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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Addy, George. The Competition Act and the Canadian Telecommunications Industry.

Director of Investigation and Research Under the Competition Act to the Institute for International Research Telecommunications Conference - March 1994.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/addy.txt

Angus TeleManagement Group · Decima Research. Canada's Information Highway.

May 1994. (451K)

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/cihac002.txt

Anonymous (?). The Electronic Highway Accord: Securing British Columbia's On-ramp to the Electronic Highway.

Draft document? date?

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/bc-iway.txt

Beatty, Perrin. Privacy Protection in Telecommunications.

Minister of Department of Communications (n.d.)

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/privacy.txt

British Columbia. Information, Science and Technology Agency. Electronic Highway Accord.

URL: http://gateway.cotr.bc.ca/BritishColumbia/BCISTA.asp

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/bcaccord.htm

Canadian Heritage. The Department of Canadian Heritage: At the Heart of the Information Society.

1995.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/ch95.txt

Canadian Labour Congress. Info Highway to Serve Big Business: IHAC Member Parrot.

September 27, 1995.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/clc1.txt

Canadian Library Association. Information and Telecommunication Access Principles.

Executive Council. June 18, 1994.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/cla-itap.txt

Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Competition and Culture on Canada's Information Highway: Managing the Realities of Transition.

19 May, 1995. (157 K)

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/crtc0001.htm

ASCII Version URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/crtc0001.txt

CRTC Information Highway Proceeding -- Summary of Report

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/crtc0002.htm

Coalition for Public Information. Future-Knowledge: The Report. A Public Policy Framework for the Information Highway.

April 3, 1995.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/cpi-fk.txt

Coalition for Public Information. Towards a Public Policy on Universal Access and Participation for the Information Infrastructure.

Presentation to the IHAC Access and Social Impact Working Group. December 15, 1994.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/cpi-ua.txt

Department of Communication. New Media, New Choices.

1992.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/newmedia.txt

Government of Canada. Convergence Policy Statement.

Ottawa, August 6 1996.

URL: http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/it02036e.html

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/convrge.txt

Government of Canada. Public Notice CRTC 1994-130 Call for Comments Concerning Order in Council P.C. 1994-1689.

Ottawa, 20 October 1994.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/p94130.txt

Government of Canada. Federal-Provincial Implications of the Electronic Highway Initiative.

From Ghislain Savoie, DSF to Ned Ellis, DSF - February 10, 1993.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/fedprov.txt

Graham, Garth. A Domain Where Thought Is Free To Roam: The Social Purpose of Community Networks.

Telecommunities Canada brief to CRTC Information Highway Hearings, March 29, 1995.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/graham01.txt

Hara, Elmer H. The Information Superhighway - A One-Time Opportunity for Canada.

Brief to the Information Highway Advisory Council. November 7, 1994.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/iway0001.txt

Industry Canada. Justice Canada. Task Force on Electronic Commerce. The Protection of Personal Information.

January, 1998.

URL: http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/incmc-cmc.nsf/en/fe00076e.html

PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/privacy.pdf [400 Kb]

Industry Canada. Information and Communications Technologies Statistical Review: 1990-1995.

May, 1997.

PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/stat9095.pdf [2.85 Mb]

Industry Canada. Internet Content-Related Liability Study: The Cyberspace is not a "No Law Land": A Study of the Issues of Liability for Content Circulating on the Internet.

March, 1997.

PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/icrls.pdf [980 Kb]

Industry Canada. Schoolnet Access Project.

March, 1995.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/schnet1.txt

Industry Canada. The Information Economy in Canada Fact Sheets.

Prepared for The G7 Ministerial Meeting on Information Society.

February, 1995.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/canfact.txt

Industry Canada. Executive Summary - Education Opportunities on the Infohighway.

October 1994 (?).

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/caned.txt

Industry Canada. Study on New Media and Copyright.

Final Report. Prepared for New Media, Information Technologies Industry Branch. June 30, 1994.(202 K)

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/cihac005.txt

Industry Canada. Building Canada's Information and Communications Infrastructure.

Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications Sector. April 1994. (97 K)

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/cihac001.txt

Information Highway Advisory Council. Preparing Canada for a Digital World - Final Report of the Information Highway Advisory Council.

August 1997.

URL: http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/ih01650e.html

Information Highway Advisory Council. Telehealth in Canada: Clinical Networking, Eliminating Distances.

Prepared by Marc Lee, Industry Canada. July 1997.

URL: http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/it04134e.html

PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/ihac9702.pdf

Information Highway Advisory Council. The Internet in Canada.

A background paper prepared by Catherine Peters for the Internet Steering Committee of the Information Highway Advisory Council. April 1997.

URL: http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/it03898e.html

PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/ihac9701.pdf

Information Highway Advisory Council. Building the Information Society: Moving Canada into the 21st Century.

