From now until April 23, we have the unique opportunity to change the wholesale system for good. The CRTC has FINALLY opened up a consultation on forcing monopolies to open their fibre networks to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Manufacturers are preventing us from fixing the devices we own. They’re making it harder to repair our stuff, putting financial strain on us and hurting the environment — just so they can boost their ...

Canada is exploring age-verification requirements under Bill S-209, but adopting such systems without strong safeguards could repeat mistakes seen overseas. The UK’s failed experiment offers a warning ...

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 ...

On December 5, 2022, OpenMedia testified before the House of Commons Standing Committee of Industry and Technology on the potential impact of a private member’s right to repair enabling bill, Bill ...

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 ...

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 ...

August 15, 2020 – In a decision released early this morning, the federal cabinet has declined to overrule a 2019 Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications (CRTC) decision to lower the wholesale ...

March 15, 2023 — Today, 13 civil society organizations released a joint statement addressed to the Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez, outlining shared concerns and hopes for Canada’s ...

On April 15th, 2021, the CRTC issued a decision that largely rejected introducing new mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) — low-cost alternative providers — to Canada. Instead, the decision ...