Although it is off the radar for most, and out of the public specter at this time, I am often explaining to businesses and individuals why a balanced copyright legislation is important in Canada. After the economy rights itself, and the Politicians settle down over their discussions for who should lead the country as our Government, the issue of Copyright will again surface.
For a great explanation of what it means to you as Canadians, I highly recommend watching this documentary entitled Why Copyright? from Michael Geist and Daniel Albahary, which allows various stakeholders in this discussion to explain why balanced copyright is important, and what implications it may have on all of us, it a DMCA style legislation is brought forward.
The film is also distributed in multiple formats at CopyrightVoices.ca which allows you do annotate, mashup, redistribute and create derivative works from the original film. Way Cool.
Yesterday I was contacted by Nestor Arellano from 
I read in the paper this past weekend, that talks between the CBC and the original composer of the Hockey Night in Canada theme had broken down. At the time I thought that the demands of the 80 year old composer were probably a little steep, as a public broadcaster, CBC doesn't have an unlimited budget.