Bell Flaunts Corporate Commitment to Monopoly Profits and Damn the Divide

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Toronto   The initial response from Rogers, one of the big three telecommunications giants in Canada controlling internet and cable, was not all we needed or wanted, but it showed progress and a path forward for future discussions.  ACORN’s similar letters to Bell Canada and Telus were met with opposing corporate strategies.  Telus dug its head …

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Constant Complaints on Cable and Internet Rip-offs

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Toronto   In a classic community organizing case of people discovering that what they had thought was a personal problem was actually a collective issue, a workshop on campaigning to bridge the digital divide at the ACORN Canada bi-annual convention became group bonding over virtually universal experiences of telecom rip-offs, price gouging, bad service, predatory practices, …

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