Book release - Telecom Policy in Canada]]
March 14, 2008 Dear friends, The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is pleased to announce the release of For Sale to the Highest Bidder: Telecom Policy in Canada, edited by Marita Moll and Leslie Regan Shade. Copies of the book are available for $14.95 (plus shipping and GST) from the CCPA:http://www.policyalternatives.ca Order page: http://www.policyalternatives.ca/Reports/2008/03/ForSale/index.cfm?pa=BB7364... About the book: More than ever before, we depend on telecommunications services to conduct our economic, cultural and social lives. But, after 100 years of managing and controlling this industry to safeguard the interests of all Canadians, recent government decisions are leading us to a communications future that doesn't include us all. Canadian interests in this vital sector are being traded off in the name of deregulation and harmonization. Whether it is about access or affordability, security or sovereignty, the essays in this book will be a wake-up call to anyone wondering how telecommunications policy affects our daily lives. Contributors include: Maude Barlow, Genevieve Bonin, Bruce Campbell, Andrew Clement, Michael Geist, Phillipa Lawson, Graham Longford, Marita Moll, Amelia Bryne Potter, Marc Raboy, Leslie Regan Shade, Ben Scott, Mel Watkins, and Julie White. "Leslie Regan Shade and Marita Moll have assembled a formidable team to tell a story every Canadian should know. To control the corporate ownership of the media is to control its content. Take heed. This is an important book," says Maude Barlow, National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives 410-75 Albert Street, Ottawa, ON K1P 5E7 tel: 613-563-1341 fax: 613-233-1458 email: info@policyalternatives.ca Leslie Regan Shade Associate Professor and Dir., MA in Media Studies Concordia Univ., Dept. of Communication Studies
Greetings Professor Shade Thanks for the notice regarding you recent book. I will order a copy for our library (and one for myself). As a transplanted Canadian (I moved from Toronto to NZ in 1993) I have tried to follow developments in Canada. Since the late 1980s, New Zealand has been used as a laboratory mouse by free market economists who failed to get the opportunity to test their theories in their home country (for a good overview, see Jane Kelsey's The New Zealand Experiment: A World Model for Structural Adjustment? Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995). I have done some research on ISPs in NZ as part of a larger study on virtual communities, and it is useful to compare developments here with what has happened in Canada under similar ideological conditions. All the best Mark McGuire ________________________________________ Mark McGuire Lecturer, Department of Design Studies email Address: mark.mcguire@design.otago.ac.nz University of Otago, Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand Phone: 03-479-7156 Fax: 03-479-3066 http://www.design.otago.ac.nz/ ________________________________________ On 15/03/2008, at 6:16 AM, lshade@alcor.concordia.ca wrote:
March 14, 2008
Dear friends,
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is pleased to announce the release of For Sale to the Highest Bidder: Telecom Policy in Canada, edited by Marita Moll and Leslie Regan Shade. Copies of the book are available for $14.95 (plus shipping and GST) from the CCPA:http://www.policyalternatives.ca
Order page:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/Reports/2008/03/ForSale/index.cfm?pa=BB7364...
About the book: More than ever before, we depend on telecommunications services to conduct our economic, cultural and social lives. But, after 100 years of managing and controlling this industry to safeguard the interests of all Canadians, recent government decisions are leading us to a communications future that doesn't include us all. Canadian interests in this vital sector are being traded off in the name of deregulation and harmonization.
Whether it is about access or affordability, security or sovereignty, the essays in this book will be a wake-up call to anyone wondering how telecommunications policy affects our daily lives.
Contributors include: Maude Barlow, Genevieve Bonin, Bruce Campbell, Andrew Clement, Michael Geist, Phillipa Lawson, Graham Longford, Marita Moll, Amelia Bryne Potter, Marc Raboy, Leslie Regan Shade, Ben Scott, Mel Watkins, and Julie White.
"Leslie Regan Shade and Marita Moll have assembled a formidable team to tell a story every Canadian should know. To control the corporate ownership of the media is to control its content. Take heed. This is an important book," says Maude Barlow, National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives 410-75 Albert Street, Ottawa, ON K1P 5E7 tel: 613-563-1341 fax: 613-233-1458
email: info@policyalternatives.ca
Leslie Regan Shade Associate Professor and Dir., MA in Media Studies Concordia Univ., Dept. of Communication Studies
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