2015 election needs to focus on our digital future
Do we really want to drive our local businesses out of town, by failing to provide the digital infrastructure, security and privacy safeguards that they need to operate in a…
Canada
Vote as Early as Today!
So you’re out of town or too busy on election day, Oct. 19th. Or perhaps you made up your mind long before debate season. Well here’s some good news: you…
Big Telecom are trying to make the Internet like cable TV and we have to stop them
Last week, one of Canada’s Big Telecom giants announced a controversial new scheme that will give them more power to control how you use the Internet on your mobile devices…
Move Along, #Harperman – We’ll Take It From Here
What began as a discussion* (and mocking) of the sideshow of the day song of a generation turned into a great exchange about political/protest tunes. I’ve collected some of the…
Arstechnica: Videotron provoking net neutrality fight with unlimited music
Instead of giving Big Telecom giants the power to choose which online apps and services are more expensive, why don’t they treat all services equally? Let’s put Canadians in the…
Rafe Mair on Trudeau’s surprise comeback, Mulcair’s continued strength
Justin Trudeau continues to defy expectation (Flickr/Canada 2020 CC licence) Churchill once stated that the best time to predict events was after they had happened and I think he was…
Harper in danger of slipping to third place: New polls
Read this Aug. 28 story from CBC.ca and political columnist Éric Grenier’s Poll Tracker series, noting recent polling trends that suggest the Harper Conservatives are in danger of being leap-frogged…
This election, let’s really talk about the economy
Here’s a short, “populist” piece on going beyond the very limited economic debate in the election campaign so far. It was published on Ricochet: The word ‘austerity’ is finally in…
A Balanced Budget Isn’t A ‘Left’ or ‘Right’ Thing
Fiscal management isn’t a ‘left’ ‘right’ issue. It’s good housekeeping that anyone can organize. It’s the priorities that are different and ultimately set the parties apart. By their record, the…
Why privacy matters in this Canadian election
While you are out this weekend enjoying the last days of summer on the beach and the RCMP come by to check whether your cooler is full of (gasp) beer…
Rabble: Fact-checking the Conservatives’ rural broadband strategy
The government’s rural broadband strategy falls way short of our digital platform and here’s why. We need to fight back by pledging to vote now at OurDigitalFuture.ca Article by Nora…
The Harper Conservative economic disaster
Photo: Stephen Harper/Flickr cc licence Guest post by Doug Carrick According to Stephen Harper, the coming election offers a choice between the certainty of Conservative economic expertise on the one…