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James Moore spectrum announcement hailed as a positive step forward to enable greater wireless choice and lower prices
gatekeepers-share.png In response to outcry for Canadians, Industry Canada has taken steps to ensure Canadians have greater access to affordable, independent wireless providers December 18, 2014 – Industry Minister James…
Chad Koh: Protect our shared resource: Step up for the net!
Tech leaders like Chad are stepping up to help us save the open Internet. Check out what he has to say, and learn more at https://openmedia.org/stepup Article by Chad Koh…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, December 18, 2014
Your news links for today: Secret WTO Trade Deal Threatens Internet Freedom, New Leak Reveals – Common Dreams MPAA Wants to Use DMCA to Effectively Bring Back SOPA – FOSS…
We won! Here are the top 3 ways Big Telecom will face financial penalties if they break the rules.
We won! We won! Our small team here at OM have been clinking our coffee mugs after this morning’s announcement of new powers that will allow the government to impose…
Advocates celebrate new powers by oversight bodies to impose financial penalties on telecom companies that break the rules
wewinwithyou.png Following years-long campaign, CRTC is now empowered to levy financial penalties against telecom providers who mistreat customers December 17, 2014 – This morning’s announcement of new powers allowing the…
Goliath Vs. Goliath
Last week’s massive email leak at Sony revealed a number of unsavoury things about the company from the racist comments of Sony co-chairman Amy Pascal, to the company’s scramble to…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Your news links for today: Statement from Jean-Pierre Blais, Chairman of the CRTC, on monetary penalties and paper bill fees – Canada News Centre Shaw Cutting Internet Speeds? Wrong, Telecom…
The Internet is at a turning point and here’s some good news
Hi there, I’m Chris Malmo, a grassroots development coordinator at OpenMedia, and it’s my job to help our community interact and communicate with our team. It’s been a big year…
Revealed: Holiday pricing change from Shaw means 10% higher fees and 40% slower Internet service
shawgrinch2.png December 16, 2014 – Shaw Communications is reportedly raising Internet prices by 10% and slashing Internet speeds by up to 40-50% for many customers beginning in January. Multiple Shaw…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Your news links for today: Shaw: Starting January 6th all new internet is 40% slower. (At the new increased price) – reddit Bell charging small businesses thousands to exit non-existent…
Washington Post: Will changes in the U.S. ruin your Internet?
If the U.S. allows Big Telecom to build an Internet slow lane, how will the rest of the world be affected? Article by Nancy Scola for The Washington Post Two…
Nothing says I love you like an Internet freedom button
Looking for that perfect holiday gift for the Internet lover on your list? How about some OpenMedia swag? Click on the photo below to go to the site. read more
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, December 15, 2014
Your news links for today: It’s been a bad year for internet freedom – Gigaom 2014: The year in privacy failures – Canada.com State surveillance is enabled by our own…
Izzy Iz Awesome
Psst! Hey you! Come here, I want to tell you a secret. Promise you won’t tell anybody, though. Okay, so, you’d never guess this, but OpenMedia’s team consists largely of…
OpenMedia delivers letter from 48 leading organizations calling for full text of TPP to be released to enable public debate
This week, our own Free Expression Campaigner Meghan Sali travelled to Washington, D.C., to hand-deliver an exciting new letter organized by our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and 47…
EFF: There’s no excuse for secrecy at the TPP
The European Union has taken a huge leap towards transparency in releasing the text of a trade deal affecting member nations. Now, it’s time for Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiators to do…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, December 12, 2014
Your news links for today: Supreme Court’s Privacy Streak Comes To End: Split Court Affirms Legality of Warrantless Phone Searches Incident to Arrest – Michael Geist Supreme Court of Canada:…