The Forever Yours Charity Single

As you may or may not know, I’ve been a member of Youtube since 2006. And today I thought I’d bump a charity single entitled “Forever Yours” by fellow Youtuber Alex Day, also known as Nerimon.

I am particularly fond of the hilarious BillTV-Mickeleh Remix, having known BillTVMacon for a while, and the Stefan Chin Remix, which has already charted at #10 in the Electronic music charts here in Canada.



Bell To End Throttling In March

Bell Canada has sent a letter to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunication Commission stating they will end their Internet Traffic Management Practices (ITMP) on March 1st, 2012.

In this letter the company claims P2P traffic has been diminishing in comparison to other traffic, some of which was misclassified as P2P traffic according to The Canadian Gamers Organization.

Canada Post Warns Customers

Canada Post as issued a press release in response to an email claiming there are discrepancy in pricing between corporate outlets and private postal outlets.

They claim is is false, stating “all 6,000 automated post offices, corporate or dealer, use the same retail point-of-sale system software.”

Free Music Download Offer

eMusic had added another $5 credit to their trial offer. That’s $10 of free music to new users, which translates to about 20 free MP3s.

These guys have over 13 million tracks in their catalog, many of which are $0.49 each after the 7 day trial.

Rogers Video To Close 40% of Stores

Rogers Video will be closing 63 of their 156 Canadian stores by the end of January, according to the Toronto Star.

The company had reported a 46% reduction in revenue in October, having obtained $60 million in profits in the first three quarters of 2011 instead of $111 million in 2011. (Q3 2011).

Rogers had closed 20 video stores in 2010 and is currently revamping their stores in response to the market, to concentrate on smartphone and tablet sales. They had also closed their direct mail rental service, Rogers Video Direct, this month.

Parliament May Be On Break….

But your local Member of Parliament‘s office should still be available to receive letters and emails in regards to the digital locks provisions in Bill C-11 and Lawful Access until Parliament resumes in late January.

Over 80 thousand Canadians signed the OpenMedia.ca petition against Lawful Access, including yours truly.

Please consider signing this petition. Thank you.