Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, October 21st, 2013
Your news links for today: Will The Canada-EU Trade Agreement Harm Our Freedoms Online? (La Quadrature du Net) Report: U.S. intercepts French phone calls on a ‘massive scale’ (CNN) US…
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OpenMedia McGill: Why Privacy Matters
OpenMedia’s McGill Student Group is speaking out for our privacy. Thanks for writing this great piece, Max Honigmann! Article by Max Honigmann: As online life becomes more and more a…
OpenMedia’s Reilly Yeo and Steve Anderson’s Op-Ed in print!
We’re excited to see this in print! Check out the op-ed written by our own Reilly Yeo and Steve Anderson in the Ottawa Citizen as they discuss the new frontier…
Video: Will the government move from words to action when it comes to our broken telecom market?
Sick and tired of high prices in our broken telecom market, poor service, and the way Big Telecom continues to block Canadian innovators? Our own Steve Anderson recently spoke out…
A heartfelt thank you to Shea Sinnott from OpenMedia.ca
All of us here at OpenMedia want to thank Shea Sinnott, our tireless Operations Manager who is now moving on to other opportunities. Shea has been with OpenMedia since nearly…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, October 18th, 2013
Your news links for today: Rogers Wireless collection agency sends bills to dead Manitobans (CBC) Canada: Who Will Keep an Eye on the Spies? (Epoch Times) The World’s Policeman Is…
CBC: Rogers Wireless is under fire over its billing practices
Earlier this week, we learned that someone’s credit rating was ruined by Rogers Wireless despite never having been a customer. Now we learn that a collection agency contracted by Rogers…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, October 17th, 2013
Your news links for today: Canadian Government Unveils Its Celebrations-First Agenda (Michael Geist) ITU report pours more fuel on telecom pricing fire (Peter Nowak) Right to slam talks secrecy (Stuff.co.nz)…
As Harper is set to unveil ‘consumers first’ agenda in Throne Speech, Canada’s largest civic engagement organization representing consumers is available for comment
OpenMedia_Sidebar_Image.png Canadians will be watching closely to see whether the government lives up to their promise to secure more choice and lower prices in broken telecom market WHO Steve Anderson,…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
Your news links for today: Conservatives put consumer focus on Parliament’s return (Toronto Star) How trade deals threaten modern culture (Ottawa Citizen) There’s an International Plan to Censor the Internet…
How to make a bad telecom situation even worse
As we all know, Canada’s telecoms market is a mess – just three giant conglomerates control over 93% of the cell phone market, and this lack of choice means Canadians…
Trade deals that threaten the open Internet have no place in our digital future
Our own Reilly Yeo and Steve Anderson reflect on the possibilities of the open Internet in an age where our digital freedoms are under constant threat. Share this article and…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, October 15th, 2013
Your news links for today: Rogers bill ruins credit rating of man who doesn’t have Rogers account (CBC) Federal gov’t to push cable providers to unbundle channels (Toronto Sun) Government…
At OpenMedia, we give thanks for our great community
At OpenMedia, we are incredibly grateful for our amazing community! Thank you for being so engaged- our work would not be possible without you. We’d also like to take a…
Association for Affordable Internet launched!
These influencers are banding together to bring the cost of universal broadband access down and eliminate the world’s digital divide. Article by Lia Timson for The Age: The father of…
Top 5 ways lobbyists win and you lose with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
Something very important happened this week. For the first time, Presidents and Prime Ministers of several countries met with industry lobbyists to discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on the sidelines…