Some Recent Canadian Tech Links:
Toronto Life: How big wireless companies, the banks, and even the actors’ union are keeping [Canada’s] mobile bills the highest in the world
WordsByNowak: The world’s worst throttler (officially): [Canada’s] Rogers
Michael Geist: RIM’s Woes Partly Based on Canadian Telecom Policy
styckyd: How the Payment Processing Industry in Canada is Halting Innovation
Ars Technica: Law & Disorder: Canadian Supreme Court rules you can’t defame someone with a hyperlink
Mark Evans Tech: Do Canadian Startups Get Enough Attention?
tech vibes: Canada’s Top 100 Startups
Canadian StartUp Blogs:
StartupNorth
tech vibes
Maple Butter
StartupCFO
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The Globe and Mail: Toronto’s Transformation to Silicon Valley North: “’There’s a new emergent scene going on in Toronto,’ says David Crow, a strategist for Microsoft, and a long-time organizer of the city’s tech community. ‘We have great talent and great opportunity.’ After years of nurturing a tight-knit tech community, Toronto seems to be reaching a critical mass – not just of homegrown companies, conferences, and networks, but of ties to a global industry.”
See also:
Techcrunch: Canada Now Somewhat Less Anti-Startup: “Canada isn’t shy about making life difficult for startups … [b]ut a change in Canadian tax law last week is designed to spur U.S. venture investments in Canadian startups and make Canada less of a leper colony for tech entrepreneurs. The change allows foreign investors in most Canadian startups to avoid ‘literally hundreds of pages of documents’ to be filed and processed on a sale of a startup, sometimes by each limited partner in a venture fund. That burden meant that most venture firms simply ignored the Canadian market.”
VC Experts: Canada’s Federal Budget Scores in Overtime for the Technology Community
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D’Agostino: Healing Fair Dealing? A Comparative Copyright Analysis of Canadian Fair Dealing to UK Fair Dealing and US Fair Use (2008)
From D’Agostino’s abstract of this paper: “As a result of the March 4, 2004 Supreme Court of Canada decision in CCH Canadian Ltd v Law Society of Upper Canada for the first time in Canadian copyright history, the court determined that Canadian law must recognize a user right to carry on exceptions generally and fair dealing in particular. This paper compares the Canadian fair dealing legislation and jurisprudence to that of the UK and the US. It is observed that because of CCH, the Canadian common law fair dealing factors are more flexible than those entrenched in the US.”