TORONTO — Telus Health announced today the launch of its new digital Virtual Pharmacy service, which the company says helps improve patients’ medication management by allowing them to set up automatic refill reminders for prescription medications that are shipped directly to their home.
In addition, the service “allows users to have unlimited one-on-one video and phone consultations with pharmacists from the comfort of their home, while also providing them with tools to keep track of their family’s medications through the service’s online dashboard,” a Telus Health press release says.
“As people’s lives continue to get busier, we need to focus on…
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GATINEAU – Total revenue for Canada’s telecommunications sector was $53.4 billion in 2020, a decrease of 1.4% compared to 2019, the CRTC says.
This is according to the telecom portion of the CRTC’s Communications Market Report (CMR; formally the Communications Monitoring Report), released last month.
The report features data from 2020, during which the Covid-19 pandemic began, non-essential travel was curtailed and many Canadians ended up working from home. During this time, there were higher volumes of wireline voice calling, significantly increased Internet data usage and decreased mobile roaming, the report explains.
The 1.4% total revenue decrease for telecommunications in 2020 is…
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TORONTO – Dave Fuller (above), president of Rogers Wireless, is leaving the company, according to the Globe and Mail.
A report today says an unnamed source told the Globe Fuller, who has been president of Rogers’ wireless division since April 2021, will be replaced by Phil Hartling, a long-time Rogers executive who was in charge of expanding Rogers rurally last year.
This follows a boardroom dispute that saw Edward Rogers, chair of the Rogers Control Trust and of the Rogers board, removing and replacing several board members, his decision to do so being upheld by the Supreme…
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OTTAWA – Fraudulent calls continue to be an issue for Canadians despite the recent implementation of measures to try to combat them.
In April of this year, the CRTC directed telecommunications service providers (TSPs) to implement STIR/SHAKEN (Secure Telephony Identity Revisited/Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs), which is intended to combat caller ID spoofing, by Nov. 30 as a condition of providing telecommunication services.
As of Nov. 30, TSPs are expected to “certify whether a caller’s identity can be trusted by verifying the caller ID information for Internet Protocol-based voice calls,” a CRTC press release explains. The…
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TORONTO and SAN FRANCISCO – Last week, agriculture businesses Full Harvest and Ukko Agro each announced investments by Telus Ventures.
Full Harvest, a San Francisco-based produce business-to-business marketplace that specializes in surplus and imperfect produce, announced it closed a $23 million Series B round of growth financing, which was led by Telus Ventures.
“Working with some of the largest food and beverage companies (Danone North America, Health-Ade), processors (SVZ) and growers (Tanimura & Antle, Church Brothers, Deardorff Farms), Full Harvest reduces produce sourcing headaches and food waste by moving the produce supply chain online – allowing buyers to purchase more sustainable…
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LLOYDMINSTER, Alta., SALMO, BC and GOLDEN, BC – Telus announced yesterday its 5G network is now available to those in Lloydminster, Alberta and Salmo and Golden, British Columbia.
This is part of Telus’s $14.5 billion investment in Alberta and $13 billion investment in B.C. through 2024, according to the press releases for the Lloydminster, Salmo and Golden expansions.
The press releases indicate 67% of Canadians have access to Telus’s 5G network right now and that the company is on track to provide 5G to 70% of Canadians by the end of the year.
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TORONTO – The Banff World Media Festival (BANFF) today announced Brenda Gilbert (above), president and co-founder of BRON Media Corp has been appointed as vice chair of the festival’s board of directors and Justin Stockman, vice-president of content development and programming at Bell Media has joined as a member of the board.
“We’re delighted to welcome BRON’s Brenda Gilbert as Vice Chair of the Board and Bell Media’s Justin Stockman to our BANFF family,” said recently appointed BANFF board chair and Lionsgate Television Group chair, Kevin Beggs, in a press release.
“Brenda leads one of today’s premier production companies and…
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GATINEAU – Numerous intervenors in their final submissions to the CRTC continue to argue the merger of Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications is not in the public interest and should be denied, despite the fact Rogers offered some concessions in its reply on day five of the recent hearing into the matter as well as in other documents since submitted by the company to the Commission.
(You can read Cartt.ca’s coverage of the CRTC hearing here, here, here, here and here.)
The final submissions, which were due Monday, point to several problems the intervenors argue remain…
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By Amanda OYE
TORONTO – OneSoccer is on a mission.
The Toronto-based dedicated soccer channel wants to show soccer can be popular in Canada.
OneSoccer is owned by Mediapro Canada, which itself is the Canadian subsidiary of Spain’s Grupo Mediapro. When Mediapro Canada heard the Canadian Premier League (CPL) was going to be launched, the company took a chance, betting it could make soccer popular in Canada.
“We thought that it could be a really big thing,” said Mediapro Canada CEO Oscar López (right), in…
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KELOWNA and REVELSTOKE – Telus announced yesterday it has expanded its 5G network in British Columbia to Kelowna and Revelstoke.
Local residents and businesses can now access the company’s “lighting fast 5G network, which will contribute to improved health and educational outcomes for British Columbians, in addition to enabling an entrepreneurial spirit and unleashing human productivity,” the press releases announcing the expansion in each city say. (The Kelowna press release can be found here, and the Revelstoke press release can be found here.)
The network expansions are part of Telus’s $13 billion investment in B.C. through 2024.
Telus is currently…
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