Rob | September 26, 2009
Well, after at least a week of online haiatus, and repeated calls to the embassy and foreign affairs Canada and others, Canada’s national portal, http://canada.gc.ca is back online in China, available on all my various devices and in all sorts of locations.
At the height of this ridiculous blockage in China, I couldn’t access Canada’s website in [...]
Rob | September 21, 2009
As I was typing at my desk this morning, I saw some movement out of the corner of my eye. The guys on the construction site next door were running around looking up at the sky. It seemed pretty strange, so I also looked up at the sky, and lo and behold, there was a [...]
Rob | September 21, 2009
O Canada, my home and native land…what have we done? All I wanted to do was search the Canadian government staff directory, and low and behold, canada.gc.ca is blocked in Beijing! Which word was it? ”English?” “French” or…heaven forbid… “français”?. Was it Prime Minister Harper’s steely blue eyes that set off the censor? Further testing [...]
