“It’s amazing that despite unprecedented public outcry, Toews is pushing forward with the government’s costly and invasive online spying plan. Canadians will not be satisfied until the Minister ...

We are a group of patriotic Canadians and civil society organizations who care deeply about the future of Canada. We are disappointed by the government’s decision yesterday to both halt collection of ...

But the strangeness of copyright does not end there. Most people know of either the "public domain" (ideas that belong to the commons and are free to be replicated) and of copyrighted material. But ...

OTTAWA, June 18, 2025 – In an unprecedented show of unity, over 300 civil society organizations from across the country are on Parliament Hill today demanding the complete withdrawal of Bill C-2, the ...

Section 4.1 of Bill C-11 nominally excludes user posts from CRTC regulation, which has led some MPs to incorrectly claim user content is protected. An extremely broad set of exceptions in 4.2 (2) ...

JUNE 23 2023 — Yesterday Bill C-18, The Online News Act received royal assent after passing through the House of Commons. The bill was first introduced in April 2022, and its final passage follows the ...

February 26, 2024 — Today the federal government introduced the Online Harms Act, Bill C-63. It comes years after the government's 2021 proposal for regulating online harms, which was met by ...

Let’s recap Musk’s actions to date. Musk first bought the leading social media platform for journalists, Twitter, in 2022; then massively artificially boosted his own voice on that platform. In the ...

May 28, 2025 — Today, OpenMedia and 13 other prominent Canadian civil society organizations and digital policy experts delivered a joint letter to key federal ministers, urging fundamental reform of ...

December 4, 2024 — Today Minister of Justice Arif Virani announced a split of the Bill C-63, The Online Harms Act. Parts One and Four, which cover the Online Harms Act itself, will move to pre-study ...

Since the Rogers-Shaw buyout was initially proposed in March 2021, OpenMedia and allies have delivered over 83,000 messages from concerned people in Canada calling on policymakers to block the ...

AUGUST 4, 2022 — Today 4 civil society organizations issued a joint statement calling on Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) Minister François-Philippe Champagne to end Canada’s ...