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Online Media-Care Outreach Team
Why not in 2025?
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Here is a quick question for you that might require time to answer fully if you like.
Why have you not yet encouraged someone else to add their name to The Petition for a Canadian National Online Public Library?
Recently some influential foreigners have been loudly joking and talking about taking away Canada’s independence.
An Online Public Library is a public online media content access service.
Nowhere in the world does this kind of service exist yet. Canada can show the world there is a better way to use the internet other than depending on huge powerful private firms to provide access to online media content.
No need to name them, these firms have polluted the media environment with third party advertising, hate, lies, and have put up paywalls blocking the poor from access to the best online media content. Disturbingly these firms have become the vehicle for billionaires to drive politics.
It is not working well for democracy to have billionaires owning and controlling the systems that give the electorate access to existing information.
It is not working well for some Canadians who want access to the best news, information and entertainment to be depending on a foreign billionaires who choose to dictate what stories are elevated or muted in our online media feeds.
It is not working well for climate action activists to have to face a paid for tsunami of greenwashing propaganda.
To be independent as a Country we need to have our own independent online National content access service. To have a strong democracy we need our own independent National Online Content Access Service and this service needs to be democratic.
Please help in 2025 to make this a key issue.
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telling someone else about this
Here is an idea and a question please.
Why do you think no one seems to be speaking up about having a public service to provide access to online content and to automatically pay the firms and workers who produce content that Canadians access through the service?
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Peace and Love
Breezy Brian Gregg
CEO No Ads Canada
Amiskwacîwâskahikan
If you have friends in Canada ask them to read about and
Please sign the Petition for a Canadian National Online Public Library
The website [ https://no-ads.ca ] will never ask you for money or advertise for a third party.
Its purpose is to change minds and move legislation.
NO ADS CANADA —
No paid staff
No requests for donations
Jagmeet Singh Song
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Jagmeet Singh Song ©© [creative commons]
Jagmeet he’s so cool everybody sing, sing, sing, Jagmeet Singh
Jagmeet he’s so cool everybody sing, sing, sing, Jagmeet Singh
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Love and Respect for Everyone
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Love and Respect for Mother Earth tooooooooo
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(verse 2)
Pharmacare for all, everybody sing, sing, sing, Jagmeet Singh
Dental Care for Kids, everybody sing, sing, sing, Jagmeet Singh
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Love and Respect for Mother Earth tooooooooo
Jagmeet he’s so cool everybody sing, sing, sing, Jagmeet Singh
(additional verses)
reconciliation now
tax the rich right now
climate action now
food and shelter for the poor
peace on earth right now
No Commercial Media Day October 9th
Dear Everybody in the world
In Canada this year Thanksgiving, John Lennon’s Birthday and No Commercial Media Day all fall on October 9th.
If we can’t get our voice out we will not be heard and the change we advocate for therefore cannot happen. This is a reality we live with as we struggle to find a way to make real action on climate happen. Big money in politics is a root problem for the challenge we face.
You are welcome to join and promote this action. It is 100% peaceful.
This is how we take away the power of big money in the media.
Double Action Simultaneous Strike and Boycott
- Just for one day — Wild Cat Strike
Avoid working for third parties. Literally go on strike. If you work in the content production industry quit selling your work to advertising businesses. Give your work away for free or ask for donations to cover your costs of having an enjoyable life.
No only do all the content producers and their workers need to go on strike. The users/consumers of digital media content need to boycott commercial content access services.
- Just for one day — Boycott
Seek out safe, clean, quality, news, information, and entertainment that is free. - Speak up for The Digital Public Library Proposal. It is a democratic, content production financing engine.
The Proposal is a wonderful way to help the workers in the media content production industry cover their costs of living an enjoyable life.
At the same time for the poor, It lifts financial barriers to accessing the best safe, clean, quality news, information, and entertainment.
