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This year in digital and broadcast policy is likely to be dominated by two lobbying efforts: the radical website blocking plan proposed by the Bell coalition... more
February 6, 2018
Last month I posted on the responses to the CRTC’s consultation on the future of Canadian programming, which yielded over 200 submissions that envision... more
December 19, 2017
For immediate release
Ottawa – A 20th-century CRA opinion is the only barrier to infusing hundreds of millions of advertising dollars into hard-pressed... more
January 23, 2017
By Mark Blevis & David Coletto
In August 2016, we explored how Canadians use the internet to discuss and debate politics, get their news, and what role... more
By Abacus Data
February 7, 2017
The Public Policy Forum released its much anticipated report on the future of Canadian media yesterday. The Shattered Mirror: News, Democracy and Trust in the... more
January 27, 2017
Canada’s spy agency CSE is in court, struggling to explain how it accidentally shared innocent citizens’ private metadata with foreign governments.2 If we don’... more
By OpenMedia
July 7, 2016
This is outrageous! European politicians have just launched a special process to push forward a broad new hyperlinking fee that will affect us all. Your ... more
By OpenMedia
May 4, 2016
BREAKING: the government has JUST announced they will consider a sneaky attempt by Bell to undo new customer protection rules through an obscure, rarely... more
Exciting news! Green Party leader Elizabeth May has just announced her endorsement of our crowdsourced pro-Internet action plan.1
She becomes the first major... more
By OpenMedia
September 15, 2015
Part 4. The Modern Library is also a Knowledge Factory
Over the week, I have submitted to Unpublished Ottawa three short essays on Ottawa’s next Central... more
March 25, 2015
