“Why metered bandwidth is a bad idea”
Joshua attends an anti-UBB rally at Parliament Hill Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011. (KELLY ROCHE/OTTAWA SUN) http://www.torontosun.com/blogs/techblog/2011/02/06/17174266.html
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Ottawa rally protests UBB
Up to 1,000 people were expected, but closer to 50 actually showed up to demonstrate against usage-based billing for Internet access on Parliament Hill Saturday afternoon. The protest comes after a volatile week during which the Conservative government pledged to overturn a recent CRTC decision that would kill unlimited Internet use across the country and […]
MoreProvince cuts red tape on student loans
SEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/01/24/17018636.html#/news/ottawa/2011/01/24/pf-17016371.html The province is trying to make student loans easier to get. Ontario Student Assistance Program applications will now be available Feb. 1 instead of May; there’s a new academic credit transfer system; and interest on loans will be waived for the first six months after graduation. John Milloy, the provincial minister for […]
MoreMerry Christmas! It’s a boy!
After almost six years of being a paramedic, Scott Martin can now check “delivering a baby enroute to hospital” off his to-do list. Martin, his partner Kristopher Prince and Algonquin student Jilliane Wade helped midwife Genevieve Gagnon deliver a Christmas present to an Ottawa-area family: a healthy baby boy. The baby was due Dec. 12, […]
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