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See what Industry Minister Moore has to say about your sky-high cell phone bills

See what Industry Minister Moore has to say about your sky-high cell phone bills

Good things happen when Canadians speak out!

Canada’s leading entrepreneurs and innovators are calling on Industry Minister James Moore to fix our broken wireless market by opening our networks to independent providers.

It's ridiculous that Canada’s Big Telecom giants are going to Federal Court to delay new cell phone rules

Big Telecom’s last-ditch effort to delay new cell phone rules has sparked condemnation from Canadians across the political spectrum.

More Cell Phone Fees for Canadians

The Industry Minister’s inaction has left a vacuum for Big Telecom to act with impunity, as new charges are added to our bills for no reason, the author of this story, Catherine Hart, writes

Canadians are paying too high a price for Internet use

Dear Canadians: your Internet bill is not normal.

Bee Vancity Easter events: Earth Day, Whistler Festival, Bunny Bender and more

Welcome to our "Easter Bender" edition. With each week, the number of events just keeps growing. Did anyone check out last week's Make It! craft show? If you missed it, check out their Flickr page to...

Stop the meter on internet usage

Here's how to tell the government that you don't want Telus and Shaw charging internet usage fees. Keep the internet free in Canada. Sign Open Media's petition.

Goodbye, telephone

Times are tough. We had to let our butler go yesterday. Well, he wasn't really our butler. "He" was a pleasant, cultured British voice that prompted callers to our land line to leave a message....

Lions and tigers and bears

Telus is seeing quick results from its ubiquitous lion cub ads.

Whether to Laugh or Cry about Telus

During a recent telephone outage on Quadra Island, it drove us up the wall trying to find a way to communicate with Telus about the outage. We did find two wonderful Telus people to help us, but Telu