Conservative Party Hacking Into Facebook Accounts For Likes
Has the Conservative Party of Canada hacked into your profile and “liked” their Facebook page on your behalf without your knowledge or consent? Reports are popping up including one from…
Jason Koblovsky
Arab Countries Need To Be Doing More On Syrian Refugees
(Arab League Flag) Like many Canadians I had a very heart felt response to the picture of the three year old who laid face down dead after trying to cross…
Conservatives Agree to Censor Internet In Latest Trade Negotiations
The Conservatives seem to be tying to make the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement one of Harper’s legacy items. After the election call the Conservatives moved to change “caretaker” rules…
Harper’s House of Cards is Falling Down
If you haven’t tuned into the Duffy trial over the past week, than you are living under a rock, or you’re missing one of the best political dramas in Canadian…
The US May Have Trump; But Canada Has An Alien
Let’s put it this way; we could have used the swagger and unexpectedness Donald Trump presented in last nights US Republican debates in the Canadian leaders debate. Instead, the first…
Election Called, Media in Crisis, International Observers Called In
Yesterday Prime Minister Harper dropped the election writ, and Canada is now in it’s 42nd election since confederation. There has been much speculation around the timing of the writ dropping.…
The Munk School of Global Affairs on Possible Conflict of Interest In Debates
Last week, I wrote that the Munk School of Global Affairs received $9 million in federal research grants, and hinted about a possible conflict of interest this funding may have…
Big Media Influencing Canadian Election For Political Favoritism
As the debates over the debates has raged on over the past several months, one thing is becoming increasingly clear. Journalists in Canada seem to be throwing out their duty…
Canadian Gamers Put out Consumer Warning on Black Ops 2
Due to the sheer numbers of gaming consumers having significant issues with the new Black Ops 2 and the seriousness of the problem, the Canadian Gamers Organization (CGO) is issuing…
Activision Under Investigation for False Advertising
Just a follow up to this previous post in February explaining how Activision mislead consumers on the new Call of Duty Elite Premium service. The Competition Bureau of Canada got…
New Digital Policy and Current Events Podcast
Canadian Gamer Organization’s co-founder Jason Koblovsky has started up a new digital policy podcast called CDNTech Network. The podcast will focus on a number of issues which include Canadian digital…
CRTC Closes Gamers File
The Canadian Gamers Organization (CGO) has received word through a public, highly self congratulatory and seemingly politically motivated release from the CRTC championing that a CRTC investigation has stopped Rogers…
Acting CRTC Chair Gives Thumbs Up to CGO
Yesterday acting CRTC Chair Leonard Katz mentioned the Canadian Gamers Organization efforts on Internet traffic management practices . A bit of a spelling mistake on our organizations name but we…
CGO Consumer Alert: Black Ops 2
The Canadian Gamers Organization is closely monitoring several situations with the announcement of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Admittedly Black Ops 2 developer Treyach has stated that there will…
Activision/Rogers Problem Solved
As of 4:00pm EST, I’m happy to report that the problems with connecting to Activision from Rogers appear to be solved. From the information our members posted up today we…
Possible Problems with Rogers and Activision Again
I wrote a post earlier about how the PS3 Call of Duty servers maybe hacked. XBOX Call of Duty servers were shut down over the weekend due to the game…
PS3, XBOX, and PC Call of Duty Servers Hacked?
This past weekend XBOX Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 players experienced and extended outage, as many could not connect to the online multiplayer aspect of the game. Several developments…
CRTC Finds More Noncompliance on Rogers
The CRTC has found more noncompliance of net neutrality policy on Rogers but is failing to act. Instead it’s providing Rogers with a case by case basis to ensure it…
Canadian Internet Providers Already Set Up For Mass Surveillance
There has been some talk recently about who would pick up the tab for a bill like C-30 when in fact the throttling technology used to slow down P2P connections…