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Robocall confusion in Toronto


TORONTO TELECOM LAWYER Mark Lewis thinks he knows a thing or two about the CRTC's rules for automated phone calls by political parties during elections.So when he recently got two calls on his personal office phone line from the New Democratic Party – one from a candidate in a nearby riding neither his office nor his residence is in -- he was outraged."It's just not right," he fumed in an interview, for two reasons: First, after the initial call he emailed the NDP to be put on the party's do not call list, apparently in vain. Second, why is he...