URL: http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/ih01103e.html

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/ic96-1.txt

PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/ihac9601.pdf

Information Highway Advisory Council. Connection, Community, Content: The Challenge of the Information Highway.

Final Report. September 28, 1995.

URL: http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/ih01070e.html

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/ihacfnl.txt

Information Highway Advisory Council. Illegal and Offensive Content on the Information Highway: A Background Paper.

July, 1995.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/cihac009.txt

English PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/ihac009.pdf

French PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/ihac009f.pdf

Information Highway Advisory Council. The Economic Impacts of the Information Highway: An Overview.

Prepared by Mark Potter and Marc Lee of the Information Highway Advisory Council Secretariat, Industry Canada, for the Task Force on Growth, Employment and Competitiveness.

July, 1995.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/cihac010.txt

Information Highway Advisory Council. Final SubCommittee Report on Copyright and the Information Highway.

May, 1995.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/cihac007.txt

Information Highway Advisory Council. Access, Affordability and Universal Service on the Canadian Information Highway.

January 26, 1995.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/cihac006.txt

Information Highway Advisory Council. Preliminary Report on Copyright and the Information Highway.

Copyright Sub-Comittee. December 1994. (120 K)

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/cihac004.txt

Information Highway Advisory Council. Canada's Information Highway: Building Canada's Information and Communications Infrastructure.

Providing New Dimensions for Learning, Creativity and Entrepreneurship.

November 1994.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/cihac008.txt

Information Highway Advisory Council. Privacy and the Canadian Information Highway.

Building Canada's Information and Communications Infrastructure. October 1994. (55K)

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/cihac003.txt

Information Policy Research Project (Faculty of Information Studies. University of Toronto.) Developing Information Policies for a Canadian Information Infrastructure: Public Interest Perspectives in a Research Framework.

Working Paper 1. Andrew Clement, Joanne Marshall, Stephen McDowell, Vincent Mosco &Cheryl Buchwald. December 1995.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/iprp1.txt

Information Policy Research Project (Faculty of Information Studies. University of Toronto.) Canada in Context: An Overview of Information Policies in Four Industrialized Countries.

Working Paper 2. Cheryl Buchwald. November, 1995.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/iprp2.txt

Internet Public Interest Research Group (IPIRG). New Voices, New Visions: Community Media and the Information Highway.

Submission to CRTC in response to Public Notice CRTC 1994 - 130: Call for Comments Concerning Order In Council P.C. 1994 - 1689.

February 13, 1995.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/ipirg001.htm

John A. Gilbert and Associates. Affordable and Equitable Acccess to the Information Highway.

May 26, 1995.

English URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/gilberte.txt

French URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/gilbertf.txt

McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology. Submission in response to CRTC PN 1994-130: Call for comments on the information highway.

University of Toronto.

January 16, 1995.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/mcluhan1.txt

Ostry, Bernard. The Electronic Connection - An Essential Key to Canadians' Survival.

February 1994.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/ostry.txt

Public Information Highway Advisory Council. Second Round Intervention

Response to Notice of Public Hearing CRTC 1994-18/Public Notice CRTC 1994-130. February 13, 1995

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/pihac001.txt

Public Works and Government Services Canada. Access Canada Initiative.

November 1993.

URL: http://www.pwgsc.gc.ca/text/home-e.html

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/acccan.txt

Silva, Marcos. Canadian K-12 Networks: Issues and Models.

Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture, August 31, 1995. Volume 3 Number 3.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/silva1.txt

Sopinka, John. Freedom of Speech and Privacy in the Information Age.

University of Waterloo. Symposium on Free Speech and Privacy in the Information Age. November 26, 1994. John Sopinka is a Justice on the Supreme Court of Canada.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/sopinka.txt

Stentor. The Information Highway - Canada's Road to Economic and Social Renewal.

Stentor's Vision Statement - October 1993. The Stentor Alliance is the partnership of Canada's major telecommunications companies.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/stentor1.txt

Stentor. The Beacon Initiative.

MMI: A Founding Company of the Information Highway.

September 1994.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/stentor2.txt

Surman, Mark. The Electronic Commons: Community Television and Canada's Information Highway.

Written comments submitted in accordance with CRTC Public Notice 1994-130.

January 1995.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/surman01.txt

Telecommunications Standards Advisory Council of Canada (TSACC). Information Highway Working Group. Standards Based Interconnection Framework for the Canadian Information Highway. Standards Roadmap.

May 1997.

PDF version: [Summary] [Section A] [Section B] [Section C] [Section D]

Toronto Star. Articles about the "leaked" IHAC report.

Wednesday August 30, 1995. Reproduced electronically with permission.

