This is an important opportunity (from SaveOurNet.ca). The CRTC is seeking to engage the public in an online consultation regarding what Canadians want from their Internet. Your input will help shape the upcoming hearings on Internet traffic management practices.

Internet represents a giant source of information, the collective mind where we can find almost anything. Every connected user contributes to its "wisdom" or informational capacity. Therefore, Internet obtainsthe features of a public good.

It's been a while since I've touched bases with the ChangeEverything community, but I realized today that what I've been busy with is exactly what this community is for, and I feel silly for not coming back here earlier.

I am proud to announce a new search engine called thegreensearch.ca.
(www.thegreensearch.ca)

Through the power of Google, thegreenpages.ca network has created a specialized search engine that searches Canadian environment-related web sites. Rather than searching the entire web, your search yields "green" results from across Canada and around the world. Use it as a research tool, or keep up to date on the latest news, events, and trends happening in our environment.

'Net Neutrality' (the freedom of all users to have equal access to the internet) has become a huge and successful campaign in the States, but in Canada hardly anyone knows about it, or knows that what we all take for granted now is threatened.

Here are four things you can do:

1) Send people a link to this post and tell people to read the Tyee story: Canada Sleeps Through The War To Save The Internet
2) Blog it, link it on your website, put a link to it in your organizations' newsletter etc.
3) Visit Neutrality.ca - sign the open letter to the government of Canada in support of a neutral internet
4) Make it the top story at www.Care2.com (a really interesting online news network and social issues forum with over 6 million members). By 'noting' it, you can help make this the top story on Care2. (you have to be a member to 'note.' If you're note a member of Care2, it's easy to sign up

I'd heard of Black Friday before, but now I find that today is "Cyber Monday" -- the busiest online shopping day of the year:

Cyber Monday is the first Monday after "Black Friday" --  the day U.S. shoppers on their Thanksgiving break flood stores searching for holiday deals... retail analyst Jim Okamura noted that Canadians don't observe American Thanksgiving, so this Monday "is just another Monday in Canada."