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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks for sharing this request Marita … I want to support this effort by CACTUS for obvious reasons but I am unable to participate in the intervention / presentation. I also want to share a somewhat related story with the team so everyone knows what we are doing and maybe some of you might have some suggestions/recommendations for our efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The First Mile Connectivity Consortium (FMCC – <a href="http://firstmile.ca">http://firstmile.ca</a>) took on a “surprise” contract with Industry Canada just before the xmas break. IC emailed a RFP to four of the FMCC members (Susan O’Donnell, Rob McMahon, Heather Hudson and Denise Williams) in November with a deadline of early December for proposals. So together (Tim Whiteduck and I joined this application) we decided to put in a response believing that IC must have had someone in mind and just needed some additional proposals to make the process legit. We wanted to make sure IC understood the First Mile position when it comes to serving remote and rural Indigenous communities across Canada. Obviously we were surprised to get the contract and now we are trying to meet very tight timelines (the first deliverable is due on Monday, Jan 11) with the final report due at the end March [smiles] … the report about “<i>IT ADOPTION in Indigenous communities in Canada’s Far North</i>”, includes a literature review, identifying primary and secondary datasets, recommending appropriate research methodologies and questions, testing the methods and questions, and producing findings and recommendations … and all of this in 3 months.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>So you can imagine what our “holiday” season looked like … BUT the great news (I believe) is we are coming up with some GREAT resources that are pointing to the importance of community organizations and services in the development, operation, support, and sustainable aspects of IT Adoption in Indigenous communities. Obviously, this type of work requires sustained funding in remote and rural communities. Therefore IMHO the CACTUS position to the CRTC is once again another way to “level the playing field” between urban and near urban centres and the remote and rural communities struggling to access and sustain appropriate connections, technologies and support services. In particular, I would like to see TC endorse their positions on community effort:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span> In [<i>identifying</i>] which areas of media production it is weakest and needs to expand services<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span> How best to distribute content from existing and new production facilities. This might imply sharing or consolidating facilities in the <i>college, university, library, community centre</i>, [<b>often non-existing in small remote and rural communities</b>] existing video co-operative or radio channel so that all can access a broadcast tower, a high-speed Internet connection, and the local cable head-end, or it could imply a distributed multi-hub structure, managed by a single not-for-profit entity that co-ordinates access across the license area, according to the neighbourhood public library model <b>[if it exists]</b>. We note that cable community channel services were once offered according to this model in big cities, where there were as many as 12 neighbourhood offices throughout Metro Vancouver.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>274. The particular solution should be proposed by the community.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>275. The CRTC’s commendable and innovative role in defending the place of “the community element” in the broadcasting system (even before Parliament had legally established its existence under section 3 of the Broadcasting Act, 1991) must be updated to emphasize ownership and responsibility for the community channel by communities, not by for-profit entitles selling a single competitive service offering.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>276. <b><i>Communities can recruit the expertise they need on their own terms to devise the appropriate technological solutions</i></b> [LOVE THIS ONE]. The role of national co-ordinating associations such as CACTUS would be to make sure effective dissemination of information about such solutions is shared among communities.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>277. We therefore recommend that all BDUs (licensed and exempt) be required to contribute 2% of their gross revenues to a new fund to support community-access media production and distribution centres that hold a community-access television undertaking license. We will refer to this fund henceforth as the <b>Community-Access Media Fund or CAMF</b> [YES!!].<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>278. As discussed in more detail in Section VI (Distribution), all BDUs would also be required to carry the televisual output of these centres, and would thereby have access to the content generated. The new community-access media centres would be better resourced and offer a greater range of programming than was formerly available in the territory on separate competitive services.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I would like to circulate this information to members of our FMCC team who are working on the CRTC BSO interventions and our proposal for an infrastructure fund that would access resources from the present “DEFERRAL FUND” controlled and accessible only to the telcos (resulting in refunds and such to telephone customers even though there are still so many unserved and underserved communities across Canada) … our BSO interventions are available online at the First Mile web site (<a href="http://firstmile.ca">http://firstmile.ca</a>) under the FMCC tab.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Woliwon</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Brian Beaton<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Researcher, First Nations Innovation Project<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Education, Critical Studies, University of New Brunswick<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Research Associate, Keewaytinook Okimakanak Research Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Settler ally of Indigenous peoples and future generations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Contact Details</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Snail Mail</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>: Box 104, Station A, Unceded </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Wolastoqey</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> Traditional Lands, Fredericton, NB, E3B 4Y2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>T</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>: 506-261-1344<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>E</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>: <a href="mailto:brian.beaton@unb.ca"><span style='color:#1F497D'>brian.beaton@unb.ca</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://firstmile.ca/"><span style='color:#1F497D'>http://firstmile.ca</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> advisors-bounces@tc.ca [mailto:advisors-bounces@tc.ca] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Marita Moll<br><b>Sent:</b> January-08-16 10:04 PM<br><b>To:</b> TC Advisors<br><b>Subject:</b> [Advisors] request to appear at CRTC hearing<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>Hello all. I have been asked (see e-mail at the end) if TC will participate in an upcoming CRTC hearing as a member of a panel supporting the submission of CACTUS asking that monies from privately owned cable operators designated for community channels be released to the control of a board which would funnel that money towards community-access media centers. Most (90%) of this is about broadcasting (television, some radio) but CACTUS has tried to give it a modern spin by including, in the description of these centers, some of the things like digital/media literacy activities, maker spaces and local economic development. So, they see these centers as training and production centers offering hybrids of old and new media. <br><br>It is a bit self-serving in places, but they have done an enormous amount of work on this. In the areas where I understand what is being proposed, most of it makes sense. But as we weren't part of the development of this document, I don't really see us reflected in it either. That doesn't mean we should not support it. But some input beyond my own is required.