Michael Geist: Real Change on Digital Policy May Take Time Under New Liberal...
Law professor and copyright expert Michael Geist suggests that the new Liberal government may wait until 2017 before implementing significant change to Canada's telecom, broadcast, copyright, and...
View ArticleMichael Geist: TPP Text Confirms Massive Loss to Canadian Public Domain
The just released Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) text confirms the "extension of the term of copyright to life of the author plus an additional 70 years." For Internet law expert Prof Michael Geist,...
View ArticleClimate denial in the TPP trade agreement
The 5,000-page TPP agreement "is literally in climate denial" while expanding the rights of corporations, argues Ben Lilliston, the director of climate strategies at the Institute for Agriculture and...
View ArticleMichael Geist: The TPP is a Canadian Digital Policy Failure
University of Ottawa prof and Internet law expert Michael Geist explains why the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is one of Canada’s worst-ever policy moves. The post Michael Geist: The TPP is a...
View ArticleMichael Geist: The Trouble with the TPP’s Copyright Term Extension
The TPP's copyright term extension discourages creativity, restricts access, and imposes enormous costs on Canadian consumers and educational institutions, argues Internet law expert, Michael Geist....
View ArticleMichael Geist: TPP puts global health at risk
Internet and E-commerce Law expert Michael Geist explains how the TPP’s protections of biological drugs "represent a significant problem for global health" by limiting access to cutting edge medicines....
View ArticleCanada and TPP partners to sign “death sentence for Indigenous rights”
As Canada and 11 other nations prepare to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Indigenous peoples in New Zealand say the trade deal is "a death sentence for indigenous rights." The post Canada and...
View ArticleTrans-Pacific Partnership hides significant health costs, according to two...
Two new studies from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives find "significant risks and high public costs" Canada's health care system within the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement....
View ArticleCanadian think-tank wants to demystify the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives just launched a new series of reports seeking to "demystify" the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as Canada inches closer to ratifying the controversial trade...
View ArticleTPP Threatens Indigenous Peoples Rights, Says UN Special Rapporteur
The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement threatens Indigenous land rights, says Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the UN Special Rapporteur for Indigenous Rights. The post TPP Threatens Indigenous Peoples...
View ArticleMichael Geist: The Case Against Canada Ratifying The Trans Pacific...
This week, Internet and e-commerce law expert, Michael Geist, concluded his illuminating 50-day series on the "trouble with the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)" by presenting a compelling case against...
View ArticleTPP Trade Deal Would Undermine Public Health Systems Around The World, Groups...
Doctors Without Borders and more than fifty groups urge the US Congress to reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on the grounds that the trade agreement would undermine public health systems...
View ArticleTPP and CETA will likely raise pharmaceutical costs in Canada, government admits
A Trudeau government official recently admitted that TPP and CETA will likely raise pharmaceutical costs in Canada. According to the official, it's "correct" to suggest that the two trade deals "will...
View ArticleTPP delivers unjustified benefits to foreign investors: study
A new study says the expanded rights granted to foreign investors in the Trans-Pacific Partnership delivers unjustified benefits to foreign investors while posing major risks for ordinary populations...
View ArticleMichael Geist: As Trump Pulls the U.S. Out of the TPP, Canada Should Follow Suit
As Trump Pulls the U.S. Out of the TPP, Canada Should Follow Suit The post Michael Geist: As Trump Pulls the U.S. Out of the TPP, Canada Should Follow Suit appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
View ArticleFreeland Admits: U.S. Withdrawal Effectively Kills TPP Trade Deal
This week, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland admitted that the United States' withdrawal from Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) effectively kills the mega trade deal. The post Freeland Admits:...
View ArticleStephen Harper says “big multilateral trade deals are dead”
If you can believe it, former prime minister Stephen Harper wants you to know that the future of mega multilateral trade deals such as the doomed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is uncertain. The post...
View ArticleCanadian Conservatives still support the TPP, which died after Trump’s...
The Conservative Party of Canada maintains its support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, which is now doomed following the United States's withdrawal earlier this year. The post...
View ArticleFreeland Admits: U.S. Withdrawal Effectively Kills TPP Trade Deal
This week, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland admitted that the United States' withdrawal from Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) effectively kills the mega trade deal. The post Freeland Admits:...
View ArticleStephen Harper says “big multilateral trade deals are dead”
If you can believe it, former prime minister Stephen Harper wants you to know that the future of mega multilateral trade deals such as the doomed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is uncertain. The post...
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