Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, December 5, 2013
Your news links for today: Public Record – IIC Conference – How Competitive is Canada’s Telecom Sector? (CPAC Video) Ottawa’s wireless ad is too partisan (Globe and Mail) Netflix Expands…
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Canadians react to sneaky government attempt to restrict Internet freedom
Sneaky. That’s the word being used by Canadians who are responding to the latest attempt by the government to ram through the wildly unpopular Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). ACTA, which…
Telecom expert Nowak takes apart Big Telecom’s latest claim about two-year cell phone contracts
Two days ago, Canada’s customer-protection wireless rules came into effect — but two big telecom companies insisted in throwing out some parting shots as they got ready to put these…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Your news links for today: Study Shows Lack of Competition in Canada’s Mobile Wireless Markets (LSE Media Policy Project) Ottawa’s message to the telecom Big Three: Hands off Mobilicity (Globe…
Financial Post: Internal govt memos highlight need to protect new entrant wireless spectrum from Big Telecom
It looks like our Demand Choice campaign – signed by over 60,000 Canadians – has really had an impact. We launched this campaign to sound the alarm about plans by…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Your news links for today: Glitch in the Matrix or Twitter Take-Down?: An Open Letter to Twitter (Mediamorphis) Unofficial Show Notes for Professor Dwayne Winseck on CANADALAND (HowardForums) Fretting over…
Canada, together we won these cell phone customer protection rules that kick in today
Co-authored by David Christopher Today, our hard-won new cell phone customer protection rules go into effect for all new cell phone contracts/sales. The new rules, which were announced by the…
Canadian Internet speeds are ranked lower than they were last year
Internet speeds in Canada leave a lot to be desired. That’s one of the reasons why Canadians have been calling for big telecom gatekeepers to be reined in so that…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, December 2, 2013
Your news links for today: Wireless Wars (CANADALAND) Two-year contracts the latest wireless strawman (Peter Nowak) Diversity of media ownership literally non-existent in Canada (The Canadian Journalism Project) Justice Parliamentary…
It was a busy week here at OpenMedia!
New leaks about the ultra-secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, new revelations about mass spying by spy agency CSEC, and new attempts by our government to resurrect online spying legislation –…
When will the government learn – Online spying legislation won’t fool Canadians
Justice Minister Peter MacKay is following former-Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews’ playbook. When will they learn that Canadians see right through these attempts to push through online spying legislation…
OpenMedia’s Staff page gets a facelift!
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Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, November 29, 2013
Your news links for today: Canada allowed U.S. to spy on G20 leaders at Toronto summit, top secret documents reveal (National Post) Reports: US spied at Canada conferences (Al Jazeera)…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, November 28, 2013
Your news links for today: New Snowden docs show U.S. spied during G20 in Toronto (CBC) Privacy watchdog backs cyberbullying bill’s ‘lawful access’ powers (Globe and Mail) Why Peter MacKay…