Peace and Love
Breezy Brian Gregg
CEO No Ads Canada
Amiskwacîwâskahikan
Polluter Pay Alberta Garbage Day
Polluter Pay Alberta Garbage Day 3:00 PM Saturday October 28, 2023
Location: Violet King Henry Plaza at The Alberta Legislature Grounds 99 Avenue & 108 Street
Purpose: To protest the Alberta government’s lack of action on holding resource extraction industries responsible for their pollution. Tailings ponds from tar sands extraction now spread over an area larger than metropolitan Vancouver. Recent tailings leaks from the Imperial Oil Kearl site went unreported for months. Lack or responsible tailings management has escalated into a serious public health issue. The price tag for the clean up of orphaned oil and gas wells is now estimated at $30 billion.
We join with Indigenous peoples to say NO to dumping this toxic effluent into the Athabasca River.
We say NO to taxpayers footing a now $30 billion bill for cleaning up orphan oil and gas wells abandoned by industry in the UCP’s Liability Management Incentive Program, formerly R-Star.
Join other citizens to dump bags of garbage on The Plaza at the Alberta Legislature, Saturday, October 28 at 3 pm, two days before the Alberta Legislature reconvenes. Please come with your bag of garbage to add to the pile. Rest assured, we will clean up our mess, unlike the extraction industries who profit hugely but resist accountability for responsible resource management and restoration.
Bring your signs! Bring your voices!
Co-sponsored by: The Edmonton Chapter of The Council of Canadians
This action is organized by the Polluter Pay Garbage Day Citizens Action Group.
Contact Acting Spokesperson: Breezy Brian Gregg Amiskwacîwâskahikan/ Edmonton
Canada’s War on the Digital Advertising Giants
NO ADS CANADA asks for answers and claims Bill C-18 The Online News Act, is a fight over who gets to profit from the advertising industry while failing to address that the advertising industry itself is what is corrupting and undermining democracy.
Rule by the rich
Anyone who knows me knows I am against the Advertising Industry.
I see it as the rich man’s sly weapon used to manipulate, control, and exploit the less fortunate. It turns democracy sadly into rule by the rich.
News
Bill C-18 The Online News Act, was passed last month in the House of Commons. In response, Google and Facebook state that beginning January 1, 2024 they will be blocking access to Canadian Online News on their services. Why am I seemingly the only person speaking up about legislating to create a new public communications service? A purpose of the service would be to give Canadians access to Canadian News and to sustain Canadian News Production workers by paying them for their work that is accessed and approved of by Canadians.
Keep in mind that for a large part Google and Facebook are Advertising Firms.
A Glut and A Lack
Pardon my French but this is a really fucked up way to have access to the glut of online news information and entertainment that exists and is constantly being added to. Pardon my French but this is also a really fucked up way to sustain content production workers. There is lack of important local news and a glut of often shallow mediocre untrue or unimportant stories and opinions.
The De-privatization Opinion
The Digital Media Content Access Industry is one of those industries like Healthcare that should be a public service not a business.
Missing answers
The answers to these question should be found —
• Where is there any hard proof that media advertising is a good thing for people who are coerced into persistently being exposed to it when they turn to the internet to satisfy their thirst for news, information and entertainment?
• Can advertising cause Demand-Pull Inflation?
• Is advertising likely to spur inflation?
• Does advertising rearrange market share?
• if so are the resulting gains and losses of share fair?
• Why is it that advertising is used to finance production of media content that is in demand?
• Could there be any fairer way to fund Canadian Journalism than with directly democratic public funding as defined in The Digital Public Library Proposal?
Please support this proposal. This comes from a perspective that the digital media production industry, the digital media access industry, and the media advertising industry can be viewed as separate industries.
The Digital Public Library Proposal
— We propose that our governments act to de-privatize and democratize the digital media access industry by enacting legislation to create a new public service that meters out digital content to users on request and that automatically pays content owners 30 days after their content is used.
Also we propose that the user be granted a manual option to block automatic payments their use has triggered if the user deems the content to be inappropriate or unworthy. This user’s manual option to block payment will be a powerful disincentive to those who may wish to profit from deception.
To be strictly a public service it will be financed with public funds and it will not be wholly or partially funded with revenue from the media advertising industry.
