TORONTO – Telus has joined forces with Toronto's Co-op Cabs to offer free Wi-Fi to passengers in the 6ix.
Wi-Fi-enabled Co-op Cabs will hit the streets starting this week, with all vehicles in the Greater Toronto Area offering free Wi-Fi by the end of the year. Passengers will be greeted by a splash page on their mobile Internet browser as soon as they enter the cab, and then must enter their email address to join the Telus Wi-Fi network.
The program follows Telus' 2015 partnership with Yellow Cab taxis in Vancouver, offering free Wi-Fi to passengers in that city and surrounding…
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TORONTO – Bell Media’s Investigation Discovery (ID) and Discovery Science will both be opening up for a four week free preview September 22 through October 19.
The timing will coincide with the launch of new ID series Las Vegas Law, Vanishing Women plus new special Adnan Syed: Innocent or Guilty? (pictured), featuring the convicted murderer and subject of the acclaimed Serial podcast. Highlights from Discovery Science include the debut of new series How To Build…Everything and Alaska Mega Machines.
The four-week preview is available through television service providers including Bell and Bell Aliant, Cogeco, Eastlink, MTS, Rogers, SaskTel, Shaw, Shaw Direct, Telus,…
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TORONTO – Family Channel kicked off its 14th annual Bullying Awareness Week campaign this week with the message to Stand UP!, not stand by, when bullying happens.
Headlined by the release of a new original anthem "We Stand Up" performed by the cast of the tween series Backstage, the campaign also features the return of Family’s in-school rally tour.
In addition, Family has enhanced its original content offering through a new partnership with Telus via their online safety initiative Telus Wise (Wise Internet & Smartphone Education), resulting in exclusive short-form content from Backstage and teen drama Degrassi: Next Class that addresses…
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TORONTO – Telus Health has wrapped up its acquisition of Nightingale Informatix Corp.'s Canadian business operations, including its proprietary Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software and nearly 5,000 physician customers across Ontario, Western Canada and Atlantic Canada.
First announced in July, the deal also includes the transition of 42 Nightingale employees to Telus Health.
The move broadens the company's electronic medical records customer base in Ontario and Atlantic Canada, further advancing Canada's connected healthcare ecosystem, reads the news release.
"Canada has made great strides in the last few years in transitioning from paper to digital in our primary healthcare clinics, which is where…
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VANCOUVER – The 2017 CommTech West trade show and seminars is going further west next year, moving from Calgary to Vancouver.
Originally held in Kelowna, the show has taken place in Calgary since 2013. Organizers said late Tuesday that CommTech West 2017 will take place May 31 – June 1 at the Sheraton Airport Hotel in Vancouver, with the pre-show golf tournament tentatively scheduled for May 30. Telus continues to lend their support as a platinum sponsor, and Cartt.ca will once again be the show’s media sponsor.
Exhibitor registration and a call for technical papers will be announced for both shows shortly. CommTech East…
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This is not another new policy review
GATINEAU – Canada’s major broadcasters say that a time when consumers have more TV viewing choices resulting from new flexible channel packaging rules and the continued inroads from exempt (often foreign) platforms, the CRTC must resist adding to the regulatory restrictions already imposed on their programming services.
The comments come as the Commission wraps up the written phase for this fall’s licence renewal hearing for the country’s major English- and French-language broadcasting groups.
Many interveners have called for more stringent regulation of the large broadcasters. They relate to a number of…
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STARTING SEPTEMBER 7, BROADCAST distributors (a.k.a. cable, IPTV and satellite TV providers) will go before the CRTC trying to convince the regulator they are providing consumers with the choice required under rules adopted last year and that no further regulation is necessary.
Groups representing consumers will be there too, arguing, among other things, the way BDUs are offering the new so-called skinny basic package is inadequate. The Consumers Association of Canada (CAC) and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) say the Commission needs to address the issue of unfair practices being employed by some BDUs.
The groups say that…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has turned down a request from three consumer groups asking it to expand and/or revise the geographic boundaries for local number portability (LNP) to more accurately reflect the current network and marketplace structure for telephony services.
LNP allows subscribers to keep the same telephone number when changing service providers. The Commission required all wireline local exchange carriers to implement LNP as part of its framework for local competition established in May, 1997.
In an application dated June 15, 2015, the Consumers' Association of Canada, the Council of Senior Citizens' Organizations of British Columbia, and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre proposed…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC shouldn’t bow to pressure from the vertically integrated (VI) entities and loosen any regulatory measures on their activities, according to comments from the non-VI broadcast distributors.
In comments to the licence renewals of the large English and French-language ownership groups (for which a public hearing is coming in November), the non-VI BDUs tell the Commission that in fact it needs to strengthen regulations ensuring the VI companies (Rogers, Bell and Quebecor) don’t exhibit any anti-consumer and anti-competitive behaviour.
Telus says the Commission has rules to ensure carriage contracts for TV channels are done on…
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TORONTO – Bell Media’s Discovery is gearing up for its first-ever nationwide free preview this fall which will include the debut of Frontier, its first original Canadian scripted drama.
Set against the raw backdrop of 1700s Canada, Frontier (pictured) stars Jason Momoa in a thrilling action-adventure series that revolves around warring factions vying for control of the fur trade in a ruthless game of wealth and power. The series will debut on November 6. Other programming highlights include the return of Canada’s Worst Driver and the premier of new original Canadian series Tougher Than It Looks? on October 24.
Discovery’s free preview…
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