TORONTO — With the school year officially over and many summer camps cancelled across the country due to Covid-19, Rogers Communications announced this week its national Ted Rogers Community Grant partners are transitioning all youth programming online this summer to offer Canadian families free, self-directed educational experiences.
Some of the programs being offered include coding, STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), entrepreneurship and financial literacy programs from organizations such as Canada Learning Code, Junior Achievement and Actua (pictured).
“School may officially be out, but learning in fun and interesting ways can continue over the summer months,” said Sevaun Palvetzian, chief communications…
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EDMONTON and CALGARY — Rogers has expanded its personalized mobile retail experience, Rogers Pro On-the-Go, once again, with today’s announcement the service will begin rolling out in Edmonton and Calgary starting tomorrow.
As Covid-19-related restrictions in Alberta continue to ease, Rogers says it has accelerated the expansion of Pro On-the-Go to give customers in Edmonton and Calgary another way to get a new phone as soon as the same day of order and expert support to set it up, at no extra cost.
The service will launch in select Edmonton and Calgary neighbourhoods tomorrow and will expand throughout both cities in…
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By Etan Vlessing
TORONTO – The L.A. screenings went quick and quietly and virtually this year for Rogers Sports and Media, but there’s big moves afoot elsewhere with the broadcaster.
The annual Hollywood shopping spree for Citytv came and went with only four new shows purchased from studio suppliers for simulcast, while another 21 shows are returning for the fall and mid-season campaigns. “We had a tremendous amount of success in a number of places,” Hayden Mindell, vice president of television programming at Rogers, told Cartt.ca as he stressed stability for the Citytv schedule after most U.S. networks besides Fox chose…
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CALGARY – Rogers Communications and the University of Calgary today announced they have established the Rogers Internet of Things Chair with research led by Dr. Steven Liang, PhD, a renowned researcher at the Schulich School of Engineering
The five-year agreement is meant to advance innovative Internet of things (IoT) research in support of Canadians, and Canadian businesses, says the announcement.
“This initiative will bring ground-breaking IoT research and innovation to Canadian businesses and Canadians overall,” said Dean Prevost, president, Rogers for Business, in the press release. “This exciting research is critical to developing the applications and IoT business solutions necessary to…
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TORONTO — Rogers Communications is expanding its support for women and children with the announcement today of additional partnerships with women’s shelters in Quebec and Ontario to provide connectivity to support vulnerable Canadians during the ongoing Covid-19 health crisis.
“It’s unfathomable to imagine the dual crises of domestic violence and physical isolation brought on by Covid-19. Yet, tragically, rates of violence are up as much as 20-30% right now,” said Sevaun Palvetzian, Rogers’ chief communications officer. “For vulnerable women and children escaping abuse, phones and connectivity provide an essential digital lifeline. We’re proud that our Rogers team can help enable…
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Donation also marks 60th year of the company
TORONTO – The founding family of Rogers Communications announced today they will donate $60 million this year to various charities across the country to help Canadians who have been hardest hit by the financial impact of the Covid-19 crisis.
A total of $20 million is going to Food Banks Canada, where the funds “will enable FBC to help more Canadians, more quickly, by increasing bulk food purchases; and work collaboratively with communities and industries within the agricultural sector to build dedicated food production partnerships,” reads the Rogers press release.
That donation is the largest…
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TORONTO — Continuing its efforts to drive the conversation in the fight to eliminate racism, Rogers Sports and Media announced Wednesday it will air a one-hour special, Ending Racism: What Will it Take?, on Thursday, June 11 across its TV and digital platforms.
Hosted by Cityline’s Tracy Moore and Sportsnet’s Donnovan Bennett, the national show will be available to watch or stream Thursday at 7 p.m. local time on Citytv, OMNI Television, Rogers TV community stations and Rogers Radio news websites, plus at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on Sportsnet.
The show will examine the events that sparked protests around the…
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TORONTO — Rogers Communications announced Wednesday it’s expanding its Operation Support Local initiative with the launch of a new website and social media campaign to showcase small businesses which continue to innovate and adapt as Covid-19 restrictions are lifted.
The site also provides access to resources such as Facebook Blueprint, LinkedIn Learning and Twitter Flight School to help businesses pivot and adjust to new ways of serving customers, says the news release.
Launched in April in partnership with Scotiabank, the Operation Support Local initiative has delivered more than $1 million in free media support to local businesses across the…
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MONCTON and EDMONTON– Rogers Communications today announced partnerships with women’s shelters in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Winnipeg, which will see the company provide connectivity to support vulnerable Canadians during the ongoing Covid-19 health crisis.
“Whether calling emergency services, accessing support, or staying in touch with loved ones, the donations are aimed at helping vulnerable women with their immediate and crisis needs,” said Matt MacLellan, president of Rogers’ Atlantic region, in a company press release.
“At Rogers, we are committed to finding ways to help in our communities by providing an essential digital lifeline…
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Says change disproportionately impacts their customers
By Ahmad Hathout
GATINEAU – Third party internet service provider TekSavvy, along with the Competitive Network Operators Consortium (CNOC), said in complaints to the CRTC that a change to Rogers’ network management practices that would constrain some users’ internet usage during the Covid-19 pandemic would disproportionately affect subscribers of wholesale service providers.
Rogers submitted an application to the CRTC in May revising its access tariff to include a section outlining the company’s ability to apply internet traffic management practices (ITMP). “During these periods, any end-user whose disproportionate consumption of shared resources required for internet service is…
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