Please contact your MP and speak out against Bill C-18 and speak up for Tabling a new Bill in Parliament to establish a new public service as proposed in The Digital Public Library Proposal —
Polluter Pay Action Garbage Dump Protest
MEDIA ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 11, 2023
Polluter Pay Citizen Action Group
Media Liaison: Breezy Brian Gregg bzgregg@telusplanet.net
780.993.3624
PROTESTERS TO DUMP GARBAGE AT ALBERTA LEGISLATURE ON MAY 13 AND THEN MAKE SPEECHES ABOUT WHY GOVERNMENT SHOULD PAY US TO CLEAN UP THE MESS. THIS ACTION IS TO HIGHLIGHT GOVERNMENT INACTION ON DEMANDING OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY POLLUTERS CLEAN UP ORPHAN WELLS AND TOXIC OIL SANDS TAILINGS
WHAT: The UCP government proposes using taxpayers’ money (proposed R-Star/Liability Management Incentive Program) to pay industry to clean up orphan wells – costs estimated at $20 billion. Following this logic, government should pay protesters to clean up garbage dumped in protest to call attention to this inaction.
In spite of record profits by oil sands mining operations, virtually nothing has been done to effectively clean up the stored tailings effluent stored in “ponds” now covering twice the size of Vancouver. A toxic leak of 5.3 million litres at Imperial Oil’s Kearl site was kept secret for 9 months.
WHEN: May 13, 3 p.m.
WHERE: Alberta Legislature Building, Edmonton
WHO: Polluter Pay Citizen Action Group
WHY: Polluters should pay for industry clean up, not citizens. (We will clean up our mess, unlike the very profitable enterprises that are polluting the air, land and water in Alberta on a scale never seen before.)
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Polluter Pay Citizen Action Group
Polluter Pay Alberta Garbage Day
Dump RSTAR — Polluter Pay Alberta Garbage Day
3:00 PM Saturday May 13, 2023
Alberta Legislature Front Steps
Or your organization’s preferred alternate location
Purpose: To protest the UCP proposed policy first advertised as RSTAR and now being referred to as The Liability Management Incentive Program.
N.B. We will clean up, unlike some very profitable enterprises that are polluting the air, land and water in Alberta on a scale never seen before. Please come and bring a bag of garbage. If you feel safe, dump your garbage and then speak about why the Government should pay us to clean up our mess.
Polluter Pay Citizens Action Group
Let’s talk about the principle of polluter pay, and about how that this RSTAR even just being proposed by the Alberta Government, shows a real lack of understanding of what is fair and decent in society. Industry should not be let off the hook for either orphan oil well clean up or for the clean up of the toxic tar sands’ tailings pollution.
People of Alberta – Thank you for your work. Yes please consider partnering and helping to promote this action. It is one more way we can say our government has to start showing strength and enforce laws that are there to protect the people and the land.
Our government should not be wasting money that could be spent on our health care and helping those suffering from affordability.
RSTAR is a proposal for the government to fund $20 billion of oil well clean up costs that profitable firms are already legally responsible for cleaning up. Together people plan to demonstrate against government subsidizing Industrial Pollution Clean up, by dumping a bag of garbage on the front steps of the Alberta Legislature.
Please come with your bag of garbage but only dump it if you feel safe doing so. Volunteering to help clean up after the protest will be appreciated thank you.
This action is organized by Polluter Pay Citizens Action Group. We have no leader.
Peace and Love
Breezy Brian Gregg
Acting Spokesperson for: Dump RSTAR — Polluter Pay Alberta Garbage DayAmiskwacîwâskahikan Hai Hai
Polluter Pay Citizens Action Group ©©
Canadian Digital Communications Decency Act
I think I see a new way of promoting the Digital Public Library Proposal. It has to do with law.
In democracies the press is supposed to hold government accountable and the government is supposed to hold the press to be accountable. Neither institution is doing a very good job of policing the other.
We need to purge our systems of communication to rid them of hate, lies, advertising and surveillance.
We need to change the law so that private businesses should be liable for harms caused by content reproduced on their internet platforms. Public Libraries on the other hand should not. Changing this one detail of law will ignite the evolution of a new communication system that will function for the benefit of all.
