At 3pm EST Amber Mac and a panel of other media makers will talk about Net Neutrality and other pertinent media issues.

The panel is part of OpenMedia.ca's Fresh Media initiative.

Viewed it live at: http://freshmedia.me

The CRTC's traffic management ruling can be found here:
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2009/2009-657.htm

It looks to be a step forward, but there's more work to be done.

Key point:

primary ISPs may continue to apply ITMPs to retail Internet services as they consider appropriate, with no requirement for prior Commission approval.

. This means consumers or other parties will need to build a case and convince the CRTC particular episodes of throttling are unjust, otherwise the throttling can continue.

In a recent interview with Toronto Star concerning the issue of "fee for carriage", Rogers vice-chairman Phil Lind said he deemed the fact that 10,000+ Canadians complained to CRTC about the issue, a massive consumer backlash.

A group of businesses have joined together for a "Campaign for Competitive Broadband" focusing on a recent CRTC decision regarding wholesale Internet services that will give Bell Canada/Telus the opportunity to limit competition and further enable them to become gatekeepers of the Internet.

As their website notes:

David Fewer, acting director of key SaveOurNet.ca member organization, CIPPIC, wrote a timely and impressive piece on the Net Neutrality for the National Post recently.

In the article David points out that,

As you know, the CRTC hearings took place the week of July 6-10 and SaveOurNet.ca coalition members were there, presenting a strong case for maintaining the open Internet in Canada. Our presentation included testimony from Internet experts Dr. David Reed of MIT, Dr. Andrew Odlyzko of the Minnesota Internet Traffic Studies (MINTS) project, and Bill St.

Here is a video put together by SaveOurNet.ca's Matt Thompson that explains Net Neutrality and other important Internet issues in simple and understandable terms.

In this episode of A Liberal Minute with Jason Lamarche, Michael Geist succinctly lays out what Net Neutrality is and why Canadians should take action.