CRTC Says the Internet Is A Basic, Essential Service: Here’s What We’re Reading Today
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. The internet declared an essential service in Canada
“In a ruling handed down today, the national regulator ordered the country’s internet providers to begin working toward boosting internet service and speeds in rural and isolated areas. Until now, local landline telephone service was the only ‘basic’ or essential service according to the CRTC. The CRTC’s chairman, Jean-Pierre Blais, has previously called internet service ‘vital’ and essential to life and success.”
– CBC News
2. Access to Donald Trump, for $500,000: Pitfalls for presidents’ families
“The invitation made an extraordinary offer: Donors willing to write a check for $500,000 to $1 million would be granted access to Donald J. Trump the day after he is sworn in as president, along with the opportunity to participate in a multiday hunting or fishing trip with his oldest sons, Donald Jr. and Eric.
“But on Tuesday, the Trump Organization put out a statement distancing the family from the fund-raiser, saying the event had “not been approved or pursued by the Trump family,” even though legal documents show that Eric Trump served on the board of directors of the recently formed charity behind it, the Opening Day Foundation. The event is still scheduled, but references to the hunting trip have been removed, and Eric Trump said late Tuesday that neither he nor his brother would attend.”
+1: Donald Trump’s economic team has six men named “Steve,” but no women. – Washington Post
3. Vladimir Putin’s grim win in Turkey
“Why the assassination of the Russian ambassador in Ankara forces Turkey ever closer to an already ascendant Russia”
– Macleans
4. Swallowing the red pill: a journey to the heart of modern misogyny
“How shitty are men really? The question hung in the air, invisible but omnipresent, like the smell of a garbage fire from a nearby town. By 2016, a series of catchphrases had come to dominate the chaotic state of gender politics – ‘male privileg’, ‘rape culture’, ‘men’s rights’ – but confusion reigned. And in the middle of this confusion, a group of anonymous men retreated to The Red Pill, an online community hosted on Reddit, to revel in their loathing.”
5. College dorms are luxury playpens
“Thanks to a wave of private development, the college experience has taken on a familiar high-brow aesthetic.”
