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Wednesday September 24, 2014

September 24, 2014 by Graeme MacKay

Wednesday September 24, 2014By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Wednesday September 24, 2014

Netflix refuses CRTC demand to hand over subscriber data

Netflix says it won’t turn over confidential subscriber information to Canada’s broadcast regulator in order to safeguard private corporate information.

The video streaming company was ordered last week to give the data to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission by Monday, along with information related to the Canadian content it creates or provides to subscribers.

A Netflix official said Tuesday that while the company has responded to a number of CRTC requests, it is not “in a position to produce the confidential and competitively sensitive information.”

But in a statement, the company said it is “always prepared to work constructively with the commission.”

The comments came in the middle of the regulator’s “Let’s Talk TV” hearings on the future of broadcasting rules, including allowing cable customers to be able to create their own personalized cable packages. Since Netflix is not a conventional broadcaster, there’s much doubt that the Broadcasting Act that the CRTC enforces even applies to the company.

Wednesday, November 27, 2013What happens now is very much in the air, University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist told the CBC in an interview Tuesday. “Netflix likely felt pushed into the corner on a bigger issue, which is the CRTC’s authority to regulate online new media,” he said.

“The issue has been simmering for about a decade, but everybody took a hands-off approach,” Geist said. “Once there was a threat from the CRTC on Friday, it really did force Netflix’s hand.” (Source: CBC News)

Posted in: Canada Tagged: broadcasting, Canada, CRTC, editoral cartoon, internet, netflix, octopus, regulations

Saturday September 20, 2014

September 20, 2014 by Graeme MacKay

Saturday September 20, 2014By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday September 20, 2014

The UN Security Council has declared the outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa a “threat to international peace and security”.

The council unanimously adopted a resolution calling on states to provide more resources to combat the outbreak.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned an emergency meeting of the council that the number of Ebola infections was doubling every three weeks.

More than 2,600 people have now died in the worst Ebola outbreak on record.

Mr Ban said the “gravity and scale of the situation now require a level of international action unprecedented for a health emergency”.

He announced the establishment of an “emergency UN mission” working with the World Health Organization (WHO) to combat the crisis, saying he would convene a “high-level meeting” next week.

The council heard that the international response had to be three times bigger than it was now to contain the crisis – the number of cases is doubling every two weeks in west Africa.

The resolution attracted 130 co-sponsors – a UN record – and calls on countries to provide urgent aid, such as medical staff and field hospitals.

The resolution also calls for travel bans imposed by some states to be lifted, saying the countries need to have access to aid instead of being isolated.

Council members heard that the international response would need to be 20 times greater than it was now, if the outbreak were to be controlled.

The Security Council has never previously met to confront a public health crisis, reports the BBC’s Nick Bryant from New York.

It is only the second time that a public health issue has been addressed at the council, the first instance being HIV/Aids, our correspondent adds.

A doctor appearing via video link from Liberia warned that if the international community did not step up its response, “we would be wiped out”.

Meanwhile officials in Guinea searching for a team of health workers and journalists who went missing while trying to raise awareness of Ebola have found several bodies. (Source: BBC News)

Posted in: International Tagged: editoral cartoon, Editorial Cartoon; Ebola; UN; WTO; health; disease; Africa; pandemic; horsemen

Friday September 19, 2014

September 18, 2014 by Graeme MacKay

Friday September 19, 2014By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Friday September 19, 2014

European Integration Emboldens Europe’s Separatists

Scotland’s referendum has galvanized national movements across Europe. The irony is that this has been made possible in part by the European Union, for decades the driver of economic and political integration across a once war-torn continent.

In the past week, Edinburgh has been like a magnet for politicians across Europe who regard their regions as nations. Representatives from Wales, the Basque Country, Flanders, Catalonia, Galicia, Corsica, Sardinia and Friesland visited the Scottish capital.

They have been emboldened in part by the safety net that the EU is perceived to offer to small countries. The institution that was created to make national borders irrelevant may perversely play a role in creating new ones.

Even as voters in many European countries register growing dissatisfaction with the EU, membership offers smaller nationalities the hope of separation with a minimum of disruption.

Today, “separatism has a spring in its step,” says Charles Grant, director of the London-based Centre for European Reform.

Europe’s borders have already fractured in the last 20 years. With the exception of Czechoslovakia, which split in 1993, these changes have been born out of the violent breakup of the former Yugoslavia.

What is seducing nationalists these days is what Michael Desch, professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, calls the prospect of Velvet Divorce: a gentle segue into an independent state while preserving membership of institutions like the EU and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and retaining the same currency.

But governments across the continent have viewed developments in the U.K. with growing alarm, as support for Scottish independence appeared to strengthen. Europe’s other capitals, surprised that London has appeared to sleepwalk into a potential constitutional crisis, are unlikely to succumb meekly to the phenomenon.

