[Air-L] Book release - Telecom Policy in Canada]]

[lshade at alcor.concordia.ca]

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=BB736455


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
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Leslie Regan Shade
Associate Professor and Dir., MA in Media Studies
Concordia Univ., Dept. of Communication Studies