I might be able to access through work...I won't be able to check until Monday.  Let me know if somebody gets it to you before then.

Trish
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From: Social Determinants of Health [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Chrystal Ocean
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 6:53 PM
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Subject: [SDOH] The Wire Report - Access to report re upcoming basic services hearing

Does anyone on this list have access to The Wire Report, a publication of
Ottawa's The Hill Times? They charge an annual subscription fee, or $25 for
viewing individual reports.

Their latest: Subsidy regime for rural broadband to be 'provocative' issue
at basic services hearing | http://bit.ly/cgg4o8

I was interviewed by email a few weeks ago by one of their reporters
concerning those upcoming hearings - not just on basic access to the
Internet but also access to the telephone system. The point I raised in the
interview, and also on the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications
Commission website, both of my blogs and elsewhere concerns the CRTC's
stance on VOIP technologies, a policy change which would cost government not
a penny but would make a world of difference to low-income people who
haven't a phone but do have Internet access.

I've no idea if anything I said in the interview came up in The Wire
reporter's subsequent reports. A counsel for the Canadian branch of the
Public Interest Advocacy Centre had suggested he get in touch with me.

Ocean
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