Their reaction, should Scotland become independent, will be instructive. Scottish Nationalists have portrayed Scottish membership of the EU as a foregone conclusion, suggesting it would be waved into the bloc with little fuss. (Source: Wall Street Journal)


LETTERS to the EDITOR

In my lifelong reading of The Spectator, I’ve never been shocked by a cartoon until now. The editorial cartoon of Friday, Sept. 19 was funny to a point. That point was the last cell of the multi-celled cartoon. The real life events upon which it was based are horrible. The Spectator doesn’t need to embed these events, even more, into the Zeitgeist by depicting them as the punch line of a cartoon. It was insensitive, tasteless and thoughtless. You went too far. — B. Kish, Hamilton

Insensitive cartoon disappointing – September 22, 2014: Sorry, Graeme MacKay. I’m really disappointed but that was as insensitive as anything you’ve ever done. I only hope and pray that no family members of these victims ever lay eyes on it. — Virginia Coombs, Stoney Creek

Untimely and tasteless trash – September 23, 2014: I was beginning to think cartoonist Graeme MacKay’s work was showing some maturity. After a brief break, some of his concepts were starting to display some intelligence. However, we seem to be back to stuff that portrays the lack of sensitivity and taste that have been his mark in the past. The cartoon Scotland’s Influence Endures is pathetic and the portrayal of an ISIS executioner with a knife at the throat of a prisoner, especially now when people are totally sickened by what has happened to these poor victims, is obscene. It is hard to believe that The Spectator would publish such untimely and tasteless trash. — Roy Coombs, Simcoe

Scottish cartoon went too far with ISIS – September 24, 2014: I am totally disgusted by the editorial cartoon that appeared in The Spectator on Sept. 19. I cannot stomach anything that would include Scotland and ISIS in the same reference. Is this supposed to be funny or witty? What part of a drawing showing someone being beheaded is in keeping with decency? In this case, cartoonist Graeme MacKay has offended many. It is indefensible that your paper can continue to publish his work. — David McIntyre, Hamilton


SOCIAL MEDIA

Post by The Hamilton Spectator.

 


Commentary by Graeme MacKay

Last week the above cartoon in advance of the day the world was to find out the results of the referendum on Scottish independence. Of course, no one knew how the final numbers would turn out, but the pollsters said it was to be close. The choice for me therefore was to draw something that would work with either a yes or no victory. There was an overwhelmingly negative reaction to the cartoon (see above), yet with all the thumbs down communicated to me through social media, I’m still not clear why this cartoon is so repulsive to so many… continued

Posted in: International Tagged: Basque, editoral cartoon, England, Flemish, Great Britain, Independence, Ireland, Isis, Quebec, Scotland, separatism, UK, Wales

Thursday September 18, 2014

September 17, 2014 by Graeme MacKay

Thursday September 18, 2014By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday September 18, 2014

U.S. Steel Canada files for bankruptcy protection

U.S. Steel Canada is under court-ordered protection from its creditors.

The move, announced Tuesday, sat well with investors on U.S. markets on Wednesday. U.S. Steel was up 12 percent at $46.34 at 9:04 a.m. in New York. The stock (X:US) gained 40 percent this year through Tuesday’s close, Bloomberg reported.

In announcing the move, the company’s American parent said the Hamilton and Nanticoke plants have lost more than $2.4 billion over the last five years and the bleeding has to stop.

Michael McQuade, president and general manager of the former Stelco, said in a statement that financial restructuring is the only way to improving chances for the future.

“Despite substantial efforts over the past several years to make U.S. Steel Canada profitable, it is clear that restructuring … is critical to improving our long-term business outlook,” he said.

Canadian spokesperson Trevor Harris said it will be “business as usual and status quo for the time being” as restructuring negotiations get started.

The news release from the parent company noted pension costs as one of its major hurdles, saying the Canadian operation accounts for about $1 billion of its employee benefits liability. For 15,000 pensioners, that is a warning they could lose a chunk of their retirement income.

Pensioners would be out of pocket if the company wound up its Canadian pension plans in the current underfunded state. Some estimates have said that loss could be as high as 30 per cent.

That pension statement echoes claims Stelco made in 2004, when it sought protection under the Companies Creditors Arrangements Act (CCAA) saying the cost of topping up its badly under-funded pension plans was driving it out of business. (Source: Hamilton Spectator)

 


OTHER MEDIA

Posted to Yahoo News Canada

Posted in: Business, Hamilton Tagged: business, CCAA, editoral cartoon, Hamilton, labour, Pensions, retirement, sinking ship, steel, U.S. Steel, Yahoo

Tuesday September 16, 2014

September 15, 2014 by Graeme MacKay

Tuesday September 16, 2014By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Tuesday September 16, 2014

Rob and Doug Ford’s symbiotic relationship and ideological mission behind passing of the baton in election

In a Mount Sinai hospital room in downtown Toronto late Friday afternoon, Doug Ford stood beside his stricken brother, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, with their mother, Diane, other family members and their lawyer and confidante Dennis Morris for a “bittersweet” passing of the baton.

For Rob Ford, who has withdrawn from his controversial and closely scrutinized bid for re-election Friday in a shock move after hospitalization for an abdominal tumour, it was hard to submit to the reality of quitting, said Mr. Morris.

“It’s heartbreaking,” Mr. Morris said as he drove away from the hospital visit. “He’s chomping at the bit. His mind says go but his body says no… He is quite convinced he would have won the election.”

Doug Ford — stepping in and registering as mayoral candidate in Rob’s stead on the last day for candidates to register for the Oct. 27 municipal election — showed “tremendously mixed emotions,” Mr. Morris said.

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“He is very heartbroken that he has to take over for the mayor but on the other hand he’s very doggedly determined to succeed,” he said.

“They both have the same platform… They share the same views in terms of political aim — they want to save money for the taxpayers and basically, that’s the end aim they have.”

It all speaks to the symbiotic relationship Doug Ford has with his brother Rob and to the deep-seated notion of the brothers being on an ideological mission.

As Mr. Morris put it, “they are almost joined at the hip in some way. They are very close in every way humanly possible.”

While Rob is often seen as the affable but problem-plagued personality, Doug is perceived as the tougher, sober sibling who became his younger brother’s advocate, protector, spokesman and surrogate. (Source: Toronto Star)


 

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Posted in: Ontario Tagged: Doug Ford, editoral cartoon, election, mayoral, Ontario, politics, Rob Ford, Toronto
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