Showing posts with label canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label canada. Show all posts
11 February 2017

Please Write to Your MEPs About Next Week's Critical - and Final - CETA Vote

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Next Wednesday, the European Parliament will have its final vote on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement , or CETA. If you were h...
11 January 2017

Please Write to MEPs on the ENVI Committee About CETA *Today*

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There's an important vote by MEPs on the ENVI committee tomorrow about CETA, the trade deal between the EU and Canada . Background on w...
26 July 2014

After Muzzling Scientists, Canadian Government Now Moves On To Book Burnings

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Techdirt has been tracking the sorry saga of Canada's assault on free speech for a while, as it first muzzled scientists and librari...
24 July 2014

Resistance Grows To Inclusion Of Corporate Sovereignty In Canada-EU Trade Agreement (CETA)

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Remember CETA, the Canada-EU trade agreement, officially known as "Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement"? You could be fo...
24 November 2013

Canadian-Based Company Sues Canada Under NAFTA, Saying That Fracking Ban Takes Away Its Expected Profits

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We've written several posts about a growing awareness of the dangers of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), which lets forei...

Canadian Scientists Call Countrywide Protests Against Government Censorship, Found Advocacy Group

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Back in April, we noted that the Canadian government has been trying to muzzle various groups in the country, including librarians and ...
23 November 2013

Twenty-Year-Old Requirement For 'Real-time, Full-time' Eavesdropping On Canadian Mobiles Revealed

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Even if it now seems likely that Linus Torvalds wasn't approached to add a backdoor to Linux, there are plenty of others that were ...
26 October 2013

Eli Lilly Raises Stakes: Says Canada Now Owes It $500 Million For Not Granting A Patent It Wanted

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A few months ago we wrote about the extraordinary -- and worrying -- case of Eli Lilly suing Canada after the latter had refused to gran...
20 July 2013

After Muzzling Librarians And Scientists, Now Canada Starts Making It Difficult For Citizens To Express Their Views

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Last month, Techdirt wrote about the requirement for librarians employed by the Canadian government to self-censor their opinions, even...

EU Free Trade Agreements With India And Canada Grind To A Halt

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Techdirt has been covering the free trade agreement being negotiated between India and the EU for a while now -- that is, as well as any...
31 March 2013

Canadian Librarians 'Owe Duty Of Loyalty To The Government,' Must Self-Censor Opinions Even In Private

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Librarians can play an important role in any society that depends increasingly on access to information to function. One of their jobs ...

Now US Wants Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement With European Union To Include Turkey: Who's Next?

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Last week we wrote about the important news that Mexico is asking to join what began as a bilateral trade agreement between the US and ...

Why TAFTA Matters, and What We Should Do About It

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Back in January, I wrote about what I called the "Trans-Atlantic Partnership Agreement", by analogy with the Trans-Pacific Part...
09 March 2013

IIPA Wants Canada And Spain On The 'Naughty' Special 301 List Even Though They Brought In Tough New Copyright Laws

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Here on Techdirt, one of the things we look forward to each year is the comedy production known as the 301 Report, where the US makes the...
11 February 2013

Canada Denies Patent For Drug, So US Pharma Company Demands $100 Million As Compensation For 'Expropriation'

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An increasingly problematic aspect of free trade agreements (FTAs) is the inclusion of investor-state provisions that essentially allow ...
08 December 2012

Thailand To Join TPP Negotiations; Access To Medicines Likely To Suffer As A Consequence

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Although things have gotten rather quiet on the TPP front, that doesn't mean that the juggernaut has been halted. On the contrary: ...
11 November 2012

Does CETA Spell ACTA?

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Last month I wrote about the "clean and open Internet" consultation being carried out by the European Commission, and pointed...
29 July 2012

Are The Courts Finally Trying To Bring Some Balance Back To Copyright?

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One of the recurrent themes here on Techdirt is the increasing lack of balance in copyright, which is now heavily weighted in favor of cr...
23 July 2012

Australia Wants To Join The Snooper's Club: Why That's Bad For All Of Us

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They say that a lie is halfway around the world before the truth has got its boots on, and the same seems to be true about Internet policy...
15 July 2012

ACTA's Back: European Commission Trying To Sneak In Worst Parts Using Canada-EU Trade Agreement As A Trojan Horse

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Even in the face of a resounding rejection of ACTA by the European Parliament last week, the European Commission seems determined to keep...