Two of Canada’s biggest telecom giants, Bell and Rogers, may soon be acquiring Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment together. These companies are already very large and vertically-integrated—each own a great…
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The Calgary police were caught violating email privacy in a big way during a small investigation. Clearly we have problems ensuring that authorities don’t abuse their existing online spying powers—we’re…
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…
Check out the infographic here about the ways we’re using cell phones. Pro-Internet community member Michelle Vee shared this on our Facebook Wall, with the following message about online choice,…
Yet another report has recently come out to demonstrate just how closed our cell phone market truly is. We’ve improved in the last four years, but we’re still seeing a…
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…
The StopSpying.ca petition has hit over 135,000 signatures. This is an important milestone that further erodes the tenability of the government’s online spying plan. read more
Quebec, Manitoba, Ontario, and now Nova Scotia have introduced or passed legislation to protect Canadians against price-gouging cell phone companies. The bills do not go quite far enough, but they…
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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…
Check out Prof. Dwayne Winseck’s article about potential national rules for the cell phone industry. We can’t let Big Telecom shape those rules for their own narrow interests—we’re working to…
While thousands of Canadians voice their concerns about the government’s online spying bill, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is continuing his irresponsible PR campaign that suggests that warrantless collection of…
The cycle of telecom price-gouging. Take action: http://pricehike.ca/ Click to enlarge. read more
The founder of popular website icanhascheezburger.com says the imposition of copyright rules that would restrict our use of the Internet “is our generation’s prohibition”. Do you agree? More info about…
The U.S. is fighting their own online spying bill (CISPA) now. Like our friends in the U.K., American groups are using some of the innovative social media outreach tactics pioneered…
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EFF and a number of civil society organizations have declared this to be ‘Stop Cyber Spying Week’ in protest of several controversial U.S. cybersecurity legislative proposals, including the bill currently…
If we end up footing the bill for mandatory online spying for through our taxes—the alternative being that we pay even more on our monthly bills—Big Telecom may be looking…
This is outrageous: This man’s son was not informed of new fees on his texting and was charged a whopping $1,400 by Rogers—talk about price-gouging! To make matters worse, Rogers…
