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5 Reasons Why Gas Prices Are Set To Go Up In Canada — And Fast | CBC News

April 21, 2018 mdbincbi

The price of filling up a tank of gas is a classic Canadian irritation. But a confluence of factors may soon make that process even more gobsmacking than usual. Here’s a look at five reasons gas prices are soaring. A big one is that gas prices always rise around this time of year. “Usually we see a gasoline demand spike in the second week of June,” GasBuddy.com’s senior petroleum analyst Dan McTeague says. While few people put any thought to it on a fill-up, the chemical composition of gasoline is different in summer…

Telecom Mediator Adds Staff To Deal With Soaring Complaints About Bell, Rogers, Telus And Others | CBC News

April 10, 2018 mdbincbi

So many people filed complaints with the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services in recent months, the telecom mediator had to add staff to deal with the volume. In its mid-year report released today, the CCTS says it accepted 6,849 complaints between August 2017 and January 2018, a 73 per cent increase over the same period the previous year. “It’s disappointing,” says CCTS commissioner Howard Maker. “Obviously there are challenges — miscommunication, misunderstandings, poorly written documents. It’s a bit frustrating.” He attributed part of the increase in complaints to recent telecom coverage in the…

It’s A Canadian Thing: Why Big Phone Companies Still Dominate Internet Services Amid Cheaper Options | CBC News

March 30, 2018 mdbincbi

There are few things that raise the hackles of Canadian consumers more than the cost of telecom services. But when it comes to rising internet costs at least, Canadians may have only themselves to blame. “There isn’t a lot of price elasticity [because] consumers aren’t leaving,” says Prof. Brynn Winegard, who teaches the neuroscience and psychology of consumer behaviour at York University’s Schulich School of Business in Toronto. “They know they can get those prices from those consumers.” says Winegard. Two of the big telecommunication providers — Bell and Rogers…

Why Concerns Persist About The Supposed Health Risks Of Smart Meters | CBC News

March 29, 2018 mdbincbi

As Nova Scotia Power works to install $133 million worth of smart meters in the homes and businesses of its 500,000 customers, it’s also going to have to fight unfounded claims that they’re bad for people’s health. The meters will allow the company to automatically measure how much electricity people consume, eliminating the need for meter readers to manually take the measurement. The utility says the meters will also provide consumers better information about their usage and will automatically generate outage notifications, resulting in more efficient power restoration. Despite statements from groups such as Health…

Canadian Customs Facilities In The U.S.? Americans Say It Could Happen Soon – Politics – CBC News

March 26, 2018March 30, 2018 mdbincbi

Canada could soon have its first customs facilities inside the United States, says an American official who cites Florida and Arizona as potential sites for pilot projects in ongoing experiments to modernize the border. This would come decades after American preclearance facilities were first placed at major Canadian airports, where travellers have long cleared customs before flying to the U.S., with the goal of reducing wait times at the back end. Newer innovations involve train travel, with pilot projects to have rail passengers clear U.S. customs in Montreal and B.C.,…

Big Telcos Not Required To Sell Wholesale Network Access To Tower-less Rivals, CRTC Says – Business – CBC News

March 23, 2018 mdbincbi

The CRTC has once again refused to mandate the big telcos sell wholesale access to their wireless networks to fledgling rivals without towers of their own, a decision critics call a blow for competition and for Canadians fed up with big cellphone bills. At the request of Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains, the regulator spent months reviewing its ruling from last March that threatened to put Sugar Mobile out of business. On Thursday, the CRTC reaffirmed its decision that the discount Wi-Fi-based provider has no right to resell access to Rogers’s network to keep its…

Paper Documents In Hospitals Not Always Properly Destroyed: Study | CTV News

March 21, 2018 mdbincbi

It was while sitting in a doctors’ lounge and watching a janitor take away a huge recycling bin that Dr. Nancy Baxter stumbled on a major problem with the way hospitals operate. Inside that bin, she saw paperwork containing the personal medical information of hospital patients. It was paperwork that should have been shredded, but instead, the janitor was planning to take it to recycling. The types of bins available in many hospitals, designating where sensitive documents and where recycling should go. She soon discovered it’s a disturbing amount. Dr.…

Heavily Indebted Canadians Need To Watch U.S. Interest Rate Announcement: Don Pittis – Business – CBC News

March 20, 2018 mdbincbi

A rise in U.S. interest rates tomorrow is so confidently expected by nearly everyone that a failure to hike rates would shock world markets. In his first official press conference since taking over for Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell is expected to set the direction for interest rate increases this year and into the more distant future. What he says will matter to investors around the world. It will also matter to Canadian borrowers. One reason market watchers are so confident Powell will raise the key U.S. federal funds rate from 1.5 to…

Budget Says Some Paper Currency Will No Longer Be Legal Tender – Politics – CBC News

February 28, 2018 mdbincbi

The Liberal government announced Tuesday — in an item buried deep in its 367-page 2018 budget document — that some paper currency will no longer be accepted as legal tender. The $1000 bank note will no longer be legal tender, pending the introduction of legislative changes. The Bank of Canada will still accept the bills for an exchange. (Bank of Canada) While the Bank of Canada stopped printing the $1,000 note in 2000, there are still about 700,000 of those bills still in circulation across the country. As part of a plan…

Bell Customers Say Sales Reps Misled At The Door: ‘Guaranteed’ Price For Services Keeps Going Up – Business – CBC News

February 26, 2018 mdbincbi

A Toronto man feels misled by telecom giant Bell Canada, after signing up at the door for services he says he was guaranteed would remain the same price for two years, but increased after just six months. Gianmarco Minichillo was eating dinner with his family last May when a sales agent for Bell Canada knocked on his door, touting the fact that Bell had just installed fibre-optic cable in his neighbourhood, and offering a promotional package for TV, internet and home phone services. “He told me it was a guaranteed…