October 4, 2012 show: CEO Stephen Carruthers on internet industry monopolies

On October 4, 2012, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed CEO and Founder of Aeonex.ca Stephen Carruthers. One topic was the Rogers-Bell monopoly on inter-city internet connectivity. Learn about the corporate and regulatory background of your internet connection, the politics of competition.

El-Farouk Khahi

This week activist, lawyer and politician El-Farouk Khaki joined us by phone from Toronto.

A self-proclaimed feminist, Khahi focuses his work on queer rights issues within Islam and works as a lawyer in the filed of human rights and immigration law.

From Freedom of Speech to Spam

Freedom of speech on the Internet, protection of privacy for Internet users, mass communication for political reasons and legal threats sent to website owners... those and other topics related to the World Wide Web were discussed on this week's Train.

Wendy Seltzer is a research fellow for the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She is the founder of Chilling Effects Clearinghouse and a member of the Board of Directors for the TOR project.