TV and the Internet, Al-Jazeera in Canada

A while back the CRTC made a bull shit ruling that al-Jazeera could be broadcast in Canada but only if it was under 24 hour surveillance. This gave the various TV consortium's (Bell, Videotron, Shaw, Cogeco, Rogers, etc...) the excuse that it would be "too expensive" to do, and thus allowed the whole country to quietly ignore the fact that our access to information and media is one of the most restricted of western democracies.

Well fuck em, you can now watch in fairly decent quality al-jazeera, bbc news, bbc world, a couple french channels, a Russian one, and listen to the german station DW for free via the wonderful software program livestation. I highly recommend it to all. Also joost is making headway, and is now available in a flash format, so those of us stuck with G5 chips can now use the software.

anyhow elections are around the corner, and though the problems that face our current society, and the greater human civilization are far too complex for a current political technocrats to deal with I will gladly settle with a government (if the NDP were to win) that would get rid of those $1.50 banking fees, and to give all the cellphone compaines in this country shit so we aren't left with myserious $100+ bills every month despite whatever $17.95 monthly 3 year contract plan we signed up for.

If you are going to vote, just don't vote for one of the main parties in Canada. America, sorry, but you're fucked no matter what happens.