MONTREAL – The Telus Friendly Future Foundation has donated $100,000 towards Breakfast Club of Canada’s support of Canadian children and families through the current pandemic.
While the Club usually reaches over 240,000 children daily through school nutrition programs, but “(w)hen schools closed in March, Breakfast Club of Canada’s efforts were immediately focused on finding new ways to reach children and to continue our mission to feed kids in vulnerable situations,” said Daniel Germain, president and founder of Breakfast Club of Canada.
“We quickly created an Emergency Fund and experienced an overwhelming response from many partners who took action and contributed in…
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VANCOUVER — Home Internet customers in Western Canada now have another high-speed option to consider, with the announcement from Telus on Wednesday it is launching its Telus PureFibre 1.5 Gigabit service for residents in B.C. and Alberta.
This follows Shaw’s announcement two weeks ago that its gigabit-speed Internet service, Fibre+ Gig, is now available to more than 99% of its residential customers in Western Canada.
Telus PureFibre 1.5 Gigabit provides up to 1.5 Gbps download and up to 940 Mbps upload speeds, according to the Telus news release. Telus says its PureFibre network is the largest 100% pure fibre-to-the-premise…
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VANCOUVER — After an appearance on CBC News Network’s Power & Politics program on Tuesday, in which he stupidly equated being mocked in school for wearing glasses to the experiences of Black people and other marginalized communities facing racism, former Conservative MP and Canadian Alliance party leader Stockwell Day has been forced to resign from the Telus board of directors.
During his appearance on Power & Politics, Day also disputed a suggestion that systemic racism can be found in Canada.
In a news release issued by Telus Wednesday afternoon, the company made the following statement:
“Telus Corporation announced today that it…
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MONTREAL — The Telus Friendly Future Foundation has donated $170,000 to the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) to help support researchers developing a 3D printing alternative to nasopharyngeal swabs used for Covid-19 screening tests.
To address anticipated shortages of traditional swabs, researchers at CHUM are focusing on a 3D printing strategy where engineers, researchers and clinicians will work collaboratively to design, prototype and manufacture materials that will be tested by clinicians to ensure continuity of Covid-19 screening despite potential supply chain shortages, says the news release.
“In the face of this urgent need for action, the Fondation du…
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MONTREAL and VANCOUVER — Canada’s 5G networks are starting to shape up, with Bell Canada announcing Tuesday it will use radio access network (RAN) equipment from Ericsson for its national 5G wireless network, including for its high-speed Wireless Home Internet service for rural customers.
Bell’s national network sharing partner, Telus, announced separately today it will use equipment from Ericsson and Nokia to support the buildout of its 5G network. Bell has already announced Nokia as a key 5G supplier. Telus has said previously it was planning to push ahead with Huawei tech for its 5G infrastructure outside of…
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VANCOUVER – Telus launched a new initiative aimed at supporting Canadian small businesses and their owners this month called #StandWithOwners, which will provide support through direct revenue, marketing, and expert advice during this time of crisis.
The Covid-19 pandemic has proven to be as much of a financial crisis as it is a health one, significantly affecting Canadian small businesses and so Telus asked Canadians to create a new post on Twitter or Instagram highlighting a small business, and using the hashtag #StandWithOwners and tagging @TelusBusiness.
In return, nominators were eligible to receive a $25 digital gift card to use at…
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VANCOUVER — The Telus Friendly Future Foundation is making a $200,000 donation to the Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada to help support its Covid-19 Crisis Support Fund.
More than 93% of former youth from care of the child welfare system who applied last month to the Children’s Aid Foundation’s Covid-19 Crisis Support Fund sought emergency assistance to pay for food and housing, according to the news release.
This contribution builds on Telus’ ongoing partnership with the Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada through the Telus Mobility for Good program, which provides free smartphones and data plans for two years to young…
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VANCOUVER – This week Telus officially launched Call Control, an new service the company says is an improvement on the CRTC’s best practices for call filtering services and universal call blocking.
Call control is a free feature available to home phone customers in B.C. and Alberta – and now to all wireless customers nationally which blocks the majority of autodialed calls from reaching customers.
The majority of nuisance calls, including scams, are generated by computer-dialers that enable spammers to dial many numbers at once and are normally unable to respond to the Call Control message. Of the first group of…
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CALGARY and EDMONTON – Telus announced today it will help bring virtual summer science camps to Canadian kids this summer.
The company, along with Telus Spark, Telus World of Science – Edmonton, and Microsoft announced they have joined forces to bring science camps online with the launch of Virtual Summer Camps powered by Telus.
“As social distancing guidelines evolve at different paces throughout the country, these camps will ensure children across Canada will have access to a world-class STEM-based learning program this summer,” reads the press release.
The camps will be run by the experts at Telus Spark and Telus World of…
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OTTAWA — Through its Data for Good program, Telus said today it is working with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) to support government efforts in Canada to flatten the curve and reduce the spread of Covid-19.
NSERC is the largest funder of natural science and engineering research in Canada. Telus will share insights with NSERC researchers free of charge and provide “supervised and guided access to strongly de-identified and aggregated network mobility data” to be used by NSERC-eligible researchers studying and assessing the Covid-19 crisis, says the news release.
For research projects that qualify, NSERC will offer…
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