Why did major Canadian news outlets refuse to report on CSEC spying and the Snowden documents? Article by Jesse Brown for CANADALAND Last Tuesday evening at CBC’s Toronto headquarters, CBC…
What do you do when Big Telecom keeps skipping your city over for crucial infrastructure upgrades? Article by Jason Koebler for Motherboard More than two dozen cities in 19 states…
As a volunteer who helped analyze and interpret the results of this year’s survey, I am thrilled to see that our diverse community is just as passionate about a free…
Our thoughts are with everyone who has been affected by the tragic events in Ottawa this morning. To all our Ottawa community members, and to everyone in the area, please…
Shocking: the government knew that innocent Canadians were being spied on in massive numbers, but didn’t bother to find out the scope of these privacy invasions until the media started…
If you’re in the Ottawa area on October 25, don’t miss Glenn Greenwald speaks. Tickets are still available here. If you can’t make it, or want a sneak preview of…
When groups as diverse as the Council of Canadians and the National Firearms Association are both opposed to your online spying Bill, you’ve got a real problem. Lucky for this…
Big Telecom has a statistics problem. Article by Sophia Harris for The CBC Arguments by Telus against increased competition in the Canadian wireless sector include misleading statistics that don’t reflect…
MPs are set to return to parliament today and vote on a controversial bill that could give spies more power to access your private information. Got a problem with that?…
Has your wallet been feeling a bit lighter in the last year? You have Big Telecom to thank for that. Article by Pete Evans for The CBC The average Canadian…
Harsh provisions in this international trade agreement threaten to censor your Internet. Check out what OpenMedia’s Cynthia Khoo has to say, and make sure to check out our positive alternative…
Our own Chris Malmo explains why rural Canadians have little to look forward to in the government’s recent Digital 150 broadband announcement. Article by Chris Malmo for Motherboard The Canadian…
If you’ve been following this space, you might already know that OpenMedia is sponsoring a talk with Glenn Greenwald in Ottawa on October 25. Greenwald is the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist…
Big Telecom tried to convince the CRTC that Canadians have the second-fastest mobile Internet speeds in the world. The problem? Those speeds were based on advertisements, not reality. When will…
Top Canadian entrepreneur Elliot Noss has this message for the CRTC: “Everybody in the country is overpaying.” Help us Unblock Canada at https://UnblockCanada.ca read more
Rather than listening to Canadians, this American cable giant is throwing a hissy fit over the possibility of pick-and-pay TV coming to Canada. Article by James Bradshaw for The Globe…
This government has no problem with censorship when it comes in the form of massive, secretive trade agreements like the TPP, but when news agencies make it harder for them…
Canadians spend the second-highest amount of time on the Internet in the world. Increasingly, much of that time is spent on mobile devices, and Big Telecom is using that trend…
It looks like we did it. After our meeting with senior White House officials two weeks ago, U.S. President Barack Obama has spoken out against Big Telecom’s Internet slow lane…
Will Netflix sound the death knell on Canadian content? This expert thinks not. Article by Michael Geist The Globe and Mail’s Simon Houpt ran a column over the weekend titled…
