TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays’ home stadium, the Rogers Centre, is being turned into a temporary food hamper sorting centre in support of Food Banks Canada’s Covid-19 response, Rogers Communications and the Jays Care Foundation announced Monday.
As part of the new Step Up to the Plate initiative, Rogers Centre will house 6,000 pallets containing 10 million pounds of food which will be sorted into food hampers on the field and delivered across the country to families in need. Each hamper will be filled with a variety of non-perishable food items, providing one individual with a week’s worth of…
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TORONTO — CTV Life Channel is starting a month-long, nationwide free preview on Tuesday, June 2, which will feature a new Tuesday-night lineup of wedding series and Saturday wedding-themed movie marathons.
Running until July 9, the CTV Life Channel freeview will also see the series debut of Double Your Dish on Monday, June 29 at 8:30 p.m. ET. Hosted by real-life couple Chef Rodney Bowers and radio and TV personality Meredith Shaw (pictured in centre), the eight-episode, self-shot cooking series helps viewers make the most out of their meals by transforming one base recipe into two totally different dishes.
“We’re thrilled…
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KELOWNA, B.C. – Canada’s first real-world 5G smart city solution is launching in Kelowna next week in a partnership between the city, Rogers Communications and University of British Columbia (UBC), the municipality announced Thursday.
Over the weekend of March 27, nearly 50 UBC students got together as part of a virtual hackathon to explore how new technologies and improved wireless connectivity could help Kelowna find ways to improve how people move around downtown and increase pedestrian and cyclist safety through design. One of the winning ideas from the hackathon is being implemented as a pilot project in downtown Kelowna, says…
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TORONTO – After 15 years at the helm, Music Canada president and CEO Graham Henderson, will be stepping down, it was announced Thursday.
“We thank Graham for guiding Music Canada through a period of phenomenal growth and transition, including his dogged domestic and international championing of copyright reform and protection,” said Jennifer Sloan, board chair, in the press release.
“I have been given the great honour and privilege of serving the members of Music Canada and the wider music community for 15 thrilling and rewarding years. And throughout this entire time, I have had the unalloyed joy of working with the…
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Regional carriers acknowledge opportunity exists, though
By Greg O’Brien
TORONTO – It was heartening to hear from a handful of the top Canadian telecom executives on Wednesday when they detailed how their companies have, admirably, responded to the Covid-19 crisis.
Suspensions of overage fees, no disconnects, working with businesses and consumers to defer payments or re-do packages to help as they struggle financially, serious progress on remote health (especially by Telus), self-installs, employees working from home, networks which have remained robust and resilient, and charitable contributions too numerous to count, it has been an 11-week stretch like none of us have ever…
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GATINEAU — Rogers has asked the CRTC to reverse its decision made in an April procedural letter that allowed Bell to delay deployment of one-way toll-free (TF) trunks between Bell’s network and Rogers’ network to carry TF traffic destined for Bell TF numbers until August 17, 2020.
In a review and vary application filed May 20, Rogers says it was given no notice the Commission intended to give Bell a deadline extension for deploying the TF trunks, which originally were to be installed by April 30, 2020. In an abridged copy of the application, Rogers says it will now…
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OTTAWA — A recent Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association survey compiling data from some of Canada’s telecom providers released today gives insight into just how much Canadians’ consumption of telecom services has changed during the current health crisis, and that the country’s networks remained resilient in the face of all the traffic shifts and increases.
The CWTA collected information regarding wireline and mobile traffic, for broadband and voice, and measured it against a pre-Covid-19 baseline. Facilities-based network operators who were surveyed for the report include Bell, Rogers, SaskTel, Shaw/Freedom, Tbaytel, Telus and Videotron.
Among the data highlights of the CWTA’s report, Managing…
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LONDON, U.K. — Rural mobile subscribers in Canada enjoy some of the fastest download speeds in the world, says the latest report from mobile analytics company Opensignal.
Released today, The state of rural Canada’s Mobile Network Experience – May 2020 report also found rural mobile subscribers have access to 4G networks close to 90% of the time — a percentage more commonly seen by mobile users in more populated areas, Opensignal says.
For this report, Opensignal analyzed the data of users on Canada’s three largest mobile operators — Telus, Bell Mobility and Rogers. According to its analysis, rural users on the…
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GATINEAU — Vista Radio’s application for a broadcasting licence to operate an oldies music FM radio station in North Bay, Ont., was approved Monday by the CRTC.
The English-language commercial FM station will operate on the 90.5 MHz frequency and will broadcast 126 hours of local programming each broadcast week, of which 10 hours and 28.5 minutes will be devoted to spoken-word programming, according to the applicant information included in the Commission’s decision approving the radio station’s licence.
In each broadcast week, seven hours and 46 minutes of spoken-word programming will be devoted to local news and information, with two…
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COWICHAN VALLEY, B.C. — Rogers Communications is working with Apple to provide iPads with free Rogers wireless data plans to students in Vancouver Island’s Cowichan Valley School District to support their educational needs during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Along with three months of free LTE wireless data from Rogers, the iPads come pre-equipped with a suite of high-quality educational apps, the news release says. The initiative is designed to ensure equity in access to educational opportunities for students while in-class learning is suspended, while also allowing teachers to plan a more fulsome online educational experience, says the company. In addition, Apple…
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