Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is still not backing down when it comes to his warrantless online spying scheme. While Canadians call on our MPs to stand against the invasive and costly legislation, Bill C-30, Toews has been toiling away to try to scare us into believing the bill is
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Online spying bill C-30: Expert confirms innocent Canadians likely to be caught up in digital dragnet
Our intrepid academic friend Christopher Parsons isn’t one to sit idly by while the future of the online spying bill remains unclear. After the Globe and Mail reported that this bill, C-30, was dead, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews made a spectacle of himself by arrogantly announcing that warrantless online
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: NDP leader responds to StopSpying.ca campaign
Today—one day after the launch of a new viral video about online spying bill C-30—NDP leader Thomas Mulcair sent a response to petition signers asserting that his party “share[s] the concerns of many Canadians who oppose legislation relating to lawful access, ACTA, and digital locks.” This means that the NDP,
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Pro-Privacy Canadians Launch Viral Video To Say They Don’t Want To Pay For Online Spying Bill
SOS-Stand_VideoScreenCap.png Citizen-Made Video Launches After Millions Are Set Aside For Bill C-30 May 24, 2012 – OpenMedia.ca has launched a citizen-made online video educating Canadians about the true cost of the government’s online spying legislation C-30 and the threat it poses to personal privacy. If passed, Bill C-30 will force
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: See that blur? It’s the Copyright Modernization Act flying through Parliament
The controversial Copyright Modernization Act, Bill C-11, has shot through Parliament—its Introduction and First Reading, Second Reading, Committee Stage, and recently-completed Report Stage all took place in only a few short months. More than once in this process, time allocation motions cut debate short, and only a few amendments were
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Is the Conservative Party divided on online spying?
Quickly after anonymous government sources told The Globe and Mail that online spying bill C-30 had quietly died, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews scurried to get in front of reporters to make it clear that, despite massive public pressure, he intends to push through the online spying plan. According to
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Update on the state of the online spying bill
There are rumours that online spying bill C-30 is dead, but the government has still not announced any changes to their plan to pass this invasive piece of legislation. By speaking through anonymous sources in the Globe and Mail, the government has show that they are still trying to use
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Complaints about Internet openness still coming in strong
The CRTC’s figures for March show that, once again, complaints about ISPs’ Internet traffic management practices—deliberately slowing down online traffic, for example—are coming in strong. This despite the promise made by Bell to stop throttling, and the subsequent same promise from Rogers following the exposure of their breach of Internet
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Update on U.S. online spying bill CISPA: The fight continues
At OpenMedia.ca, we’re working on your behalf with our international counterparts to safeguard the open, affordable, surveillance-free Internet. One of the threats we face is a controversial U.S. bill called CISPA—the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. We’ve written about CISPA before (check out posts here and here for some
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Paradis talks digital economy at Canada 3.0
Today Industry Minister Christian Paradis gave a speech to the Canada 3.0 Digital Media Forum in Stratford, Ontario, in which he reaffirmed the government’s commitment to a long-overdue digital economy strategy. The previous Industry Minister, Tony Clement, had initially discussed plans for a digital strategy nearly three years ago in
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The EFF teams up with OpenMedia.ca and others to launch Stop Cyber Spying Week
OpenMedia.ca is participating in a week of Internet-wide protests today against the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (CISPA). This is a controversial piece of cybersecurity legislation in the U.S. which, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), would negate existing privacy laws and allow companies to share
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The CRTC won’t regulate online video anytime soon
According to a letter from its Secretary General, the CRTC has decided to hold off on a second “fact-finding mission” on over-the-top (online video) content. We at OpenMedia.ca had been worried that the fact-finding would be the first step toward the CRTC regulating Internet content directly, despite its “hands-off” Internet
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Taking to the streets to stop the cuts: Your ads and posters show up in key ridings
Stop the Cuts posters on Andrew Saxton’s riding office read more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia.ca lauds proposed measures to protect Ontario cell phone users
openmedia_logo.jpg April 12, 2012 – Today, the Ontario government announced plans to adopt measures to protect cell phone users. Grassroots group OpenMedia.ca is lauding these measures, noting that with only three large companies controlling 94 percent of the cell phone market in Canada, there simply isn’t enough choice to ensure
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Big Telecom’s good idea: National standards to protect consumers
You read that title correctly. Here’s the idea: Rogers recently filed an application with the CRTC asking “for stronger protections for customers of wireless services”, not long after Telus made a similar request. Their ask is for minimum national standards to protect wireless customers, as opposed to differing provincial rules.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: A new student-made video on online spying
Check out this fantastic student-made video about the online spying bill, which Laura Mitchell posted to our Facebook Wall last night. Thanks Laura! read more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: TED speaker looks at the Internet and reimagines government
This is a great video on how the Internet can be used to reimagine the role and process of government so that it’s more open, transparent, engaging and responsive to our needs, rather than the demands of industry lobbyists. Thank you to Andrew William Sampson for posting this on our
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Media Advisory: Bell to Acquire Astral Media in Already-Concentrated Market; OpenMedia.ca Available for Comment
openmedia_logo.jpg WHO: Steve Anderson, Executive Director, OpenMedia.ca Lindsey Pinto, Communications Manager, OpenMedia.ca WHAT: Bell has announced that it will soon be in control of Astral Media, and the cellphone, Internet, land-line services, radio stations, and television holdings that come with it. Concentration in Canada’s communications industry is extremely high by
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