On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Now, here's a thing that I think might actually be a Problem for us here.

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/04/just-how-extreme-is-bill-c-18-it-mandates-payments-merely-for-facilitating-access-to-news/

Is Prof. Geist wrong about this? If so, how? If not, how do we get this stopped? If News Media Canada and/or Friends of Canadian Broadcasting are for it, why, and how do we overcome such objections if this does in fact interfere with our interests as internet users in Canada?

So, I committed an activist act just as I was logging in here. Signed up for this:

https://friends.ca/campaigns/michael-enright-in-conversation/

As good as Piya Chattopadhyay is in hosting the show now rebranded as The Sunday Magazine and I am also aware that Mr. Enright and CBC have continuing plans for a future in partnership...well, I've missed hearing his voice on the radio.

I'll be in Zoom mode with that writing workshop being run by the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre in tandem with the Toronto Writers Collective in about half an hour after I post this. It fills a couple of hours with job-skills practice and mental health support. That has to be good.

How big a problem DO we have here now?

https://boingboing.net/2020/01/08/rip-open-web-platform.html

As ever, I strongly recommend this publication.

I finally watched the first episode of the new Street Legal series. Looks okay. I admit to not being very clear on the mythology of the original series, but it looks like a good beginning to a new chapter. Six episodes to start.

Let's see how it goes.

sabotabby, fair warning if you decide to watch: I don't think you are going to like Olivia Novak as a character very much.

CBC Ottawa's running on backup generator(s) due to an outage in Centretown.

Some articles that you might want to look at.

First, the redoubt-building going on here in Canada (buried in a long profile on Murdoch's sons...and why would any sane Canadian government want this family setting up a doomsday retreat here?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/business/media/murdoch-family-21st-century-fox.html

Then two items from NPR that speak to motive:

http://www.npr.org/2017/04/24/525337958/beyond-sexual-harassment-lesser-known-scandals-could-cost-the-murdochs-a-14b-dea

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/24/525421649/ailes-accuser-says-fox-news-execs-ordered-eavesdropping-on-her-digital-devices

We have some comparisons of how the end of the Ghomeshi trial was opined about by news services inside and outside of Canada. Warnings for trigger-topics in the links. Also, I have to say that I don't think I was going to be even remotely pleased by the verdict, whatever it ended up being for a whole mess (and "mess" is the operative word here) of reasons and/or excuses.

Our trade arrangements with the House of Saud are still on. Cause for concern, also. And there's other stuff to consider as well.

The ideology of the President and Board currently in place at CBC/Radio Canada seems to still be in force, despite the change of government. I have issues with that. Also, issues with the relative paucity of funding being restored to CBC/SRC.

More on other topics later during this laundry day...