Wake Up Winnipeg: Wake Up Winnipeg

Wake Up Winnipeg - Episode 63

Hosted Live/Produced/Recorded
by: Andru Valpy, & Natty Somers
Air Date: 02/2/2011 on UMFM 101.5 FM
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Rebroadcast: 2/09/2011 on CJUM 101.5 UMFM - 6:30 AM

Manitoba's first Winter Family Fishing Weekend will be held on the Louis Riel long weekend, Feb. 19 to 21, Water Stewardship Minister Christine Melnick announced this week.

"We encourage Manitobans and visitors to take advantage of this free ice-fishing weekend as a healthy winter activity and an opportunity to enjoy Manitoba's great outdoors," said Melnick. "This is a great way to share time with family and friends and take advantage of Manitoba's world-class fisheries."

For this weekend only, Manitobans and visiting anglers will be able to ice fish without a provincial licence in all waters except those in federal parks where a federal license will still be required. Fishers are reminded to check ice conditions and keep fishing sites clean and litter free. Rules regarding liquor consumption in fishing huts and in public will be enforced.

Prime minister Steven Harper announced his office would be reviewing the CRTC's motion to charge internet customers based on their usage on Tuesday.

In a message posted on his twitter, Harper said "We're very concerned about CRTC's decision on usage-based billing and it's impact on consumers".

More than 200,000 signatures have been collected on a online petition to have a review conducted, while the topic of useage-based-billing was a top trend on Tuesday evening.

The ruling affects smaller internet service providers who rely larger communication companies such as rogers or bell, to provide internet to their third party consumers.

While this ruling comes as a surprise to some Canadians, most larger ISP's have already been billing customers on a usage based billing method charging only those customers who exceed their monthly download limits. According to Shaw Communications website, download limits range between 60 Gigabites per month on their "high speed" plan, with the maximum being 175 gigabites on the High Speed Warp plan.

MTS communications plans also average between 60 gigabites to 175 gigabites on their lightning Super Max Plan.

Notably, to reach 100 gigabites a user would have to download 25,000 MP3 files or around 167 dvd quality movies.

A review will be conducted in a matter of days while the new rules being placed in affect on March 1st.

Finally this week, we featured two tracks from a recent concert visit with Elias, The Envy, and Finger Eleven who played at the Burton Cummings Theater.