TekSavvy CEO Marc Gaudrault is speaking out and calling for regulators to prevent Big Telecom giants from blocking our access to affordable independent services. Gaudrault’s call comes after many of…
Canada’s Big Three telecom giants are sounding increasingly desperate these days – they’re running expensive ads, that you paid for, invoking the bogeyman of foreign investment in growing new Canadian…
Stephen Harper’s new Cabinet was announced yesterday morning, and Canada has a new Industry Minister – James Moore, M.P. for Port Moody-Westwood-Port Coquitlam. I for one welcome Mr Moore to…
Following weeks of sustained pressure from the international Our Fair Deal Coalition and others, we have some good news to report from south of the border. U.S. Congressional Representatives have…
You probably saw on the news that a U.S. government agency has been caught secretly spying on the private communications of millions of people like you – through their cell…
The call was brief, about 15 minutes, and I didn’t get clear answers to many of the questions posed, but here are my notes from the meeting. Paradis started by…
More good news! Yesterday your OpenMedia.ca team was raising your voice in media outlets across the country noting that the new rules for cell phone customers are a positive step…
You won’t believe this. We just found out that anti-Internet lobbyists are hosting happy hour parties in Washington to increase their influence over key TPP decision makers.1 They’re sipping cocktails…
We received this letter from a supporter of OpenMedia.ca: “I am totally blind. I own a company called ebony consulting here in Toronto that specializes in teaching mostly in Ontario,…
Co-authored by Catherine Hart Canadians and even the CRTC know our cell phone market is broken. Canadians pay some of the highest prices for some of the worst service in…
We won! The government has finally listened to Canadians and killed online spying bill C-30! Way back in June 2011 when we worked with Canadians from across the country to…
Since the recent passage of the government’s problematic Internet lockdown bill C-11, old media conglomerates have been dreaming up ways to put it to use in their quest to protect…
Rogers has struck a backroom deal with Shaw1 to take over systems crucial to delivering our mobile Internet and phone services – systems that were promised2 to create new independent…
Late last year I wrote a blog post about how media outfit Voltage Pictures was trying to force indie ISP Teksavvy to hand over the private information of certain Canadians…
This December, hundreds of you joined OpenMedia as monthly donors through our Allies program, and over one thousand of you contributed with one-time donations. You answered the call to help…
Looking back at 2012 you should feel proud of what you’ve been part of. For example, our friends at Electronic Frontier Foundation put together this review of how you joined…
Thanks to support from Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), I had a chance to attend the latest round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, from…
Thanks to all of you who have joined us at OpenMedia in our campaigns, last Friday I had the opportunity to address some of the lead bureaucrats and lobbyists behind…
The Internet is ablaze with fury at the news that a content company – Voltage Pictures – is requesting the private information of thousands of Canadian Internet users, who it…
Ma vie a été très mouvementée ces derniers temps. En démarrant OpenMedia.ca, je ne me serais jamais douté que notre communauté freinerait l’élan des géants des télécommunications, forcerait les politiciens…
