With regulatory reviews of the Rogers-Shaw transaction ongoing, it is worth revisiting one reason this transaction is so controversial, billionaire family drama aside. Wireless internet access is a ...

It’s been called the “Most dangerous Canadian Internet bill you’ve never heard of”. But some folk will tell you it’s just a common sense approach to protecting kids — and who could say no to that! So ...

As you may recall, Bell Canada is appealing an important January 2015 CRTC ruling that prohibited telecom companies from exempting certain services from data caps in order to discriminate against ...

We need to talk about Elon Musk and the rise of the tech oligarchs. For over 15 years, money and power have been bleeding from citizens and elected governments, to the founders of a small number of ...

When you buy a smartphone or a laptop, that device should be completely yours; you ought to be able to do what you want with it. If you drop your phone off the fifth floor, and the screen breaks, you ...

If you’ve been on social media recently, you may have seen all the buzz around the Internet Archive. Here's what's going down: for two years, Big Media publishers have been embroiled in a lawsuit ...

Jenna is the Senior Campaigner at OpenMedia, an internet governance enthusiast and a public policy nerd. Her interests intersect the technicality of internet technology and public participation in ...

Update: Bill C-10 has been replaced by Bill C-11 (Online Streaming Act), for up-to-date information check out our latest blog "What's Wrong with Bill C-11: An FAQ".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 ...

An alarming number of privacy violations are coming from just one sector of our digital economy. Enabled and empowered by weak privacy laws, these organizations are taking advantage of the Internet by ...

It’s about to be blocked on several major online platforms. Canadian Internet users will not be able to share links to Canadian news outlet websites on Instagram or Facebook, or see links to their ...

The long-awaited report from the Broadcast and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel is finally out! This panel was established in June of 2018 to propose updates to Canada’s media and ...

A version of this article by our Laura Tribe was originally published by Common Ground magazine, and by Rabble.ca. You may not be aware that a device named after an unusual sea creature poses a ...