Author Archives: bhaggart

ACTA: History repeating itself?

Posted on March 10, 2010 by bhaggart

So the European Parliament has voted 663-13 against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) (h/t BoingBoing). Could this be a turning point in the negotiations? The whole situation does seem to have some similarities to the French reticence that sunk the … Continue reading →

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ACTA: All Global Treaties are Local

Posted on March 6, 2010 by bhaggart

A nice reminder, courtesy of Michael Geist , that the battle over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is going to get messier the more that groups directly affected by but excluded from the talks are heard and, most importantly, are … Continue reading →

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News flash: Canadian broadband great, says paper owned by ISP

Posted on March 6, 2010 by bhaggart

I thought there was something off in the story in the Globe and Mail (a division of CTV Globemedia, owned in part by the same company that owns Sympatico) by Leonard Waverman and Kalyan Dasgupta about how Canadian broadband access … Continue reading →

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Canada and the politics of ACTA implementation

Posted on February 26, 2010 by bhaggart

Nice post by Sara Bannerman about the potential effect of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on Canadian copyright reform. I think she has the issue mostly surrounded, and that possibility number three – a treaty will simply introduce another element … Continue reading →

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Understanding Facebook activism in two easy steps

Posted on February 18, 2010 by bhaggart

After reading Michael Valpy’s confusing article on the political effectiveness of Facebook in this morning’s Globe and Mail, I have to wonder if reporters will ever get their minds around exactly what Facebook is. Judging from Valpy’s interview with a … Continue reading →

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