[Originally appearing on the Financial Post website on November 21, 2019] TORONTO – Two years ago, in another op-ed, I made an unpopular prediction. I guessed that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s plan to scrap network neutrality rules in the United States would not break the internet. […]

[Originally Appearing on the New York Times website, December 4, 2017]  TORONTO — The Federal Communications Commission is planning to jettison its network neutrality rules, and many Americans are distraught. Such a move, the Electronic Frontier Foundation warned, “invites a future where only the largest […]

[Originally Appearing on the Financial Post website, February 5, 2016] In The Evolution of Everything, British scientist Matt Ridley observes that many of our large and defining systems — the economy, technology, the human population — have no central planners. Rather, they evolve in […]

[Originally Appearing on the National Post / Financial Post website, May 24, 2017] Is the U.S. about to kill the open Internet and will Canada save it? The new chair of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plans to jettison America’s “net neutrality” regulations and replace them with guidelines. […]

[Originally Appearing on the National Post / Financial Post website, July 7th, 2015]   Hype aside, network neutrality violations haven’t happened, and aren’t likely to “Network Neutrality” has become a headline-grabbing subject of late. Internet advocates warn that if regulatory rules are not imposed (and […]

[Originally Appearing on the “CARTT” website, May 26th, 2015]   After a quarter-century with Rogers Communications, Ken Engelhart has hung out his own shingle. Engelhart had been the leader of Rogers’ regulatory team for many years under vice-chairman Phil Lind but given all of the […]