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Claim Game

The high stakes of fraudulent identity

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

The Canadian Conversation

A Polish journalist’s perspective on residential schools

Simon Doyle

Simon Doyle is the executive editor of Online News Services at Hill Times Publishing Inc. in Ottawa.

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Copyright Is Everywhere

The worldwide battle over sharing and copying is just heating up December 2014
In the not-too-distant future, you will have a driverless car that accepts voice commands for your destination. You will get in the car and read your news and messages on a device (probably a wearable one) that is connected to all of your other devices and machines, including your car, your home and office computers, your…

High Noon at the CRTC

New in town, players like Netflix pose a fundamental challenge to Canadian content regulations November 2011
In May of this year, the chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission acknowledged to a roomful of broadcasters in Cambridge, Ontario, that regulators such as the commission were losing the race against technology. The communications industry, said Konrad von Finckenstein, had “completely restructured itself,” while Canada’s regulatory system was created in “the previous…