The real winners of Thursday s CRTC decision? Telecom companies, observers say
Some telecommunications analysts and consumer advocates say the country s regional wireless and internet carriers will benefit the most from a landmark regulatory ruling Thursday by the CRTC.
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Canada s big three telecom companies are likely to be able to manage the new regulatory regime without losing too much market shares, analysts say.(Brent Lewin/Bloomberg)
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
Michelle Brasier doesn’t mean to be rude, she’s sure that all of our funerals will be a hoot – but her dad’s was the funniest.
Brasier – previously best known as half of the award-winning cyclone of whip-smart sketch that is Double Denim – has returned to the solo arena with a deeply personal song-fuelled show that involves the deaths of two immediate family members and her own experience of a gruesome accident and grim health prognosis.
It’s a lot to put on a room of strangers, but far from leading a grim march Brasier takes her audience by the hand and steps us through a consistently hilarious journey from a safe and unremarkable youth – when an unrequited crush on a fictional character was as tough as things got – to an adulthood with more than its fair share of the ‘life experience’ she had yearned for.
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
It’s rare for an audience to be put at ease within the opening moments of a show by a relatively unheralded act - especially when they can’t actually see the performer - but Daniel Muggleton pulls it off.
Starting the show from the back of one of the kookier rooms of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Sydneysider immediately connects with the crowd and makes it clear we’re in safe hands before bounding to the stage in a bright red tracksuit.
As well as presumably helping to differentiate him from the majority of his comedy peers – see show title – the outfit is a nod to his failed attempt to assimilate during a working stint in the UK, and it would have been interesting to see how his sharp social observations might have landed on British shores. They certainly hit with sufficient impact here, as Muggleton laments Australia’s colonial legacy and its current age of bogan supremacy.
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Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
If you’re going to make an entire show about being in Covid lockdown, it’s probably a good idea not to make it too realistic - advice that comes unfortunately too late for Gordon Southern to heed.
The English comic ended up staying in Adelaide for a bit longer than the original two to three weeks he had planned last March in the hope that this pandemic thing would blow over, even beginning a new relationship in the most extreme circumstances imaginable.
On paper this would appear to be pretty good fodder for a stand-up hour from an experienced storyteller, but unfortunately a lack of focus, some avoidable over-engineering and a bewildering mixture of tones results in the sort of lockdown time drag that surely could not have been the intention.