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Second city or second country? The question of Canadian identity in SCTV'S transcultural text.(CANADIAN TELEVISION)(Second City Television)(Critical essay)
CineAction; 12/22/2009; 8747 words; ...American culture and we love satirizing it, but we do the show in Canada, we write it here, we're Canadians--how can they ask us to be more Canadian?" (8) In an article for Newsweek, Dave Thomas explains that their intention in creating Bob and Doug...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS : FORMER MONOPOLIES ASK FOR "TARGETED REGULATION".
Tech Europe; 12/2/2009; 1045 words; ...competition rules," said EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding, 15 days ago, to those who had come to see her to ask her to soften or even abandon the telecoms regulations due to the turmoil on the financial markets. An interpretation challenged...

MOBILE TELEPHONY : REDING OBTAINS "STRONG AGREEMENT" ON ROAMING.
Tech Europe; 12/2/2009; 877 words; ...concerned. But on a French proposal, ministers added a safety clause: operators will have to warn when costs reach 50 and ask the customer if he accepts paying more. Otherwise the service is automatically cut. These measures represent "a major advance...

CULTURE : EUROPEAN DIGITAL LIBRARY TO REOPEN IN MID-DECEMBER.
Tech Europe; 12/2/2009; 1178 words; ...and orphan books (whose rights holders cannot be found): those that do not want to be accessible on Google Book Search can ask to be withdrawn. "A principle, which considerably weakens existing schemes and authors' rights, and contrasts with the European...

Paying for others' neglect.(Washington lookout)
National Fisherman; 12/1/2009; 1254 words; ...retarding the recovery of valuable recreational and commercial stocks through both predation and competition. So why, you may ask, is anyone pushing for a CITES listing? The answer is simply that Europe, the primary market for U.S. dogfish, has done...