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The Big Three are ripping us off and using the money to manipulate Canadians and the government.

As we’ve been saying, the Big Three cell phone companies have a plan to price-gouge Canadians by shutting out small competitors¹. Now they’re unleashing a misinformation campaign to muzzle your voice. Read more »

Like reality television’s Big Brother, Lawful Access just keeps coming back. Having died on the table of Parliament’s last session, Bills C-50, C-51 and C-52 are bound for a legislative reincarnation this time around. And, with the Bills again on the horizon, Conservative Member of Parliament and Minister of Public Safety, Vic Toews, has fine-tuned his relentless spin on the honest concerns of well-informed, pro-Internet Canadians.

Touting bare necessity, and speaking in absolute terms, Toews continues to push his ‘tough on crime’ take on Lawful Access and to chide Canadians on the perceivable dangers of unbridled online privacy. Toews, the figure behind Bill C-52, one third of the Lawful Access trio, claims that the components of his bill are innocuous and respectful of the privacy rights of Canadians — despite a vague clause empowering the authorities to demand, in the fulfillment of their duties, personal information from Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Read more »

We at OpenMedia.ca work for Canadians. You fund us, you spread the word, and you play a huge role in shaping who we are. It was because of your input that we started the Stop The Squeeze campaign—hundreds of you have written to us about the cell phone market's high prices, tight contract, and disrespectful customer service.

The Stop The Squeeze campaign focuses on the Big Three cell phone companies' stranglehold on the industry, maintaining that the less choice Canadians have, the worse things will get. We depend on competitors independent of the Big Three to keep the cell phone market in check, so that all Canadians can have access to this increasingly essential service. Read more »

Canadians have access to fast, widely available, and relatively inexpensive Internet service...at least according to Rogers.

Lemay Yates released a report Wednesday, commissioned by Rogers, pertaining to Internet speed and availability in Canada compared to that of other countries. The report ranked Canada among the best of the G7 and OECD countries, in terms of speed, availability, and cost of broadband Internet services. But this research directly contradicts a report released by the OECD, in which Canada was ranked significantly lower.

The OECD is not the only organization to have contradictory conclusions to that of Rogers’ study; the New American Foundation also published a report that shows Canada falling behind in comparison to other countries worldwide. Most recently, Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report further corroborated the findings of the other two, and brought Big Telecom into a negative spotlight. Read more »