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Google says Bell Canada is violating Canadian telecommunications law by slowing Internet traffic and is requesting the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)  take action against the company."Bell claims its throttling of peer-to-peer applications is a reasonable form of network management. Google respectfully disagrees. Network management does not include Canadian carriers' blocking or degrading lawful applications that consumers wish to use," Google said in a statement to the CRTC.

Organizing an emerging search marketing conference series is difficult. Beyond the choice of topics and speakers, there are a range of structural and financial issues to be worked through, public relations to be conducted and marketing efforts to be undertaken. Competing with a growing number of other conferences, gatherings and seminars, new search marketing shows have to climb a slope steeper than most.

The long awaited iPhone is finally coming to Canada as well as over 20 other countries on July 11th.

Noted Internet law expert Michael Geist criticized an opinion piece appearing in a Canadian newspaper as "astonishingly misleading and factually incorrect."

Yahoo Canada has just entered a strategic alliance with another company, and the company, in typical press release-ese, calls itself "a leading local and national interactive media provider of news, entertainment and services."  Yet in what has to be an example of Canadian humor, the company's name is Canoe.

Toronto is the first North American city to have more than one million subscribers to Facebook according to Calgary based Zinc Research.

Canadian revenues from online advertising hit C $1.01 billion (US $894 million) in 2006, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada, a jump of 80 percent in one year.

As soon as news reached that AOL released Video Ticker there also was an announcement that Google will be introducing AdSense Video Units to Canada, the UK & Ireland. AOL's VIDEO TICKER ADS: