I-TASC will be showing work from it’s two recent expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic at New Zealand’s Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. The show opens on the 26th of May and runs through the 2nd of September. From the New Nature blurb on the site:
New Nature looks at the impact of human habitation, nature as ‘tamed’, ‘interpreted’ and ‘framed’ and something deeply imbued with metaphorical content. It also investigates the reciprocal influence of the environment on community and ecology. Historical, allegorical and culturally specific readings of wilderness are reference points as notions of natural spaces and materials are questioned. The slippages between ‘natural’ and ‘constructed’ worlds become fertile, if aberrant, sites for new visual languages and perceptions to grow.
So the CRTC this week decided that they would relinquish control of how many ads per hour would be allowed by networks and let them decide what was appropriate. Right now, we in Canada are only exposed to 12 minutes of adverts per hour (which already seems like allot) but for the 2007-2008 season, we’ll be subjected to 14 minutes, and 2008-2009 the networks can blow out all the stops and sell the hour frickin hour if they want too. Even the FCC in the US has standards, which are currently set at 14 minutes per hour during the prime-time.
Those of us in Canada can look forward to a hike in the rates charged for pay phones up to $.50, a 100% hike from $.25. It might be a ploy to increase the use of cell phones as some have pointed out, but I ask you to find a pay phone that is in working order. They have all been disapperaing lately. It seems that public phones should be a requirement, just like the FCC in America demands that there be public access channels. Not that those get used much either.
Sooo excited to finally have one of 
At least that what the US government thought. The view on the left is taken under an ultraviolet light, and the square you see over the poppy is a coating so that the image doesn’t wear off immediately. But that is what Canada wants us to believe. As it turns out, some defense contractors that were up here got a few of these coins “passed” to them and began to get suspicious as they contained “something man-made that looked like nano-technology”. It gets even scarier as one other contractor reported that “Coat pockets were empty that morning and I was keeping all my change in a plastic bag in my inner coat pocket” yet he discovered not one, but two in his outer coat pocket that very afternoon. All these reports led to a warning from the Defense Security Service over an item that could have been easily spent, given away , or dropped. I’m no espionage expert, but it seems a little dodgy to track someone with a coin. For an expert opinion we can turn to John Pike, a security and military analyst at 
