The New York Times has announced the implementation of a paywall in Canada, as a test for implementation of the same digital subscriptions service in the US later this month. Readers are being asked to shell out between $15 to $35 a month for access to the paper's site, but there is an interesting twist: Readers who come across the paper's articles via Google news Canada, or through links from blogs and social media, will be able to read those articles for free.

This is not unusual for paywall protected sites, where it is often possible to Google the article's title or URL and get full access to the story. Twitter is currently going crazy with this topic, and the feedback so far is mixed. Some say the paywall makes a lot of sense given the changing media landscape, while others point out that so much news is available online for free that there is no need to pay for online access.

Google has recently come under fire for violation of Canada's privacy laws, according to Canadian Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart.

The issue started when Google Canada began to collect photos for its Street View service, which is widely used in the United States to provide visuals to locate businesses such as restaurants and Calgary self storage, as well as residential areas. The issue arose when Google's vehicles that collected these photos accidentally picked up additional data from unsecured wireless networks.

Despite Google's efforts to review and alter their own privacy standards, Commissioner Stoddart requested they hire a third party auditor to do a review of their policies. She asked that the conclusions from this audit be presented to her office within the next year. Google has not yet offered a response to the commissioner's office, as it seems unlikely the worldwide tech frontrunner will allow outside organizations into its computer system.
Commissioner Stoddart intends to use this as a basis for other companies under privacy violations investigation. If a company is under investigation, it must proved a third party audit of their policies to the Commissioner's office to demonstrate that they are complying with the regulations already in place.
Google has already made efforts for compliance. They plan to increase privacy training for employees, track all projects which collect data, and have already begun to delete some of the photos taken for Street View.

Canada's venture capital is soon to turn into a google canada venture as it builds on major new success stories and embrace an incentive culture that includes google canada stock options if it want to become a vibrant industry, according to a partner at one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture firms.
Google canada could be a real giant venture on whose shoulders many small start ups could get a place to stand .Google canada could also assist in the setting up the whole wave of revolutionising technology by introducing its own programs to assist startups in Canada.
"Entrepreneurship is like art or science, where you have to build on the shoulders of giants," said Bing Gordon, who heads investing in social Web technology at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the Silicon Valley firm that has helped launch companies like Google which could launch a google canada venture in near future .