Tidbits

[chezmax]

This is the best news I've heard all month:

Cellphone giants lose stranglehold. The gist is that in the next spectrum auction, 40 MHz will be reserved by Industry Canada for 'new entrants' (ie, not Telus, Bell, or Rogers), and the remaining 65 MHz will be open.

So, not counting all my eggs yet, but the intention is to increase competition in the Canadian mobile market (which is nonexistent; the existing oligopoly is VERY profitable).

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Blue Rodeo is playing Center in the Square Saturday, February 9th. Tickets are pricey, but I think worth it. :>

Also, at CITS, on Wed April 16th and Thurs 17th, is some production of Dark Side Of The Moon. I'm a little unclear what the format is. I *think* symphonic. (Update: according to here, the Electric Thursdays format is "one rock band + 60 piece symphony = four amazing nights out". That sounds awesome.)

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And! And! Collective Soul will be playing Elements on Valentine's Day.

I want to go to ALL of these!

Comments

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Dividends are OK, but <5c/kb data would be nicer. :)

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

Well, yes it would be, assuming that dividends don't fall much. It's a very funny system we have here. Really, ideal would be cheap phone rates and high phone company profits to hive off of.

I think it's kind of analogous to people who own lots of Canadian mutual funds complaining about high gas prices, except that really, they probably don't pay all that much attention to how their retirement portfolios are doing while they're griping about $1/l gas.

[chezmax]

Re: retirement: 3% loss this month :)

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

But it'd be worse if the C$ were doing badly, which is a consequence of the same forces that are raising gas prices.