The Americans passed a bad law in 1996. The Communications Decency act. The law creates a giant loophole for businesses providing interactive computer services, where they don’t have to be liable for any of the “shit” they make available through their services. That incredible privilege should only be allowed for public libraries. Now Article 19.17 of the USMCA (Trump’s New NAFTA) commits Canada too to giving private businesses “safe harbour” when publishing other’s content.
Because of that “safe harbour” law, publishing and amplifying hate and lies online has become a very lucrative business for interactive computer services, commonly now referred to as platforms.
Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram would not exist without the 1996 American Communications Decency Act Section 230 which protects them from being held liable for publishing and amplifying information provided by another information content provider. How ironic. An act supposedly to govern communications decency has resulted in enabling an explosion of lies and rudeness in communications.
Canada and Mexico now have been locked into providing the same “safe harbour” provisions for internet platforms by signing on to Trump’s new NAFTA agreement: the USMCA, which includes Article 19.17 regarding Digital Trade.
Making profits from amplifying libellous misinformation and disinformation and enabling ill intentioned customers to profit at others expense using platform services is just plain wrong.
In Canada we must demand that we retain sovereignty over digital communications and that we be released from the conditions of Article 19.17 of the USMCA.
We need to remove this opportunity to profit by denying businesses “safe harbour” This will immediacy choke off the business of profiting from publishing and amplifying hate and lies online. Commercial platforms will not be able to deal with a mass of liable suits.
However there is a real need for everyone to be able to access digital content. A new Canadian Act will enable the development of public services to fill that need. It is being proposed that nonprofit publicly financed interactive computer services should be allowed “safe harbour” and private businesses not. We need an act like this —
Canadian Digital Communications Decency Act
1.) No Nonprofit, publicly financed interactive computer service which does not surveil or advertise to its users, shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information it provides but that is provided by another information content provider.
2.) Any for profit business providing interactive computer services shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information it provides that is provided by another information content provider.
The Digital Public Library* Proposal
Proposed that Canada enacts a Canadian Digital Communications Decency Act as above and that it brings in legislation to create and fund a new public communications service: The Digital Public Library*
- — * — Digital Public Library — a publicly financed interactive computer service that provides the public with access to digital content without surveilling the users and without exposing the users to third party advertising. As well as providing everyone with equal opportunity to access what exists, a Digital Public Library would automatically make payments for use to the content-owners of copyrighted content. Although payment is automatic, the user must have a manual option to reverse the automatic payment in cases where the user deems the content to be inappropriate or unworthy. This manual option for the user to be able to reverse automatic payments they triggered themselves, is a democratic and powerful way to discourage those who may wish to profit from deception.
Universally the Digital Public Library Proposal is rejected when it is pitched to journalists. To subscribe to this vision of a healthy communication system for society, is to face the fact that the whole community of active journalists, have totally missed a most important point. That point is that we cannot have a strong democracy that governs for the good of everyone and our planet, if we rely on the advertising industry and private publishing enterprises to finance social communications. In a world where wealth inequality exists, a communication system that provides the opportunity for the more wealthy to buy a bigger and louder voice for influencing and manipulating peoples commercial and political choices, will naturally expand the wealth gap and weaken democracy.
Other than this proposal, which no one knows about, there is no vision for a way forward to reform and democratize the communications systems. Consequently the journalists, the academics, and the politicians make do, try their best, and talk about regulatory solutions. The Digital Public Library Proposal is a systematic solution.
It is useful to discriminate between three types of digital media enterprises:
• Content-production enterprises
• Telecommunication carrier enterprises, and
• Content-access enterprises.
We can leave the production enterprises including of course news outlets and individual authors, remaining as they are; a mix of for profit enterprises and not for profit enterprises supported by public and private grants and donations.
Some say that it would be better to de-privatize the Telecom carrier services. This also could be accomplished by anti-safe harbour legislation.
Most importantly the arm of the media though which needs radical transition is the area of enterprise that provides access to digital content. We live in a moment where this very important service is totally monopolized by a few private enterprises. The Digital Public Library Proposal is about replacing them with a public service.