TORONTO – More than CAD$162.7 million has been pledged collectively so far in connection with Friday’s star-studded Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) "roadblock" fundraising telecast in Canada and the United States, organizers said Monday.
The live show was SU2C's sixth biennial fundraising telecast since the organization was launched in 2008 and marks ten years of impact in the fight against cancer. The telecast, which also streamed live in Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square on Bell Media's Astral large-format digital screens and the Citytv Big Screen, featured a cast of celebrated figures from the worlds of entertainment, music, sports, and science, as…
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THE NINE CREE AND FOUR francophone communities that ring James Bay in Quebec’s far north may be nearly 1,000 kilometres from major cities, but the rest of the world is only fractions of a second away in most of them thanks to a recent partnership between the Eeyou Communications Network (ECN), the locally run nonprofit which oversees telecommunications in the vast, sparsely populated territory, Toronto-based independent carrier Distributel and several other public and private partners.
Alfred Loon is president and founder of ECN. He says the project was first conceived a decade ago as an economic development project with…
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Les communautés cries et francophones parsemées autour de la Baie-James, au nord du Québec, sont à des centaines de kilomètres des grands centres, mais le reste du monde se trouve à quelques clics dans la plupart d’entre elles, grâce à un partenariat public-privé novateur entre le Réseau des communications Eeyou (RCE) , l’organisme qui gère les télécommunications dans les neuf communautés de la nation crie, le distributeur torontois Distributel, et plusieurs autres partenaires publics et privés.
Alfred Loon est président-fondateur du RCE. il raconte que le projet a été conçu il y a une décennie dans le cadre d’un…
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TORONTO – Telus Health has bought Montreal-based corporate healthcare service provider Medisys Health Group. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Founded in 1987, Medisys Health Group provides preventive and corporate healthcare solutions nationally through a network of wholly-owned clinics.
A blog post by Telus Health president Paul Lepage described the acquisition as “two Canadian companies with solid, decades-long track records in technology and clinical services are coming together to help support healthcare transformation in this country.”
“At Medisys Health Group clinics across Canada, we’ll deliver employee-centered care, backed by Telus’ world-leading broadband networks and supported by digital tools…
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TORONTO – All four of Canada's English-language network broadcasters will once again simultaneously air a Canadian-inclusive Stand Up To Cancer special next month.
For the third time, Stand Up To Cancer Canada will simultaneously broadcast a Canada-inclusive telecast across CBC, Citytv, CTV, and Global, as well as Canadian services AMI, A.Side, BBC Earth, CHCH, CHEK, Cottage Life, Fight Network, Game TV, HIFI, Hollywood Suite, Love Nature, Makeful, NTV, OUTtv, Smithsonian Channel Canada, T+E, YES TV, in addition to streaming live on the CBC TV App, cbc.ca/watch, CBS All Access, CTV GO and CTV.ca, Global GO and GlobalTV.com, and available on-demand on Telus…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Connexion will roll out the MediaFirst IPTV platform from MediaKind (previously Ericsson Media Solutions) to its Canadian cable customers starting next year.
The company said Tuesday that the MediaFirst platform will offer customizable video content, wireless receivers, voice activated controls, and access to Android Google Mobile Services “for a complete video offering”. MediaFirst is the same video platform deployed by Bell Fibe, Telus Optik, and SaskTel's MaxTV, and this decision from Cogeco diverges from the path set by Shaw, Rogers and Videotron, who chose Comcast's X1 platform for their next generation TV offering.
It…
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LONDON, UK – While all three of Canada's national mobile operators have cranked up their 4G speeds over the last six months, Telus still holds a commanding lead, says OpenSignal in its new semi-annual report Mobile Networks Update: Canada.
The wireless mapping coverage company examined close to 678 million measurements collected from 31,762 mobile test devices between April 1 and June 29, 2018 in its update on Canada scheduled to be officially released this week.
According to the report, average 4G download speeds in Canada rose by at least 5 Mbps for Bell, Rogers and Telus. Bell posted the biggest gains, with its 4G…
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TORONTO and VANCOUVER — Hundreds of phone calls to northern Canada are failing to get through, and Iristel and Telus have their own theories as to why, each accusing the other company of engaging in suspect telecom practices that it claims are the underlying cause.
Iristel is claiming Telus in late May intentionally reduced its network capacity on certain toll transit circuits that carry Telus traffic to Iristel numbers in the 867 numbering plan area (NPA) in northern Canada, causing congestion in the network that has in turn caused hundreds of phone calls from Telus customers to certain Iristel end…
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VANCOUVER — Telus Optik TV customers in BC and Alberta can now enjoy the enhanced viewing experience of 4K HDR (High Dynamic Range) with the exclusive-to-Telus launch of Travelxp 4K HDR, a global travel and lifestyle channel from India.
The debut of Travelxp 4K HDR on Optik TV marks the first time a network broadcasting 24/7 in lifelike 4K HDR has been available in Canada, Telus said in a news release announcing the channel’s launch on Optik TV. Telus already previously offered on-demand 4K HDR content to its Optik TV customers.
Enhancing the quality of existing 4K technology, 4K HDR…
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OTTAWA — Canada’s largest, vertically integrated BDUs have a little over a year to start providing set-top box data to a national STB-based audience measurement system — a new condition of licence imposed by the CRTC when it announced August 2 the collective renewal of soon-to-expire licences for various terrestrial BDUs.
As it renews their respective licences for a new term starting September 1, 2018, the CRTC is imposing a condition of licence on Bell, Rogers, Shaw and Videotron that will require them to provide the set-top box (STB) data they collect regarding programming services they distribute to a national…
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