• Access called the key to information highway Canadians have right to service, special panel says.
• Canada's fast lane Canadian content must get its own reserved routes on the information highway...
• CLC leader breaks ranks on report Workers deserve more, Parrot says

Treasury Board. Blueprint for Renewing Government Services Using Information Technology.

March 1994.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/tb-bp.txt

Yerxa, Shawn and Moll, Marita. Commodification, Communication, and Culture: Democracy's Dead End on the Infobahn.

Government Information in Canada, 1, No. 3.2 (1995).

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/moll.htm

Yerxa, Shawn. The IHAC Recommendations: A Pre-emptive Strike--A Rare Opportunity Indeed!

Net95 panel discussion "Life After IHAC," June 22, 1995, Ottawa, Canada.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/canada/yerxas1.txt

INTERNET SOURCES

A Chronicle of Freedom of Expression in Canada.

URL: http://www.efc.ca/pages/chronicle/

CTHEORY.

An electronic review of books on theory, technology and culture that is sponsored by the Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory.

URL: http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~cudigest/

General Canadiana.

URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Unofficial/Canadiana/README.html

Government Information in Canada.

Electronic journal.

URL: http://www.usask.ca/library/gic/index.html

Information Highways Magazine.

URL: http://www.flexnet.com/~infohiwy/

Understanding the Internet.

Cochran Interactive Incorporated. 1995. Companion to a Canadian TV documentary.

URL: http://www.cochran.com/start/

USENET. can.infohighway

Limited availability outside Canada.

URL: news:can.infohighway

LEGAL INSTRUMENTS

Broadcasting Act.

Chapter B-9.01 [1991, c.11]

URL: http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/B-9.01/

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

URL: http://www.efc.ca/pages/law/charter/charter.sect.html

Canadian Constitutional Documents.

URL: http://www.efc.ca/pages/law/cons/Constitutions/Canada/English/cons.html

Telecommunications Act.

Statutes of Canada, Chapter 38.

URL: http://www.parl.gc.ca/PDF/37/1/parlbus/chambus/house/bills/government/C-44_4.pdf

ORGANIZATIONS

Angus TeleManagement Group.

URL: http://www.angustel.ca/

Cable Parliamentary Channel.

URL: http://www.cpac.ca/

Canadian Information Highway Advisory Council.

URL: http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/ih01015e.html

Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission.

URL: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/

CANARIE.

URL: http://www.canarie.ca/

Related Items

Executive Summary

CANARIE Business Plan - December 1992.

Bjerring, Andrew. Research Networking in Canada: CA*Net and CANARIE.

November 1992.

Silva, Marcos, and Glenn F. Cartwright. "The Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry, and Education (CANARIE)."

The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 3, no. 6 (1992): 4-14.

Coalition for Public Information.

URL: http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/people/affiliated/cpi/

The Council of Canadians.

URL: http://www.canadians.org/

Electronic Frontier Canada.

URL: http://www.efc.ca/

Information Technology Association of Canada.

URL: http://www.itac.ca/

Industry Canada.

URL: http://www.ic.gc.ca/

Information Policy Research Project.

University of Toronto.

URL: http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/research/iprp/

Legal Group for the Internet in Canada.

URL: http://www.catalaw.com/logic/

McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology.

URL: http://www.mcluhan.utoronto.ca/

The New Brunswick Task Force on the Information Highway.

URL: http://www.pagse.org/en/breakfasts/distlearning.htm

Public Interest Advocacy Center.

URL: http://www.piac.ca/

Responsible Internet Service Companies (RISC).

URL: http://www.risc.ca/

NOTE: All the documents below *used* to be available on the Stentor site. They no longer appear to be available. These documents were widely distributed in Ottawa in 1993-1995 during a busy period of "information highway policy-making", largely to "educate" policymakers. If anyone has information about where electronic versions can be located again, please let me know. Ah, the value of libraries and archives!

The Story of Telecommunications in Canada.

Education and the Information Highway.

May 1995.

The Economic Potential of The Information Highway.

January, 1995.

Culture and the Information Highway.

September 1994.

The Information Highway - Canada's Road to Economic and Social Renewal.

Stentor's Vision Statement on the Information Highway. October 1993.

The Beacon Initiative - Changing the Way We Live and Work.

Quotable Quotes and Amusing Musings on the Information Highway.

Technology and Human Rights Project.

Human Rights Research and Education Centre.

URL: http://www.cdp-hrc.uottawa.ca/hrlc/

Steeves, Valerie. Humanizing Cyberspace: Privacy, Freedom of Speech, and the Information Highway.

URL: http://www.cdp-hrc.uottawa.ca/publicat/cyber95e.html

Telecommunities Canada.

URL: http://www.tc.ca/

CONFERENCES

Crown copyright in Cyberspace.

URL: http://www.lexum.umontreal.ca/conf/dac/en/