VANCOUVER – Telus said Tuesday it is accelerating deployment of its Smart Building technologies across Canada in an effort to support net-zero carbon emissions for businesses, including companies such as Arlington Street Investments and clothing company H&M.
Residential, commercial and public buildings account for 13 per cent of Canada’s direct greenhouse gas emissions, according to a 2022 discussion paper from Natural Resources Canada (NRC), cited in a Telus press release. The same NRC paper says 78 per cent of operational building emissions come from space and water heating equipment that burns fossil fuels, Telus notes.
“The…
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VANCOUVER and BERLIN – The Telus Pollinator Fund for Good is investing in Dryad Networks, a German startup “that provides ultra-early wildfire detection through large-scale IoT networks and sensors that can detect fires as early as their smoldering phase,” according to a Telus press release last week.
The amount of the Telus Pollinator Fund’s investment was not announced.
“Telus recognizes that there is an urgent need to scale innovative wildfire detection technologies and that’s why the Pollinator Fund is investing in Dryad,” Blair Miller, managing partner, Telus Pollinator Fund, said in the release. “More than…
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VANCOUVER – Telus announced last week it is doubling its commitment to its Indigenous Communities Fund, saying it will provide $2 million to the fund over the next five years.
When the Telus Indigenous Communities Fund was launched in November 2021, the telecom committed $1 million to the fund, which provides grants up to $50,000 to support Indigenous-led social, health and community programs.
Some of the Indigenous organizations supported to date include Workforce Warriors (a 2021 grant recipient), IndigeSTEAM (2022 recipient), Big Horn Health Services and NꞌQuatqua First Nation…
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Large telecoms emphasize need for mobile wireless projects
By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – Service providers are providing mixed responses to the CRTC’s proposal to use the Broadband Fund to subsidize the ongoing cost of operating networks it helps build, with responses ranging from not expanding its use beyond its current boundaries and allowing for its use for that purpose.
The CRTC launched a proceeding in March to broaden the scope of the $750-million fund supported by telecom revenues, from which three rounds of funding had been opened.
The commission – surveying the influx of other federal broadband programs since the emergence of…
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OTTAWA – Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne has directed his department Monday to launch a consultation to help expedite service in Toronto’s subway system.
The consultation seeks answers to questions addressing how quickly service should be deployed in the underground system, which has long suffered from a lack of service, and making those rules a condition of carriers’ spectrum licences.
ISED is asking for comments on the extent and the time to deploy the network upon reaching commercial terms for access, including providing voice, text and data services.
The department is proposing that 100 per cent of Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) stations be…
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EDMONTON – Pay TV network Super Channel announced Tuesday an internal restructuring that sees its current revenue, marketing and creative services departments combined and the appointment of Tanuka Roy as chief operating officer, overseeing the newly formed department.
Roy joined Super Channel in January 2023 as the media company’s new chief revenue officer. In that role, she was responsible for leading Super Channel’s move into new platforms and revenue streams, including FAST channels, and developing the company’s relationships with BDU affiliates through cooperative marketing campaigns.
In her new role as COO, she now…
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TORONTO – Digitization of Canada’s economy and society, coupled with the right policies, has the potential to support the country’s commitment to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and a 40% reduction by 2030, according to a new report from researchers at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU).
The Telus-sponsored report suggests “digitization in Canadian businesses and homes could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by approximately 15 to 20 percent” and “incorporating ICT solutions could save 10 times the carbon emissions that they generate in deploying them,” citing research published by the World Economic Forum, Accenture, the Global…
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VICTORIA – Telus announced Thursday the launch of a second mobile health clinic in Victoria.
The mobile health clinic, in partnership with the Victoria Cool Aid Society, is supposed to address the “increasing need for primary health care and provide support for people experiencing homelessness in the capital region,” a press release said.
Those services include routine testing, contraception, women’s health services, STI treatment, harm reduction services, and mental health care and counseling, the release said.
The existing mobile clinic, which serves 25 locations on a bi-weekly rotational basis, has “enabled more than 14,000 patient encounters from citizens throughout the greater Victoria…
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Northwestel filed its own lawsuit last month alleging Iristel has not paid for telecom services
By Ahmad Hathout
WHITEHORSE – Iristel has taken Northwestel to the Supreme Court of Yukon over an alleged failure by the Bell subsidiary to provide redundant network connection points in Whitehorse and Yellowknife that it said are required by an agreement the two signed in 2012.
The two companies are bound by a master agreement signed in June 2012 that stipulates that they will share their network infrastructure. In that agreement, Iristel alleges Northwestel agreed to have signaling points of interconnection at addresses in Inuvik, Whitehorse and…
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VANCOUVER – Telus announced Wednesday that it will become the official telecommunications, digital health and home security partner for Canada Soccer.
The multi-year partnership kicks off by helping “ensure more women and girls enjoy the benefits of soccer” with the telecom becoming the title partner of the Telus She Can Coach program, the press release said. The program recruits, develops and trains female soccer coaches.
The release notes that “less than on per cent of women are actively working as professional coaches and decision-making members on national and provincial boards.”
“The inaugural phase of the TELUS She CAN Coach program will launch…
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