jfmezeiPremium
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kudos:22 | reply to Davesnothere
Re: Mars Attacks ! CRTC budget stable for 2013-13, and cut by 400,000 starting 2013-2014. |
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DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages
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Uh-Oh !
Will need to play mucho extra GOLF to make up the shortfall. 
2013-13 ? |
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DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages
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Final Replies to CNOC's Part 1 App of 2011-703
March 28 was the deadline for these.
»CNOC's Part 1 Filing on the 703/704 tariffs
Several linked docs are on that page. - Thanks JF |
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Re: Mars Attacks ! said by Davesnothere:
Uh-Oh !
Will need to play mucho extra GOLF to make up the shortfall.
2013-13 ?
Golf season started early this year, no need to make up for a shortfall.  |
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DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages
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Comments on SHAW's R&V of 2011-703
March 29th was deadline for these.
»Re: Cable companies' Review and Vary of 2011-703
Links courtesy of JF. |
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Re: Mars Attacks ! 400k is less than 10% of CRTC's budget. If they keep the chairman's position vacated, they are already more than half way there. :P |
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| Sorry. Wrong Math. 400k is less than 1% of CRTC's around 50mil budget. |
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| Not UBB related, but can't pass off this:
»www.torontosun.com/2012/03/31/ct···-comment
"CTV host allegedly tells boss to f--- himself"
>Don Martin, the host of Power Play, a political talk show on CTV News Channel, was not on-air Friday as CTV officials spent the day trying to determine what Martin may or not may have said about George Cope, chief executive officer of Bell, the conglomerate that owns CTV.
>At the party, held at a restaurant a block from Parliament Hill, Martin is alleged to have engaged in a verbal altercation with Dimitri Soudas, the former director of communications for Prime Minister Stephen Harper and now the executive director for communications for the Canadian Olympic Committee. During the course of that altercation, Martin is alleged to have told Soudas that he and Cope could “Go f--- yourselves”.
Brilliant career ending move! |
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 milnoc
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kudos:1 | How much alcohol was involved in this?  |
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DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages
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Did Martin also say anything like "Bite Me !" ?  |
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If he hasn't been drinking, he could really use half a dozen bottles now. |
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milnoc
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Hopefully, the water is now safe to drink. |
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jfmezeiPremium
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It would be an opportunity for Bell/BCE to confirm they have no editorial control over its media empire by stating that they will not fire the guy because he criticised the CEO of a large corporation. |
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milnoc
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kudos:1 | But because he's in a way a public figure on television, they can still fire him for inappropriate behaviour that damaged the network's image and reputation.
When you're on TV, you're pretty much on the clock 24 hours a day.
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Watch my future television channel's public test broadcast!
»thecanadianpublic.com/live |
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| He might not be jobless, but certainly would be "encouraged" to go. He might find some trouble with certain political party members or the Olympics for sure.
On the other hand, he might get some sympathy in the "99%" crowd. May be he can find work at Faux News North TV or other non-main stream network or trash talk shows? |
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Re: Globe & Other 2011-44 (UBB) articles I read the story on the Ottawa Citizen and once again the STUN and Faux News North are blowing this out of proportion.
But contrary to an account of the incident published by another news organization on Saturday, Martin did not make an obscene remark directed at Cope.
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No, I didn't. Honest... I ran out of gas. I... I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake....... |
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jfmezeiPremium
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There was mention that Ken Engelhart had used the Tim Hortons analogy...
This is from the 2009-261 hearings (ADSL-CO) in 2010, the main opening stamement by Bell starrt non other than George Cope:
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120 Let me give you an example to try to draw this out for everyone.
121 Take a great Canadian company like Tim Hortons. Tomorrow morning if Tim Hortons was told it had to re-sell its coffee at a discount price to anybody who wanted it, provided it opened stores, well, the franchisee who bought that territory and paid for it, the next morning, a coffee shop could open it, re-name it and sell the quality product that Tim Hortons sells.
122 Tim Hortons wouldn't leave the coffee industry, but their business model would change dramatically, the pace of the model would change and they would not understand, as we don't understand in our industry now, why anyone would have a say over who's going to carry and access their products in the marketplace.
The reference to Tim Hortons was used again by Bell a few times during that hearing.
So if Rogers stole it, Bell should sue Rogers for stealing their argument
EDIT: More quotes on Tim Hortons from Bell's presentation in 2010:
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328 THE CHAIRPERSON: No, it doesn't, for two reasons. Tim Hortons is not part of a network. You are only part of a network industry. You have to be interconnected, you have to buy and sell from each other, and for that reason --
329 Also, if Tim Hortons went out of business, it wouldn't be a national tragedy. The country would continue to exist.
330 MR. COPE: I'm not sure about that, but anyway...
--- Laughter
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jfmezeiPremium
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kudos:22 | BBC report on the British's plans to introduce their version of C-30
»www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17576745 |
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That reminds me of Number 2's Starbucks reference in Austin Powers.
Tim Hortons is a franchise. They actually rely on "resellers" to buy their supply at wholesale level and license their name. The only part they might object to is not using their trademark. |
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| »www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2···nes.html
>Bell Canada and subsidiary Bell Aliant are looking to double the cash cost of making a local payphone call to $1.
>Bell and Bell Aliant are also seeking to double the cost of non-cash payphone payments — such as those made by credit cards — from the current $1 to $2. |
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