<br><br>Also, I would have ask one of you to attend this hearing (Jan. 25). I can't do it. I would assume that, if CACTUS wanted our participation badly enough, they would arrange a travel budget to cover costs (the CRTC does make provisions for this). <br><br>So, should we take on this role? Anybody willing to do it?<br><br>Excerpt: CACTUS Intervention, the complete version of which is attached to this message if you want to take a deeper plunge into it.<br><br>273. Our vision is that each community in Canada should be invited to take inventory of its <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>current media training and production resources (which might include film or video <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>production co-operatives, existing community-operated television or radio channels, high <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>school, college or university media training facilities, and former CAP facilities or maker <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>spaces in public libraries) and decide:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span> In which areas of media production it is weakest and needs to expand services<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span> How best to distribute content from existing and new production facilities. This <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>might imply sharing or consolidating facilities in the college, university, library, <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>community centre, existing video co-operative or radio channel so that all can <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>access a broadcast tower, a high-speed Internet connection, and the local cable <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>head-end, or it could imply a distributed multi-hub structure, managed by a <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>single not-for-profit entity that co-ordinates access across the license area, <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>according to the neighbourhood public library model. We note that cable <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>community channel services were once offered according to this model in big <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>cities, where there were as many as 12 neighbourhood offices throughout Metro <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Vancouver.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><br>274. The particular solution should be proposed by the community.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>275. The CRTC’s commendable and innovative role in defending the place of “the community <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>element” in the broadcasting system (even before Parliament had legally established its <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>existence under section 3 of the Broadcasting Act, 1991) must be updated to emphasize <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>ownership and responsibility for the community channel by communities, not by forprofit entitles selling a single competitive service offering.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><br>276. Communities can recruit the expertise they need on their own terms to devise the <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>appropriate technological solutions. The role of national co-ordinating associations such <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>as CACTUS would be to make sure effective dissemination of information about such <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>solutions is shared among communities.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><br>277. We therefore recommend that all BDUs (licensed and exempt) be required to contribute <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>2% of their gross revenues to a new fund to support community-access media production <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>and distribution centres that hold a community-access television undertaking license. We <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>will refer to this fund henceforth as the Community-Access Media Fund or CAMF.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>278. As discussed in more detail in Section VI (Distribution), all BDUs would also be required <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>to carry the televisual output of these centres, and would thereby have access to the <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>content generated. The new community-access media centres would be better resourced <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>and offer a greater range of programming than was formerly available in the territory on <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>separate competitive services.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>-------- Original Message -------- <o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b>Subject: <o:p></o:p></b></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>Fw: Copy of CACTUS Supplemental Comments CRTC 2015-421<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b>Date: <o:p></o:p></b></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>Fri, 8 Jan 2016 16:24:46 -0500<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b>From: <o:p></o:p></b></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>Cathy Edwards <a href="mailto:cathy@timescape.ca"><cathy@timescape.ca></a><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b>To: <o:p></o:p></b></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>Marita Moll <a href="mailto:mmoll@ca.inter.net"><mmoll@ca.inter.net></a><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi Marita,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Here's CACTUS' submission. It's a sizable document.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I would say that the important parts for you in terms of answering questions about the role former CAP sites could play ultimately in either:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- evolving into community media centres (with licenses to broadcast) themselves, or</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- being on the board of such a centre</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>... can be found in the section of the document entitled "CACTUS Supplemental Submission" starting at "Section IV - Unleashing the Community Sector" at paragraph 245, or if you're really short of time, start at paragraph 362. We describe partnering with other organizations already on the ground. You'll see the strategy of mentioning other associations (radio, libraries, media coops) as partners. We don't mention CAP sites explicitly in that section, but we do mention CAP sites in paragraph 7 in the Executive Summary, and in the complaints (a sample of which is attached) we've filed nationwide with the Commission this week (see A06 0 Grande Praire.pdf attached).</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks for your interest, Marita. We are going to get something out of this hearing. 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