Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, June 26, 2015
Your news links for today: Stephen Harper ready to sign TPP and throw Tory rural base under the bus – Cory Doctorow Productivity Commission slams TPP for stringent IP measures…
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Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, June 25, 2015
Your news links for today: Getting OMNI’d: Why Many Canadian TV Channels May Be Headed for the Chopping Block – Michael Geist The music industry’s new song and dance –…
Globe and Mail: More power to the Big Three, less choice to Canadians
The new Rogers/Mobilicity deal will mean less choice and therefore higher prices. Article by Christine Dobby for The Globe and Mail While Mobilicity has finally found a buyer – selling…
Canadian cell phone users will pay the price for government’s broken promises on Rogers/Mobilicity deal
Moore.jpg Rogers $440 million takeover of Mobilicity will mean fewer choices and higher prices for Canadian cell phone subscribers when wireless prices are already increasing at 3 times the rate…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Your news links for today: Mobilicity accepts Rogers’ $465-million offer – Globe and Mail Industry Canada has approved the sale of Mobilicity to Rogers, Wind Mobile will receive “certain AWS-1…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Your news links for today: Why conservatives want C-51 killed — and what they’re doing about it – iPolitics Senators Walloped with ‘Intense’ Amount of Anti-C-51 Email – The Tyee…
iPolitics: It’s time for a social media rebellion, including Conservative voters, to #KillC51!
A version of this piece from principled conservative activist and OpenMedia community member Connie Fournier was originally published by iPolitics. The government’s unpopular Bill C-51 has finally become law, following…
Mobilicity employees’ MVNO proposal deserves serious consideration, although wireless prices will rise even further unless indie spectrum is kept out of Big Telecom’s hands
UnblockCanada_fbshare.jpg Reports over weekend suggest government is poised to allow Rogers and Telus to acquire Mobilicity’s valuable wireless spectrum, despite promises it would be set aside for affordable, independent providers…
IBTimes: The TPP will leave us unprotected
The TPP gives industry lobbyists the power to sue our government in secret form tribunals over any law or regulation they claim affects their future profits. Speak out now at…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, June 22, 2015
Your news links for today: B.C. Court of Appeal Rules Facebook’s Fine Print Trumps Privacy Law – Michael Geist Three arrested during Bill C-51 protest in Halifax – Chronicle Herald…
Telcos charge Canadians in some provinces more for wireless services
This should not happen! Speak out now: UnblockCanada.ca Article by Dylan Young for Yahoo News Imagine you’ve just snagged yourself a brand new 128GB iPad Air 2 for $700 at…
Former Winnipeg Liberal candidate quits after party’s C-51 support
The list of Liberal candidates and supporters who “cannot abide the support for C-51” is growing rappidly. Who will be next? Article by Mia Rabson for Winnipeg Free Press OTTAWA…
"Less is Moore": The best and the worst of the Honourable James Moore
As many of you have already heard, Industry Minister James Moore is leaving politics, today announcing that he will not be running in the upcoming federal election. Our community has…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, June 19, 2015
Your news links for today: C-51, controversial anti-terrorism bill, is now law. So, what changes? – CBC News Senators snowed under by anti-C-51 email – iPolitics Why the Liberal Party…
New report shows Canada’s wireless rates are (STILL) among the worst in the world
by OpenMedia Digital Rights Campaigner Laura Tribe Is the federal government trying to hide from results of this year’s report on telecom prices in Canada? Their silence today over the…