There has been some news in the Canadian blogosphere about Bell Canada’s introduction of traffic shapping (or throttling - “or the practice of shaping Internet traffic by selectively limiting bandwidth”). Essentially, Bell will be slowing down access in peak hours to P2P applications, like BitTorrent. This has affected legal uses of this technology, like downloading TV programmes from the CBC, which has chosen to experiment with this technology to offer their programming in a new way.
Michael Geist wrote a great post about the whole thing two days ago, and points to a Facebook group. The Council of Canadians has also set up an action alert, asking Canadians to write to the Minister of Industry, Jim Prentice.
This is another issue of Net Neutrality. Comcast in the US has been taken to task for doing the exact same thing. (They are now collaborating with BitTorrent - the company - to address more effectively issues of network management). The Canadian government and the CRTC should definitely be looking at setting up clear and enforceable rules to protect Net Neutrality.