Talent – The bets are heavily favouring Australian-born Canadian Country singer Gord Bamford at this year’s CCMA Awards. The 3-time winner has scooped 6 nominations on the strength of his 4th album–Day Job. The noms were announced yesterday at a media reception held in a Boston Pizza in Edmonton and FYI has the complete list posted here
@ – The Re:Sound copyright collective has filed application with the Copyright Board for a new online music tariff covering semi-interactive services such as Slacker and Last.fm
CRTC – Telus calls Shaw out for fudging its Canwest transaction-benefits package numbers. The difference is nearly $200m. It all comes down to semantics and and the regulator is again caught in the centre of a political tempest with Oil Patch Steve watching from the wings
Social Media - How and why a Canadian came to dump 100m Facebook users’ data on BitTorrent - The Guardian
Talent – If Gaga is second to anyone at anything in our pop culture, it is only to Sarah Palin in the “why are you famous?†department – Kansas City Star
Mobile - Rogers launches its Chatr brand offering no contracts with unlimited talk and text and Mobilicity says it will take legal action against them for stifling competition
Talent – She opened for Bob Marley at Madison Square Garden and she opened the door for countless black female singers in Canada. Now Liberty Silver is celebrating a Silver career Anniversary with a new album and a Caribana show– and she continues to be hopeful the door remains open for her - Toronto Star
Mobile – Apple to sell unlocked iPhone in Canada…for $779
Digital Media – Take the money and run: Magazines fight with Apple over iPad subscription monies
Digital Media – In addition to a paid on-demand music service, Google Music will include a free music streaming service along the lines of Pandora, to be supported by audio ads – Epicenter
Talent – When you start off, you have to try and get as much experience as possible. I don’t think you can make records in the front room of your house and then go on TV with it and think you have an act together – Tom Jones
Broadcasting – Rogers Communications to redeem all of its Senior Notes due 2011
Digital Media – Slacker slacks off on news coverage in Canada with pre-recorded ABC News feeds – Satellite Radio Playground
