, to fuckers. Thanks! :rolleyes:

(When you hear "f--" in a song, you replace it with "fuck", because that is what "f--" usually is.)

[harls]

Guess what's coming back this week...

http://blstb.msn.com/i/43/3221537A62289CCCEE0EC7566B11.jpg
MSN

Have you seen their commercial with the '25th anniversary' RIM ROLLING song? I imagine the airwaves will be saturated with it for the next month.

[Gerrard]

Call me crazy, but I actually LIKE that picture of Snooki. She actually looks like a real person there.

You're crazy.

She does have a future career in midget porn, however.

[MolsonExport]

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e308/Cassecroute/RolluptheBen.jpg