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OpenMedia.ca: True free expression requires privacy

This article was originally published at Canadian Journalists For Free Expression.  “If I have nothing to hide, I have nothing to fear.” This is perhaps the most common reason people give for...

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OpenMedia.ca: Our positive crowdsourced action plan to turn the Bill C-51...

A version of this article by our David Christopher was originally published by The Tyee, as part of a new series about Canada’s Privacy Plan Today’s the big day, folks: this morning, OpenMedia is...

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OpenMedia.ca: TODAY: Join our Privacy Town Hall at 11am PT / 2pm ET,...

Calling all Canadians! Join us for our Social Media Town Hall on privacy issues, taking place on Facebook and reddit TODAY at 11am PT / 2pm ET today. We’ll have great expert guests to cover all the...

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OpenMedia.ca: CBC: Great to See Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien...

Check out this great media coverage of our Privacy Plan, a crowdsourced plan to fix Canada’s privacy deficit. Over 125,000 took part in this process and we’re happy to know your views on privacy have...

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The Canadian Progressive: Harper must clarify ‘zero tolerance’ for Israel...

The United Church of Canada wants “clear reassurance” that Prime minister Stephen Harper does not intend to criminalize Canadians critical of Israel. The post Harper must clarify ‘zero tolerance’ for...

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Politics and its Discontents: Canadians Would Be Indeed Foolish To Shrug...

Given the invasive and likely unconstitutional provisions of Bill C-51, and the prime minster’s general contempt for democracy and privacy issues, Canadians would be beyond naive to believe that the...

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OpenMedia.ca: Did Conservative Senator Yonah Martin just delete her Twitter...

On May 6th we witnessed how the government used its majority to ram Bill C-51 through the House of Commons after only two days of debate. The legislation – now opposed by a whopping 56% of Canadians...

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Montreal Simon: Will Stephen Harper Really Get Away With Rewriting History?

It couldn't be a more Orwellian move, or a greater threat to our democracy.Stephen Harper's outrageous decision to protect the RCMP by rewriting history. But this is Harperland, he is drunk with...

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OpenMedia.ca: Bill C-51 violates Universal Declaration of Human Rights, OSCE...

When the world’s largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization says Bill C-51 violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, you know we’re in trouble.  Article by ThinkPol The Harper...

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OpenMedia.ca: New privacy report warns about rampant Canadian telecom...

An open Internet is free from government surveillance. Using the Internet to spy on people degrades our freedom and weakens our democracy. Tell that to your Senators at StopC51.ca Article by Emily...

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Scott's DiaTribes: Angus Reid: Strong Support For Bill C51/Strong Support for...

Given the furore over the past couple of months on social media – most of it NDP activist driven – you’d think that the entire country hated Bill C51, the new security and anti-terrorism bill – and...

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BigCityLib Strikes Back: New Poll Suggests Ignoring Hippies On Bill C-51

That’s my takeaway, at least.  All the raging away on twitter is merely the caterwaul of elderly scenesters trying to relive that golden time when they flipped the bird at a traffic cop and ran away,...

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OpenMedia.ca: How Canadians can end mass surveillance

A version of this article by our David Christopher was originally published by The Tyee, as part of a new series about Canada’s Privacy Plan Just two short years ago, if you stopped people on the...

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OpenMedia.ca: National Observer: A first account on government surveillance

This journalist experienced first hand what Canada will look like if Bill C-51 is passed. Keep speaking up at StopC51.ca Article by Darren Fleet for the National Observer Out of morbid curiosity I...

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Montreal Simon: The Harperland Spring and the Phony War

I must admit I'm finding Harperland this week a little strange and rather depressing. Or should I say even stranger and more depressing than usual.For although we could be just two months away from...

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Montreal Simon: Bill C-51: Learning How to Raise Our Voices to Denounce a...

They rallied all over country from St John's to Vancouver, in the sun and in the rain.In a country which is normally so quiet and complacent, they raised their voices once again to let Stephen Harper...

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OpenMedia.ca: Eyes on the Spies: Canadians deserve accountability

A version of this article by our David Christopher was originally published by The Tyee, as part of a new series about Canada’s Privacy Plan For anyone involved in the privacy debate, it’s been a busy...

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Politics and its Discontents: On The Sinister Implications of Bill C-51

One of the biggest threats posed by Bill C-51, the anti-terrorism legislation so loved of the Harper cabal, is that it could be used to criminalize dissent. Jesse Brown, over at CanadaLand, offers an...

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OpenMedia.ca: BREAKING: Final Bill C-51 vote will be tomorrow

BREAKING: Liberal Senate leader Grant Mitchell has just confirmed to OpenMedia that the government will shut down all debate on Bill C-51 at the Senate Chamber tomorrow. This means all amendments and...

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Montreal Simon: Will Bill C-51 Be Stephen Harper’s Waterloo?

I wouldn't be surprised if the dark idea crept into Stephen Harper's Jurassic brain even as he cowered in that closet, on that fatal day on Parliament Hill.And at the time he must have thought it was...

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