Vanessa Ng's Blog

I couldn’t agree more with Peinan Li‘s comments on airline companies charging their customers for bringing carry-on luggages. I believe that it makes sense for smaller companies such as Allegiant Airlines to start charging luggages since the price for a ticket is extremely low. However, since the ticket price is so low, we can already assume the service will not be the best. The reason that I choose to fly with either Air Canada or West Jet is because I know that I can trust they can provide me with…read more

There is no question that small businesses have been deeply impacted by the past recession. In only two years (from 2007 to 2009), roughly 10,000 SME’s (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises) have exited the market. Although this may sound upsetting, for the past five years, 80% of new businesses have survived their first year, and 72% of businesses survived their second. Small businesses have slowly been making their comeback, and in all of Canada, they employ over eight million employees and they represent fifty-four percent of the nation’s payroll. Some…read more

Over the past couple of weeks, the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) have been wanting to regulate the online content being broadcasted from companies such as  Netflix and Google. The CRTC has demanded Netflix to turn over their Canadian content and their subscriber information to determine if the company require regulatory intervention. Although after a 1999 ruling, the CRTC has a right to collect data from internet broadcasters, Netflix still refuses to turn over their information as they fear that the CRTC will pass along these sensitive informations to…read more