Canadians pay the highest rates in North America for cable and satellite television signals and for cell phone service. All thanks to the fact that competition is stifled (smothered?) by the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Rogers has just announced that they will be putting the screws to their hapless customers once again. This [...]
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Britco Industries, with plants in Penticton and Aggasiz, was selected as one of four manufacturers in a new 322-unit seniors housing initiative by the fedral and provincial goverments. The other successful bidders were Northern Trailer (Kamloops), Freeport Industries (Parksville), and Chaparral Industries (Kelowna). Britco will be building 124 units worth about $6 million at their [...] |
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File Under “They Just Don’t Get It”: CRTC struggling to rein in rising phone, TV prices
Today CBC.ca carried a story about the poor ol’ CRTC trying to rein in rising prices for cell phone and cable TV services. They can’t seem to grasp the fact that the very monopolies they have created are to blame for the out-of-control pricing of cell service and cable TV in Canada. The only ‘price [...]