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Our lack of competition means that companies are gouging us for all they can get. When @Rogers, @Bell, and @TELUS are our only options, they can charge as much as they want for connectivity, and we’re left holding the bills. #competitionweek
@Rogers @Bell @TELUS Our cost of living crisis is already dire. From exorbitant cell phone and Internet prices, to unaffordable housing across the country — not to mention our grocery bills that just keep rising — it feels like our economy is failing us, and monopolies are to blame.
When markets have multiple companies competing for customers, prices stay low, small businesses thrive, and providers are encouraged to innovate.
We shouldn’t be at the mercy of monopolies that have gone unchecked for decades.
With reformed competition laws, our government is able to actually protect us from abuse of dominance, instead of standing by while the rich get richer.
Now is the time: we only have 4 DAYS LEFT to speak out.
Sign now: action.openmedia.org/page/118576/pe…

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Mar 31
BREAKING: Bill C-11 passed by House of Commons, ignoring concerns of regulating everyday Canadians [THREAD]
The House of Commons just undid all the hard work of the Senate, ignoring a key amendment to C-11 that would have accomplished the purpose of the bill while excluding user-generated content.
The Bill will now move back to the Senate, after the House disregarded Canadians’ concerns that individual uploads may be treated and regulated as broadcasting under C-11. Unfortunately, Bill C-11 is just as damaging now as it was a year ago.
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Mar 30
Mergers like Rogers-Shaw aren’t our only problem. We need the @CompBureau to be able to not only stop monopolies from growing any bigger, but to rein in the existing monopolies that control our markets. [THREAD] #competitionweek
@CompBureau Did you know that @LoblawsON owns @RealCdnSS, @EpicerieMaxi, T&T, Zehr’s, and @nofrillsCA? Not to mention that their points program, @pc_optimum, is linked to @ShopprsDrugMart, @PCFinancial, and PC Mobile, a prepaid cell-phone provider.
This doesn’t include the dozens of in-store brands owned by the Loblaws corporation that are sold exclusively at their retailers.
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Mar 29
Bell, Rogers, and Telus’ unwillingness to buy in to the TTC network is a matter of life or death. The infrastructure is there, but their own corporate greed is the only reason they haven't signed on.
This is a matter of public safety and security. When there are network outages (ahem @Rogers), the #1 concern is how to contact emergency services. And yet Torontonians are taking that risk every day just to ride public transit.
It’s not as complicated as Big Telecom would like you to believe. They demand to have their own networks, but refuse to build them, which leaves Canadians at risk every single day.
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Mar 29
For far too long, our Competition Bureau has been ill equipped to protect us from monopoly abuse. How does Canada’s competition regulator differ from our global peers? [THREAD] #competitionweek
Unlike in other countries, our Bureau cannot proactively study markets to better regulate monopolies. Most of the Competition Bureau’s activity happens in the dark. There’s no way for everyday Canadians to find out what markets and corporations are being investigated.
How can we put our trust in a regulator that operates with no transparency? That’s why we need competition reform.
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Mar 8
BREAKING: @pablorodriguez just announced a complete rejection of @SenateCA's #BillC11 work that excluded YOUR user content from CRTC regulation.

Your podcasts? CRTC regulated. Your TikToks? Potentially regulated. We're stunned and furious!

ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer…
@theJagmeetSingh, the CRTC could soon be deciding if YOUR TikToks with music are 'Canadian'- or need to be downranked in Canada.

You can still step up NOW and fix this. The NDP's #BillC11 support must not rubber stamp a bill with this much unchecked power over our speech.
@yfblanchet, nous avons vu l'Assemblée du Québec protester contre l'ÉNORME pouvoir sur le contenu que #C11 donne à Ottawa.

Allez-vous les rejoindre ? Ou est-ce qu'Ottawa va maintenant décider qui est un authentique producteur de la culture québécoise?

ledevoir.com/opinion/editor…
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Apr 28, 2021
Today we’re launching an URGENT action calling on MPs to vote against @s_guilbeault's Bill C-10 - the most serious attack on freedom of expression online in Canada we’ve seen in years, and a genuine Internet emergency:
action.openmedia.org/page/81358/act…
Last Friday, the federal government shocked experts and the public by removing exemptions for user content from C-10, bringing every video, audio clip and picture that people in Canada upload to online platforms under the broadcast regulation of the CRTC:
thestar.com/politics/feder…
What does that mean? It means giving the CRTC breathtakingly broad powers to remove, censor, hide, tax and otherwise interfere with the audiovisual content that makes the modern Internet what it is. See @mgeist’s analysis here: michaelgeist.ca/2021/04/guilbe…
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