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OpenMedia.ca is an award-winning community-based organization that safeguards the possibilities of the open Internet. We work toward informed and participatory digital policy by engaging hundreds of ...
Update: Bill C-10 has been replaced by Bill C-11 (Online Streaming Act), for up-to-date information check out our latest blog "What's Wrong with Bill C-11: An FAQ". “CanCon” is Canadian content — TV ...
The best thing about RightsCon is obviously meeting people, hearing about cool projects and having hour long discussions about the problems of international jurisdiction of the Internet… #nerd One of ...
We're on Reddit today from 9AM - 7PM EST talking about Internet freedom, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and what comes next for our StopTheTrap.net campaign. Throughout the day, we'll be joined by ...
As a result of so many people joining our Digital Action Teams, we've been able to: 1. Build a letter to the editor tool to send hundreds of letters and help stop a government surveillance plan. 2.
Big telecom companies control 96% of the Internet service market, while complaints to the Commissioner for Complaints to Telecommunications Services have more than doubled in the last year. These ...
February 24, 2011 – CRTC staff have written to Rogers Communications regarding customer complaints that the major ISP has been slowing the speeds of “time sensitive audio [and] video traffic." This is ...
OpenMedia.ca attempted to meet with Paradis after the release of its report on Internet openness, which included a series of recommendations for digital strategy in Canada. These recommendations would ...
January 13, 2011 – Canadians across the country are using the Web to express outrage and raise awareness about new Internet usage fees (usage-based billing) set to take effect in the coming weeks.
April 26, 2011 – The Conservative Party is refusing to respond to questions about Internet governance that were put forward by non-partisan citizen engagement group OpenMedia.ca. While the other major ...
February 3, 2011 – One would have thought that CRTC Chair Konrad von Finckenstein was goading the over 400,000 Stop The Meter petition signatories as he testified before the Standing Committee on ...
Le statu quo d’Internet au Canada est un désastre politique. Des réglementations de base, attendues depuis longtemps, pour protéger notre vie privée et notre sécurité en ligne continuent d’échouer ...