J.R.McHale

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)