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OpenMedia.ca has launched a citizen-made online video educating Canadians about the true cost of the government's online spying legislation C-30 and the threat it poses to personal privacy.

Government and Big Telecom have been all too willing to disregard public opinion. But that can only last until our voices get too loud to ignore...

This week's video update is about the threat of the TPP, and the huge strides forward taken by the global pro-Internet community that give us hope.

This week's update calls police accountability into question when it comes to online spying, and describes problems with our cell phone market.

Both within Canada and out, the pro-Internet community is fighting against invasive online spying legislation. This week's update tells all about it.

When organizations are increasingly naked, “fitness” is no longer optional. You have to be buff.

Listen in as Matt Dusenbury discusses the process of developing the rabble.ca Best of 2011 iBook using the newly released iAuthor platform.

The CRTC is looking into national rules to protect cell phone users. Canadians are paying some of the highest cell phone fees in the industrialized world.

This week's update is all about getting Canadians' input. Please take a moment to fill out a short survey at openmedia.ca/engage, and help shape the fight for an open and affordable Internet.

Libby Davies, Vancouver East MP, hosts a public forum in Vancouver about Bill C-30, the Conservative Bill that aims to violate our privacy on the internet.

That's the question my online journalism students in the MAJ program at the University of Western Ontario are tackling. And, we're working with rabble.ca and The Tyee to get a made-in-Canada answer.

Canadians are leading by example in the fight against warrantless online spying. Meanwhile Big Telecom is up to its old tricks, price-gouging Canadians wherever it can.

Both the form and content of the newest insurgencies embody essential aspects of our age of information. Their novelty opens up new possibilities for presence, mobilization and social change.

Many of the industrial economy's industries and organizations will fail if left unchanged.

The rule of the technocrats: Have democracies given too much control to bureaucrats and policy advisers? Judy Rebick joins Steve Paikin for more.

Canadians have made some big strides forward in the fight for the open and affordable Internet. This week, the CRTC emerged as a site of change, shifting toward a model in the public interest.

This week, on the Activist Toolkit weekly roundup: tech tools to end violence and get organized, finding local banks, DIY sustainable street art and more!

Big telecom giant Bell will soon be in control of Astral Media, and the cellphone, Internet, radio, and television holdings that come with it.

Canadians convinced the government to rebuff the worst of Big Media's suggestions for copyright bill C-11 as it makes its way through the parliamentary process.

In late January, a small team gleaned from the ranks of Vancouver-based citizens' organizations OpenMedia.ca and Leadnow.ca took the wraps off an exciting new project called Reimagine CBC.

The online spying bill still has yet to enter the Committee stage, which is where changes can be made, so now is a perfect time for Canadians to give their input.

I gave up on newspapers years ago. I haven't given up reading them, but I've packed in talking to them about the future.

Canadians have forced the government to begin backing down on the warrantless online spying bill, but Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is still trying to turn the tables.

On this week's Activist Toolkit weekly roundup: How to lobby, use QR codes in campaigns and understand the significance of blackface.

Canadians are using creative tactics to draw attention to the invasive and excessive nature of the government's online spying bills.