MTS Allstream, Shaw Cable, UBB and U and Me.

What is taking MTS so long on switching to their new 3.5G network? My Rogers contract expires in two months! Shaw is planning on charginging $2 a gig for exceeding their lowered 60 GB cap, so for once I'm actually considering a switch to MTS (especially with the way they argued against UBB with the CRTC..) Makes me proud that the only respectable incumbent ISP left is Manitoban. Though I am severely disappointed in Shaw. Jim Shaw leaves, and the company turns to complete shit in a matter of months.

Heres the thing about Shaw charging for bandwidth overages. They do a study that shows people aren't using their bandwidth to backup lowering the caps. *THEN* they fix their bandwidth monitoring tool (my bandwidth seems to have jumped by 300% since then.. coincidence?) Then they implement charging for going over their caps. Screw them. They've squandered all of the good will I had for them in one fell swoop. Their non-existent cell phone service? Off the table for me. Shaw has positioned themselves in the same boat as Rogers and Bell. I hope the UBB charges they get from people will offset all of the people who will be cancelling service with them. I'm not the heaviest internet user out there, but I'm not some grandma using the internet once a week either. However I will make it my goal to badmouth Shaw and convince people to switch until they act in a more respectable manner.

I'm concerned for people like my mother, who runs an unencrypted wireless network using Shaw lite. Sure I could fix that, but that would mean going to my mothers place and .. fixing it. Which again, screw you Shaw. For making me do that work. For making me go through my old emails to see if I ever used a shaw.ca email for anything important and forcing me to change it.

But most of all, screw the CRTC. Screw the people AT the CRTC. They are clearly criminals who deserve to be punished for their treasonous actions against the internet and Canadians. That they wont, causes me to lose any little faith I had in society. And once people start to lose faith in their society, the rule of law crumbles. All actions have repercussions. Certain individuals need to be mindful of the fact that their blase decisions don't happen in a bubble. They affect us all. There is only so far people can be pushed before people start to push back. The CRTC thinks these companies should be allowed to take the policies of the most hated companies in Canada and apply them to the internet too. The CRTC thinks companies that own the media industry should be allowed to shut down their competition on the internet using bandwidth caps that are shameful compared to any other country, using charges that are 1000x pure profiteering. Despite the fact that they exist as monopolies because Canadians themselves used tax dollars to INVEST in that infrastructure. Maybe these companies should be made to realise that the repercussions of acting in such a reprehensible way is government takeover of what used to be their companies. Think then they'll act so callously?

Franklin' speaking I think it's a bad idea.

92 Citi FM wants Winnipegers to sign a petition to get Sir John Franklin community centre renamed after Mike Keane.

I have nothing against former Manitoba Moose captain Mike Keane, but why is there such a pressing need to name a community centre after him? And at the expense of Sir John Franklin?

As Wikipedia states: Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer who mapped almost two thirds of the northern coastline of North America. Franklin also served as governor of Tasmania for several years. In his last expedition, he disappeared while attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The entire crew perished from starvation, hypothermia, tuberculosis, lead poisoning, scurvy and exposure before and after Franklin died and the expedition's icebound ships were abandoned in desperation.

As Wikipedia states: Michael John Keane (born May 29, 1967 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey winger. Undrafted, Keane played over 1100 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1988 until 2004, and then played six seasons for his hometown Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League until he retired in 2010. Keane is a 3-time Stanley Cup champion, having won with the Montreal Canadiens in 1993, Colorado Avalanche in 1996 and the Dallas Stars in 1999. He is one of only ten players in Stanley Cup history to win the Cup with three different teams.

I really think community centre namings should be reserved for people who die of starvation, hypothermia, tuberculosis, lead poisoning, scurvy and exposure, rather than hockey players. It's far more interesting to learn that the place you book ice time at was named after a guy who died in the Arctic looking for an easy shipping route for the British Empire, rather than some guy who won a bunch of Stanley Cup rings, even if he is a hometown hero in some fashion.

look at this guy, Sir John Franklin. Not only was he bald, not only did he die in the cold Arctic, not even accomplishing his expedition, but now we want to take away the community centre named after him? Shame on you, 92 Citi FM. .

Am I the only one who sees this?

Located across the street from the Burger King near the Bargain Shop, and Money Mart on Jefferson, the Seven Oaks Monument commemorates the battle of Seven Oaks, which if you know anything about the history of the Selkirk Settlers, was pretty bloody. I think almost everybody died. Yet whenever I see it, I think of a Vinegar bottle.