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

[Mark McGuire]

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


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Mark McGuire
Lecturer, Department of Design Studies
email Address: mark.mcguire at 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/
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On 15/03/2008, at 6:16 AM, lshade at 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=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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> tel: 613-563-1341 fax: 613-233-1458
>
> email: info at policyalternatives.ca
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>
> Leslie Regan Shade
> Associate Professor and Dir., MA in Media Studies
> Concordia Univ., Dept. of Communication Studies
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