There are 600 million twenty dollar bills in circulation in Canada -- more than any other denomination. Starting on Sept. 29, the Bank of Canada will start replacing every single one of them with a new bill. The new bill has a ...   more »

Our company is trying to beef up our all-news cable channel, CTV Newsnet, but we'll need regulatory approval to do that. If you agree with the ideas outlined in the press release below, you're invited to tell the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission what you think. Here's the press release: CTV ...   more »

Air Canada has been operating under court protection from its creditors for more than 17 months. Yesterday, in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Justice James Farley signed off on the papers that will get the national airline out of bankruptcy protection on September 30. Bizarrely -- even though Air ...   more »

Every day, newspapers around the country print page after page of stock price tables and other market data. Not only does that cost a lot of money but it leaves reporters with less space to tell neat stories. Today, The Globe and Mail takes a relatively risky gamble but one, ...   more »

Maybe. Maybe not. I kicked this question around in Saturday's Globe and Mail:
"We've had a big correction in tech, particularly since June. However, what you now have is a trade-off between more attractive valuation but the outlook isn't as rosy as you would have said a year ago," ...   more »

IBM Canada and Accenture Ltd are hiring thousands this year, I say in today's Globe and Mail. It's a short piece and, among the things I couldn't squeeze in, was the fact that Hewlett-Packard Canada Co., EDS and homegrown tech stars like CGI Group and Cognos are also ...   more »

I've enjoyed two great reads from Canadian journalist Clive Thompson in the last couple of weeks and that merits a blog entry. Today, in the New York Times Magazine, Clive writes about the way the U.S. military is using computer games and Silicon Valley programmers to help prepare soldiers ...   more »

Industry Canada has a task force, as you may have heard, that is trying to figure out how to cut down on spam in the Canadian Internet space. If you've got an idea, they'd love to hear from you.   more »

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office, an agency within Industry Canada, now has a newsroom at its site.
It's average-to-below-average as a resource for journalists.
There is no RSS feed for new information and no place to sign up for e-mail notification of new resources at the site. Do ...   more »

Canadian television viewers are not, American readers of this blog will be surprised to learn, able to avail themselves of Fox News. No Canadian cable or satellite TV company has received regulatory permission to carry Fox in Canada. But Canada's cable companies believe that Canadians should be able to watch ...   more »