Monday September 29, 2014 – 12pm
Posted Sep 29, 2014 10:26:00 AM.
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12:00- Transitional Shelter Opening in November
Elizabeth Clarke, CEO of the YWCA of Kitchener-Waterloo
There’s renewed hope for the Out of the Cold program. The K-W YWCA is teaming up with the region to run an overnight shelter this winter to fill the gaps left by the withdrawal of churches from the program. K-W YWCA, President Elizabeth Clarke tells the paper the new winter shelter will house up to 50 people per night, seven days per week. It will operate in a building next to Mary’s Place at 84 Frederick Street in Kitchener. Five churches backed out of the Out of the Cold program over the past several months.
12:30- Pick and Pay not the way, according to CD Howe Institute
Lawson Hunter, Senior Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute, study co-author
Forcing TV service providers to offer their customers television channels on a pick-and-pay basis would be a waste of time, a new study says. The C.D. Howe Institute report says ever-changing technology will soon put viewers squarely in the driver’s seat, allowing them to choose everything they watch one program at a time. And it suggests it would be better for regulators to determine whether broadcasters should continue to be required to fund the production of Canadian content. The study also opposes the idea of forcing new video-distribution services, such as Netflix, to pay into funds that subsidize such content. Entitled “Let the Market Decide: The Case Against Mandatory Pick-and-Pay,” the study comes as the CRTC conducts a comprehensive review of how consumers get their TV programming and how they pay for it. The Harper government has been promoting the pick-and-pay model as good for consumers. And the CRTC has been debating how that might work, suggesting an array of options for getting there. “Any proposals to mandate such ‘pick-and-pay’ channel choices are deeply misguided and are largely an exercise in futility in the light of the technological revolution that is unfolding in the communications sector,” said C.D. Howe. “Any regulation would become irrelevant at best, harmful at worst.”
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