David Paddon
Winnipeg Free Press
Toronto, ON, Canada
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Sears retiree group backs insolvency bill
TORONTO - A court-appointed representative for Sears Canada retirees said Tuesday that Canada's bankruptcy laws should be changed to avoid future financial hardship for members of other underfunded pension plans. → Read More
NDP calls for Liberals to overturn CRTC decision
TORONTO - The federal New Democratic Party is adding its voice to calls for the government to overrule a recent decision on wholesale internet rates by Canada's telecommunications regulator. → Read More
CRTC decision on internet rates expected Thursday
The head of Canada's largest telecommunications company said Wednesday that he's hopeful that a revised CRTC decision on wholesale internet rates this week will be more favourable to network owners. → Read More
Business advised to learn from pipeline attack
TORONTO - Canada's two largest pipeline companies say they have taken a proactive approach to avoid the type of cyberattack that has disrupted gasoline supplies in the U.S. Southeast and contributed to higher retail gasoline prices across North America. Hackers were able to seize control of computer systems for the Colonial Pipeline, locking access, and demanding a ransom to release them. → Read More
Rogers warns of outage-related rebate scam
TORONTO - Rogers Communications Inc. is warning Canadians to be wary of text messages offering to reimburse customers for a system outage earlier this month. → Read More
MPs hammer Shaw, Rogers executives at hearing
TORONTO - MPs grilled executives of Shaw Communications and Rogers Communications Inc. on Monday after the telecom CEOs said a combination of the two companies will increase competition and ultimately benefit Canadians. → Read More
Wind Mobile founder calls for industry reform
TORONTO - Rogers, Bell and Telus will never face real competition unless Canada makes big changes to the telecommunications industry, Wind Mobile founder Anthony Lacavera says. Lacavera built Wind into Canada's fourth-largest wireless business from its creation in 2008 until it was sold in 2016 to Shaw Communications, which renamed it Freedom Mobile. → Read More
Rogers signs blockbuster $26B deal for Shaw
TORONTO - Rogers Communications Inc. announced an agreement Monday to buy Shaw Communications Inc. → Read More
'Netflix tax' for digital media will raise prices for consumers, experts say
Digital subscription companies expected to add the price of the tax to the total sale price → Read More
Telus Health's Medisys pays ransom to data hacker
TORONTO - The Medisys Health Group and its affiliate Copeman Healthcare say they payed an unspecified ransom to retrieve personal information for about 60,000 clients after detecting a security breach on Aug. 31. An email from Medisys head office in Montreal says privacy officials were notified Sept. → Read More
Group wants law to treat Facebook as a publisher
TORONTO - Friends of Canadian Broadcasting is calling on Parliament to restrain social media platforms from distributing harmful or hateful content by applying the same laws that publishers and broadcasters already face. Daniel Bernhard made the comments shortly after Friends of Canadian Broadcasting released a research paper that argues social media platforms aren't passive or neutral when it… → Read More
TekSavvy demands refunds from internet suppliers
TORONTO - TekSavvy Solutions Inc. said Friday it won'tpay more monthly fees to Bell or Rogersuntil they rebate tens of millions of dollars they collected over several years before they were ordered to slash their wholesale rates retroactively. → Read More
How mobile phones could help trace the spread of COVID infections
TORONTO - As provinces begin to reopen their economies, there's a movement afoot to use mobile phones to alert health authorities to new cases that could lead to future outbreaks. Health authorities say that containment of the pandemic will depend on quick identification and monitoring of people who have been in close contact with someone infected with the coronavirus, a process known as contact… → Read More
Mortgage, housing agency says home prices won't recover from COVID for years
TORONTO - Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. officials said Tuesday they expect real estate prices won't return to pre-recession levels until late 2022 at the earliest. → Read More
TekSavvy appeals directly to consumers in battle with big phone, cable companies
TORONTO — TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is appealing to Canadian consumers for support in a politically charged battle between Canada's independent internet serv → Read More
Corus CEO calls on Ottawa to give domestic media industry more freedom to invest
TORONTO — Corus Entertainment Inc. is calling on the newly elected federal government to give the domestic media industry more freedom to invest where it w → Read More
BlackBerry stock dives after weak Q2 revenue attributed to key legacy business
TORONTO — BlackBerry Ltd. stock took a dive Tuesday after the company's second-quarter revenue fell short of analyst estimates as it experienced diffi → Read More
Consumer advocates wary of Liberal plan for lowering wireless phone bills
TORONTO - The Liberal party's promise of a 25 per cent reduction in wireless bills for average Canad... → Read More
Cineplex Q2 gets boost from its media, arcade and Rec Room businesses
TORONTO — The owner of Canada's largest chain of movie theatres says its strategic diversification into multiple forms of entertainment helped drive the co → Read More
Canadians benefit from independent ISPs competing with big internet networks: study
Smaller internet service providers play an important, positive role in Canada's telecom market even though only a minority of consumers chose one of them over a major phone or cable company, the Competition Bureau concluded in a report issued Wednesday. → Read More