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Canada recently made an improvment in political funding: every vote translates into a set dollar amount given to that party from the Elections Canada pot. This means that 3rd parties can get funding to compete in the next election, at least in theory.

http://www.communitynet.ca/
http://www.sasktel.com/about_sasktel/news_room/200 4_news_releases/sasktel_announces_communitynet_dep loyment_schedule.html
Are two links that are on topic to a provincial government/corporation providing access to wireless internet over a wide area.

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Gotta love socialist governments!
Always thinking ahead

Grenfel is a town of 1000, 80 miles from Regina, just 15 miles away from my hometown of Broadview.

Poor Americans. Must be frustrating - and looking at how much they're arguing, it seems they've got absolutely no clue as to what to do about it.

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Alberta doesn't have anything on Saskatchewan for broadband. You can get ADSL from Sasktel in almost any town or city with a hospital, school, or government building with more to come. Sasktel was the first to offer ADSL in North America, with access in Saskatoon and Regina, then a few months later in Moose Jaw and Swift Current. I think you could get broadband in Swift before you could in Calary, but I could be mistaken.

Not to mention that cablecos and telcos have been providing steady, stable, and inexpensive broadband in the major centres for 4+ years.

We've had it in the major centres for 6 years now.

Or... broadband in Saskatchewan! Except unlike ND, we actually have it :)

Thanks to CommunityNet any town with a school or hospital gets broadband by 200[34]. That'll be fun, because then I can move to East Bumfuk, SK and be happy with my broadband :)

What I really want to know, though is why did the fransaskois schools get is before the English schools?

Good good, I was hoping someone was going to point this out. It's very nice for Cisco to take the credit for making the "first project of this kind in North America". The CommunityNet project is not only in full swing, but already functional in many places.

www.communitynet.cahas mmany of the details.

I've even been privilaged to using one of these connections, and holy crap are they fast! The one I was using was 10mbit/10mbit, which results in download speeds around 1Meg/sec :D. Many small communities already have this, and more are in the works.

Plus, these are being used in diverse environments. The Saskatchewan board of education and Sun are working together putting computers in the classrooms. Sun provides hardware, usually an E250 or E450, and a shitload of SunRays for the classes. The school must provide a technician, that Sun trains to work on them. It's a great deal for everyone. The schools get computers for cheap, the tech's get free training, and Sun gets a generation of children trained to work on Solaris.

Either way, Saskatchewan has kick ass bandwidth for those who want it. Plus, check out CommunityNet to see what we have coming to us soon!

According to the plan, they are only bringing it to communities with educational, health, or government facilities, but that still covers a huge portion of the province.